That' chrome honestly looks really good.

Thank you! It was really fun to render, so expect to see more chrome in the future!

love a good sorayama!

The undisputed master of chrome!

His work is out of this world, and I hope to come close some day.

absolutely great stuff!

Fuckin' hell that rendering is insane. looks stunning!!

There's a reason "Sky-Earth" chrome was so popular for decades!

Thank you so much! This was my first crack at it, so I could probably do better now, and I absolutely want to do a full-body chrome pin-up at some point, I just gotta take a brave pill and commit to it! (also get a bunch of other studies and a WIP out of the way...)

Fuck yeah, go for it! Can't imagine where to start with rendering something like that, must take a while to get believeable even with reference

It does, but it's oh so worth it!

The first step's actually the hardest, because you have to map out the topology of the surfaces and then map out the "horizon lines" of the reflection. The more complex the curves, the harder it is! After that it's smooth sailing just rendering the gradients based on that map!

Also finding a reference image for a chrome pin-up is a bit tricky (read: nearly impossible) without just using one of Hajime Sorayama's paintings or sculptures, or making and rendering a 3d model or sculpture yourself.

Damn yeah, my first though would've been a 3D model to reference but even that is just extra work if you want to do something specific and make it yourself haha

Or do it like I did and develop a theoretical method that you can just apply in practice! It ain't perfect, but it looks good!