How to obtain the perfect 'money shot' floor

[Brute Guy]

I'm dreaming of a white reflective floor, just like the ones I used to know.....

 

Forgive my punny start to this subject, but has anybody got any tips when rendering product shots like the one featured in the pic, i'm looking to achieve this type of floor when doing 'money shots' for products. (see the picture of the phone)

 

In the past, I have had limited success with a multitude of ways of getting there but am looking to see how other people do this?

 

Look forward to your thoughts.

 

Thanks

 

BG

[Koper]

I'd say that is post production photoshop and not rendered in 3D

[STRAT]

yes. that typical 'Apple' reflection is easily obtainable in post (and easier than to do in vray too).

[AJLynn]

Make the floor white and tweak the value in Reflection. Photoshop the fade. (One way to do this would be to put a white layer below the render, give the render a layer mask and put a gradient in the layer mask.)

 

Alternatively you could do it in the renderer by mapping a gradient in the Reflection channel or tweaking its Fresnel curve.

[neko]

try this article out....

 

http://www.mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2008/09/white-out-thise-nice-product-renders.html

[BrianKitts]

really easy....put a radial gradient ramp in the reflection channel to make the reflection falloff.... white background, white ground plane.

[Brute Guy]

Thanks everyone for your input and thanks Brian for your mini tutorial. I'll give this a go.

 

Cheers

 

Marc

[Nic H]

or render out a shadow / gi / reflection passes and comp over a white background

[William Alexander]

LOL .... to simple (duplicating posted image)

 

Render out object with alpha

Open on Photoshop

Use Alpha Channel as mask for subject

Create white layer (BG)

Apply subject mask as selection

Copy and paste selection in new layer (will have transparency)

New layer Flip vertical

Align new layer for reflection

Apply a mask to the new layer

Paint a black and white gradient in the mask that gives the refelction falloff desired

Fine tune the mask using levels or curves from drop down menu

 

 

hehe maybe not that simple but probably faster than rendering

[AJLynn]

I saw a commercial yesterday, I forget what it was for, that involved a woman walking and talking on a floor with a white background. The floor was supposed to be shiny so obviously the animator needed to give it something to reflect - the reflections were windows from an indoor HDRI (remember that the background was just white) and the woman wasn't reflected.

 

It looked pretty stupid to me but I wonder if I would have noticed anything if I didn't have experience in this stuff.

[ihabkal]

you wouldn't. Remember his client didn't too.

I think we are too obsessed with perfecting our images that we think all other people are interested in them to the same degree. People don't care as much to notice details. They are too busy enjoying life.