Ocean Monolith

[Ego]

@Grooveman: Really? I keep going over it in my head, I think that's the way the spike would line up on it. Also, the slight variations on the angle don't allow for a very stable, straight line, and on this I thought that the angularity of it was a little more important than a perfect line up. Maybe we can chalk up the builder of the obelisk as an idiot :p. The matte look was a little more what I was going for, but do you have a suggestion on how I could make the reflections less prominent? Also, my initial idea was shiny, but I couldn't make it look like anything other than just bands of various grays without dithering or using ten million colors.

@Davias: I've received comment elsewhere about making the obelisk more transparent(although the sperm thing is new to me, although given the phallic nature of the shaft, maybe this is a case for Dr. Freud), but I don't think the idea would really work for this piece. One of my inspirations while making the piece was "The Great Wave off Kanagawa", a japanese woodblock painting (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...agawa2.jpg). The opaque water and foam idea came from this piece for me, and probably a bit of the matte look was inspired by here too. Also, the LIGHT RAYS are opaque, it would make sense for the water to be too. Also, the position and angle of the reflected beams on the obelisk have given me a lot of trouble, I doubt they're in the right place at the right angle, but, as shown on the WIP, I did the ray positioning after the obelisk was almost finished, so I kinda hanged myself there.

Thanks for the comments guys.