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Thanks, this is actually super useful feedback because I’m not much of a photographer myself. I used the default Blender 35mm film with I think a 35mm lens at F-stop 10.0. The scene used real-world scales
From what I could find online an F-stop from 8-16 seemed to be an appropriate range for those sorts of lenses, but would you have any other insights? Quite an easy thing to fix for sure but I’m definitely lacking knowledge here
And here’s the original one I made back in 2020 😊
Thanks! ✌️
Here’s the original which I made back in 2020 when I was first starting out 🙏
Thank you!
Now that you’ve mentioned foreground contrast I can see it and completely agree. I think when processing the photo I probably did the easy mistake of cranking the contrast a bit high - gives it a nice punch but loses some of that shaded foreground detail. Good to keep in mind for future projects though 🙂
And I usually post here when I make something new, so I’m sure you’ll see me crop up again!
It was inspired by it - I actually only found out about the competition after I saw the compilation video, so decided to see what I could do with the stairs concept 🙂
Didn’t use the project assets though, built my scene from scratch so it might differ slightly in proportions, etc
Took me a couple of days, around 18 hours total. A lot of that time was spent playing around and tweaking things because I didn’t actually go into this fully knowing what I wanted to create
Sure!
All the foreground stuff was modelled first, then sculpted with rock textures / general wear (posts, steps, cliffside, etc). The giant spires were sculpted from a cube. Textures are mostly procedural, a few texture maps but I prefer doing things procedurally as I don’t have to worry about UVs and seams. The vegetation, moss, ivy, trees, etc were scattered using a few add-ons (Baga Ivy, Geo-Scatter). The landscape was made with noise textures and masking in TT5 add-on, then sculpted slightly afterwards to get the exact shape I wanted. I used the same add-on to texture the landscape with masks. The clouds and fog are all volumetric using noise textures, and the human is built from the HumGen add-on which I made to resemble me (it’s a good way to watermark my art - hard to remove digitally, distinctively me and less intrusive than a big logo or something).
Hope that makes sense. Happy to answer any other questions if you have them 🙂
Thank you 😊
grumbles “and the lift is still broken… hate these shitty stairs… 350th floor flat was a stupid idea…”
Thank you! Man Myst was such a great game
Thank you, the details are my favourite parts to do
All made in Blender, rendered with Cycles 😊
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Completely agree, the denoiser is like magic.
Although it helps this render was 4k, gives it a lot more to work with. If I were rendering in 1080p I’d probably go for 500 samples.
And thanks!
So actually this is a frame partway through the animation. I took it here because I quite liked it looking like a jellyfish :)
But actually once the animation fully plays out, all these threads come out the centre and it forms an iris. You can see it more clearly in this earlier version:
My bad, don’t think I appreciated the difference.
My point still stands though. Can no entertainment company ever use an R in for their logo without risking the wrath of the T2 legal team? Seems like a ridiculous claim
The mist was a cube volume with density driven by a couple of noise textures.
The vegetation was done using Geo-Scatter addon with various assets I’ve downloaded (I think most were Grassblade from Bproduction). Then just a lot of tweaking of masks, ecosystem settings, abiotics, etc driving different density and scale values.
If you don’t already have Geo-Scatter, it’s a phenomenal add-on for nature scenes - I would so highly recommend it, and their documentation is great too