Reply To: BC4-1810 Homework, Katerina Novakova
Week 3 – Act 1 (Character lighting)
I had a lot of things to consider this week. I stumbled upon this image on ArtStation and it made me want to re-create the material procedurally in Blender. I made a professor character back in the second class, but he unfortunately isn’t detailed enough to be able to pull off that look. However, I was lucky enough to find this great sculpture by Alena Dubrovina on Sketchfab, which was a pleasure to light.
I also had to decide between Eevee and Cycles. I started with Eevee but I was having really hard time creating soft shadows on the floor. I did use all kinds of probes, but they didn’t help. Also, the AO and Pointiness nodes still don’t work – and since they are quite important for the material, I ended up using Cycles.
In the end, I toned down the “dusty” look a lot, but I’m fairly happy with how it turned out. With that said, however, I was also staring at it for more than two days and it’s quite possible I’ve overlooked something obvious. If you think I can improve it further, please let me know.
