Several carved cat figurines sit clustered around an oil drop that has dispersed from the rain. This is a 3D rendering that I made using Softimage XSI, a rather expensive discontinued software package. You might recall the original photo of the oil drop that I took several days ago.
Silly made up conversation among the cats
Cat 1 said, “Boy this oil drop sure looks different today”
Cat 2 said, “Yes but if we don’t start using clean renewable energy and make some big changes we could be facing a civilization ending ecological disaster.”
Cat 1 said, “I don’t believe in global climate change.”
Cat 2 said, “What’s not to believe? Will you believe it if there is no more cat food in your bowl?”
Cat 1 said, “I’m tried of your alarmist rhetoric, besides I’m made of stone and don’t need to eat.”
Cat 2 said, “Well you got me there, let’s enjoy the pretty oil drop colors.”
The rest of the stone(d) cats clustered around in shear admiration of the colorful oil drop. LOL.
The Cat Figurines reflect on oil drop, rendered with Softimage. – click for viewing full screen
The cat figurine was purchased in or near Egypt by my mom. She gave it to me as a gift and I have know idea who carved it. It is made of a softer looking stone which I think is marble. I took several photos of it and created the 3D model that is shown here.
For this rendering I used an car paint emulator to add some reflective metallic looking flakes to the base color I got from taking pictures of the rock cat figurine. I also added some reflections to the ground to make it look more like a wet surface or some type of polished tile.
More about the reflection challenge can be read HEREThanks for reading! The picture was rendered with Softimage XSI, the background is modified by @old-guy-photos using GIMP, from an original photo that I took with my Galaxy S7.
I nominate anyone with a desire for reflections to try out the challenge.
Hey now that is COOL! LOL.... They look like they have gathered for some metallic cat ritual or ceremony!!!
Hehehe, that was kind of in the back of my mind when I made it. One can almost hear the sounds of Carmina Burana playing in the background... METAL CATZ RULEZ!!!
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If you recommend this is best software I'll try to buy it and then will try to create 3D works follow your instructions.@lightplasher, I have never know Softimage XSI software before. Have you use it? If it's best I'll install later. Nicely carved cat figurines reflect on oil drop. That's fantastic. Also you giving more valuable for this post entered silly cats conversation. Those cats exactly knowledgeable. :D
Best of luck & stay blessed.
Actually, Softimage XSI is no longer developed or available, you can't purchase it as far as I know, although there maybe downloads still available. It was a nice program that I enjoyed using a lot, but without current development it may not be worth the many hours it takes to learn, depending on what you want to do with it.
Blender is a free program that might be of interest to you if you are getting started. It has a rather high learning curve though but it is easier than it used to be and is still maintained and developed - last I checked.
Depending on what you want to do there are many more 3D graphics programs out there and they come in a wide range of pricing. I would be careful before purchasing expensive packages.
What stopped to read the full story of cats is the very first conversation. "Boy"....
Normally, when someone says cat, the only thing comes to my mind is female cat. I don't know why. In India language its called 'Billi", which is female... so that must be the reason. :-)
But you made a good story.
"Boy" in this case is used more like an expression for example, "Oh boy! that looks wonderful!" It is not referring to gender to be clear. Cats do seem to take on a more female role though in my culture too.
Thanks!
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What i was impressing upon that you great writers choose some eye catching words/phrases, sometimes even title/ preface/ prologue, which catches the eyes on us people and then we read the whole story/book.
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I didn't realize this picture is the 'oil drop on street' picture you posted couple days ago until I looked at it closely. At first sight, I thought it was an outer space abstract image 😉
I think @old-guy-photos turned the background to black to make it look more like a black hole in outer space or something. It is an abstract image, that was kind of built up from a variety of things - I don't think you could call it photography at this point but a lot of pictures went into making it. I think it is fun how that happens.
Thank you.
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I think a lot of people probably don't know what to say about cats clustered near oil. Perhaps it is difficult to understand but mostly this is just my way of having some fun and trying to make something that will inspire others to be creative and think a bit about what is happening in the world.
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The chatter around the cat. ..
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I see the cats are like angels that surround the vortex of the earth. Psychedelic colors :) Very creative!
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The best Silly made up conversation they (cats) made @lightsplasher, the content were pretty good to avoid something that invite disaster.
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