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Hello,

I need to animate the inside of a metal lid, the kind that goes on top of the serving dishes commonly potrayed in movies and such.

The camera is situated to a black screen when the scene starts, only for the dish to be lifted up and revealed that it was inside the platter with the camera facing upward.

How do I go about animating the highlights and shadows of the concave bowl shape? Also I'd like some general tips on how to make it convincingly lifted from an animation standpoint.

Thanks

Hajime Sorayama reveals in one of his books that he uses chrome bottle caps and stuff to hold in his hand and study reflections. You should do the same, with a spoon or a ladle.

This technique can help with that:
viewtopic.php?t=1443
But consider it can by tricky to setup for your example.

Víctor Paredes wrote:This technique can help with that:
viewtopic.php?t=1443
But consider it can by tricky to setup for your example.

Moho, now that's a name I havent seen in a long time...
Perhaps I can make it work by masking the warp bone layer into a silver circle? This could actually work!

slowtiger wrote:Hajime Sorayama reveals in one of his books that he uses chrome bottle caps and stuff to hold in his hand and study reflections. You should do the same, with a spoon or a ladle.

I'm going to be honest, a reference completely slipped my mind for reasons I cannot guess.
Good idea tho