Chrome Spheres over Checkered Planes

[pasithea]

I'm going to Hell for this.

Okay, but seriously... I've been watching these old videos and I realized that Maya's chromes don't have the look and feel of the old fakey looking chrome that was in a lot of the old renderers and you know. I sort of liked those old chromes. So I set about trying to reproduce it. I chose the checkered plane in part for humor but mostly for the same practical reasons that they were used in the past; to see how it looks against white and black.

I'm still not quite there yet. I think I need to get ahold of a chrome map and drop the resolution down to maybe 16-bit or even 8-bit colors to really get the look I want, but I'm getting closer.

Each of these spheres is a different method of trying to get to that point. Mixed Blinn and Phong textures.

Mind you, I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this effect once I get there, I'm just monkeying around, but it's fun. :)

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Too high-res! Needs to be photographed off the monitor!

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Quiet you, or I'll make you watch 'Night of the Guru' from the Amiga tape.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

You know... I still have source code for PovRay 1.2. I could probably write an exporter for Maya and bang it through a really old PovRay renderer. That might get me the effect I want. :)