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Thanks, glad you're enjoying them!

Thanks Greg! So that node is a ColorFx node, which does color correction. In this particular case I added it but never changed any of the values, deciding instead to do my contrast / brightness etc modifications in earlier nodes. So you can feel free to ignore it.

@@ArtOfSoulburn Ah cool, ok gotcha, thanks for that. One more quick question for ya, I have my seemless node set up just as yours, set to export, but the mesh doesn't export as seamless. Wondering if there is something simple I'm missing! Thanks again Neil..

@@gregsemkow So you have the righclick a node and set it as the node to export. Sounds like your disp map is being exported by an earlier node, try and figure out which node it is, right click, turn off "Mark for export", and turn on "mark for export" on your seamless node. Then check the correct node is now showing up in your build tab in the upper right. Hope that helps.

Sure, you can either take a screenshot in gaea then paint over, but personally I'd export it to a full 3d program like max or blender, light it, and paint away.

Here's a tutorial discussing it. Basically you only use the highpass to create a luminosity layer: www.neilblevins.com/art_lessons/brightness_var_tileable_texture/brightness_var_tileable_texture.htm

Thanks for the great tutorials, they were very inspiring!

Awesome, glad you found an immediate use for the information!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

So in this case, highpass mostly finds the edges of your shapes. Give it a try in photoshop, make a set of black circles, run highpass, and see that it makes the edges of the circles white. Then the threshold make the images more contrasty, then blur causes that pattern to spread.

Thanks Juan! I'm checking them out now, the Bog hog one looks particularly good as a resource for game design. Really appreciate the advice!

Thanks Nebula!

That concept is spoken about in another one of my compositional videos here: ua-cam.com/video/MX59j9yhezw/v-deo.html This one is purely on categorizing types of compositions.

haha! Goal achieved :D

Thanks Juan, glad you enjoyed it!

Haha! It meant something very different in ancient rome :)

Thanks marko! Yes, I loved tron, while I wasn't thinking of that specifically for this piece, I'm sure subconsciously it was an influence. Would love to work on a tron film or game, maybe at some point in the future I'll get my chance :)

@@ArtOfSoulburn I really hope you do!

Thanks Rune!

No problem, it is a ton of fun!

Gaea's a good one, this landscape was kinda simple but looking to add more to it in the future.

Thanks dwsel. As well as a learning experience, there are some tricks more easily done in 3d than 2D (like having ships rise up from the landscape or fall from above the camera. As well as twisting around the landscape in the background). Hope to incorporate some of those in future versions, but for now, focusing on the basics of movement on the 2d plane :)

Awesome, glad you liked it!

thanks utrix! Glad you enjoyed the megastructure work!

I'll post when I figure it out, right now it seems a lot of texture related things prefer multiple objects to be joined into a single mesh instead of being separate.

@@ArtOfSoulburn Yes, I agree, I did it by accident, and I received the same texel, but I would like to regulate this somehow, perhaps this is already a question for the developers, or I need to look for buttons, thanks for the answer.

Thanks, glad you liked the video. So while there is probably specialized software out there for creating moodboards, I just use photoshop, it's just so versatile so I can go beyond just collecting images and add notes, arrows, and even quick paintovers of things if necessary,

@@ArtOfSoulburn gotcha, so if you were moodboarding and then started painting characters, would you just open the moodboard as an image on another monitor or do you normally character design in the same document?

@@inconspicuousboar3177 So, I'd keep the moodboard open on my second monitor and then paint on a blank cancas on my first monitor (which is a cintiq). What I meant was when making the moodboard I might want to make a couple of edits to the reference in photoshop, which is why I would also make the moodboard in photoshop, but when actually making the concept I'd do that in a new document.

Haha. While there are a few scientific truths in here, certainly the link between art and science is a murky one :)

@@ArtOfSoulburn guess what rectangle we think is the most beautiful? It's not the golden rectangle. So what is the point now then?

Thanks you so much, glad you've enjoyed them!

So industry standard is a loaded term, it depends which industry you're talking about. In film VFX, Maya is the standard. But for animated features most of those companies have their own proprietary software. For games, 3dsmax is still the most used piece of software. In fact I'd suspect Houdini is used more often in games than maya. The big issue is that all of entertainment is getting really expensive, and so companies are going to look for ways to spend less money. Now that 3dsmax and maya are both rental, you have to pay monthly, which gets really expensive really fast. So I suspect more companies, especially new ones, will look into free alternatives like Blender now that they are starting to get 80-90% as good as the older 3d apps. So I think learning Blender is not a bad idea at all.

Thanks, glad it helped explain a few things you've wondered about.

Cool, ya, those books are certainly a product of their time, but there are some good ideas in there, glad you liked my modern spin on the material!

Thanks Sophie!

No problem, looking forward to making more as I run into stuff I feel may be helpful.

Thanks dude. Ya, I found the node wrangler after I recorded the video, so using it now, thanks for the note. And yes, I've mostly focused on the materials part for now, but will delve more into modeling soon, blender does seem to have a lot of nice modeling addons :)

Thanks Rune, glad to know you've made the switch too!

Ya discovered it after I recorded the video, will def be using it in the future :)

Thanks, a number of people have mentioned the bevel node, I will check it out

I've tended to find AO in other apps not as good at capturing the edges of things (but great for rust placement in the occluded parts), but didn't realize you could also use the bevel node, I'll check that one out, thanks!

@@ArtOfSoulburn I think I found the original video on how to do it on CGVirus channel. I think you can find it in blender secrets too.

Interesting, I've found it pretty straight forward, any insights on why you think you've ran into trouble? Maybe our jobs just focus on different elements of the software?

@@ArtOfSoulburn I just felt, overall, disoriented and that many simple things are difficult. I will probably end up giving it another go sometime.

@@stevejjdI wrote extensive cheatsheets to remind myself where all the new buttons are, but after a few weeks I was able to navigate around pretty well. Probably worth a second go, but keep copious notes, that certainly helped me. And the donut tutorial of course :)

@@ArtOfSoulburn Okay great. I already use Notion to create manuals for myself, like installing Linux, Renderman and houdini. Thanks for reminding me to keep notes on the process of learning. Ill definitely give it another go :)

Ya, I like vray's offline renderer, but never found their interactive one very reliable. This one seems far more solid.