So I thought I would do something a little different here....
So I've been getting a bit of tutorial burn out, instead of taking a bit of a break, and instead of abandoning a personal project that I'd get half finished, I thought I'd do this instead.
I'll open this up to the community. What should I work on next? I don't want to go crazy with detail. I dont want to make a Colosseum here. Just some smaller things. Whether its working on lighting or modeling or materials, or just kit bashing an environment together.
Give me some ideas and I will try my best to create something and I'll post it in the comments when I'm done. I'll also try and do so as quickly as my job and children allow me to do so.
This may either be great, or something I will regret haha.
-Blaine
I used to like to take a break from all the modeling and texturing and stuff and just focus on the art/ composition/ presentation part. It's a lot of fiddling around more than hands on building. For example seeing how lighting set ups would change stuff that I already had, I'd see a picture like this and say oh yeah, let me try that:
Or just having super basic shapes and see how I could make them work on composition and lighting alone, like this examples:
You can reuse things you already have, no extra work on the modeling, textures departments, unless the new lighting makes errors on your shading pop up, and then you see oh, it's true I really need to test my stuff on lots of different conditions and see how they hold up.
Put on some music and 'sketch.' This is a new thing for me. No pressure. Details be damned.
ex: for the next 20 minutes, lets see how many interesting buildings I can make.
keep moving. keep it loose. play!!!
The low poly room exercise is always a good choice, but take it further.
It could be a never ending project, go higher poly and keep adding objects to your room, add another room, build a whole house interior, push the materials further than the basic materials in the lesson, experiment with lighting.
The objects you can add to a room/ house is endless, venture out into the yard and then the street. This can be a practice project with limitless boundaries.
Model a car, a woman running, one man and his dog, but keep the dog off the lawn. 🐩💩
This has been my playground for the last day, mostly just playing with lighting. Has been a fun time suck. 