BC4-1810 Homework, Cthulusan

[John Fluet]

My homework thread for October 2018  Lighting class.

[John Fluet]

My toy truck.  Tried adding some dust to it.  Combination of gradient, noise, voronoi and dot product.  Probably not the most efficient way to do it but was trying to resist googling for help.   Original submission: https://cgcookie.com/exercise/shading-a-toy-truck/exercise_submissions/16539

[John Fluet]

My bedroom scene.  My wife, looking over my shoulder asked, “When did you take that?”  “Um, it’s a 3D render, not a photo.” “Oh” I guess it was convincing enough.  Original submission https://cgcookie.com/exercise/lighting-a-simple-bedroom/exercise_submissions/16571

[silentheart00]

@cthulusan Truck shaders are good.  I like the dust effect.  It works well on the wheels, maybe a little less successful on the rest, but good attempt.  Day and night look good.  Not much to critique there.  Good work.

[John Fluet]

@silentheart00 Thanks for the feedback.  I took another shot at aging the truck.   Tweaked the dust, added scratches.  Can’t seem to get the pointiness to work reliably to get the edges.  Not sure if I’m missing something.  I’m not always sure why the nodes are doing what they do but it’s fun to experiment.  

[Kent Trammell]

My wife, looking over my shoulder asked, “When did you take that?”  “Um, it’s a 3D render, not a photo.” “Oh” I guess it was convincing enough.

I’m not sure better feedback is even possible! All of your renders are really nice this week. Both day night read realistic and appealing. No criticism there.

Your toy truck is top-notch. The dust and scratches are fantastic effects. Awesome job. A+ from me this week.

[Wilco Wilbrink]

@cthulusan Love your truck. Very convincing! 👍👍

[silentheart00]

@cthulusan Nice.  Those scratches really help make it feel used.

[John Fluet]

Car shots for week 2.   Working in 2.8 is a challenge.  Aside from the different UI I ended up running into a lot of oddities.   Mirror modifiers that refused to render.  Scales that wouldn’t apply.  Waiting for minutes for an undo command to…undo.  Crashes galore. But it is pretty awesome.  View port is very responsive and looks fantastic.  Can’t wait till this is ready for prime time.  

Here’s shots of my car.  Wasn’t sure how many to include so I added a day-time, night-time and interior render. 

[John Fluet]

@cthulusan 

[John Fluet]

And my lighting match exercise.  I’ve admired this shot from Blade Runner for ever so thought I would try and match it.  Super challenging.  I could never get the eyes to render properly.  I assume I would need to rework the geometry for those but kind of clueless there. 

[smurfmier1985]

@cthulusan Nice car, good job. But that light match, that’s spot on! Very well done 😄👍🏻

[John Fluet]

Updated lighting image.  Wanted to try it with a slightly more realistic skin texture.  BTW, this model and texture is the Retro Alien by DGordillo on blendswap.   

[Morten Fjellheim]

@cthulusan Very nice, you nailed the lighting match:)

[Dragonice]

@cthulusan LM is very good 🙂 nice one 🙂

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