To remove all doubts about my vase's glossiness, I used a star-shaped brush & clicked on the neck of the vase once, after painting a white highlight on the neck's upper part. Now for some show-off : engraved text. For this, type the letters vertically, bend it with the 'Shear' tool under Filter\Distort menu. Make a copy of the layer & fill it with white. Move this layer below the original text layer. Offset it slightly to the left & bottom. Now, add reflection of the vase on the floor, some glow on the vase & voila again !
Bring it all together
At this stage, I have 2 files - Ball.psd & Vase.psd. I merge the layers of both & import into a new file. Its not over yet. Lets add the vase's reflection on the ball followed by a little bit of Crowd Simulation !
Some bounce light on the vase & we are done at last. Phew ! Please do visit the softimage site to see the orginal render of Baruch Zevolun. He deserves an audience.
