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Plastic

Some examples of how to paint or render plastics. In short, I'd start with a matte surface, make sure you can see through it, if the...

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Value Structure

Knowing what values to paint on and in your scene can be frustrating. Here's a cheat sheet. Although it's mechanical in nature, at least...

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Wk 7/8 Prop Design Class: Painting vehicles in a full scene

I'm not the biggest fan of floating props in vacuums, though this is quite common in Design Studios. If you can, painting your props in...

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Wk 6/8 Prop Design Class: Designing wheeled vehicles

Designing cars. This is probably one of the most difficult things to do. This week I have taken a different approach and ditched the...

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Flying Chickens

For a number of years teaching perspective I've done numerous examples of plotting cross sections and mirroring them over in perspective...

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Reflective rendering vs. Matte rendering techniques are an Inversely related

If your object has a matte surface, you can generally avoid having to put any reflective patterns on it. However, if you have what is...

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How I think about Reflections

I wish there was an easy way to plot reflections in perspective, with tools that can guarantee an outcome, but unfortunately there is...

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