After I wrapped up the CORE series, I decided it would be a good idea to review everything with a short, concise course. As such, I went through Kent's Treasure Chest course. It was great, and it holds up wonderfully even though it was created for Blender 2.8.
As a little side-note, I don't particularly like my wood texture. IMO, broader brush strokes would have been more appealing, but mistakes can be valuable too. 💰🦜
Looks great to me. It's a stylized treasure chest at night, for sure there's pirates and a curse involved. Top result 🤙🏼
Looks good to me. Possibly slightly too much distortion to the chest on the first render is all I'd say. I've not done the course but how about adding something extra you have to create to stretch yourself? A big set of keys on a large ring? Chest slightly open with gold light radiating out? A pile of rigid body gold coins?
Thank you, and it's funny you mention rigid body coins. Kent does that in a bonus video.
Anywho, I really appreciate the advice. I will do a full project of my own very soon.