lighting da watch
 

hi all

my boss recently bought a watch model from turbo squid for me. he whants me to creat a quicktime vr with the watch looking as real as possible. the thing is im fairly new to lightwave and havent strated dabling with lights yet.

what im looking for is maby a tutorial for lighting an object like a metal watch or some advice / tips and tricks.

i wanna do well on this coz i think he may send me on a corse ;)

i have attached 2 images the first one is the render from turbo squid and the second is my quick attempt.

thanx in advance

sorry here is the other pic

i hope your next post will be: "the second one is also a picture"
please tell me you didn't do that with LW.....or i will go nuts

ya they both renders from lightwave.
but i dint model em, my boss bought the model for me.
i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas regarding some nice lighting.
any ideas would be greatly apreatiated

If that second picture is your first attempt at rendering the watch yourself then what on earth are you doing asking us ??? :D :D

Seriously the only thing I would possibly suggest is either using a couple of area lights to try and get a more natural primary source and / or some HDRI imaging to get better overall ambient and specular effects.

try using a 100 diffuse white ground plane and a 85% white big and far away from the watch(like 500 m) area light use raytrace shadows and reflections and activate radiosity let everyhing default in the GI section...just change the backdrop to white.....sorry if i'm rude here [ctrl+f5]

thanx for the advice morghen
im gonna give it ago now ;)
also another question.
once i have my quicktime of the watch doing a 360 rotation, how can i convert that into a quicktime vr? do i need special software for that?

cheers

i like the second atemt... hmmm... if you make one of those fake hands they have in some clock shops... and add a prize tag... that would make it more real i think... and hdr... nice textured ground under... maby clothing material?

mashmike: very nice start!!

an HDRI image world would really help the realism, but for the QT VR don't turn on radiosity or you'll wait for your render forever :p

as far as vreating the QT VR; you're lucky, I have a free tutorial on that here:

http://www.simplylightwave.com/movie...tml?tut_id=521

hi guys
thanx for all the comments, been very very helpfull as im still learning (arnt we all).

big thanx to philip , that tut came in handy and i have learnt alot from your other tuts. keep up the good work RESPECT.

this is a link to a vr i did , its a bit big sorry (1meg).
http://www.rise.tv/video/l.zip

also this is a link to a very ruff vid i am using the watch for.
for a proposal.
http://www.rise.tv/video/dunhill.mov


thanx again guys.

NICE :D... hehe... i might make some of those VR things. it looks realy cool.

[Burns] Excellent [/Burns]
Seriously - this is a nice watch model. Love that Quicktime VR thing as well! The only thing I would say about the model is that the back of the clasp looks a bit bare - I don't know if this is what it actually looks like on the real thing and I'm sorry if it is, but it just looks like it should have something more there.