BC4-1810 Homework, Grady Pruitt

[Grady Pruitt]

@theluthier I think I felt like something was missing.. and that subtle red light underneath… I completely missed that!

thanks for the comments!

And looking back, I think those backgrounds on Victor and Vincent didn’t work quite as well as I would have liked. but your right.. that purple does look better 😀 I thought I’d fixed the glossiness of Vincent’s arm, but I must have missed it 😀 Glad it looked good otherwise 😀

[Grady Pruitt]

@yukinoh1989 Thanks. 😀 

[Grady Pruitt]

Making a little progress on my work for this week. I’m using Eevee while I get started on the materials, but plan to switch to cycles as I get it closer to done to dial things in.

[Grady Pruitt]

One thing I have noticed:  Eevee’s refraction /transparency seems to behave very differently from Cycles, in a way that’s not very realistic. It could be me not setting things up right, but I’ve tried tweaking settings and it just never seems to behave the way it would in IRL (or in Cycles).

[malhomsi]

@gradyp  good progress ! the scene feels too symetric , u may frame in a different way .

[Grady Pruitt]

@malhomsi Oh, I’m not done.. I’ll show it off from different angles.

[Grady Pruitt]

I’m a little disappointed in my results this week because I know I can (and have) done better. The curtains, in particular, really gave me trouble and when I started unwrapping to get the wood textures to go the right way.. it was a nightmare. A prime example of where good geometry makes the job so much easier.

Still, It’s not all bad and I have been a little under the weather the last couple of days.

Room model is from MapleStudios on blendswap.

The book titles…if you can’t read them.. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, Kent Trammell’s Little Book of Blender Secrets, The Honest Politician by Ima Lyon, How to Win an Argument With Your Spouse by Chi S. Wong and Noh E. S. Wong, and Resolving Conflict by Ima Wong and Ura Wright.

(BTW, the stripes and the patterns on the curtain… all procedural.)

For the light match exercise… One thing I’ve struggled with is getting the light fall off correct. I think I’m learning that a larger lamp really close with a low strength with have a sharper fall off and a larger, stronger lamp will have sharper shadows and cast them further. For this week’s, I used this Low poly deer by Lennart Fogh on Artstation:

TARGET

Here is my result… which, except for how the light shows on the background, I’m mostly happy with.

RESULT

Also did a colored version

[Grady Pruitt]

Wish I would have had more time to do the book covers.. among other things.

[Kent Trammell]

Kent Trammell’s Little Book of Blender Secrets

It would be a little book! 😅 Heh I like that kind of easter egg. You know by now that one of your living room renders made it into my faves. It’s an A from me – really nice Eevee work.

Your light match is very close. The biggest difference I see is that the light’s effect on the floor/background is more noticeable than in the source. Seeing that effect clearly tends to distract from the focus of the model. All things considered it’s still a fairly small note. It’s a B from me 👍

[Kent Trammell]

Kent Trammell’s Little Book of Blender Secrets

It would be a little book! 😅 Heh I like that kind of easter egg. You know by now that one of your living room renders made it into my faves. It’s an A from me – really nice Eevee work.

Your light match is very close. The biggest difference I see is that the light’s effect on the floor/background is more noticeable than in the source. Seeing that effect clearly tends to distract from the focus of the model. All things considered it’s still a fairly small note. It’s a B from me 👍

[Grady Pruitt]

@theluthier Well.. hope this doesn’t disappoint too much.. .but I was only using Eevee as I was setting up the materials. As I got closer, I did use Cycles for the final renders.

I almost made one of the big books a “Kent Trammell” book too, but didn’t have time to do that justice 😀

And as for whether it would be  a big book or not.. you do have a lot of wisdom to share… even if you don’t realize it 😀 Why do you think Captain Disillusion gave you such a hard time about 19 hour tutorials? 😉

[Kent Trammell]

@gradyp You fooled me! Heh well I couldn’t tell that you transitioned to Cycles. So that says something.

And LOL about Captain Disillusion’s crack at my 19hr tutorial(s). That had me rolling 🤣

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