Thread: Noogah's 3d artwork

Noogah, I am very impressed.

And man, I would be devastated if I lost the file for it if that was mine.

I've just been working on a little something for my older sisters e-store. She sells Japanese style bracelets, necklaces, earings, stationary, and stuff like that. Oh, and she makes the stuff herself.



I wanted to use a sakura tree, but the closest thing to it was that maple leaf thing. I will be looking for the real thing, as it doesn't fit.

Now, I've been working on some signs for my fictional Australian Park ranger service, the R.A.D.

My first try is bare basics. Basic caustics, brushed gold lettering on a stone sign. The ground plane is sand textured.

Spoiler for Try 1:

Try 2 isn't much different than the first one, except it has a marble sign with higher resolution lettering.

Spoiler for Try2:

Try 3 has some bumpy land, with more brownish sand. It also has rougher marble, and the lettering is made of tarnished bronze rather than brushed gold. Two high resolution Australian trees flank the sides. The ground and lettering is also high resolution. It would be great, but I accidentally had the trees floating off the ground, and didn't notice until the final render.

Spoiler for Try 3:

I will pursue this until I have a really good sign/s.

Noogah, the third is great, just get rid of the trees. Maybe use an infinite brown terrain as it has some sand-covered rocks - the early formation of a desert, just like your first desert picture.

That could work, but I'll have a hard time finding a nice flat spot on an infinite terrain. Infinite terrains can be clunky to operate on.

Loved that last one.

And by the way, you don't need to use an infinite terrain to get the effect I assume you want.

Just use the normal ground, and then put a normal terrain on it in front of the camera and the sign. That means you will have your flat bit to put the sign on, and the terrain behind it so you've got your little hill.

Stop using procedural colors for ground close ups. Put actual grass models down and use a photograph of leaves and grass for the texture. Also, you need to change the bark material for the trees. Change the scaling.

Here's a really crude example of what I am talking about:

Good suggestions Roxxor. I'll take those into consideration. Just got to to finish up some schoolwork first, then I'm going to start working on it.

Okay, R.A.D sign four finished rendering last night.

It's 1600x1200, so I'll link it rather than embedding it.

Here it is

I think this one looks much better. When painting the ecosystem, I accidentally painted the sign with some weeds. In the pre-render, it actually made the sign look much better. You know, older. So I intentionally added more weeds to the sign.

In my next attempt, I'm going to focus on making the sign less symmetrical, and make the ecosystem less flat.

Unless that sign is made of marble, you should try putting a bumpmap on it, to make it look a bit more rough. Put much much more stuff on the ground, and you got something. Also, stop rendering them that big. 1024x768 is more than enough for a draft.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Unless that sign is made of marble, you should try putting a bumpmap on it, to make it look a bit more rough. Put much much more stuff on the ground, and you got something. Also, stop rendering them that big. 1024x768 is more than enough for a draft.

Sorry, I like the resolution. I want to keep them that way.

It is marble, and yeah, I need a load of more stuff on the ground. I can't use green grass though, because it's Australia, and it wouldn't fit. That's my trouble.

Just put more of what you already got.

Noogah, how do you flatten your terrains like that? I can never do it.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Noogah, how do you flatten your terrains like that? I can never do it.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Just put more of what you already got.

Spoiler for Wow! You're..:

If it's that obvious, then why do you say

I can't use green grass though, because it's Australia, and it wouldn't fit. That's my trouble.

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Originally Posted by Marvo

If it's that obvious, then why do you say ?

No, no. I wasn't being sarcastic. I was actually insulting myself, and implying that, in this case, compared to me, you're Einstein.

Btw, I'm in the same messy predicament as with the palm tree. I forgot to save my work.

Doesn't that program you're using have an auto-save feature? That would help you out a great deal

I don't think it has autosave. However, if it crashes, you can resume from a restore file.

I'm back.

I made a glass Parthenon/Church like structure that I'll upload later.

Noogah - If I get pictures of my auditorium you think you could do a model of it over the summer? It doesn't have to be huge detail, just the stage, a black flat in the back I can put a picture over (I will make a set, turn it 2D and put it on the flat.) and the lights up top.

I'll have to see the pictures before I can say yes or no.

yeah. I don't need chairs in the audience or the back housing or anything.
just the stage and lights.

Here is my glass church/Parthenon type building. It didn't turn out quite how I wanted it, though I'm not sure how. I guess I wanted it to be more busy. More refraction going on.

Here it is

I created this on a different computer, and had to transfer the file to the one I'm using now. While I was on the other one, i discovered one of my earlier attempts at the moon and palm tree. Unfortunately, I hadn't saved the .vue file, but I have the image:

Originally Posted by jarrhead

yeah. I don't need chairs in the audience or the back housing or anything.
just the stage and lights.

I'm still gonna need pictures before I can give a definitive yes or no. I would hate to disappoint.

Originally Posted by Noogah

Here it is

Nice. Try adding an old stone floor and a ceiling.

Originally Posted by Noogah

I'm still gonna need pictures before I can give a definitive yes or no. I would hate to disappoint.

Understood.