Week 1 Submission
Here's my attempt at something challenging for me, an organic model, I'm really really bad at those. It's the first time I've ever try to model that of a human like characteristic and I've got to say it was freaking cool. First time I've ever used the sculpted method for a model. Box modeling was proving to be impossible and I could only see in my head the many times Kent has used Sculpting first retopo later and all the inflate here, crease there, pinch here, smooth to even the density... Sculpting was really awesome, I loved it.
I'll try to make it out of wood for the texturing and maybe refine the model to approach more of a wood finishing to go with the homework theme as closely as possible.
ssmurfmier1985 I am summoned! I'm not familiar with the anatomy of this type, but I can look at references and try to help in that way (if I can get my project done, heheh 😅).
dostovel It looks good as far as I can tell now. Good effort.
Homework 2
Hopefully now monkey here looks more like a decorative ornament than being alive. Like something you would find in a pirate cave that holds a clue to where the treasure chest is.
Definitely with 2.8 you can work really fast, I really like it and the nun plays a part in it. Something that confused me is that now when you duplicate an image texture in the node editor, those image nodes have linked data, you change a setting in one, the other changes as well, that gave me some headache until I realized what was happening.
Painting texture is really fun, and seeing it updating real time in the viewport is otherworldly.
dostovel Those colors reminds me of one of the teenage mutant ninja turtles, cowabunga! Looks great!
dostovel Yes, looks fantastic!
| Something that confused me is that now when you duplicate an image texture in the node editor, those image nodes have linked data, you change a setting in one, the other changes as well
But only if it's using the same image. So if you click the number of users next to the name of the image, it still uses the same image, but Blender will see it as a separate image.
dostovel Monkey the Hulk, I like it :) is curious to see how it will look once you do your node magic!!
dostovel Certainly not the direction I expected you to go in, but a fine result nonetheless!
dostovel Omar there is a fun here as always, good to come to your thread :-)
Watching to the textured version, I think it is less caricatured and more cute.
One thing is sure, it will be not easy for Kent to place it somehow to the current class categories and grade again :D :D
csehz Yeah hopefully I can dodge that C again. I'd say a sad monkey with a ninja turtle skin has the potential of at least a B+.
louhikarme Perhaps he is watching all the other empty treasure chest he is surrounded by, knowing only he knows where the real one is.
This week @theluthier only has to grade the texture painting, since he already graded your subject choice. So imo an ‘A’ could be for grabs 🤘🏻😎
dostovel Neat brassy patina look. I could imagine seeing this in the Goonies movie in the treasure trove of One-eyed Willie.
dostovel I'm with Aaron - I definitely did not forsee this direction switch. I like it! I appreciate you trying to fit a pirate theme :)
The texture makes it feel a little like jade or something similar. That could be a really interesting material. A challenge too with Eevee the Nun.
If you go the jade direction, the emphasis is more on the material than the texture and what you have should work great for the task I think. If you're not going for jade or another transparent/translucent material but an opaque material instead, the texture could be considered a little plain or generic. I guess in other words, I can't tell exactly what it's meant to be by the texture alone. An opinion you can ignore if you're going for a translucent jade-like material. Does that make sense?
I'm really glad to hear you're enjoying 2.8 and even giving the Nun a chance! You appear to be getting comfortable pretty quickly ✊
ssmurfmier1985 dostovel Wait, what? I DEFINITELY responded to Miranda's question with a grade minutes later. Mischievous gremlins at work I say!
I recorded an A in the report card but forgot to state that in the feedback :)
EDIT: I just realized I responded this way to another homework thread that Miranda asked the same question 😅
@theluthier
Homework Submission 3
Here is Bob Actually, the Ninja Turtle Gorilla that guards all your treasure chests.
I guess my goal became to highlight the fact that you can have an average model with average textures and still make it appealing with nice composition and lighting. Hopefully that came through with the final renders.
Rendered real time with Eevee. I gave the nun a chance and I like how incredibly fast it is for trying out your compositions with the immediate response in the viewport. So many finicky settings though. I don't know, I gave her an opportunity, even though she lied with her internet pictures. Lets say I took her to dinner and I'm like jesus christ can you at least not wear the nun clothes here, and she's like, don't you use the name in vain, and I say to myself... oh god dammit... and she freaks out big time and I'm like what? what did I say. So we're trying to make it work.
EDIT: Underwater?
