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For my Aardman Academy Stop Motion 2 course, we were sent a set of hands from Animation Tool Kit. 3D printed in a standard matte print material, If you wanted them to be a more fleshy color, we had to paint them ourselve...

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Project Update: Still adding when I have time! Here's an update image of where I am as far as objects and a wireframe goes. Still having fun and every new object helps not only improve my environment modeling skills, but...

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Kevin Oxland released another training series on Udemy.com and though I am not a character sculptor and don't really ever want to be, I LOVE his training courses so much that I purchased it and have begun the task of lea...

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I was given this great environment modeled by one of our excellent modeling professors and professional 3D modeler, Todd Fechter, for my Surfacing and Look Development midterm a few years ago. I wanted the students to w...

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Though I've used Substance Designer for pattern texture creation before, I never created my own wood flooring, so when the Udemy.com instructor mentioned that it was our last session, I figured it was worth the 2.5 hours...

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As I mentioned before, I LOVE Udemy.com for their tutorials. This one comes from Timothy Trankle again and it's the final shader tutorial in his \"Unlocking the Unreal Engine Material Editor\" course. He uses a lot of scen...

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I was contacted by an old colleague who inquired about my look dev skills in UE4. Good question! Yes, I can surface in UE4 and teach a Surfacing and Look Development course at the University of Texas at Dallas in both Ar...

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WIP image #2.

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I'm working this an AMAZING series of tutorials by Kevin Oxland via Udemy.com. If you have any interesting in adding on to your Substance Painter skills, I definitely recommend this set of lessons. Kevin continues to add...

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Driftwood was harder than I expected, mostly because I have to constantly convince myself to STOP ADDING BUMP! Driftwood is wood afterall, but so smoothed by the ocean waves that there is almost nothing but smoothless le...

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Food is definitely one of the hardest materials to create in CG. All the issues that photographers have with making food appealing on camera exist for the CG artist too. I used some subsurface to give my icing a bit of d...

","url":"https://monikasalter.com/blog/f/an-eclectic-shelf-of-materials-project-iced-donut-with-sprinkles","title":"An Eclectic Shelf of Materials Project: Iced Donut with Sprinkles","summary":"Food is definitely one of the hardest materials to create in CG. All the issues that photographers have with making food appealing on camera exist for the CG artist too. I used some subsurface to give my icing a bit of d...","date_modified":"2020-05-19T17:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://monikasalter.com/blog/f/an-eclectic-shelf-of-materials-project-etched-glass-rabbits","html_content":"

How much fun is it to work with Arnold's Translucence attributes? SO MUCH FUN!!! This simple glass etched rabbit was Materials #2 in the Materials shelf project and it had been a LONG time since I had the opportunity to ...

","url":"https://monikasalter.com/blog/f/an-eclectic-shelf-of-materials-project-etched-glass-rabbits","title":"An Eclectic Shelf of Materials Project: Etched Glass Rabbits","summary":"How much fun is it to work with Arnold's Translucence attributes? SO MUCH FUN!!! This simple glass etched rabbit was Materials #2 in the Materials shelf project and it had been a LONG time since I had the opportunity to ...","date_modified":"2020-05-18T20:29:56Z"},{"id":"https://monikasalter.com/blog/f/an-eclectic-shelf-of-materials-project-ornaments","html_content":"

I'm starting a new surfacing project that I have been thinking about for a few years. Now that I have the summer to create it, I've started today. The idea is to create many different objects that you would find on a clu...

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