COLLAB2021 – If You Wanna Have Some Fun – NATURE FG

[Jonathan Lampel]

Hey Nature FG team! I’m jumping in this week and replacing Kent on all things nature related so that we can spend more time on feedback and grading. So, if you have any questions, you can tag me in your WIP thread or here. I’ve glanced through all of your threads and caught up on the project so far but have not started grading anything. Looks like you are all off to a great start! 

[yukino hatake]

so then technicaly these i had modelled are good just a bit thicker then ?

[spikeyxxx]

That’s what I think, yes 🙂

[Jonathan Lampel]

Hey @artifact , I see Kent has already given you a grade for the previous week, but I’m having trouble finding your thread. If you could update it so that the title contains your username, that would help quite a bit! 

[artifact]

Hi @jlampel My WIP thread does contain my username: https://blog.cgcookie.com/forums/topic/dotted-lines/

[Jonathan Lampel]

@artifact Oh that’s strange, maybe it didn’t show up for me when searching because too many threads have the word ‘artifact’ in them haha! Thanks!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Hey 200 up, oops sorry I ruined it 201 replies now.

[spikeyxxx]

People keep getting this wrong; 201 is much more interesting and beautiful than the boring old 200:

So, no worries, Adrian, you didn’t ruin anything; you only made it better 😉

[Karen Trevino]

Here’s my attempt on the MG bushes after Kent’s live stream last Thursday.

[Matthew Ullrey]

@ketre Wow! These look spectacular! That was a really good live stream. I enjoyed watching the process of making these bushes.

[Austin Dunham]

Finally got some proper leaf orientation and shading going.  Thank you @theluthier for Thursday’s stream.  I may have a bit more to do with the shader’s, but I’m pretty happy with how this is turning out.

I have a couple questions.

I have two clumps of trees.  The clump on the right has the red/gold contrast below.  The clump on the left is almost entirely red.  Should I adjust the shader a bit for that clump and do a second tree?  (I’ve been advised that my trees are meant to be instanced and not individuals.)

Also, there’s almost no variation in the trunks in the artwork.  Should I leave the trunks a plain brown like this, or actually try to put a subtle bark on them?

[Austin Dunham]

These are beautiful @yukinoh1989.

[Ben Reichel]

Nice Flowers!  Not sure if it will be noticeable but all the centers are the same yellow.  You could try giving them some variation of color.

[Austin Dunham]

Whoops, meant my original reply to be to the overall thread.

@ketre – Your bushes are looking good!  One of the trickiest things I found with this method is getting enough crease definition to get defined shadows.  Did you go with individual spheres and shape them, or did you go for more of a single object that you shaped?  I ended up going with individual spheres and joining them into one object.

[Matthew Ullrey]

@wardred That tree is looking amazing. I would like to lend my opinion about the detail of the trees. I like how you are matching your model to the artwork. I feel that this is the ultimate goal and would try to stick to your original plan. On the other hand, Kent did mention that if one wanted to showcase their work with a higher level of detail then a case could be made for the bark texture. 

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