A 3D modeling Challenge

[theinonen]

Frances, what you suggest could indeed be done, but it would be best to render the scene twice, put it in After Effects and then do the "reveal".

For a simple fade, is there any real advantage with that approach to instead of just animating shader/texture directly in 3D-software?

[Gare]

@ Frances—

You're using Blender for the render (sorry that it rhymes!).

Curious me.

-g

(Crap, that rhymes, too. Too much reading Dr. Suess!)

[Gare]

Better?

[ss-kalm]

Much.

[Mike Bailey]

GP"s July 2011

[Mike Bailey]

Gary Bouton's September 2013 tutorial.

[Gare]

I'd foroggen about that, Mike. Thanks for the superb render, which brings out more detail than I imagines, and was asked of the members!

Okay, back to ducks. This thing actually visited our home town

My duck is somewhat smaller, which might provoke a comment from Donald Trump.

Fool disclosure: I did this a few years ago, not for our Challange here.



A distraught disqualified duck,

-g

[theinonen]

Metasequoia has armature tool that is perfect for quickly making basic shapes for all kinds of things, for example rubber ducks.




I suck at making ducks it seems, but not bad for a couple minutes of work.

[Gare]

I'll have to check out Metasequoia, theinonen.

I've been using C4D since 2009, and it's primitives plus the subdivisons and "rubber mode" when editing patches got me where I wanted to go with the duck, I believe.

Here's displacement; I used a map of fish scales that I created in Photoshop:





WTD,

Gare

[ss-kalm]

At last, a challenge that I can do ... Thanks Mike for reminding me about Gary's SEPTEMBER 2013 SPACE BEACON ... Although I took some liberties with colour to show rotation.