3D Environment MasterClass | From CONCEPT to FINAL: Submission Review

word I'm looking for um has a direction has a direction all the elements in the scene are guiding my eye towards the center towards the mountain what do I mean by light value and light contrast to guide the eye is what you're seeing here is very dark on very bright and that's leading my eye here is the brightest and the darkest point of the image these torches are going down to a vanishing point to the center point here towards this temple and then you have this nice um these temples these floating temples that guide your eye is the cemetery that guides you right here and then you have your cherry blossom trees that are to the left and to the right as well, so you're definitely going for that symmetry.

I like this. one a lot, you have particles in the air that give it depth and you have these clouds in the background that also give it depth. The only thing I think can make this better is the fog cutting through the atmosphere between your temple and your mountain because I'm missing this temple so I want to be able to see the shape of this temple against the mountain and I don't because they're basically the same color, so what I need is some kind of fog or atmosphere card behind the temple and in front of the mountain to make it stand out a little more, but I love this.

I think your colors are wild enough to be crazy and fantastic, but not wild enough to say where the hell I am. This feels really great. I like it. this a lot this raises the level definitely okay so this is that pokemon rayquaza okay this one again a little bit all over the place a little bit all over the place um it's just a lot it's a lot I don't know what I focus my eyes and I have nothing to base it on . It's just you know the rule 80 20 you want 80 familiar 20 foreign or new, you could say 80 80 is something I'm used to and 20 is something new, it's a new idea this is like 90 new and foreign 10 percent familiar as if the only thing that looks familiar to me is this guy moving around that's all um your sky is a little crazy it's like everywhere it's like really intense so again my advice on these is find a reference, what's your reference, what are you looking for? and work towards it, find a good reference and really build towards it, yes that would be my advice for that, but good job.

I hope you learned something, that's the point guys, I hope you learned something, you know, this is cool if it's like your first year in Blender or whatever, like you're doing some cool stuff, you know, you have some light bouncing off the mountain some shiny things you have some characters that are animated you're literally animating characters you're animating these little things you have a character in the scene like you're doing good things if this is year one or year two and a blender, keep going like so, so we've seen that oh, I like this one, this one is cool, I like your colors and of course I love the whole Japanese vibe. um, I still have to beat Ghost to Tsushima.

I'm very close, yes, this. it's cool, I like it, you have your character here with the cherry blossom, the animated cherry blossoms that are animated the same way like they're breathing, they're like one, two, one two and you can see the repetition in them. work on the birds, you have the birds flying, your mountain seems a little low resolution but I love your temple up there, your ground plane is the biggest thing that's puzzling me right now, it's just glass, which I get it, I get you, it's water, but it feels like details are just missing.

It feels like I'm missing details. I know there is a reference for this. There are some salt flats that flood a little bit in Utah and stuff, so you can definitely reference that. Maybe it's your lighting. Able to adjust the lighting to make it feel a little more realistic, um, but it has that video game rendered feel, but I love your particles in the air, I think it's really nice, maybe next time you start, your particles begin to emit your particles. um in negative frame 100 so they start in the scene, you know, unless you wanted it this way, but you definitely have two wins, two crosswinds blowing like that, which is interesting, very interesting, I think it's cool, Although I think it's great, well. work next we have this damn dark metal album cover swedish metal album cover sweet band um yeah man good job you got your fog you got your atmosphere you got your songwriting going on which is super cool again this is like stews or feelings yeah you know instagram I have a guy on instagram by stuzor I have those feelings you have the giant statues I love your lighting I love your clouds you have the birds there you go doing some interesting things with the mountain back here I think it's cool you have some trees I love your composition I love your lighting it's leveling up oh this is great ah very very cool I love this it's unique this is very different I like it so first of all excellent rendering quality um good composition great lighting I love your lighting and the idea that it's the next level you on the next level you have an idea with this like you're doing something different you know people have ideas but you're doing something different um you're combining these worlds it's the parallel dimension I love it it's really cool you have your floating leaves on close up your particles and all that very good work on the details with your ground plane I am always like that, that is the first thing that is like the ground plane that I am seeing that is the closest, so it has to be the closest detail high.

Good job on this man. I really love it. You raise the level with confidence. We have seen this one. Ooh, mdk. What's happening? Okay, so I've never seen the movie. I need your render quality to be amazing, always good, oh my god, you literally mosaiced, you mosaiced the plate, but you forgot about this frame here and it says peter, nico, sam, ren and clint, that's a Next level guy, that's the next one. level that's cool wow that's amazing dude that's super fun I love it. Is this supposed to be like the test that Nico is on?

I don't know, but your render quality is very good, your lighting is nice, your atmosphere and fog are really good. okay your framing is good it zooms in on this stop sign i love it yeah you got your volumetric fog there you level up of course your renders are always so nice man that's funny this one feels like Oh wait, remember? moment and at the end of the Matrix when Neo realized that he was the one I feel like this is and when you like it it starts when it starts seeing and coding and all of that is the vibe that I get from this, it's really cool um you got the floating rocks and particles like the mountain swirling, I think it's amazing.

I'm just missing a bit of the character again. It's like he shines and it's some kind of shiny mass. I'm not really understanding a character like that um, but your landscape is amazing, I really like your landscape, it feels very intense, like you've traveled your whole life to get to this point and you have the effect of particles swirling around the mountain , which is really cool, this one gets the level. up for me, okay, star wars vibes, love it, it's cool, now it looks like a miniature because of your depth of field. I really like these big sand crawlers, I think they're cool and your building in the back is awesome, your character is. cool also this has a really good feel uh your hdri and your lighting i really like that you're using your lighting here this is cool you have rays of sunlight and shadow sunlight and shadow and it helps the character stand out so i really like it that you are laterally lighting your character, your rendering quality is very good, this raises the bar for me, so let's move on to the next level, okay, the next one is World War I, a lot of work went into this one. wow, so I know where I know where we are this is something from world war one right here um it's a battle for the battle of all the battles that are happening right now the forest is on fire the mountain is on fire everyone is going crazy we are running for no man's land um very well done yeah, this is very well done I like what you're looking for I think your composition is good I can tell what's happening I know what's happening I know who your characters are I know where we are I know where we are time period we're in, so that's good, I think your models are a little low poly.

I think you could have used maybe a little depth of field to hide the foreground just a little. you could use motion blur motion blur will help you a lot with these guys falling um certainly and I think if you reduce the texture of your lights on the mountain it will make the mountain feel a little bit smaller or um it will come out and feel bigger, so if you take these little twinkling lights, which is great, and maybe make them a little bit lighter and smaller, it will make the mountain feel bigger. It looks like the mountain is being lit by the fire on the left and right good job on the sky I think you lowered the sky very nice nice um space hdri this one raises the level I think it's good I think it's really good whoa whoa that's intense , so this guy just cast a spell or did it was his incomplete spell because, like the lasers hitting the middle, the character feels like a spell is being cast, it's not a robe, but I mean, really good job on your mountain explosion simulation, that's amazing.

It's coming from this little place up here, it looks like you use the world builder, maybe to give the mountain some texture and everything looks great, your mountain looks super solid, and falling into the background, it looks great too, a custom simulation and everything is fine. work with the reflection in the lake in the foreground your foreground closeup I feel like it needs work because I don't know what that is it's sand it's concrete it's rock I don't know but I think it's good enough to get the level up so you passed to the next level.

We have seen this, oh man, another ghibli that represents them all in ghibli. I love it, so this one is also animated in two, so it looks like that stop motion anime effect. Um, I love it. Beautiful thanks to how the moving castle goes if you don't know I'm a huge Ghibli fan and I actually bought myself a little castle here, a little moving house, I bought this one at the Ghibli museum in Japan and it falls apart. like it has a bunch of different pieces and like you know, little hidden cubbies and stuff, anyway, anyway, back to the render.

I love it, I love the feeling of this. My only complaint is the foreground grass and it needs some contrast which needs different types. of grass darker spots brighter spots um and it needs to flow with the wind it's very static I need that fluid wind like sodamontes you had the wind flowing um and you have some clouds some animated clouds I feel like you're your background hdri you can be moving it a little too, but this one raises the bar, i think it's great, okay tristan, very nice, good rendering quality, good character, the creepy lighting reminds me a little of 1917, good job on the fire going out back here.

I think that's really cool. Now this one definitely levels up. It certainly levels up. You have an animated flag here. What would you do to improve this? I think it's the lighting. I think there's a spotlight on this guy now. maybe have a helicopter in the back or maybe have spotlights on the buildings on top of the buildings pointing towards this guy, I think that could be really cool, like 28 weeks later when the zombies came in and they had all the guys in ceiling. that could justify the focus I want to know where the focus of the fire is coming from I don't know what's on fire so if he's walking towards it maybe it would be a good idea to have a crashed plane or something slide your finished bus so I can see a little bit more what's going on so I would work on the composition and just to find the lighting a little bit more, but you sure raise the bar now that we did the um when we were in the early stages. of the progress or

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process martine sent this image or this render and nvidia actually tweeted it um he tweeted about the contest and everything super cool amazing really good job on this I think this is amazing um you have this monk walking towards the mountain really good idea I love your idea, the ground or background itself feels a little static.

You know, you just have the birds and the character moving, which is cool, but it feels like a picture. It could also be an image and I can. I see your clouds are moving a little bit, but I feel like they're not moving enough and I'd love to see a little more of something down here on the ground because it's like mostly clouds, which is cool, that's definitely the vibe you're getting. . I'm going for um, but I mean this definitely raises the bar for me. I think it's very nice. Your crows, I wonder. I feel like if your crow is part of the lighting it's hard to tell or maybe it's just the way they are animated. like they were circling around the sky and like it didn't feel natural like a bird couldn't fly in aLet's move on and start leveling up.

This one definitely levels up. I can tell you right now that it levels up. I feel like these level up, but let me see let me see I might have to go through this a couple of times I think this one definitely this one definitely has a level oh my gosh, you're kidding, it absolutely levels up, is that even a question? level up both Guys, boom, come on, get up, get up, get up, get up on the timeline, uh, burke, hey, thanks for the super chat, um, he says, thanks, it's time to do this, you made that learning be fun and I owe you a lot of products and the latest discord, absolutely man, yeah.

It has to be fun we have to keep learning fun man because we don't improve until we learn you know we have to keep learning so let's go through this uh this is a higher level this is the higher level for sure they are choosing the winners and it's a difficult process oh that one oh that's good this level up yes level up I really like that one I have to level up go up to the next level this one are you kidding me? the next level that's really good that's really good and I heard you got your full render complete on this one so that's awesome I'm glad you did it I'm glad you did it um okay this one I'll let this one level up completely. this level up god that one is so good it's so good just sorry I see you though I see you oh my god level up definitely definitely level up I love that dude this is such a sick level this one is really good I have to level that one too I love this level that up this is very well done level that up too ah that one is really that is really good that is really good I love this man I love this I'm going to love this one level up level up ah man that's hard that's hard that's so hard gah this is hard this is really really hard guys I think this one levels up I really like this one gets level two this one isn't even a The question levels up dude yeah this one absolutely levels up and this one levels up okay, so we did about half of those, we have about half of those leveled up, now it's time to grab these and figure out which one of these. goes to the next level this is difficult this is a difficult process okay so which ones go to the next level oh boy this one this one has to this one has to go to the next level this one has to go to the next level all right, yeah, next level, next level, this is enlightenment its amazing this has to be the next level i think this is the next level i really like this one i think this is the next level god this one is good too next level for all the samurai . just the next level for this next level this is definitely the next level um okay visual effects wizard where are you from the US okay so it all comes down to these guys here God that's so good.Okay , this is, this is, this is like the top 10, the top 11.

The top 11 renders here, so what I'm going to do here is, basically, I'm going to pick the top three, but that doesn't mean that you win the awards. , so I need because the awards are just for us and I need to make sure that these guys are just us now. I did this process before I picked the winners last night, so I need to make sure and I made sure that these renders were of the us, so this is what I'm going to do, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to put this screen here so you can't, so I won't reveal the winners yet, but I've already chosen the winners, so I just want to make sure I do this right because I don't want to have to go over all of this with States again.

United and the international community and make it complicated so bear with me and then I'll move on and I'm just going to show you a quick montage of some of the renders here while I work this out and figure it out because we're going to do this once I want to get back to anything here, tough, tough decision. tough decision bear with me you guys okay I think I got it it's time to announce the winners of the parallel dimensions rendering contest oh wow that was tough okay okay okay okay still I'm. still like oh my god, which one, which one, damn, yeah, okay, we're going to work backwards here, we're going to work backwards, everyone's everyone, ah, are you all ready?

Give me some thumbs up and it's time to announce these winners, geez, okay. I'm nervous, I'm nervous, man, huh, okay, okay, okay, okay, so how do I do this without being okay? I'm going to write it down because I want to reveal it properly here, okay guys, so I'll just keep getting started, okay, let's go. I'm just writing this I'm going to write this and I'm going to say it bear with me okay and then for the international okay let's do this okay here we go this is it guys so it all comes down to these 11 renders, I'm going to pick five winners for us just because only people in the US can win the pny and nvidia awards and then what I'm going to do is pick the top three winners that I think deserve something.

From uh international, so you international guys, I definitely have to congratulate you, so I'll send you some photo prints, some signed ones, you know, big prints from me, you guys can choose whichever one you want, okay. so let me put the prize pool here make sure you get these prizes right and we're going to do everything right so let's start with us in fifth place in fifth place for the parallel dimensions contest that you're going to participate in. Earning an honorable mention in fourth and fifth place is an honorable mention. One 256-gigabyte Elite x USB 3.1 flash drive.

You know, don't lose it because it's about the size of my thumbnail. But it has 256 GB. It has you in your visual effects resources. 3D resources put it on any computer you want and you know it's there, so in fifth place we have dun dun dun dun dun dun ah it's down here it's down here where are you my friend? where are you my friends eligible for the US national award? You who were from outside the United States, where is your render? I'm going to find you, bear with me, bear with me, where the hell did you go?

Dude, there you are, here's the winner, boom, fifth place, August, you won it, buddy, fifth place. congratulations I love this render man I love how it is it has two sides and I love the world it's in I think it's cool your character is hurt he's bleeding but you did it you got fifth place that flash drive is coming towards you okay? So the team members at p e y will be in touch, congratulations on winning, you are the first winner of the parallel dimensions contest, great job, great job, man, I love it, super sick, okay, okay, okay, okay good. fourth place, okay, we got fourth place, that's another honorable mention, someone who I think did a really good job, someone who played with scale in a really interesting way, someone who got subsurface dispersion right over a certain small insect, honorable fourth place.

The mention goes to Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Danny, Danny, boy, congratulations, buddy, I'm sending you a flash drive. 256 gigs, 3.1, mate, good times, Congratulations Danny on winning this honorable man. I mention that I think this is absolutely amazing, you did an amazing job, you got the scale perfect and you did it in a very interesting and fun way, you took this idea to a really unique area that I thought was amazing, so kudos to you my friend . I'm getting an amazing flash drive, okay, okay, now to third place, third place is to see if we can find it.

Bam this is our third place winner right here right now if I could find you in the media pool and then maybe find you in the browser I would know your name is cole stanley and you just got third place in the contest parallel dimensions, you just won, if these numbers mean anything to you, a cs 2130 m.2 nvme, a one terabyte ssd, you are going to render things much faster, you will be able to get files much faster, congratulations, we will send you a ssd your way, the pny team will be in touch, congratulations on your render, I love it, check this out, your render quality is fantastic and not only you render an amazing

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s and put them together in a way really cool, like two or three other people did this.

Two people did this maybe and you executed it very well, so congratulations to you, my friend Cole, for winning the parallel. dimensions contest third place hell yeah okay guys the next place is the second place that comes after the third place so in the second place this person will win an nvidia Shield TV Pro. Basically it's a nice thing that you connect to your television and you like it. Get all your stuff figured out and you know, plug in your Playstation, plug it all in, um, it's a central hub made by nvidia for your TV, for your entertainment center.

Secondly, now I'm glad this person got me the render of him. time and wow they cut it down to the damn cable um I guess I may have missed the download and it turns out it's Mr. Vfx Wizard with this amazing render check this out dude I'm so glad you have this in front of me . eyeballs because you almost got first place, man, straight up, you almost got first place, that's what was taking me a while. I was because I saw this and I was like, oh shit, this is really good, I didn't want to skip this guy, I feel like that. bad if like you turned it in and then I forgot or I didn't forget I just didn't get the download there were so many downloads I must have you know I forgot one congratulations Mr VFX wizard second place man shit this is absolutely incredible.

The work that went into this is amazing. You became so good. Look at the quality of this man's rendering. Is incredible. You earned it. Congratulations, I'm glad I got to see this guy. Congratulations oh man, absolutely wonderful guys. that brings us to first place, first place in the US, these are prize-eligible contestants. I will divide it into two because I know that there are many incredible renders that I still think deserve something, so I am going to break the one that among the first three we are also eligible only us and that goes to none other than Mr.

Space Man, congratulations on the First of all, Mr. Christopher, I'm impressed, I'm impressed by the quality of the rendering of the film reel that you have here. and not only that, but your composition, your lighting, the story you're telling, literally everything that goes into this is first place, incredible quality, man, I love this render so much you absolutely deserve first place, right? What more can I say, man, how good is this? It's the next level, it's the next level, you want it, congratulations, you will get the nvidia quadro rtx 4000, okay, we will be in touch with those who won awards, we will be in touch, we will get them awards. sent well, so congratulations to the US prize pool winners.

Now I could end here and say: I'll see you later, but I felt really bad because it was a US prize pool, I just didn't want to forget my international friends. many of them, you know there are many of you, so I want to send you my photographic impressions. They are professionally printed archival prints and let me show you real quick. They know that I have a printing press and what I do. What I'm saying here is that you guys can pull any image you see on this website, not just the ones from the store, but the ones from the main home page or the ones from the collections.

They are all the same. Find an image you like and I will print it super pretty in any size you want on the website. I have a large size and a smaller size and I will send it to you. I will sign it. I'll give you some musical recommendations. Just to show that you know. I care about you and the hard work you are doing, I want it to be worth it, so any photo you like, I have it good, I will send it to you, I don't care if they are from Timbuktu, which is actually a place, it is I'll ship it, I don't care about free shipping, everything free, I'll make sure you get it right, so the three, the three international winners that I think really deserve this, starting with the third place one that we have. dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun done dun dun this right here this right here friend this is so good look at this look at this absolutely incredible you built a world that I want to live in and that I want to be in I want to be in this little house right the right right here maybe maybe this over here so I can see the mountain and I just want to relax here friend your fog your atmosphere your character you are rendering your lighting your composition the world the story the details everything you put into this is so good oh so so so so good congratulations I'll send you an art print I know you're on I think I think this is Seb Chen I'm I'm pretty sure this is Seb Chens or Seba Chin.

I'm pretty sure, so hit me up on Discord. Let me know the print you want and I willguys, um, so I'll see you next week. I have a big announcement for you next week, so don't miss it. I'm posting this full montage of all these renders. with amazing music and I will give all the credit to you guys, nvidia will share it, pee wisely and share it, it will be very special, so don't miss me next Saturday at the same place and at the same time. See you at Node. I'm going to go play some video games, so I'll see you guys later.

Peace.