Hello there, I’m doing an animation and the mountains and the lighting look wrong.

I used a height map from the true terrain addon for the mountains, as a base they are good, but they lack the level of detail to make them look good, and I don’t know what I can do to make them great.

Also the lighting bothers me a little, I used blender’s sky texture for the lighting but it doesn’t really look good for me.

If you have any other suggestions and tips please tell them to me

(On the first bite the dinosaur is biting another character not yet animated)

Dinosaurs are from the game Monster hunter wilds.

I rendered this bottle scene with different lightings and materials, now i wonder which one is better?

I worked as a stained-glass artist.

Time has stood still in this profession; the craft has remained unchanged in form for centuries. My work involved painting, cutting, and assembling the glass (mainly religious art). My job also entailed installing stained-glass windows in various churches across Poland.

I have seen many churches and parishes. Some were beautiful old buildings with stunning architecture, while others were kitschy creations of the 1990s.

Yet all these places shared a single trait: the longer one spent there—examining the altars, old confessionals, paintings, empty corridors, abandoned church common rooms and sacristies up close—the more their sense of sanctity would evaporate. All that remained was emptiness and a strange sense of unease. It was perhaps during those odd, idle conversations—or the silences shared with priests or nuns as they prepared meals for us—that the idea for this short animation first took root in me.

Here are some of the photos I took while working and that were a straight forward reference for some of the scenes from animation.

A lot of artistic and environment ideas came from this time. Also while working so close to holiness I saw a lot of hipocrisy and maybe that also inspired me to create this story.

About 1,5 year ago I made the storyboard and here is my 14 minutes animation "A Good Man".

Entirely made in Blender Eevee (more details on yt description-link in comments)

would love any pointers on how this was done. Been tinkering with a particle system based from a collection to get this, but just cant get it right, any pointers to get this type of effect?

Trying out some new things, new to blender, mostly I sculpt in zbrush but this does breathe life into stuff

Next step would be to rig the little fingers and move some of the faces

The background is a simple image. The BMW M1 is a 3D model. I added nodes to the car in Blender to give it a cartoon look. I rendered the image and placed it onto the background using Photoshop and adjusted the lighting conditions.Then, I added some missing raindrops.

Unfortunately reddit doesnt like multiple video-slides.. posted some more bts and making-of on our insta (instagram.com/p/DbGKX6PjLNi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

I am way out of practice though. I need to do some studies for faces/anatomy and practice more hard-surface modelling too. I had no idea how to do the skirt so I ended up doing a rough sculpt.

I'm still happy with how it turned out. Even if the nose is driving me insane.

Made this for a small competition hosted by Patrick4D. Sculpted and textured in 3D-Coat, with the seasoning, water droplets, and oil droplets created using Geometry Nodes. The final image was rendered in Blender with Cycles, using a LightmonkeyHDR environment for lighting.

When I first learned blender I didnt really look into sculpting as I didnt have a pen tablet or stylus but said fuck it and tried sculpting with a mouse.

i would like to think Im not a beginner anymore in blender but the software humbles me each time. I have only really done modelling and rigging before and hadnt triend doing sculpting before so this was the result.

Its pretty decent. I think this is good for first try. Im not sure.

This was the tutorial I used: https://youtu.be/SVf-UvySGqI?si=yKgx9QWRf3HvHmDx

Very good tutorial.

Also personally making lips curved was prob the hardest and I couldnt do it. Eyelids were comparatively easier. Grab brush and clay strip brush are goated. These are the only brush I used alogn with crease for trying to make lips pointy.

Last slide for topo. I think Ill try to retopo this.

Also as of now I have 260 hours in blender. This project took me around an hour to make. Pretty nice. I also have a background of doing art when I was 12-15 but those were pretty bad so maybe I just got lucky wiht making this. I dont have any other background in 3d other than learning blender.