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Soccer Horizon
A test of lights and mirrors. Soccer balls (footballs) made in Wings. To avoid setting the ray depth to infinity, I post-processed in some haze and blur. I always wonder how David made the horizon hazy on his images with mirrors- perhaps he can share his secret? Also, if you hadn't noticed, the World Cup is soon starting.
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The time being is a hard time for me - soccer everywhere, unescapable, not even here! Nevertheless, I have to admit that the balls look very leathery and real with the specularity setting used. Great work, even though I hate soccer.
Interesting lighting and good choice of materials. The "horizon haze" is no great mystery, in "Random Image", I just used sky haze set to 100 and fully black - the cumulative action of a bit of this black haze getting between the mirrrors eventually erases the horizon - which allowed me to get away with a ray depth of 6. The grid of dice was 7x7. Incidentally, the football models look really good, the seams between adjcent faces particularly. 5/5