[ENDED] BC1-1908 – August 2019 Class Homepage – Get Started Building Stuff with Blender 2.8

[Kent Trammell]

@tanya53 Honestly the choice between procedural edge detection (dirty vertex colors and/or shader based (pointiness node)) and painting by hand usually comes down to laziness for me. If the mesh is simple, like the sword, painting by hand is potentially just as fast as procedural. However if the mesh is more complex, like the treasure chest, it would take way to long to do by hand.

The tradeoff is that usually by hand is more appealing and more natural-looking where procedural runs the risk of looking too uniform and unnatural. Often when I go the procedural route I like to break it up with an additional texture. I demonstrated this approach in the sci-fi helmet course.

Great class, learning a lot, especially like the idea of one project from start to end and the class and the stream doing different meshes.

Thank you, Tanya! You’re the second person to point out this approach. I’ll keep that in mind for future classes.

[Karen Trevino]

@theluthier    and dostovel that would be so fun and an amazing experience!

[Zsolt Cseh]

It would be incredible if it was planned well and completed with a competent micro short film. But if it wasn’t planned well, it could crash and burn. So I will want to plan it accordingly.

@theluthier The idea of Omar is really beautiful, however absolutely agreeing that such a yearly class would need very careful planning to be real and executable.

There might be pros and cons arguments why that should be or should not be possible, my associations were the following reading that:

Minus -> Almost in each thread can be read, even in a monthly class, that the person is struggled with the time. Just objectively, what tiring that could be in the whole year 🙂 (including the families and relatives :D). However it is also true that distributing the workload on quarters would be easier.

Plus -> Per the historical statistics 196 students participated in the 6 CG Cookie Classes, from them 45 ones multiple times (red line on the below chart). That almost 25% could be considered as potential core, which is quite a lot of people

Plus -> Maybe the created assets in a certain quarter could be continued by other users if the life arranges like that, so there are much more potential than the let’s say core participants

[concrescence]

Hello Kent, are we still kool?

[Kent Trammell]

@concrescence Yes definitely! Sorry I haven’t responded to your email – I’ve been a bit buried the past few days. I’d like to be able to concentrate on your message so realistically I will have some time to do that tomorrow. And I will certainly grade your homework too!

[Omar Domenech]

Goodbye homework’s threads, may you all slowly drift into tranquility.

[Zsolt Cseh]

@dostovel That is so true Omar 🙂

Or 🙁

[Kent Trammell]

WHAT A RIDE! I think I’m finished grading but I want to wait till tomorrow to write the closing post so…

if I missed anyone’s homework you can speak now or forever hold your peace! 😊

[smurfmier1985]

@theluthier I think you forgot to grade Karen Trevino…

[Omar Domenech]

Am I the only one that thinks knowing how to do one of those excel sheets is harder that doing 3D? It’s all so white and full of words. 

[William Miller]

@dostovel You are not alone.

[Zsolt Cseh]

Am I the only one that thinks knowing how to do one of those excel sheets is harder that doing 3D?  

@dostovel No no 3D is much harder Omar 🙂

Such Excel sheets can be highly automated, while how to automate 3D compositions, or what about when touching the sphere of Art? That is not possible, stating this even with knowing that the AI (Artificial Intelligence) entered to the 3D topic recently with machine learning and etc.

For me such sheets work like machine, while presenting a textured and shaded 3D model with lighting that is like an organizm.

Maybe the best analogy for Excel formulas is the node editor in Blender. On a spreadsheet the inputs are only numbers, with the same formulas they produce esentially the same output. While in Blender although there can be ready recipes in node editor too, but at the end the artist always need to tweak the result

[Omar Domenech]

@csehz Zsolt you are too smart, you even sound or read like what smart persons sound like. 

Do you have any of those fun graphs about cool statistics of this month class?

[Kent Trammell]

@smurfmier1985 Thank you for pointing this out! Karen’s all graded now 🙇‍♂️

[smurfmier1985]

@theluthier no problem, I got your back 😎👍🏻

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