February 26th, 2019 – Blender Live Critiques – Submit Your Blender Art!

[Kent Trammell]

It’s that time again: Time to get your Blender projects ripped to shreds by the best critics in town! 

I mean….If you would like a critique from *humble* Blender heads, Kent Trammell and Jonathan Lampel , to help push your stuff to the next level, please submit one of your projects to this thread. It can be a model, environment, texture work, a shader, animation – anything created with Blender.

LINK TO STREAM

The stream will start at 2pm eastern US time on Tuesday, February 26th. It’s ideal if submitters can participate in the stream. However if you want to get a critique but won’t be able to participate in the stream live, that’s OK. We’ll still review your project and you can watch the recording later.

Instructions for Submission:

NOTE: All active Citizen members have access to watch this live critique stream and submit art to be critiqued.

1. Post a link to your Blender project in this thread. This can be still images (WIPS or final renders) or video (turntables, animations, etc).
2. IMPORTANT: Please provide context for the project with a description that gives us an idea of what you’re trying to achieve.
   • “I’m going for realism but something feels off and but I don’t know what…”
   • “I’d like to match the style of ______. What should I do to get there?”
3. Please submit your project by February 24th.

[silentheart00]

Woohoo!  Now, what to submit?  Hmm…..

[Pavel Mazanik]

Nice! I definitely will have some stuff to critique 🙂

[yukino hatake]

Awesome to see this again. Maybe by then I have some short animation or a more complex model like character. Gonna see how things go 🙂 

[odunov]

Great! I will hopefully have something nice to show until then.

[Matt Dickun]

Where do we post our work?

[silentheart00]

@az93 You post to this thread, whether it’s images, a link or a video.

[Kent Trammell]

@az93 Sorry that was a bit vague. But like silentheart said, posting to this thread is the idea. I’ve updating the instructions to be more clear.

[Pavel Mazanik]

@theluthier 

anything created with Blender. 

Critique candidate should be created entirely in Blender? What if, for example, it’s a character sculpted in ZBrush, retopologized and have some accessories modeled in Blender and is textured in Substance Painter?

[Kent Trammell]

@nekronavt Weird –  I have a distinct memory of typing an answer to this. Must have never sent it.

Anyhoo, yes, it’s totally fine if the project being submitted uses other software than Blender 👍

[Thomas Lapes]

Hi,

This is my project:

https://cgcookie.com/u/tomaslapes/projects/jungle-da632877-c526-439b-819f-556303772c2f

I went for realism. First, I created the foreground, but then I didn’t know what to put into the background. Finally, I tried to make a  small canyon, a small clearing, and dense forest.

Something is off. I think the trees are too dense, but still, I think that isn’t it. 

This is one of my first attempts to create a large environment.

Thanks in advance!

Thomas Lapes

[Nathan Foster]

Here’s my project:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u7fH_Em2uj5vetMOSQZ2eOVpQ3znleuV

The problem I have is with the material.  I was trying to match the material on Kilo Ren’s lightsaber. Thus, I would like to add wear and tear to the metal (scratches and heat stain, in particular). The thing I run into, however, is that I can’t find a way to make it look right.

Thanks!

Nathan Foster

[Jaden Abbott]

Well, I have a few projects to submit.

Bendifig: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/1110

Bigfig: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/1184

Dollfig: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/1203

Raptorfig: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/1215

Dilophofig: https://www.mecabricks.com/en/forum/topic/1265

By the way, all of these projects will be available on the Blender Market this fall. If any one is interested, I will be posting updates on these Mecabricks forums and on my Twitter (https://twitter.com/S_a_m_i_n_o) and Flickr(https://www.flickr.com/photos/145151320@N08/)

[smurfmier1985]

@stopmotionkid those are quite a lot of models and projects… maybe select one you’re struggling with? It will also help Kent and Lampel if you tell them what kind of feedback you’re after 🙂

[Jaden Abbott]

@smurfmier1985 True. 😀 I’ll probably narrow it down to the Bendifig. That one was by far the most complex one, especially the rigging process.

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