Oyonale - 3D art and graphic experiments
A red afternoon
Artwork created in 1994
- Renderer: POV-Ray
- In the absence of radiosity, the parts left untouched by any direct light tend to look
dull : unlit parts do not show highlights. You can still put lots of light sources around,
but it can be somehow difficult to adjust them without side effects (and it slows down the
rendering). One unexpensive solution is a fill light: a shadowless dim light (possibly a
spotlight or a light with a fade distance) located where the camera is. The first time I used this
little trick was for this picture. The shadowed parts of creatures' "feet"
seemed flat ; with the "point of view" lighting, they got minimal highlights.