| | | Ben Mitrovich | | Desk Scene | | | The Las Vegas Detective | |
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| | Inspiration
I didn't really get my inspiration until I started putting the scene together. I experimented with lighting and found that I could give a neon sign glow on the walls. This reminded me of a hotel or Las Vegas at night. That's where I came up with The Las Vegas Detective. I was able to put a neon sign in Las Vegas writing on a light which projected it on the wall, giving a more realistic feeling of being in Las Vegas. I really wanted the scene to be DRAMATIC so I made sure that the lighting had a lot of contrast between shadows and the lights. To do this I made sure to have at least 3 light. The back lighting was really important because it gave life to other objects in the room besides the focus of the shots
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| | | Objects | Pencil | Ben | | | Glass | Ben | | | Table | Ben | | | Lamp | Ben | | | Computer | Lightwave | | | Keyboard | Lightwave | | | Sofa | Lightwave | | | Desk Chair | Lightwave | | | Plants | Lightwave | | | Paper | Lightwave | | | | | | Textures | Floor Rug | Jacob Palmer | | | | | | Tutorials | Glass | http://www.geocities.com/ CollegePark/ 9315/ lw/tip4.htm |
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| | Problems and Solutions
Some troubles I had where; The lathe tool. The tool would flip the polygons, giving the object a lot of holes. So instead of flipping each polygon I made the object double sided. This eliminated my problem easily. The Las Vegas neon sign wasn't even used at first. I tried to make a wall with Las Vegas typed out of it. And from there I shined a red spot light through it. Didn't really give the illusion I wanted. Then I tried to project the neon jpeg of Las Vegas on the wall from a light source and that worked fine.
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