($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

[darkshark]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

The stroked border is one pixel too small! Gahhh! I have OCD about that too >_> thanks

ps got any other ideas?

[emerald000]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

I got more time to analyze it today and I am wondering about a couple of things.

1- What is the LED for? You can easily see that the power is on if there is something on the screen.

2- What is the difference between the "Scan thumb to unlock" and "Card locked" screens? Both act as a locked polycard. Seems superfluous to have 2 screens for that.

3- There should be a way to go into card options to add more cards, edit details, ...

4- What's on the back of the polycard?

5- Why is the screen transparent? You can't really use from the other side anyway, as the text would be flipped over. It also makes readability a problem in some environments. Durability is probably lower too.

6- There should be a way to lock the polycard on a specific card for the time of a transaction. If somebody else has to handle the polycard, they can see all your financial information with a simple press of the back button.

7- Why is there a dented pattern at the top and bottom of two screens but not in the other two? I think such a design should either be everywhere or scrapped altogether.

8- I agree with who_cares that a golden background to the bird logo would look much better.

That's all I can think of.

[-zeroSKILL-]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

I have no critiques of the card that haven't already been voiced, but there was one other thing that caught my attention, and just barely so. The fact that it barely caught my attention is one of the issues I have with it.

The Polycard
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nVIDIA

The text at the top center of the image. Needs work. Make it look as pretty as everything else in the photo. It's just far too bland, and almost seems out of place if you actually notice it and take any time to look at it (like I said, I almost didn't).

[LongGone]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

5- Why is the screen transparent? You can't really use from the other side anyway, as the text would be flipped over. It also makes readability a problem in some environments. Durability is probably lower too.

My guess would be that it allows for natural lighting illuminating through the card for better screen visibility

[midnghtraver]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

Not very important, but DS, I think it should just be "PolyCard powered by nvidia" not "the pollycard"

[darkshark]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

1- What is the LED for? You can easily see that the power is on if there is something on the screen.

Battery charge indicator.

2- What is the difference between the "Scan thumb to unlock" and "Card locked" screens? Both act as a locked polycard. Seems superfluous to have 2 screens for that.

Open to suggestions, but I wanted to emphasize the security a card like this would have.

3- There should be a way to go into card options to add more cards, edit details, ...

Obviously there is, considering everything displayed on the white card screen, but I don't feel as though I would need to show something like that, as it's already an implied capability.

4- What's on the back of the polycard?

I honestly don't think it really needs anything on the back, the only thing I can think of to put back there would be customer service information. The scene is pretty busy as-is, I don't think I'll be showing the back.

5- Why is the screen transparent? You can't really use from the other side anyway, as the text would be flipped over. It also makes readability a problem in some environments. Durability is probably lower too.

If you look into technological manufacturing trends and predictions, transparent screen technology will actually become the cheapest type of display to produce once factories begin to catch up...and for something that would be produced on such a massive scale such as a credit card, cheaper is definitely better.

6- There should be a way to lock the polycard on a specific card for the time of a transaction. If somebody else has to handle the polycard, they can see all your financial information with a simple press of the back button.

This is completely irrelevant, it's not a real card. nVidia and Visa can deal with those specifications if they ever decide to manufacture this xD

7- Why is there a dented pattern at the top and bottom of two screens but not in the other two? I think such a design should either be everywhere or scrapped altogether.

I purposely left it out on some screens to show that it's NOT simply part of the screen, and is just a displayed graphic.

8- I agree with who_cares that a golden background to the bird logo would look much better.

You have no idea how hard it is to make anything look holographic in 3d =(
It's pretty much not possible. So no matter what background I put on it, it's still not going to look like a hologram.



@midnight cause I'm becoming lazy and don't feel like quoting anymore: "The Polycard" shows this as something being introduced, and has a nice ring to it.

@wc: The blue glow on the John Smith of the black card is being reflected off of the blue screens on the ground, there isn't anything else in the scene that's blue, so this is physically correct. All of the cards are carbon copies of eachother, the only differences are in the screen texture and the card colors, nothing else is changed =/

[rushyrulz]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

yellow outline around the bird? Is that supposed to make it look like a sticker?

[midnghtraver]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

Oh, and is the tan card's reflection supposed to be black?

[darkshark]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

Is having the bird look like a sticker a bad thing?

The reflection is a tad bit dark, at least on the right side in the shadows, even though it's probably just because of the color of the floor, but I'll see if I can lighten it up a bit.

[rushyrulz]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

I don't know, is it?

One other thing I see, the cards laying down look significantly more thick than the ones standing up.

[darkshark]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

IM ASKING YOU, FOOL.

Like I said, the cards are identical, so all thicknesses are the same too. It's probably just because the ones standing up are further away/angled.

I really want to try and address all of your comments and fix as much as I can, but some things just are the way they are. I rendered all of this to the exact scale of real credit cards. It's rendered with V-Ray which calculates real-world values for geometry and lighting. In other words, if you had real cards sitting there and photos were taken under these exact conditions then every shadow and reflection and physical point would be identical to this rendering.

[darkshark]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

Looks like some heavy hitters are rolling in now.

http://challenge.cgsociety.org/nvart06/view_entries#jumpto

What's your favorite?

[ic0slay3r]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

Looks like some heavy hitters are rolling in now.

http://challenge.cgsociety.org/nvart06/view_entries#jumpto

What's your favorite?

http://challenge.cgsociety.org/nvart06/entry/dam-3d/concept_art/6432

wth is this one suppose to be??? I don't know why people tend to go extremely futuristic with the clothes and background. I'm pretty sure people are not going to be wearing anything like that in the near future.

Ps. i think a lot of them looks really neat, but I think your is one of the few practical ones.

[midnghtraver]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

http://challenge.cgsociety.org/nvart...ncept_art/6432
wth is this one suppose to be??? I don't know why people tend to go extremely futuristic with the clothes and background. I'm pretty sure people are not going to be wearing anything like that in the near future.

Ps. i think a lot of them looks really neat, but I think your is one of the few practical ones.

futuristic hooker?

[who_cares973]

Re: ($10,000 prize) nVidia NVArt 06: Moving Innovation

this is by far my favourite one http://challenge.cgsociety.org/nvart...nal_image/6353