Reply To: BC4-1810 Homework, Aaron Rudderham

HOMEWORK SUBMISSION WEEK 1

Heya! There were a few more things I wanted to do but I decided it’d be smarter to eek it out throughout the month so here we go!

First up we have the toy truck (funnily enough, when I first did this exercise when I was just getting into 3D – back in February – I showed it to my friends and it became one big in-joke. I’m now known as the Dumper Truck Man). Not much has changed since I last showed this. And but not much I mean nothing at all (this was true to begin with at least, I’ve edited it a couple of times now thanks to advice, so cheers for that!). I was considering changing the white edges because as was pointed out they make it look a bit metallic but overall I still quite like them.

Whilst not finished here’s my Sony Memory Card so far, a “remake” of my first non-tutorial based render nearly 7 months old (jeez, time flies). Was gonna do the displacement map today but felt I’d rather spend my time either working on my friend’s project or the pumpkin contest, so I’ll be doing that and hopefully setting up the scene throughout next week. Probably should have done some more impressive lighting but to be honest it was done at the eleventh hour just so I’m not late.

We then have the bedroom exercise, which whilst setting up the lighting I thought it was rather unfair, because the toy truck got both shaded and lit whereas the bedroom only got lit, so I decided to liven things up.

And here’s the nighttime one:

I understand if these are not to be counted considering it was a lighting only exercise and I apologise if that’s an issue, but I at least have my old homework to fall back on plus I had too much fun doing this.Though to be fair I did use a fair amount of textures (both from Poliigon and TextureHaven) but there’s a fair share of shading in there as well. I should also point out that whilst I was going for realism there was quite a few things I left out, namely imperfections, like dust, fingerprints etc. I really need to get good at those, and I’m starting to get rather miffed I don’t use them.

Lastly there’s my “teaser” image, which has seen quite the transformation and it wouldn’t be nearly as improved as it has been if it wasn’t for you guys, so thanks for that! This is also the closest I got to one of those “lighting match” exercises this week, so maybe I’ll get the opportunity to properly do that soon.

Welp, that’s everything. Thanks for everyone leaving feedback, advice and encouragement! Hopefully I’ve made it in time for @theluthier‘s grading but I’ve got a few hours left so all should be well.  I’m not terribly sure what advice to give from this week of homework but if any of you have any questions or want some advice you’re more than welcome to ask, so don’t hesitate! Good luck to those who are wrapping things up for the week and have a great day to you all!