INTRODUCTION
Hello, my title is Ali Hoff. I’m a self-taught freelance 3D artist primarily based within the southwest of England. I’ve been utilizing Blender for over 4 years and am presently engaged on varied tasks, resembling music movies, quick movies, album paintings, and idea artwork.
INSPIRATION
The inspiration for this piece was a mixture of retro sci-fi from artists, resembling Moebius and Roger Dean, basic surrealists like Dali, and indie video games, resembling Journey and the Danger of Rain collection.
TEXTURING
I used Cycles toon shaders for this piece. Lots of them are quite simple with only a gradient colour.
LIGHTING
The lighting can be quite simple with only one solar lamp set to a excessive power. This, mixed with a lightweight blue world shader set to a low power, lets me decide the shadow colour.
FREESTYLE OUTLINE
For the define on the foreground objects, I used the Freestyle line set inside Blender. I used the ‘Alongside Stroke’ modifier inside Freestyle to make the road path off barely, which supplies it a bit extra of a hand-drawn look.
The challenge was break up up into 4 layers: the character and foreground, the dunes within the midground, the buildings, after which the background, which is simply a picture on a aircraft.
With every layer rendered out individually within the compositor, I made tweaks to paint, added some mud pictures between layers, after which made another closing tweaks to the entire picture, resembling softening and sharpening, chromatic aberration, and movie grain to provide the piece a little bit of a retro really feel.
SUN BLEACHED
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In regards to the Artist
Ali Hoff, a contract 3D artist primarily based within the southwest of England who’s presently engaged on varied tasks.
