Thanks 😊

In case anyone is interested, this was actually a remake of an old render of mine (which was also a lighting test). I wanted to take the same scene a year later, and give it a totally different vibe.

Which do you prefer?

The older version:

Yeah I went for a value of 2 on caustics because I liked the magical effect, even though it’s not physically accurate. Maybe should’ve stuck with 1 😅

Thank you! It’s a plane with a marble texture from Poly Haven, and then I mixed the roughness with a custom grunge map for some imperfection

Thanks! 😊

I think both of you are oversimplifying.

Choice and freedom take on an entirely different meaning when you have a state media bombarding you with anti-Ukraine propaganda 24/7. It’s easy for us to say from the sidelines that we’d never get swept up in a war against innocents, but probably a lot of the soldiers have been fully indoctrinated with the idea that Ukraine are a threat to their families. Not to mention they probably now have friends and family who have been killed or wounded in this war.

Putin is the real villain here. He not only started the war, he’s the one who has kept it going by his refusal to withdraw troops, silenced political opposition, lied to his population, influenced global politics in his favour by buying elections, and used his subjects as fodder in this pointless war.

It’s fucking twisted the amount of suffering one thoroughly evil man can cause.

Thanks! I used Cycles.

Originally I did have more grunge / dirt on the floor and glass, but I found it was taking away focus from the key parts of the scene so I ended up removing it entirely. Maybe there’s a more subtle middle ground somewhere

And a few more variants of this scene. Let me know if you have a favourite

My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We’re both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.

Utter ninny

Same scene, different perspective

Oh man, that takes me back.

If you haven’t seen it, enjoy

Well maybe you were cleaning it wrong

The mist was a cube volume with density driven by a couple of noise textures.

The vegetation was done using Geo-Scatter addon with various assets I’ve downloaded (I think most were Grassblade from Bproduction). Then just a lot of tweaking of masks, ecosystem settings, abiotics, etc driving different density and scale values.

If you don’t already have Geo-Scatter, it’s a phenomenal add-on for nature scenes - I would so highly recommend it, and their documentation is great too

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks, this is actually super useful feedback because I’m not much of a photographer myself. I used the default Blender 35mm film with I think a 35mm lens at F-stop 10.0. The scene used real-world scales

From what I could find online an F-stop from 8-16 seemed to be an appropriate range for those sorts of lenses, but would you have any other insights? Quite an easy thing to fix for sure but I’m definitely lacking knowledge here

And here’s the original one I made back in 2020 😊

Thanks! ✌️

Here’s the original which I made back in 2020 when I was first starting out 🙏

Of course, always happy for people to use my art as wallpapers 😊 I’ll probably forget to message you but once I’ve worked on it a bit more, I’ll probably do another post. So if you keep an eye out you can use the finished version