My newest Blender project I completed a few days ago. Made entirely in Blender with a smidge of touching up in Photoshop! It didn’t end up how I envisioned it in my head but I’m still pleased with the result regardless.

More of my work here.

  •  dawt   ( @dawt@beehaw.org ) English
    2•1 year ago

    Great job!

    I like the volumetric lighting (at least, I think that’s what it is?) I feel like it was always tricky to get right - at least, when I was working in Maya back in the day.

    I do feel like the blue light is a little bit aggressive, and wonder if there’d be value in adding some more saturated colored lights to give some depth? Depends on the concept art, obviously. I’m curious - do you mind posting the reference you’re working off?

    •  Thalestr   ( @Thalestr@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thank you so much! There was no concept art at all. This, along with many things I make, are just made on the fly from ideas I have in my head. I rarely ever work from concept art.

      The blue is pretty strong and I did play around with decreasing it. The scene originally had a lot more green and I felt the blue fit better. Ah well, lessons for next time!

      •  dawt   ( @dawt@beehaw.org ) English
        2•1 year ago

        Oh wow! Impressive that you did this on the fly!

        I feel you on wanting to make things straight from your head, it feels closer to art as a mode of creative self expression.

        I have found though, that visual planning and collecting references (even if it’s just like, the color of light from one painting, the texture of an ancient piece of pottery, etc. ) actually gives you more opportunities to be creative and helps build a visual library in your mind that you can draw from in the future. It is a lot of work, though, and feels like it slows you down at first.

        Maybe you can try it and see if you like it?