Swimming Pool

This is a still from an animation I created a couple of years ago. In this the objects are made of different materials also they are different shapes so have different friction properties in water. This means that they float and fall in different ways. The animation shows the objects falling slowly to the bottom of the pool and the bubbles move and dissipate as the water in the pool creates waves on the top surface.

The cube slowly turns over as support changes from one surface to the other. It slowly rotates until it is sat on the solid bottom of the pool. Whereas the metal ball simply sinks to the bottom without any noticeable rotation. The cylinder is meant to resemble a can of something with an air pocket inside to lend buoyancy.

The water is actually a plane over the top of the image, intersecting with the object of the pool. I added both noise to give the wave effect and IOR to refract the light source and the image seen through it. Adding a level of fog and graininess to the water lends a level of realism.

In the real world in which we all live, everything casts a shadow even the transparent bubbles. As the animation continues the shadows of the many bubbles move and change.

 

The steps or ladder into the pool are chromed and reflect the entire scene. The blue areas on the object that are shown all over, are reflections of the sky image that is included and the white areas are the reflection of the bottom of the pool with the light source from above. There is only one light source as you would have during day time in reality.