Reply To: BC4-1810 Homework, Marco Modena

[Kent Trammell]

Excellent work this week @mamo. Your vehicle looks good; very clean render. I only have 2 minor notes:

1. Reflection wonkiness where the car meets the ground. I’ve seen this happening a lot on Eevee renders this week, where the reflections just seem to cut off on the ground close to the car. I believe the issue has to do with the “Thickness” setting of Eevee’s screen space reflections. Try increasing that value till the reflections continue properly underneath the car.
2. The ground texture could use some bump. It looks like the ground has a good asphalt texture but without a bump it starts to look like a massive black granite countertop. Converting the texture to a bump map could be that extra touch it needs.

Again those are minor. B+ from me on this half of the homework.

Your light match is quite good as well, though with one overarching note: Breadth of light coverage. In the source render, all lights are concentrated mostly as rim lights. It creates a unique setup; very strong for characters/busts. In your render the lights are positioned to illuminate more of the statue rather than primarily the rim. It makes for a much softer result – which isn’t bad, it’s just not quite the same. I tried to illustrate an example of corresponding gradients:

Hope that helps. Yours is still appealing but not a 100% match. Another B+ from me.