11-05-2016, 08:16 AM
@Lodratio: Hmm, actually I disagree. I think going simpler will help you more. To me it feels like you are trying to run before you can crawl when it comes to rendering.
Really, if the nuts and bolts of the form, the lighting, the perspective, the values are put down accurately in the simplest form, the detail rendering is just icing on the cake. Look at your sketches. That's basically what you have, and they feel solid. You then lose the plot when thinking of rendering on...so I would say don't! keep it as simple as possible for a while.
I think doing digital studies of basic primitives in perspective, giving them local colour, lighting them differently and so on, will help a lot!
The same can be applied to more complex shapes/forms. If you boil things down to the forms in perspective and can get the 3 basic tones of shadow, local, light done right, this will go a long way.
I find when you are struggling with anything, going back to the fundamentals usually helps.
Also there is a large factor of workflow that comes into play when getting into digital and it can take time to find something that works for you. The time consuming part of rendering I would suggest it isn't the time it takes but the fact that you are probably doing and redoing the same things a lot, because the basics haven't been put in place. At least that's what I found with my own stuff. Rendering is incredibly frustrating if you are constantly redoing or trying to fix something that you didn't solve at the more basic level
Really, if the nuts and bolts of the form, the lighting, the perspective, the values are put down accurately in the simplest form, the detail rendering is just icing on the cake. Look at your sketches. That's basically what you have, and they feel solid. You then lose the plot when thinking of rendering on...so I would say don't! keep it as simple as possible for a while.
I think doing digital studies of basic primitives in perspective, giving them local colour, lighting them differently and so on, will help a lot!
The same can be applied to more complex shapes/forms. If you boil things down to the forms in perspective and can get the 3 basic tones of shadow, local, light done right, this will go a long way.
I find when you are struggling with anything, going back to the fundamentals usually helps.
Also there is a large factor of workflow that comes into play when getting into digital and it can take time to find something that works for you. The time consuming part of rendering I would suggest it isn't the time it takes but the fact that you are probably doing and redoing the same things a lot, because the basics haven't been put in place. At least that's what I found with my own stuff. Rendering is incredibly frustrating if you are constantly redoing or trying to fix something that you didn't solve at the more basic level