Blender Bytes writes:
I made this render a while back and posted it to various sites, but I thought I'd like some feed back from the BlenderNation community.
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Hanson and Kolton
Blender Bytes is a Blender tutorial website that is relatively new to the field, and we are actively trying to get feedback on our artwork and tutorials so that we can improve on it. Visit us at www.blenderbytes.com
8 Comments
Looks very nice! What was your technique on creating the light saber effect? I notice that the flow seems to be going perpendicular to its natural direction on the beams shooting out of the side of the light saber. The only other distracting element is the hood, which seems a little thick and overly stiff/smooth for my taste, although I'm not currently looking at a reference image.
You've done a great job with the shaders and lighting.
My initial approach to the light saber was far too simple, so I ended up redesigning it twice. In the end I used a basic blurred/alpha_over/non-blurred compositing setup, and I used a few different modifiers to create a second light saber mesh with random bits taken out. This resulted in the unstable look from the film... at least I hope so.
Awesome render. Love the work on the metal textures in particular.
Thanks, they're hand painted.
I also plan to release those shaders in a pack on the Blender Market.
Dear @Blender Bytes,
Since you asked for advice in such humble fashion, I feel obligated to give some feedback.
First of all congratulations for such image and thank you for sharing it here on Blendernation. To Work with such level of brightness is always a pain in the @$#!, at least for me. And you achieved a wonderfull result here.
I did some notes about how I perceived this image, so this is the critics from my point of view:
1) The top left side of the image transmits a certain feeling of rubber, I think you should work for something more "opaque and cotton".
2) The curves on the bottom right side of the image are too regular. Maybe add some bumps and make the paralelism less perfect?
3) I prefer the way you used to draw the main torch of the light saber. The smallest one with a different direction tends to cause a distraction (Again: all from my point of view).
There is a subtitle for this image hosted here:
https://goo.gl/lA0gCQ
All the best and please keep up the good work,
Greetings,
Ortiz.
bottom left I mean, sorry.
Thanks man I'll give it a lookover.