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

[Wilco Wilbrink]

Here’s my submission. It’s a sculpt. It took me about 3 month to model (off and on). I posted it before, but I made a few little changes.

My main goal was to practice sculpting. It is ment as a kinda stylistic, but still rather realistic little statue. I modeled the cloth right on the model, because when I started I wasn’t sure if I should model them this way, or separate, as it is a statue, and it’s meant be look as a one piece model, even though it has different parts. The head, the hair and the left arm are separate from the rest of the body.

My second goal was shading the scene. First I went for a kind of copper statue, but then I found the print-resin tutorial in the Shader-Forge and I went for that, as I thought it would be more of a challenge. I’m not very good at shading, and I had to start over 2 times, before I had a bit of a decent result (I think).

• So what I firstly want to know is if the anatomy is correct, or what could be better. 
• Secondly, how I can improve the shader. The shader’s  so fuzzy, I lose to much detail. I had to use a AO-node to bring some of the sharp detail back.
• I have not retopologized the model yet. Is this preferred if this was the kind of style I wanted to go for? Would the render times be faster? (I do want to improve the model, I’m just curious if this could be accepted as an end result).

Here’s a download of the latest blendfile as a rather large zipfile.

I had only time to render 1 decent render so here it is:

And here’s a turntable YouTube video: (it’s a bit older):

The video was edited in Adobe Premiere, not in Blender.

[Phillip Capon]

Here’s a nature scene I am making to practice plants and texturing. I am going to photo realism. I would like advice on make the scene blend together and have more of a sense of a real place and less of the feeling of a bunch of different objects stuck together.

 I have improved the short grass and will hopefully get a new render up tomorrow morning

https://cgcookie.com/u/train30/projects/forest-road-ed3d679a-5de2-4006-91d0-cbf0df72c65e

[Omar Domenech]

Why oh why is it that after you commit and post, it’s then and only then that you start to see all of your mistakes. I need to do some re-rendering.

[Dragonice]

@dostovel I have the same feeling now 😀

[Quentin Steinke]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/58146w

I know this is way too late (I just saw the live stream today) but here is a render anyway.

I am going for correct anatomy and proportions.  Its seams to be a hit or miss on getting the face to look natural and good looking. I have a lot of trouble with lips feeling puckered and the the face not looking fleshy/soft.

Its hard to find good constructive criticism, so thanks for taking the time to critique everyone’s work!

[yukino hatake]

@theluthier  and @jlampel 

trying to make a stylized female character .  i started out with the head since i think that would be the hardest part . still am not statisfied but i wonder where i should work on most to get a really nice face . still have to get to the ears sorry for that. i am not really used to human characters (more like to do creatures ) so i am kinda struggling with this

[Kent Trammell]

@yukinoh1989 Ahhhh I’m sorry I forgot! I’ll critique you here. Can you share a link for me to download your .blend file?

[Irinel Alexandru Radut]

@theluthier and @jlampel Forgot to ask you if i should put this character at my portofolio after i make the suggestions i got from yesterday stream? I am also searching to get hired in this industry, is actually my dream since i was a kid. 

Thank you!

[malhomsi]

@irinel0790  i think u should it is a good char !

[Irinel Alexandru Radut]

@malhomsi Thank you for your words and support! It means alot!

[Kent Trammell]

@irinel0790 Yes you should definitely put your grave robber character in your portfolio 👍

[Irinel Alexandru Radut]

@theluthier Thank you so much! Feeling good to hear that from a pro digital artist and i need it that feedback:)

[yukino hatake]

@theluthier np at all .
My mistake to begin with . Lost date out of my sight .
 As for the link to the blend file here it is 🙂
char try 1 
Thank you so much for still wanting to take a look at it . I really appreciate it sensei 😀

[malhomsi]

@yukinoh1989 i too use to call Kent sensei loo !

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@theluthier 

I wanted to attend this stream but regretfully a small family emergency cut that short (all resolved now). I’d love to watch it regardless however I can’t seem to find it under past events.

Is it still coming? I would be very much interested to see it.

General PSA for everyone: to see past events go to events and click on the “past events” button in the top left. There is quite a big archive of past streams to watch. I recently watched “Let’s talk about Failure” and “Artist Study: BEEPLE” both of which I greatly enjoyed. 

Go check out the archive if you haven’t already! 🙂

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