BC4-1810 Homework, Aaron Rudderham

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October 2, 2018 at 12:18 am #10039
Aaron Rudderham
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My homework thread for the October 2018 Class.

Week 1 Submission: Page 2

Week 2 Submission: Page 5

Week 3 Submission: Page 8

Week 4 Submission: Page 9
October 2, 2018 at 12:23 am #42083
Aaron Rudderham
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Here we go again! Being my two weakest areas this is something I have certainly been looking forward to. Not only on what new things I learn but what old techniques I can improve. So I present to you Aaron Rudderham: Remastered Edition! Basically using the lessons I will learn from this class I’ll be revamping my older projects, possibly making them portfolio-worthy. I’ve done this with my Nintendo Switch already (which you can see here) but hopefully by the end of the class I’ll have bettered them all!

This also includes the odd one or two projects which never got published, and some which I’m *very* looking forward to get back to…
October 2, 2018 at 4:17 am #42084
smurfmier1985
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@thecabbagedetective What a great idea to use this class / workshop as an opportunity to better your old art pieces! Looking very forward to your lighting experiments and awesome renders 😄
October 2, 2018 at 3:39 pm #42085
silentheart00
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Hey hey! Looking forward to what you can do!
October 2, 2018 at 10:25 pm #42086
Aaron Rudderham
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Day 1 done!

Well the homework this week is a tad awkward considering I’ve already done it (being some of the first stuff I did on this site, actually), but I do intend to redo it for this week’s homework. You can check out my shader exercise here and my lighting exercise here. Though looking at the homework throughout the month this month’s class doesn’t seem nearly as time consuming as the others, so I’ll be spending most of my time doing the whole Remastered thing and working on a new project (well, “new”, been working on it for a bit now). Here’s a teaser of that, using some tricks picked up in the previous stream:

Here it is without compositing effects:

And here’s the compositor node setup in case any of yous are interested:

I feel the contrast between the two lamps could be stronger, but maybe I could do that by ramping up the Filmic Log contrast? Could be worth a try when I wake up. With that said I’m done for the day so good luck to you all and lets create some awesome stuff over the coming weeks!
October 2, 2018 at 10:25 pm #42087
Aaron Rudderham
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@smurfmier1985 @silentheart00 I’ll certainly do my best not to disappoint, the feeling is mutual!
October 2, 2018 at 11:55 pm #42088
smurfmier1985
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@thecabbagedetective That’s a pretty cool effect, certainly looks a lot more appealing 😄
October 3, 2018 at 11:32 am #42089
silentheart00
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@thecabbagedetective Your exercises look good. Not much to critique there.

Do you have fresnel on that hand? Can’t quite see it in the nodes if it is there. I do like the mood you’ve achieved.
October 3, 2018 at 12:32 pm #42090
Aaron Rudderham
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@silentheart00 Just the base 1.45, think I should’ve changed it? Thanks for the feedback!
October 3, 2018 at 1:54 pm #42091
silentheart00
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@thecabbagedetective You could experiment a bit. It is a subtle effect, though, so use your best judgement.
October 3, 2018 at 2:17 pm #42092
Kent Trammell
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@thecabbagedetective Nothing to feel awkward about, my guy. Having done the assigned exercises is not a problemo. I’m happy to re-reward you for it. I like that you’re going beyond the assignments and doing your own S&L project this week.

I like your [Terminator] arm so far. The post-processing adds some cool flare to the render. Perhaps a touch dark imo, but that’s a small note.

One thing I think you’re running into is where the model only takes up like 20% of the entire image. In other words it’s a lot of background. Similar to what I ran into with the crab claw where I shrunk the vertical resolution to eliminate wasted background. I recommend that you turn this into a portrait render to better eliminate the wasted horizontal space:
October 3, 2018 at 2:23 pm #42093
Aaron Rudderham
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@theluthier Thanks! I’m so used to the standard resolution I never think to alter it, I’ll be changing that now. I intend for the whole “Remastered Edition” thingy to be consistent throughout the month, but I’ll hopefully at least have one piece per week to show.
October 3, 2018 at 2:33 pm #42094
Kent Trammell
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@thecabbagedetective Two big thumbs up for the ‘remastered’ theme 👍👍
October 4, 2018 at 12:28 am #42095
Aaron Rudderham
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Day 2 done!

I’ll write this out when I wake up, because it’s nearing 7 AM and when I had written it all out Chrome decided it wanted to crash and I’m at risk at falling asleep at my desk so good “night” all and I’ll see yous tomorrow.
October 4, 2018 at 12:31 am #42096
silentheart00
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@thecabbagedetective Yeesh, what’s up with Chrome lately? Seems to be crashing with long posts.
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