week 1 - I am one of the 12 with less than a year or 3d or blender experience. I tried to make the truck looked used and tried a couple of different methods, with varying luck. The sand/rocks are a particle system. The larger scratch on the door was generated using Gimp to draw some lines. Probably should have UV unwrapped it, and positioned those scratches better, but definitely would have taken me forever. There are also some lines and discoloration (look hard) on the tires and bumper using wave and noise textures. I had to use a spotlight to light the bed for the moon, was this how I should have done it. Last thing I used Gimp, to format the lighting png to upload, have less Gimp experience then Blender, so I hope that worked. Great class, learning a lot!
https://cgcookie.com/exercise/lighting-a-simple-bedroom/exercise_submissions/16569
https://cgcookie.com/exercise/shading-a-toy-truck/exercise_submissions/16568
ttanya53 Welcome to the class! Your truck shader looks good, and bonus cookies for attempting grime and scratches. Nice day and night scenes. The day scene light looks like it's blowing out the pillows a little bit, but that's a tiny critique. The night scene looks pretty good overall; not a lot to critique there. Good work.
Glad to have you part of the class @tayna53! I'm quite impressed with the effort I'm seeing from you with less than a year of experience with Blender. Love the added touch of sand in the toy truck's bucket and on the wheel well. I also really like the grime you've added. My only note is that it's global and not concentrated in certain areas that make the most sense to be grimy - like the crevices. Using pointiness node to concentrate the grime in the crevices would be a step in a more realistic direction.
The distinct blue hue to the shadows of the daytime bedroom is great. I really like the contrast of warm sunlight and cool shadows. Keep an eye out for this is real life - it's everywhere! The night time scene looks good too. My one note is that the lamps aren't blowing out a little as they usually do. But I know that's due to Filmic. So not much of a note to pay attention to 😅
Great job this week. It's an A+ from me.
