I'm working on the design and presentation of a health station/kiosk for a client who's participating in a competition. This "kiosk" is the kind of thing you'd find in a shopping mall. Inside this mini building is a machine that takes your blood pressure and calculates BMI and such, similar to what you'd find at the back of your local drugstore, except they plan to do more. HIPA privacy requirements pushed us in the direction of fully enclosing the testing station. A photo-booth-like closet wasn't sufficient.
Anyway, this time around I learned how to use .hdr images and sky probes, which I've really grown to LOVE. Sky probes are great until you have to render an animation and you lose your clean curved plane lightbox background. I had to place this model in a giant white bowl to lose the horizon line and still be able to shoot it from any direction. The problem, then, with putting it in a white bowl is that anything you want to be chrome only reflects white from the bowl and not the .hdr. Oh well.
The only other thing that has become a problem are the face-me people not, uh, facing me when the camera is making its rounds. I got around that by breaking the animation up into smaller clips and putting the people in the background. It made the issue much less obvious. It's all going to be edited together into a presentation video anyway, so it doesn't matter if I break up the long videos now or later.
Anyway, comments and questions welcome.
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