Dna Money

[dchont]

This is an image I have been working on lately. The idea is that the goo on test tubes can sometimes come out as money... if you are lucky.

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I think the background needs a little more definition. The composition also needs something to fill the frame better. What do you think?

(Maya + MR.)

Juha

Home page: www.juhavalimaki.com

[fortner_mike]

The background looks ok. But the test tubes could be placed more randomly around the scene maybe.

[dchont]

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The background looks ok. But the test tubes could be placed more randomly around the scene maybe.

Yes, now that I look at the image there certainly is symmetry that I didn't see anymore myself... thanks

I think I could fit in at least 2 tubes more and maybe one on the foreground (out of focus). Lets see what I can come up next weekend!

Juha

[dchont]

Ok, here is the new version. It's not finished, but I think it's looking better already. There are some reflections that I want to correct and in some places the red stuff is actually floating (and that can't be good... )

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What do you say now? Better than the first? What could be improved? ...? ...?

Juha

[fortner_mike]

Ok, it looks good to me, especially the blurred ones. I think you dont need to fix nothing more. But just an idea: you can try to make a separate render of one or several tubes and then extremely blur it, maybe scale it up using photoshop (or something like that) and then use at as a background. The color will be the same, but then the background will have some more definition. However it may only spoil things...hard to say.

[dchont]

Thanks for comments!

There are couple things that I might try:
- the original synopsis was "sometimes money can come out of test tubes", so I might remove the money from all but one tube (if you know any bio-med field you know that's the reality...)
- I was also thinking changing the money flow to gold flow, more symbolic
- there's some reflections that I want to accentuate
- background needs more definition

This image is kind of a photographic test also, so everything is done "in-camera" (with white cards & lights). I just remembered I moved the bg plane away from camera for some reason => more dof blurring :/. Moving it closer should fix things... I currently have 2 textured spots hitting the bg plane. One is over whole bg, the other is for hotspot. I think I'll try different textures for the spots also and maybe texture on background itself.

I'll be back with yet another iteration..

Juha

[dchont]

Ok, here is a new version. I think this is getting quite close to being the final version... C&C welcome

Juha

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[fortner_mike]

Yeah looks right, though i cant see any bright differences from the previous version. You mentioned you need background definition. I'v seen many pros do this. Take your render, scale it about 300% and then blurr it really hard. And put it as your background. If you have time you can check this out.