Clay Rendering

I've always wondered how to render the sort of clay looking final results in 3D Max.
Well, finally after much search, it's called Clay rendering. How foolish for me to call it white rendering.

Here's a practice doing it:



And this is for my Final Project which I did with LightTrace:



Read all about the tutorial here.

Kuler : Color theme Creator

Discover Adobe® Kuler™ — the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.



It's one of those links you can't resist. Kuler helped me a lot in working with colors. In fact, I've been inspired to do some posters just by strolling around and stumble some neat array of colors.

Less is More and More is Less

Yet another play-with-words question. "Less is more" is related to the philosophy of minimalism as having less is in fact meaningful. In design sense, very basic lines and planes are organized in such a way that they look pleasant, clean, at ease and understood. It's often related to modern design as they may look more futuristic rather than traditional or cultural influenced designs. The intriguing part of "less is more" is it's ability to function similarly to that of conventional designs. However, even having less is more, there's a fall in details which may not be of suiting to certain crowds. Take for example, a living room.



Such design may look appealing to the more later generation as oppose to the more traditional folks. And i quite agree that even though minimalist design are appealing, it lacks the details and the accents of homeliness. But that's another argument. Less is more comes into handy at these times where people are looking for a more simplistic design rather than the old conventional wardrobe and zinc rooftops.

More is less. The slight twist of words changes the whole meaning. It was hard to decipher the meaning on this particular one though. Less is more was quite straight forward. It could mean that (doing) "more with less". Having an idea of more with very little input is wizardry. It's what attracts a lot of people on the idea of minimalism.



The above poster depicts the so called "flux-capacitor" in the movie Back to the Future. It's what drives the whole plot of the movie. Without it, Emmett Brown wouldn't have discovered time travelling and that's how significant this portrayal is. And they say, you're getting more with very little.