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

[Kent Trammell]

@yukinoh1989 I got the new file! And I have it opened ready to give advice but I don’t see the reference you’re using as it’s not packed with the .blend file – I see the ref objects there but they’re bright pink. Could you either pack your file, save it, then upload again or just post the ref images you’re using? Without that my notes would be purely subjective to what I imagine you’re going for.

[yukino hatake]

@theluthier sure.
these are the images i use as a reference to match the body proportions etc. 

as for the style i want to go like a style as vaiana .
That is a stylized style right ? or how is that called ?

[Omar Domenech]

@theluthier Ah man, I’m rarely able to bother people like that, I’m a bit shy in that regard. I feel I’m overstepping my confidence in asking people that huge of a favor. I’m still trying to figure out how am I going to repay Wes. It’s a really great idea for sure. I’ll start to optimize my blend files in preparation for the rendering to come, and when the time arrives, we’ll see how it all goes, I’ll try and muster the courage to start that thread in the forum.

When it comes to the EXR, do you remember the Transformers VFX tutorial from Richard Van Der Oost? in it he explains a method to use the File Output node and output the Render Passes you have enabled in any format and save a looooot of disk space. I’ve used that a couple of times and works wonders. 

Thanks for the encouragement, Kent. 

[Omar Domenech]

@yukinoh1989  That style is called

[yukino hatake]

@dostovel haha now that’s really great. So guys I go for an awesome style 😀

[yukino hatake]

@dostovel o btw if you start that forum thread count me in. If you need help and I can, I’ll be there for ya. Got a laptop and computer so at least one can help, sometimes I can perhaps let both help with that render. Trough I wonder how that will work but you can count on me

[smurfmier1985]

@dostovel don’t be shy Omar! If Blender wouldn’t constantly crash while using Cycles on my laptop with mediocre graphics card (which is one of the biggest reasons I switched to eevee) then I would already have offered my help to you. I’m sure there are lots of people at CG Cookie who are happy to help you out. We all wanna see you succeed in going to cold Canada! 😊 

  

[smurfmier1985]

@dostovel I’ve also been googling for ya, and you might want to check out Sheep It. It’s a FREE render farm specifically for Blender. It’s worth a shot to test it out 😎

[Pavel Mazanik]

@smurfmier1985 it’s not 100% free and it’s not secure. You had to render other people files to gain points to render yours and everyone, who is rendering your file can easily steal it.

[smurfmier1985]

@nekronavt didn’t know that, Thanks for clarifying!

Sooo… don’t use that one Omar 😉

[Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar]

@theluthier 

Thanks for adding the stream to the archive! Just watched it yesterday. I hope I can participate next round (whenever that may be). Cheers!

[smurfmier1985]

@theluthier btw when do you think you guys will be able to do another live critique..? 😇

I’m planning to have a lot of work done by then so you guys have something to critique!! 😁

[Kent Trammell]

@yukinoh1989 My apologies for the delay – Finally got around to critiquing your sculpt WIP!

I think the biggest piece of advice I can give is to get hair on the bust sooner rather than later. Bald human heads in this kind of style often look alien until hair is added. Even if it’s just a simple proxy, I think the context of hair helps a lot.

As for the facial anatomy, the pieces of the face are all there, they just need some pushing and pulling in the right directions to read more human and more like the reference. That’s difficult to type out so I sculpted some small adjustments to your head and stored them as a shapekey you can turn on and off:

Love the style you’re going for! Keep up the good work 👍

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel No need to be shy about it! Sometimes a colleague needs rendering done and I’ll kick off a render while I sleep. I’m not using the computer anyway so I’m happy to lend the rendering power. It’s up to you of course – certainly an option 🙂

I’ve got to go back and look at Richard’s render pass trick. I’m quite curious how he does what you say 🤔

[yukino hatake]

@theluthier hi Kent. Thanks a lot I sure gonna keep doing my best. Np at all for the delay. I am really happy that I got the advice critique and you made some shape keys so I can compare it.  You really are an awesome teacher Kent :D. As for the hair I love realistic hair more. So should I just first sculpt the hair basic form ? Not too detailed but to get the idea or should I do it right away as realistic hair? 

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