Magazine editors love white! Paper is white, so anything on a white background will blend seemlessly into the contents. There is nothing more versatile than a simple object or scene surrounded by some white space.
For stock photographers it is a significant effort to shoot perfect pictures of isolated objects. They need expensive equipment and much experience in setting up the studio lights. Some photographers try to avoid this tedious work and try to isolate their objects with Photoshop. But this is not easy either. Badly done Photoshop isolations are daily fare for reviewrs on microstock sites.
Rendered 3D computer graphics has got a defintive advantage over photography here. You have to setup your basic white scene only once, and then you can put anything into it you want. Possibilities are virtually unlimited, but 3D designers have a different problem to solve: If you want to render something, you obviously need a model.
Depending on your skills and personal preferences, you can either model the object yourself or try to get hold of a model that somebody else designed. There are countless websites where you can buy commercial models, but there are also plenty of possibilities to get free models that can even be legally used in a commerial environment.
But as nice and useful isolated objects may be, there are so many other things that can be done with computer graphics, that it would be a shame just to rely on them. I think most photographers couldn’t imagine just to shoot isolated objects and nothing else. And as far as I am concerned, I feel much the same. I regard the isolations as bread and butter work, but it’s always better to have some ham or jam with it!
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tant to set the focal point of the camera where you want to have the focus on your picture. You can either set it by changing the focal distance in the camera options box, or you can klick on the tiny square at the tip of the line that sticks out from the center of the camera symbol and drag it to the focal point.
Its only November, but Christmas is almost over on Microstock! Preemptive uploading is one of the key factors for success om mircostock sites.
Text Material
The coloring is done with the formula editor inside the material editor. What makes the coloring special is that there is a gradual color change across the whole object. For this to work, you need the AdvancedGraph module or a version of Vue where it is included. To bring up the function editor, choose the “Color & Alpha” tab, right klick on the “Color production” preview and select “Edit Function”
The x value of the “Position on Picture” input node is used to select a color from the default rainbow color map. This colors each pixel of the object according to its x coordnate on the final picture. The multiplier is used to squeeze the gradient a little because there is a bit of margin left and right of text object. Here I used a value of 1.17 for the multiplier.
Where Vue truly excels is landscape design. And this includes not only terrain but also plants. Fractal mountains, oceans, forests, deserts, you name it. A powerful atmosphere editor lets you create the appropriate sky for your scene.
If you are are an amateur with an interest in computer graphics, it is very likely that you create your pictures just for your own personal enjoyment. You might use Ultrafract to explore the unfathomed depths of fractal formulas, design 3D cartoon characters with Blender or create virtual worlds with Vue or Bryce. Perhaps you will set up a website or a join a graphics community where you can show your works to the world.
