Disco Ball

Today I took my storyboards for the disco ball idea down to the AV suite so I could start having a go on Cinema 4D. I have learnt an awful lot today, had some stresses but it's been really exciting and rewarding, especially if you compare my older motion work!!

Creating my sphere - using one of the primitive objects - this then needs to be turned into a polygon object like below, this means the sphere is made up of many polygons, this will give it that mirror feel. I can then apply a suitable material to each polygon to create the mirror- like visual.

Adding the vertical support for the disco ball, using a cylinder primitive, that just sits in the top of the disco ball.

From another angle:

Adding a floor and light to give a more realistic, look:

A rendered view of how it will look, obviously more work needs to be done with the lighting!

Experimenting with the light:

Looking better (rendered view):

I added in a light underneath to try eradicate the shadow, this does not work:

Lighting from another angle (rendered view) this looks better:

Moving the light out of the view:

Adding a coloured omni light to the rendered image:

Together with a white light (rendered view) - it looks quite good now!

Positioning more lights for a brighter image:

Showing the 4 different views (3 rendered) :

Showing 4 different rendered views:

Showing 4 different camera views - the first image is from inside the ball!

My first animated disco ball - pretty pleased with this for an initial composition:

From another camera view (TOP):