St. wrote:
> The small diamonds look ok(ish) to me, but taking into account that 
> those gems are all one model, ('combined' in Wings), I wonder why the 
> larger stone has a darker appearance given that they all have the same 
> pigment, texture, etc?
> 
> 
>   ~Steve~
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Fascinating rings.  Great design details, that degree of scale change 
(between the imprints and teh ring over all ) is fairly difficult in 
mesh which your notes suggest to me you are using.

The display feels a bit forced to me though.  I am guessing that you 
trying to act on the usual advice have lots of textures to be reflected 
in the metal surface.  But I find the horizontal texture just too muddy 
and busy and it's slight greenish cast does poorly together with the 
strong yellow.  I keep wanting either a more desaturated yellow in the 
ring or some red somewhere to set it off.  Did you by any chance try a 
less busy stone texture for the dislay surface?  And I would take away 
the blue infinite plane altogether.  I have been looking at the display 
pedestals that artists like Giacometti or Brancusi made for their own works.
http://www.compendiuminstitute.org/library/presentations/kmitalk/images/Giacometti.jpg
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/images/sculp_branc.mus.lg.jpg
Just the idea of embrassing the display as an abbreviated element that 
is a matter of convention and artistry
http://www21.brinkster.com/jrcsurvey/digital%20art/large/rcavalli.html

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