My nemesis, the black stapler

[g60]

This is a remake of an old model because I found the lighting challenging. It still is.

Bdir 5/5 + MLT, 2000 S/P

I've blown the UV mapping on the top, pushing it too far in a vain attempt to get the "lift to load" message stamped on the near side to show up, but the funny part is the lighting. I was trying all sorts of things and wasn't getting enough light for anything except a black shiny blob and, frustrated and just short of going to bed, I created an array of emitters in a circle, lifted them just above camera range and let it go all night. By all rights the stapler should have melted.

I figure I might have one or two more tries at this. The black material is the Ford F8 carpaint preset, possibly making this stapler one of the more exotic Swingline Cubs. These staplers all have stamped metal parts with quite a bit of wave in them so I need more textures and something for the chrome stapler tray to reflect.

[Carbonflux]

I think the lettering works, what looks funny to me are the staples in the foreground, they seem a bit large or thick or something.

Great Render

The car paint looks good to me, nice and thick, also I just I like the idea of the object and your title heh.

[g60]

Oops! I knew someone would notice the staples. I do try to be accurate. If you look inside the stapler tray you can see a stack of about a dozen staples and I just dup'd a few of those and threw them around. They fit the tray and, according to my stapler physics manual, could actually work. But, yeah, I made the staple tray itself a little too wide. It's the deluxe extra-wide stapler model; non-standard, not very popular, extremely rare.

If I figure out motion-blur, maybe I'll have a few of the staples flying around. I made the model so that the parts pivot properly from the hinge pin, which makes it easier to model and pose. Just like bongos, I'm not really into office products, but it's an interesting object to model. This is what I do while I am waiting for a splash screen idea.

Thanks for the comment.

[Carbonflux]

heh, someone always notices when I post something it seems like

This WIP makes me smile heh, makes me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg in fact.

really I was unclear about the size of the staples, that you thought about it so deeply is what makes this kind of neo-super-realism fun imo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-realism

Anyway, I find this WIP inspiring