Thing#31/365
Still working on my alien model. The 'brains' are starting to look better, but the model overall is kind of boring.
Thing #30/365
So I've been making a lot of renders with the Carbon Nanotube generator preset (link) and I am totally enamored with the visuals you can make with it. I've been really trying to master the Physical Renderer in Cinema since and these rendered really fast thankfully, which let me really start to tweak the settings and get it just right. The lens blur is totally native to Cinema and the only touchups were the contrast and curves in Photoshop.
There is definitely some potential here for something cool.
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Thing #29/365
I've been messing around with the hair simulator and I've had some kind of hilarious results. My robot model looks like Chewbacca in the third one and a Muppet in the first one.
Thing #28/365
Finished editing this right after overclocking my work machine. This was actually quite a risk since if I made it unstable, I'd be unable to work. Got it to 4.1 Ghz and no crashes while rendering. Things are looking up. As a side note, I'm currently listening to Manchester Orchestra's "I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child" and remembering what an incredible and pivotal album it was for me. I saw them in 2006 before the album had officially come out with Saves the Day (A huge deal at the time) and they were just hashing out their material and playing with so much soul and passion. I met Andy Hull and had my picture taken, both of us awkward teenagers. He was 19 and I was 16 and he was the most important figure in the universe in my mind. It's so interesting that that album has maintained it's integrity through the years, while the Saves the Day stuff just seems petty and hollow. I still love those albums, but they don't hold up. Manchester does. That's a pretty cool thing I guess.
Thing #27/365
I found a really rad carbon nanotube plug in that I've been playing around with. I put a transparent material on it and it starts to take on a very organic, egglike feel. Going to have to come back to this one for sure.
Thing #26/365
This is the same plug-in I've been using the last few days to make projects. If you up the samples a ton you get this very smooth melted metal look which has really been interesting me lately. I've been wanting to do a type treatment with it and this was a test-bed for that idea.
Thing #25/365
Trying to do some more advanced rendering techniques and beefing up my workflow. Trying to get the 'brainy' stuff in the middle to glow and react to the glass and water.
Almost all the way caught up on here. Hopefully I will be able to render a couple more scenes to get it there.
