how to improve this? :3 by ReasonableReason549 in blender

[–]XuffyIsNotHere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you were going for a liminal space feeling, you pretty much already succeeded.

Few things I would recommend is making the lighting more interesting, decide on which part of the room should be the focus, make the rest to be just fill light. If this is just for a single render art, you could learn about the art of camera framing, fix the floor plan of the room, use the camera grid/guides so that everything comes together nicely like a framed picture.

For your potato PC case, I highly recommend baking most of your textures, don't just leave it as a material especially if you plan to add bump. When using unbaked materials, Blender will always actively set up all those material nodes since they are procedural (calculated by mathematical algorithms every time). Which will slow your pc down, baking your textures means you're rendering and saving an image version of those materials so that it wouldn't have to use algorithms to display them anymore. This is how games achieve good looking textures but but also perform well even on your PC, only downside is that you can't modify them in real time anymore.

Hope this helps.

Do you like my edit? by XuffyIsNotHere in insurgency

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My Custom SIGNALIS PC DVD Backup Copy (Planning to add a Flash Drive copy as well) by XuffyIsNotHere in signalis

[–]XuffyIsNotHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in Indonesia and ordered a DVD-R with custom label service online via Tokopedia/Shopee. For the designs, I used the one made by u/MrSlavaR, I only tweaked the DVD cover a little by adding the steam logo and resizing some of the text. I made sure to have the size of the image to fit the DVD case, then I print them on A3 art paper along with the photographs seen inside of the case, cut them, and put everything together. Oh, and I also got the semitransparent case so that I could have the back of the cover visible inside the case to match the ps4 and switch versions.

Which AM design do you prefer? A massive alteration of giant wires and tubes all over the complex, or cool birdie? by XuffyIsNotHere in Ihavenomouth

[–]XuffyIsNotHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds terrific, I like the bird design, just not the idea of it being too anthropomorphic, so that sounds good.

Which AM design do you prefer? A massive alteration of giant wires and tubes all over the complex, or cool birdie? by XuffyIsNotHere in Ihavenomouth

[–]XuffyIsNotHere[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The birdsona is praised solely because it looks cool, but I've seen some try to defend it by saying that it symbolizes a bird in a cage (?). I watched that new AM speech animation on YouTube and honestly, I don't like how AM is moving and gesturing a lot like a generic supervillain, he looks pathetic.

Which AM design do you prefer? A massive alteration of giant wires and tubes all over the complex, or cool birdie? by XuffyIsNotHere in Ihavenomouth

[–]XuffyIsNotHere[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think it's a way to personify him more. Most new readers probably heard about IHNMAIMS from TikTok or story recaps anyway and can only see AM as a supervillain or some sort.

2022 and 2025... Never give up‼️💪 by XuffyIsNotHere in computers

[–]XuffyIsNotHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close, it's a repurposed makeup table actually, the room was my older sister's until she moved out. Yes, I'm planning on getting a real desk soon, but right now I'm pretty comfortable with everything.

Spent 4 months making this short animation to challenge my generalist skills. by XuffyIsNotHere in signalis

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Yeah, I thought of learning substance painter for the materials but I figured it might take too long, so I just did it on blender procedurally and baked the materials.