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    Finished - Hints of Power

    Kat Loveland(chaoslillith)

    "The shadows show the soul of a being. The outer appearance is rarely one's true face."

    I am beyond happy with this, it took me about 3 weeks to do. I hand modeled or sculpted everything, except the textures on the walls, floor, chair and table. I know it is not perfect (the darker colors hide a lot of flaws lol) but I am thrilled with how it looks, the story it tells, and the atmosphere it creates.

    @jlampel I used some of your lighting tricks for the shadows of the flames. Thanks for the positivity@theluthier

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    • Jonathan Lampel replied

      That's a lot of work! Nicely done on completing an entire environment plus a character to tell a story. That's a really big step in your 3D journey. Congrats 👏👏

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      Kat Loveland(chaoslillith) replied

      Thanks!! I was having an issue with getting the shadows of the flames right, soft shadows made them all go away, and hard shadows was almost a bit too hard lol. I was tweaking all the settings but do you know a way to make them look a bit more transparent?

    • Mark Smith(me1958424) replied

      that is a goodly amount of work... looks good!!

    • Kent Trammell replied

      I am beyond happy with this

      Congratulations! You should be! That feeling is a crucial facet to art / computer graphics / blender for me. And this is only the beginning of your journey :)

      I'm very impressed by the scope of work you've managed to achieve in such a short time: High-res, high-detailed sculpting, textures, lighting and rendering. Thanks for sharing and KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

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      Kat Loveland(chaoslillith) replied

      Thank you so much!

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      Kat Loveland(chaoslillith) replied

      That means a lot! I am delving into animation principles and camera work for the next week or two then I am going to be back to creating scenes, sculpting etc. I want to have a small animated short done by the end of October. :) Girl's gotta to have goals to get the work.

    • Jonathan Lampel replied

      How to make the candle flames more transparent? I'm not sure that would look better than what you've got, but you could mix the emission shader with a transparent shader. 

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      Kat Loveland(chaoslillith) replied

      Not the candles, but the shadows that are coming up onto the table from the ground, they were supposed to be more like how flames from a fireplace leave shadows, but I think they are a bit too dark. Glad you like the candles though :)   - Update...upon further googling of shadows, I think it looks pretty good lol. Flames would make dark shadows if there was an object like wood or something in front of it. That was the effect I was going for. I think if I had sculpted the light blocking object a bit better it would look more like a flame leaping up and less like a spindly monster lol. It worked, just not perfect.