This is my on-going thread to document my progress through the 2021 Collab Project.
I have had so much dental work done, I can feel you. Usually I just play world of warcraft to forget the pain
vincav81 your cart looks super. I like the fact that it looks robust and doesn't feel like it will brake in half when lifting it from the handles. All the best wishes on your wisdom tooth op (no pun intended :) )
Here's my cart with a very basic noise dust/grunge effect using a method similar to Kent's Z Normal.
It took maybe 5 minutes to set up? The grunge is only on my local copy and not the Google Drive. I'd only add it if might added to the scene or not. But as you can see below, the grunge is only really visible from close up.
Rendered View, Close up.
Rendered View, Main Camera.
As you can see any subtle accent like grunge/mud wouldn't add anything to the final composition.
Homework Submission - Week 4 - Cart Turnaround
Here's my Week 4 Turnaround animation. @theluthier 
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I used the shadow catcher effect by Louis du Mont to create the infinite background effect.
The Shader to RGB node setup for the shadows.
And the setup for the Background colours. I tried my best to select the relevant colours from Vadim's artwork.
NB: this is all on my local copy, the Google Drive Master is just the cart without any background effects.
Awesome work and a very nice turnaround! Very cool shader trick for the background and shadows, have to try this out one day.
vincav81 That's a dream of a cart appropriately presented👍! Thanks for sharing your node setups and escpecially the trick for the infinite background I'll definitively try that out myself 😀!
Hope you feel better. Your work didn't suffer from your painful treatment. Looking great
vincav81 Thank you, for sharing your tests concerning the importance of grunge on the cart. We will have to wait for the final camera animation in order to determine whether some grunge is needed. But I could well imagine that we'll have a closer look at the cart 😀!
Look at that presentation! Truly presenting your cart in the best possible light. Very nice job vincav81 👏
You've done great work with your card. You can kick back and relax the rest of the week. Thanks for joining the project. It was a pleasure working with you 🤝
