[Nathan Foster]

@chrismckay Thanks for trying. I’ll look into Mari first. 

[Nathan Foster]

I’ve been thinking about whether to use a character or not. So would be possible to use the baker rig as part of the submission?

[Nathan Foster]

The first thing I decided to work on is the monkey. For starters, I followed Kent’s ”Hologram Shader” on Shader Forge series. That placed me in the right ballpark. Then I modified the shader – first by switching the wave texture for a Voronoi texture, and then connected a wireframe node to the Voronoi’s scale.

While this was a good start, it still needed some tweaking. For example, there wasn’t enough transparency. I overlaid the “backfacing” and “Pointiness” portions of the geometry node, and lightened it with the brightness/contrast node. Still, it needed further tweaking.  After a few searches on YouTube, I fiddled with the options slot in the materials tab. It worked! All that needed to change was setting the blend mode to “Alpha blend.”

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Sweet! This is going to be awesome!!

[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

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Here’s the entry for week 4:

Matching exercise:

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Week 3 entry:

Lighting match exercise:

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Here are the entries for week 2.

Week 2:

Matching exercise:

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I don’t know if I mentioned this or not, but I’ll be away traveling and planned to combine the assignments for weeks 2 & 3 together. 

[Nathan Foster]

Unreal Engine would be a nice class to do. Also,  AI would be cool.

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@theluthier :  Here’s the link to the exercise.  https://cgcookie.com/exercise_submissions/15659

Also, this is the picture I was trying to match. 

https://blog.cgcookie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/uploads1528307870927-06-monster-bust.jpg

@silentheart00  mentioned that the cracks are too big. Here is a revised picture:

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@yukinoh1989  I used a texture from a PBR texture addon actually.  Here’s the link if you’re interested: https://www.3d-wolf.com/products/materials.html 

@silentheart00  I can tone down the scratches. By the way, would it be helpful if I repost the pictures?

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Here’s my entries for week 1.

The truck with added scratches:

Instead of doing the bedroom scene again,  I decided to a matching exercise with the Wrangler character.

Any critiques are welcome.

[Nathan Foster]

Awesome! Looking forward to improving shading techniques.

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I’m wanting to animate it, otherwise image overlay would’ve worked.

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