Egg
Which is the real egg? For this project, I wanted to focus on lighting and texturing to fool the audience. I took a photograph of a real egg and used Nuke to composite my CG egg over it. Scroll down to see if you were right!
This is the real Egg. Did you guess right?
After taking the real photograph, I add a cube and a chrome ball and take two more photographs. In Maya, I line up my CG cube to the cube in the photograph; which helps me get the right perspective. I also play with the focal length. I then crop the photograph to only show the chrome ball and use that as the texture for my CG sphere. I also create a geo dome with this photograph. I align my light with the light in the chrome ball.
I modeled an egg and part of the bench in Maya. I used procedural textures.