Reply To: September Live Critiques – Submit Your Blender Art!

[polygondust]

Kent and Jonathan,

Thank you so much for the live critique! I was bummed I couldn’t make it, I was on campus at the time – but I was so happy to see the video when I logged in. Very cool after all the hard work going over your videos to get direct feedback from you! 

Thank you for the positive feedback, it made me feel very proud of the model! I also enjoyed the critiques. I think I actually made the eye a bit darker because the highlight wasn’t showing up on the render. Now that you mention it, it definitely looks too dark. I’ll have to go back and fix that. It might wash out the little highlight on the eye, so I wonder if there’s a way to make the highlight stronger?

Agreed on the flight feathers! Those bothered me, but I wasn’t sure exactly how to fix them. For some reason the red and grey color overrode the details in the normal maps and textures. I can try to tone down the color more, and maybe make a node that exaggerates the normals and alphas. (Or filmic color management, which I also haven’t used before!)

Jonathan, when you talk about brightening up the model with the histogram, is that post production or part of the render settings? Not sure what to tweak to get that effect! Now that your mention it, the red and green are definitely fighting each other – they are clashing, but they don’t have to, so that’s a good change to make.

Overall, great quality critique. Thank you so much for taking the time to make it thorough. This gives me a good list of things to work on to make the final animation better. I’ll be tuned in for the rest of the critiques!

Thanks @jlampel and @theluthier !