Verry nice water effects. the plane is good too.


Gary


"Skip Talbot" <sta### [at] uiucedu> wrote in message
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> Framed in our aircraft hangar is a photograph of a Defiant skimming the
> water of lake where the surface is smoother than glass.  The water skiing
> wasn't intentional, the photographer directed the pilot of the Defiant a
> little too low, trying to get the reflection closer.  I wanted to recreate
> this scene using my dad's Long-ez, a similar Rutan canard design.
>
> Horizontally blurred the HDRI to simulate the motion blurring of the
scene's
> background.  I had planned on using a Poser model for the pilot but then I
> thought it would detract from the scene's realism.  A human, unlike the
> aircraft, is far too complicated to represent as a mesh of equal quality.
> So I took a tape measure and a stool and measured where the camera would
be
> in relation to the stool as if it were the pilot's seat in the scene.  My
> dad, the real pilot, posed with his headphones on.  Then mapped the bitmap
> to a triangle behind the canopy I rotated to face the camera.
>
> 1600x900 PNG - http://members.aol.com/skipt1/3d/highres/longez6.png
>
> Skip
>
>
>

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