Pretending to add something relative to chess. For this render in particular, it helps to have a larger version (click on the pic). It’s called “Chess Spirit”.
The problem with this pic is the difficulty of picking out the pieces, especially the Bishops and Rooks. A big part of that is what I tried to do with the materials: each piece is clear glass with a glowing light inside determining the color of the pieces. The models were created by Matt Clara (I don’t have time to develop my own at this point, not that I’m all that skilled at it anyway). If you look on his webpage, the pieces are a lot easier to pick out, probably because the materials used in those pics aren’t funky.
On the board, only the center squares are obvious, but the effect is interesting, so I didn’t bother to correct it.
I can picture myself sitting in the dark naked, trying to teach chess to my girlfriend on such a set while wearing a glowy-type condom.
LOL. Interesting you bring that up.
When I was a teenager, our family was on some road trip when we stopped at a convenience store for supplies and lavatory usage. On the wall, there was a vending maching with various…personal products. This included several varieties of condoms, including glow-in-the-dark and fruit-flavored (presumably to make oral sex more palatable).
Being young and naive, this was my first encounter with such concepts, and started cracking up laughing. Apparently, the laugh was audible outside, because my mom asked me what was so funny. I mumbled some lame cover-up that apparently was sufficient explanation.
ookwelbekendalsemc, were you on psilocybin when you wrote this? 🙂 I would love for my husband to teach me chess whilst naked with glowy-type chess pieces. However, glowy-type condoms really freak me out.