Newbie questions 2004-01-31 - By debadger
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I'm afraid not, they're deeply personal moments, Steve. <g>
I've found the best way to get them is just take some time and play around
with something, make a specific project you want to do like a still life or
something and just start fiddling. It helps a lot to have a specific goal
in mind - as simple as 'I want to make a model of this monument'. You may
abandon a project, I've dropped a massive and very exasperating one more
than once, but eventually you come back to them and think "so... what if I
try this".
You were fooling with 3DS files, for instance. So, what have you come up
with? You'll find that you may start with simple Crease and Smooth, but
eventually you'll decide that you want to get more adventurous with your
models, breaking them into separate pieces (say you have a car model but you
want to open a door) things like that will build on each other.
There are also quite a few ways to do things, so post your questions and see
what responses you get.
Play with your shaders too. I found, quite by accident, that a colored
highlight will add a depth and richness to an object that are quite
unexpected and if done right very subtle. I also found, while playing with
a lighting setup, that using tinted lights, warm to cool colors, will add
depth and subtlety to even a very simple scene. I start a scene with
ambient light fully up, place everything, then throw in the lights and start
bringing down the ambient light. Ambient is usually off in my final render.
My lights start out brilliant, garish colors so I can see exactly which
light is causing what highlights and shadows. Then I back the colors off to
very faint tints, warm in the foreground and cool colors further back. I
often use quite a few lights, which can really slow down renders, but it
will control the highlights and shadow pools very well. Another thing, use
Targets for your lights. PointAt is very useful for delicately adjusting a
light's focus point.
Elena
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Steve W [mailto:lacathedral@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 7:47 AM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: RE: [Carrara] Newbie questions
That's good stuff, btw, don't suppose I could borrow 5 or 10 of those "ah
ha" moments from you do ya? ;)
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