Still Life Academy | Donald | Activity

Donald posted a new activity comment

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:59:37 +0000

looking good, but the bottle looks flat – the glasses have a lot of reflections, the bottle should have more so they sit better together

In reply to - Wenbo posted an update

Sharing a good mood for a sunny day with a bottle of wine…

But only in Blender… LOL

No post-editing yet, just Render screenshots

Donald posted a new activity comment

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:57:29 +0000

I do foils and embossing in c4d with different renderers. Usually involves either layered materials or stacking materials with alpha masks and displacement maps. Method depends on the render engine.

In reply to - Tom posted an update in the group CGI Beverage

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck with adding foil and embossing to labelling? I think I saw a comment on the forum at one point with a question but […]

Donald posted a new activity comment

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:39:06 +0000

Also tried stacking materials. Can get an emboss ok, but not a deboss.

In reply to - Donald posted an update

Question for Tufty – how do you deboss an area in Corona C4D? Trying to create a foil stamp on a carton, using a layered material, base layer CMYK printed card, Layer 1 is a gold […]

Donald posted an update: Question for Tufty - how do you deboss an area in […]

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:34:31 +0000

Question for Tufty – how do you deboss an area in Corona C4D? Trying to create a foil stamp on a carton, using a layered material, base layer CMYK printed card, Layer 1 is a gold foil. Can’t seem to get it working.

Donald posted a new activity comment

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:28:07 +0000

All fine now – thanks Martin.

In reply to - Donald posted an update

I don’t seem to be able to see all of people’s comments – e.g. when David is giving advice to Dean on his whisky render, his comments are cut off. How can I see all of the comments?

Donald posted a new activity comment

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:35:47 +0000

Yes I have

In reply to - Donald posted an update

I don’t seem to be able to see all of people’s comments – e.g. when David is giving advice to Dean on his whisky render, his comments are cut off. How can I see all of the comments?

Donald posted an update: I don't seem to be able to see all of people's comments […]

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:06:25 +0000

I don’t seem to be able to see all of people’s comments – e.g. when David is giving advice to Dean on his whisky render, his comments are cut off. How can I see all of the comments?

Donald posted a new activity comment

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 09:25:18 +0000

When photographing these elements, how are you lighting the bottle, and what are you shooting on?

In reply to - David posted an update

Series of self promotional images to showcase the amazing Kilbeggan Single Grain bottle. I really think as the project went on I fell more and more in love with this bottle, it’s design […]

Donald posted a new activity comment

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:09:49 +0000

Can you tell us more about how photography was used David?. I know you like to comp in little details from the bottle that you might shoot instead of creating in 3d. Where are they?

In reply to - David posted an update

Series of self promotional images to showcase the amazing Kilbeggan Single Grain bottle. I really think as the project went on I fell more and more in love with this bottle, it’s design […]

Donald posted a new activity comment

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:35:28 +0000

I agree with David, a really great first project. It would however be massively improved by working on the table. That just doesn’t look real to me.

In reply to - Neil posted an update in the group CGI Whisky

Finally happy with my first solo project after completing @tufty ‘s tutorial. I found the bottle pretty simple after the great advice we got, but creating a […]

Donald posted a new activity comment

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:56:54 +0000

Hi Saif, lovely image. I’m interested in how you get such nice micro detail on the carton, at the folded card edges you have a very realistic bump. How do you fold up your cartons and how do you create the bump?

In reply to - Saif posted an update in the group CGI photography

Blender, Cycles, Photoshop.

Any question, I will try to help.

Donald posted a new activity comment

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 11:38:32 +0000

Hi David, just found this site, and great to see you are doing tutorials. Just watched the UV unwrap video and I don’t understand why you don’t just join your UVs up so the embossed logo can wrap around the bottle without all the faff of aligning parts of logo and red boxes with uv edges etc. You can use the UV snapping tools and align island… Read more

In reply to - David posted an update in the group CGI Whisky

Unwrap UVs in R21

I’ve created a video to show those of you that are interested in how to unwrap bottle UVs in R21. It is quite a different process to the […]

Donald became a registered member

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 11:30:09 +0000