I am a matter of hours away from purchasing my first proper computer, a nearly 3000€ machine built in large part thanks to the wealth of information regarding render requirements, functional hardware options, and suggested builds to be found on this website. Further searches led me here, to this thread. a thread started…
Hi guys, trying to get back to small basic stuff as to not have too much to chew at once learning. So I made a simple scene with these little lanterns floating in the ocean. Ive been fiddling with the render settings and the camera and light settings a ton but I must be missing something because The top image is what my…
Since my new Years resulution was to start posting and stop just lurcking around i take this as a sign to start now. My idea is a Viking themed room where the Longship is embedet as the throne into the architecture. I am not entirely sure if the room is still in use or not and if the ship should be able to get back onto…
Great scene, I can actually see everything on the my school computer and this monitor has low brightness/contrast. Only advice I can think of is watching your shadows especially in that 3rd shot where that shadow is darkening around that torch which the light from the fire should be overriding the shadow. That same shadow…
myles: Thanks mate, glad to hear you like my progress. You're spot on; I was meaning to change the material later on, for now I'm simply using Epic's standard ocean material. I will certainly make my own sometime in the next few days; that tutorial you gave me will certainly come in handy. Thanks! acapulco: Cheers man! Now…
God I love your stuff Chris, and I agree with other people about Post-Processing, I know how easy it is to fall into that trap. Have you thought about having some foliage encroaching on the area? I think if the lab was this dirty and grimy and forgotten, stubborn plant life would begin to take over. Maybe it could even be…
@SirCalalot Thanks man :) Yeah Iknow, its just hard isn't it? Making these decisions all the time. I never know whats best. Well I've called it done for now really, I need to move on. I feel like I've learnt so much and it's strangling me keeping working on this. I made a little video: And a video:…
Thanks Kromus. and thanks for the suggestion! I had small watermarks and wear before but going down the road of looking up references of silt and water wear I spent pretty much the entire day trying my damnest to convey different surface materials and making the area look really worn in by water damage. Still not happy…
Small update, working on refining shape. Totally agree with @Dimfistthat the early sculpt was blobby. For the narrative I want to build on moby dick. I am thinking of this guy as a massive protector that lives to serve the ocean as a whole by destroying those that seek to harm it (like whalers). For the final render I am…
for me it was like a feeling between extreme happiness and relief (after getting free from german military and after getting visa approval was such a mission) and sadness because i had to leave my friends and family behind and move across the ocean.... i've always wanted to live in north america so it was like a…