Reply To: Need some advice for my render

[Omar Domenech]

Well that is not an easy thing to put into words, it is that you say (lighting, materials, composition, etc) and a couple other dozen things. Composition and presentation is very art driven, is not too technical so it’s not easy to give an answer, it’s death by a thousand cuts, it’s all the little tiny decision you make, having the eye for it and the experience.

It’s like when there’s two people, one knows how to draw and the other doesn’t. If you give them both pencil and paper and tell them to draw an elephant, they will produce very different results. If the one that doesn’t know how to draw tells to the other “dude how did you do that? Tell me how to move my hand so I can get the same result”, that would be near to impossible, a million things had to go on inside the head of the person that knows how to draw and it culminated in his wrist moving in a way with his eye coordination and on and on and on.

But there’s some technical aspects to point in this one at least. Color saturation for instance, the lighting is much more bright, the shading is more cartoonish, the bevel corners have lighter colors, so in your version the light is kinda dark, shaders approach more at realism. It all comes down to hues and lighting it seems, it’s all about the colors. For the expression of the characters that is where you have to breath life into them, the eyes are a big part, but again, it’s not that easy to point exactly how to achieve it, moving the eyes, getting the correct shape and position, it’s experience, failing over and over and trying and trying. Don’t be afraid to start over, keep trying until you nail the look, try different things, keep going with no loss of enthusiasm to succeed.