Reply To: BC4-1810 Homework, Aaron Rudderham

Homework Submission Week 3

“He pondered over his last memories. The smell of freshly cut grass. The touch of the gentle breeze brushing against his cheek. The taste of his own blood as his consciousness painfully faded from him.

He did not know where he was, or more importantly, when he was. As he looked afar he saw bright lights, hinting at civilization. A civilization much more advanced than he could have ever possibly heard about, be it from a novel, a stage play or the mad ramblings of an elderly hermit.

He was taken aback, due to the lack of pain from violently yanking out the blood-stained axe from his deteriorated – yet somehow functioning – body. This confusion quickly evolved into gratitude, as he now knew he’d have no blockades stopping his age old mission.

He thought about his past, about what he had done, and whether the cycle should continue. He almost audibly scoffed at the idea of stopping now, and made haste to his next target…”

Well that was fun to type. I do feel the render doesn’t quite do it justice yet though, due to the derpy A-posing. I did improve it a little via compositing though.

I definitely feel better about this than I did yesterday, ’cause yeah it still doesn’t look great but on the other hand at the beginning of this week I had no idea how to make characters, so it has its plus sides as well. I wish I coulda put more light on the axe though.

EDIT: Here’s a version that’s composited differently, not sure which one is better:

Now onto the light match, with the goal being provided by @jokayo00, by all means check it out and show ’em some love. So here was the goal:

And here was my result:

Don’t think I did too bad, though it could be a bit more contrasted. Also for the LIFE of me I couldn’t figure out how he got such a strong rim light yet has very little shadow. The closest I got was putting an area lamp almost directly above our little goblin friend here but that’d end up making the entire thing bright. Also, fun fact, this is using SRGB, ’cause Filmic honestly looked kinda horrible. Guess I’ll be sticking to SRGB if I wanna do stylized stuff from now on.

Well, that’s me done for the week, apologies again for taking so long but I wish you all the best of luck and happy blending!