On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:49:12 -0500, Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:

>
> It's really a great pic.

</gulp>Thank you

> It's a great direction to go in.  Atmospheric still life.  I love that. 
>    The main drawback for me is that the book needs to be brought up to 
> the same level of detail as the glasses.  It looks like a " box { 
> something, something texture { pigment { Red } ...."  if you catch my 
> meaning.

Thanks, yeah the book was an afterthought, a shoe-in to show up the lense, 
it's actually a union of five scaled cylinders for the spine with a box 
for the main part with text laid on. It doesn't project the 'right' angle 
when the spotlight is on compared to an area_light and the curved spine 
needs to be more pronounced. There's a bump/warp normal on the book I had 
trouble with applying to the union as a entirety and added up defining it 
for each part; I think I'll try a crackle next.  It's definitely something 
I've got to bring up to scratch.

I do love set-pieces, I wouldn't call it still-life more like slices of 
time with non-moving parts :), coupled with my love of light seems to make 
this sort of thing the obvious direction for me, next project: a columned 
stone corridor with a couple of stained glass windows shining light 
through, I'm looking forward to trying something with dust-motes :)

> I wonder what would happen if you played with the color of the media a 
> bit?

Do you mean changing the colour of the spot or the scattering media (Type 
1 rgb 0.2) or both. Hmm a touch of yellow might be nice

> I wonder if you like the paintings of Walter Murch?  Unfortunately I can 
> find only one example and it doesn't really demonstate the "oily" light 
> and atmosphere he was such a master of.
> http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/walter_murch_1907.htm

Walter Murch? Not heard of him looked at the link you posted and:
http://www.tibordenagy.com/artists/murch_works2.html
tried googling 'Walter Murch works' seems to produce a few more examples. 
I prefer more ultra-realistic works than the examples shown here but the 
light and 'fuzziness' is definitely my taste, being rather short-sighted 
taking off my glasses means the whole world looks like that.

Thanks for the comments I'll start tweaking.

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Phil

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