rendering | Derek Kosol

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 5/8 Prop Design Class: Painting and Orthographics

This week wraps up the alien flame thrower project. I take the rough sketch to develop a painting, something that can be submitted for...

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Wk 2/8 Prop Design Class: Spiderman's web-shooter

A new week and a new style for an old prop design class. We start with reference gathering, thumbnailing, and move into a "sketch...

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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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