Hi all… so I started this project it’s (supposed to be) a palantir. The modeling itself is quite simple, but it took a lot of time to set de materials and lights. It’s a WIP so there’s a lot to do… C&C welcome.
P.S.: The background image is from the game LOTR: The Battle For Middle-Earth… 
Darn you! Before I read your post I thought you had actually modeled that Barad-Dur and the eye! Anyway, at this point on my CRT it looks like a black sphere.
Agreed. Doesn’t a palantir have a sort of internal glow and funny cloudy things going around it? At least it has some white stripes going through it…
Like this:
The image is too dark, but there’s some reddish clouds in it…
Yeah, but they seem to be just noise instead of being swirled layers like marble.
