BC4-1810 Homework, Zsolt Cseh

[malhomsi]

@theluthier  a touching moment … respect for both of u . i mean it

[marcclintdion]

Kent’s right, your work has potential and your portfolio has a solid start.  I think what you did with the bedroom is excellent and the animals are super cute.   The Flintstones car is interesting, it’s the first time I’ve seen a CG model that looks like it’s made of play-doh, I’d love to see it colored with simple dull-shaded primaries/secondaries.  Nice work.

On the giraffe, I see what look like seam artifacts that Blender’s Texture Painting unfortunately causes.  Texture Paint’s ‘Bleed’ value found under ‘Options’ is suppose to fix this but it’s defective and tends to make a mess when set to a higher value.  You can fix these visible seams once you’re done painting by doing a quick Texture Bake .  No HighPoly to LowPoly workflow needed, just bake directly to a new texture and the baker will add a margin overdraw to all the islands and your seams should now be perfectly hidden.  I append _A to the painted texture and _B to the texture I’m baking to,  then I delete the _A version after baking.  Here’s a quick walk-through in case you’ve never used texture baking.   He leaves the Margin at default 16 but I always crank it up to 64 which is the maximum and it’s always worked beautifully for me.  https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/13508/how-do-i-bake-a-texture-using-cycles-bake

[Zsolt Cseh]

While I [awkwardly] think it’s the right context for me to grade everyone by a “professional” standard

@theluthier Absolutely agree and yes please always grade objectively with the standars on CG Cookie, since also the polls confirmed that big percent of the participants in the classes has ambition to be professional. Anyway Lara also expects such level from the father 🙂

And I’m not sure what kind of teacher I am

You are a perfect teacher Kent, if you might need 1 objective feedback then in my honest opinion your biggest strength is being charismatic, your personality had a key role to attract and build such a community, to where it is simply good to come. Always enjoying the live streams and really does not matter whether you save the file, I would say even it is better when not 😀 You are star who should travel to the Blender conference once and present 🙂

[Zsolt Cseh]

@marcclintdion Thank you for being so kind seeing potentials in the models, yes somewhere being proud that they are own ones and also my favourite is the Flinstone car 🙂 

And of course also for the constructive advice, before I did not consider too much that would like to shade and light models, but this class raised my interest as it would be really pity to leave them grey. Or for example simply a metal shading would give totally different personality to the Buddha Monkey, than a christmas ornament material 😀

[Zsolt Cseh]

Week4 – Bathroom scene

Before of anything, Eevee forever! 

I will forgive everything, that strange reflection in the mirror, or that did not find the way how to remove that strange circle

 so had to swith off the lights 🙂 (the closest try was changing the point lights to sun, but that had effect in the whole illumination in the room), the 2.8 going to be great version just patience. 

As mentioned before I am very grateful for the render times of Eevee that was able to participate in this class at all with the oldie 2011 computer, this is the state till got Sunday deadline night

[Kent Trammell]

@csehz I really appreciate the kind words. They’re very encouraging. Means a lot 🙇

Now to critique you based on a standard that you’re not even aiming for……

So I spent a couple hours with this same bathroom scene and Eevee and I also could not figure out the point light ‘orb’ reflection in the mirror. Pretty weird..

I suppose the biggest note I have is that the exterior world doesn’t seem to be directly effecting the room much. It looks bright and sunny outside but the interior is lit uniformly by a mysterious light source that doesn’t seem to be the window. It makes for a visual disconnect from outside to inside.  Also I’m unsure how the floor is being lit under the vanity where arguably the darkest shadow would exist.

Anyway that’s enough technical critique. I know Eevee can do some curious things on its own. The most important thing is that Lara enjoys it! I can only imagine she does with those coral green walls and pink rug 👍 It’s a B in my book.

[Jere Haapaharju]

@csehz Oh man the colors and background image. Great job. You people are so brave using EEVEE for this scene.

[smurfmier1985]

@csehz I like the girly colors, your daughter will love such a bathroom 😊

[malhomsi]

@csehz good render and lovely color ! i miss some sun light through the window ! but a solid result with eevee

[Zsolt Cseh]

Week3 – Lighting Match #3

Almost all the circumstances this week tried to hinder me both working and posting the third lighting match exercise, but I am posting with proving to myself that never giving up with my hobby/passion/love which is Blender.

I know it is far away from the perfect, but after completing all the CG Cookie classes in 2018 just decided to not correct further, just sitting back and reading rather other’s homework thread from joy.

@theluthier Just a big big thanks for the class experience Kent this year, it was an awesome travel and learnt so lot of with PRACTICE, which was the most missing thing for me.

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Match

[smurfmier1985]

@csehz very good attempt Zsolt, the pink front lighting is perfect 🙂 the back light I do not see but that’s for another time 😉

[Zsolt Cseh]

@smurfmier1985 Thanks a lot Miranda for the advice, I doubled the power of that lamp to see the lilac color more.

Anyway poor Giraffe had to participate also in this exercise, inspite of that I planned him/her as a test or similiar size of object, knowing that probably the model is too smooth on the side in comparison to a robot in the reference.

In the final version wanted to use rather the flowers (from the August class) in a vase or something for this composition. But okay that stayed really for another time 

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