Epic Pumpkin Contest WIP

[Cookie Dough]

@thecabbagedetective Oh yeah, something I ran into was if you move the skeleton at all, then apply the location, it screws up a bunch of stuff. If you changed stuff in edit mode after you applied the skeleton modifier, you should take off the modifier and put it back on again. You could also try just making another skeleton and apply everything again. It would be just like restarting a computer when weird stuff is happening. 

[Aaron Rudderham]

@cgcookiedough Yeah that’s some very solid advice, thanks! Fortunately I managed to get it fixed and a couple of these points came up so I’ll be sure to keep them in mind next time!

[Cookie Dough]

@thecabbagedetective Glad to hear you got it fixed. You can sleep easier now knowing that everything is going to be all right xD

[yukino hatake]

Wow sees you’re trying something really hard. But I am happy you succeeded look forward to you’re work 

[Aaron Rudderham]

@yukinoh1989 Thanks Yukino, yours too! I haven’t forgotten about the wireframe btw, a bit slow but I’ll definitely get there.

[Aaron Rudderham]

So first of all I wanna give the biggest shoutout possible to @phoenix4690 for helping me out with my rigging issues, project would probably be dead if it wasn’t for you. I know you said you didn’t want to be repaid but I’ll certainly find a way.

So finished the gravestone last night, along with messing around with grass, what I got so far:

Will be darker when it’s finished, naturally.

I found this tutorial on stone textures which was absolutely amazing. Changed and tweaked it myself to get what I wanted naturally but seriously this video can give you a fantastic base to work with. Well, back to Blender!

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective That gravestone looks A-MA-ZING!! your stuff blows my mind every time 😬💥💣

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Well damn that’s high praise, thank you! Hopefully the final project will be just as good!

[Aaron Rudderham]

So I could use some advice: what’s a good way to get a strong rim light without the lamp completely illuminating the ground? ‘Cause it seems whenever I use area lamps it lightens the floor as much as it does the character, which for a dark scene is quite a problem.

[yukino hatake]

@thecabbagedetective  wow that gravestone is cool done . really good . you sure are making someting awesome . cant wait to see the finished scene 😀

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective Have you tried Kents hack to enhance the rim light? With the layer weight node, like he showed in character week. That worked pretty good for me. I uused a not strong spotlight I think.

you can also if it’s still too light with that darken your image with compositing afterwards.

EDIT: by the way, I’m pretty psyched, just finished my pumpkin! 😃 Gonna sleep on it one more night give it a final look with fresh eyes tommorow, then I’ll submit it 😊

Looking forward to your final piece!! 🎃

[malhomsi]

@thecabbagedetective in my last project i used 2 spots lights to solve the problem, composition can help , or u can cheat it with a a fresnel node to fake reflection 

good work so far , Kudos for the amount of work and effort

[Aaron Rudderham]

@yukinoh1989 Glad to hear you’re liking it so far!

[smurfmier1985]

@thecabbagedetective hey Aaron, haven’t spotted your entry yet.. how is it going? 

[Aaron Rudderham]

@smurfmier1985 Damn I completely forgot the layer weight node trick existed until I read this, you may have saved my render! Thanks!

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