More updates, Currently taking some online drawing class from Watts atelier of the arts, I've never actually properly learned drawing so figured it was the right time to try. I'm working on drawing fundementals II right now. I've also went a couple time to do live drawing/painting in montreal, I went to the 3h long pose so…
A bit of a breakthrough on the next iteration for the reference material. If you use the CameraVector node (which I was using some of my dot products), as your normal, you get "free" retroreflectivity. This much better because it actually takes into account all scene lights, rather than relying only on a single directional…
Working on front and back views! Really happy with progression. Excited to see how everything turns out! (The shoes and hands are backwards, I know haha. Still working on those pieces.)
I use Substance Painter and sometimes Designer . SPainter has a nice name matching system to avoid the pain of cage tweaking . So the baking rays doesn't return hi poly object normals or other properties beyond two matching pieces like when you bake normal map on a finger and getting other fingers projected too. It…
And the project is finished! Feel overall happier with the end result and can now let the project go. You can find the link for the post with the rest of the renders here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zxbwDD