Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:28 am   Reply with quote         

Hi every one!

I just want to say thanks to all who voted for my little ant(H2H). And to Guidedbypanda, Thank you for the good competition.

Well, I notice that people around here saw the wrong reflection and shadow of my entry, specially vokaris. I admit, I'm not good at shadow/reflection. Please help me correct my shadow and reflection problem. Please....Please..

(by now..I am looking for a shadow and reflection tutorial.) If any one knows a good tutorial on shadow please post it here. Thank you!

Totoy

Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:41 am   Reply with quote         

Click tutorials on top of the page

And congrats

Look who's talking

Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:56 am   Reply with quote         

Tesore wrote:

Click tutorials on top of the page

And congrats

Look who's talking

Thank you Tesore. I didn't know that there's a helpful tutorial above.

Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:58 pm   Reply with quote         

The reflection should not be squished.

Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:02 pm   Reply with quote         

Like vokaris said... reflections IE: a mirror image. Should not be squished.

you can fade them out... but they should be the same size/height as the object they are mirroring.

Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:21 am   Reply with quote         

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Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:24 am   Reply with quote         

Here's my edited reflection. I dont know if its correct, I blurred the reflection a little bit!

Thank you to all the inputs guys! I will be more careful next time!

Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:25 am   Reply with quote         

BSmatic wrote:

Can I use your work (ant) for my own (crapy) example?

Yes you can, BSMatic! It's free!

Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:27 am   Reply with quote         

TheShaman wrote:

Like vokaris said... reflections IE: a mirror image. Should not be squished.

you can fade them out... but they should be the same size/height as the object they are mirroring.

Thanks The Shaman! That's what I saw on the images given by vokaris. It's due to my carelessness!

Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:30 am   Reply with quote         

vokaris wrote:

The reflection should not be squished.

O thank you Sir! I see my fault. Your correct! but in my edited reflection I'm still confused. I'm having difficulty on the reflection of the other side of the ant. I mean the other legs of the ant.

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Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:30 am   Reply with quote         

With this angle, here is the simple solution (not that I know any better). Duplicate the layers of the ants legs and flip them verticaly. Put them behind actual legs. Legs in the back make slight darker (hue saturation for example) merge those layers, add a little blur (this was gaussian), erase a bit reflection at the end...It's doesn't look perfect(far from it) but at least it is quick