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3DWorld Review Test Image

3DWorld Review

Copyright © Peter MacDougall, all rights reserved

3DWorld Review Test Image This image was made entirely in Carrara Studio 2.1 in response to a review in 3DWorld Magazine issue 38.

All the models were made in the Vertex Modeller although it would probably have been easier to do the cup and saucer in the Spline Modeller. I wanted to show that Carrara does have a standard Lathe tool. The cup and saucer are lathed profiles. The cup handle and orange use subdivision surfaces. The spoon was built from scratch polygon by polygon but I probably should have lofted it or used Amapi. The objects were positioned using collision detection to get the surfaces to mate properly. Images were used as texture maps for the environment, the table and the napkin but the rest of the textures were procedural. The fresnel effects on the cup and saucer use the ZMorphics ZTools (Previously the Power Pack EX by Lost Horizon Software) Fresnel plug-in to get the fresnel reflection, transparency and refraction effects on the glass cup and saucer. The render utilized a single spot light with soft shadows and global illumination with environmental lighting.

I decided to do my own take on the image rather than an exact duplicate. Patrick Tuten did a very nice image as well.