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Long time reader, first time poster ( well, for this subforum atleast :P ). Thought I might aswell share my works with the rest of you fantastic artist.
My apologies to anyone unfortunate enough to still have 56k as most images are rather large.
With 3D stuff, it's helpful to know what kind of feedback you are looking for - artistic/composition or more technical?
Once thing you need to be careful of when rendering reflective surfaces is to make sure that your geometry is very clean and that your normals and smoothing are also very clean and correct. I'm seeing a lot of reflection artifacts that are probably the result of some bad geometry.
For both, actually. These are for all purely for fun and generally just me messing around. The only piece that's actually for my "portfolio" are the 2D drawings, made for a client.
Usually I'm only on deviantart but you hardly get actual useful tips there.
So again: Anything that will help me get better, as outstanders often see things that I overlook.
The wheel arches and windowframing aren't 100% smooth. This is also due to my rendering machine being a laptop. Becuase of this the subpatch levels ( or metasmooth in 3dmax I think ) Is only at 4, where as normally you'd put it on 10.
I really like the 2d drawings and the planet thing. They sort of have the standard Iphone glossy iphone app finish applied to them pretty well. I wish the clouds on the planet were stylized in some way, they don't feel as planned out as everything else.
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Once thing you need to be careful of when rendering reflective surfaces is to make sure that your geometry is very clean and that your normals and smoothing are also very clean and correct. I'm seeing a lot of reflection artifacts that are probably the result of some bad geometry.
...and are these just for fun/practice, or are they for a portfolio?
Usually I'm only on deviantart but you hardly get actual useful tips there.
So again: Anything that will help me get better, as outstanders often see things that I overlook.
Where did you notice them?
The clouds where actually 2D, but I did not get them to look properly, so I choose to manually brush them instead.
Don't have photoshop right now to point them out, so I have to describe them-
Rear stand on the gun stand pic.
Second car pic, where the car body meets the upper right headlight corner.
Optimus Prime's middle finger and silver stripe on the same arm.
Whole front end on the orange car pic.