Hello JC, Thanks for your mail

> It's really a cool naive style robot. I like the lighting too.
Thanks. Lighting of the scene is done with area lights and the hdri with 
uffizi probe (no radiosity).

> But definitly you need more stuff to give it an environement.
Right, I've been working on that, see new attachment. Still not 
finished, some tweaks on the environment textures (stones of the 
sidewalk, pedestrian crossing white painting). I need to finish it 
tonight, so tomorrow I can raytrace it during the day, monday to finish 
it up if needed with photoshop and on tuesday I'll have it printed.

> Is the motorbike supposed to be a reflection of what's in front of the 
> robot ? Given the angle, we should see the ground in this mirror.
> It looks more like as a screen. 

You are right, it's a screen. No mirrors on a high-tech robot (lol). 
Thats my previous image. I usually include my previous image in the next 
one. Kind of a joke.

Also, the ground looks more like some
> kind of grainy plastic than asphalt to me, I think it's too flat.

I think that's solved too. I've been working in an asphalt texture using 
a picture taken from the web (can't remember where from though). Looks 
great I think.
> 
> I hope to see the finished work soon, is it your IRTC entry you're 
> preparing ? I have a feeling that last round's squeletons will be 
> replaced by robots this time.   ;-)

No IRTC. I'm too bad for a POV contest :-)
I don't even know what the current theme for the contest is.

It will be raytraced for printing purposes at 6400 x 4800. That's why my 
pictures usually tend to be simplistic, and also why I almost never use 
radiosity (besides, some proper location of lights is many times better 
than radiosity IMHO). I've tried radiosity in this scene to check how it 
would look like and its worse than using the current method. I'll use a 
couple of pcs with SMPOV this time (an athlon XP 2700 overclocked and a 
2400 non overclocked). Hope that the render time takes less than one day 
since I sleep in that room and noise is too high to sleep!

> 
> But no kidding, I do robots too,  8-p

I'd love to see them. Do you have them somewhere in the web?

Best Regards / Fernando

http://caos.deviantart.com

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