My homework thread for the October 2018 Class.
bathroom week 4
Week 1
Toy Truck New look (freshly buyed )
Toy Truck dirty + old
i did have changed like in the wheel and some slight collor diffrence but i lost the first file somehow .
File Of toy truck finished state
toy truck finished
What i learned
-learned how to use HDRI. change intensity , rotate the world.
-learned about the diffrent kind of lamps(point lamp, sun, etc and when to use them best .
-learned about the intensity how to increase size and how this effects the scene. and how to change the collors to the lamps.
-learned how to render with higher result . (more samples) and noticed that filmic and default settings give difrent light effects.
-learned how to add collors and how to connect diffrent nodes with each other(still dont know much about nodes what and when to use or how to organize them but i am still practicing :) )
-Learned how to make someting more plastic or more metalic
-learned how to make brushed metal
-learned how to add scratches dirt and dust (trough i still wonder why some spaces arent covered with dirt (like in the yellow its good visible where there is and not )
So overall this week was so fun . difficult but then again everyting new at first is kinda difficult .
The most important thing is i learned so much and that while having fun with it .
WEEK 2 Homework
car shading and lighting
late afternoon /evening when the sun is going under
At full night with lamps to showcase the model
Lightning match
goal
Mine
Week 3
Lightning match
goal (the goblin itself
result
WEEK 4
thecabbagedetective ya indeed also it isn't laying above. Going to check the tutorial after I finished eating. Thank you so much for all help you gave me so much
yyukinoh1989 No worries, look forward to what you have in store!
yyukinoh1989 No, you can't open a 2.8 file in 2.79.. the dependency graphs are different. However, you CAN append stuff from 2.8 into a 2.79 file.
ok so i went to retopology the pumpkin (finally managed to finish one of them ) but i do have some problems and hope some can help me .
first of all sorry for the messy retopology (next time i must keep in mind i carve in the face right in the middle ) because of that i could not use mirror mode sadly :( what is causing so much more work .
the problem i have now is that at the mouth i want it to be a bit more square (not fully but just slightly better)
somehow even after 3 loops really close to each other it didnt helped and still is rounding of really hard.
then second i noticed somehow the shrinkwrap isnt looking so well .
can anyone help me out to figure out what is causing this ?
if you guys need the file (what i think will be for looking into the problem ) here is the file
it is also 2.79 since blender kept crashing today . so many times i lost my work :'(.
pumpkin file
@theluthier i am so sorry i am not yet finished . can i still get till this evening or possible till a few hours before youre stream ?
i got several problems i ran in this week but tryed to work as fast as i could . i hope i still can get some time ? sorry that i am so late.
Lately it feels like thinks keep going wrong and i cant think clear to figure out a solution . again so sorry i still didnt posted the homework.
yyukinoh1989 Nice to see your progress, and sorry to hear about your troubles. When I get the chance, I can take a look and see what's up.
silentheart00 thank you. Hope it can be fixed soon. I don't really get what is wrong.
yyukinoh1989 It appears the biggest problem with your pumpkin is that the base sculpt has a solidify modifer on it. Delete that, move some verts around and you should be good.
thecabbagedetective Thank you so much Aaron . it did indeed helped. guess i still have a few issue's but i think i can send this in.
trough i still wonder where i can find the denoise in 2.79 . i tought it should be here but guess not ? 
or perhaps i am really looking over it.
now for the result (hope with denoise it will looks better)
Pls let me know if i can improve it or someting is looking weird . also i will try to do a lightning match tomorrow since its past midnight already and my brain cant handel it anymore .
this past week all that my body wanted want to sleep but i simply cant do that yet.
i hope you guys will like it and i hope ill be able to finish all of the pumpkins before the end of the contest along with other homework .
gnight guys and thank you so much for helping me :D
yyukinoh1989 Weird, it's there for me when I load up your file, but yes you're correct that it's supposed to be there. How bizarre. Though even without the denoising your render looks good so it's not always a be all end all situation.
You pumpkin certainly looks good! Lovely expression, though I'd recommend adding some thickness via a solidify modifier (this'd require to apply the subsurf and shrinkwrap though, so act accordingly). Overall I wish you the best of luck in the competition, see you there!
thecabbagedetective o OK didn't knew that I had to apply them first. Noticed now too I forgot those stars in those eyes. Gonna update it tomorrow and hope I still will get graded by @theluthier . I am kinda sad I didn't managed to get it in time but learned some good lessons. You're submission rocks too btw :D
yyukinoh1989 It's not so much that you'd have to apply them to get the solidifer to work, it's just that with the shrinkwrap enabled it'd cause a lot of issues. And thank you for your feedback, appreciate it!
thecabbagedetective ya true indeed. After I added the solidify I noticed I could not go far since I got lots of storage things happen xd. And np I wonder how you do all of this. You're good fast and gladly I still had you're help to figure out the problems :). Truly Aaron you rock
yyukinoh1989 To be honest I've been doing very little else outside of Blender this month. What's an outside?
Nah but seriously I've been quite dedicated, but I'll be slowing down next month (which I advise you do too, you've seemingly been going pretty hard yourself). Overall though I'm very glad to hear I've been useful to you, I thought it only right to give back to the community.
You've come a very long way and a very short amount of time, so keep it up!
thecabbagedetective that is true. I think my doctor won't be happy if I return next month. But I got some time to rest then so just 1 more week to keep going as good as I can.
And I am happy you do that. At a lot of community's that isn't happening sadly. But I am lucky to be here and have you and several other people to help if needed.
yyukinoh1989 Oh, I'm an idiot, I completely missed it. You're using 2.77, denoising isn't in there, you'll need to update to 2.79.
thecabbagedetective yyukinoh1989 I missed it too! that image shows you're using 2.77, not 2.79.
gradyp thecabbagedetective now that explains a lot. I thought that even when downloading an older blender 2.79 would stay as main to open.
