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BG art for the upcoming visual novel Rainbow Love . Made with a combination of Blender and Photoshop.Related content
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This kitchen is just like the one I envision for my main kitchen (book). Given there's an attached island to the right of the stove that gives my character room for all the baking she does. To the left of the refrigerator is the basement door where she stores her supplies. I love the ambience of it, when it's quiet, clean, early morning. Like it's Mother's Day and she's taking a day off. I may keep looking back on this work for reference. Whomever commissioned you to make this, he/she was smart for thinking this up. You are just the magic weaver who made it look so good.
Ever thought of doing a "Day" shot of this as well?
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Thanks for the comment 
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Omf this is so detailed!
I was wondering if
I could use Β your backgrounds to like draw on?
Because I dont usually have the time to draw backgrounds ;u;
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I've talked with my client about this in the past and we came to the conclusion that it's okay if it's for things like practice, placeholder material (in a game or something similar), or just to re-upload with credit (a link back here is enough.)
What it can't be used for is as a final asset in a piece of media (game, video, etc.) regardless of whether it's for money or not. After all, that's why my client paid to have it made. Also, selling things that use it isn't allowed.
Hope that clears things up and thanks for asking first
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Its okay! I understand!
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Ah, I should list that in my descriptions! All my 3D work is rendered with Internal. Cycles is way too slow with my old hardware.
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I saw that you wrote it under some but I wasn't sure with this one.
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Nice visual, I think it just could use a little bit more contrast, but maybe it's a question of taste too.
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Thank you, I'm glad!
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Niiiiice! Β And the lighting is so great ! Β Is it painted on photoshop or real volumetric light streaks ?Β
dat banana tho.... Β Β hahaha
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The light streaks are painted in Photoshop β I find it less of a pain in the butt to do it that way. And yeah the fruit came out looking a little plastic-y and weird, haha. Thanks for the comment and watch
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the lighting in your pics are gorgeous - really needs to learn how to do such awesomness *A*
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Thank you! And you already have awesome work
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my colouring sense is shocking
seriously hope to see more of ur stuff
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Absolutely gorgeous. I really love the mood lighting and the textures. And thank you for posting the process shot! If I may ask, what lamps did you use for the scene?
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Thanks and sure thing. I used a sun lamp with shadows enabled to get the light on the floor in front of the fridge and a point lamp (with shadows disabled) slightly above the counter to fake the light bouncing back. Also, I turned on environment lighting (using the sky colour) in the world settings. Other than that I used a few additional lamps with low energy and distance values as fill lights for some areas that got too dark. A lamp can be set to only light objects on the same layer, which allowed me to prevent the light spilling into areas I didn't want to. I used that for the underside of the upper cupboards where it was getting too dark. Oh, and I disabled the specularity and shadows for those fill lights too since they're just there to balance the lighting.
Hope that helps
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Oh wow thanks! I haven't thought about faking bounce lights, nice workaround! I've been having a bit of trouble getting the lighting to look right so this is very helpful~ I'll look forward to your future .blends then. Thanks again!!
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Yeah, lighting is something I struggled with early on. I forgot to add that I also do a separate additive ambient occlusion pass. I edited the tumblr post with a pic and brief explanation if you wanna see that.
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Thanks for taking the time to update your tumblr post! Man you've been really helpful, thanks once again! ^^
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This has a really nice feel to it. It looks painted (the subtle shading on the fridge & stove, the cabinet texture, the wallpaper, light beam through the window and the muted colours). Really good work.
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Thanks I'm glad you like it! The light beam is painted, along with some other small stuff, but most of it is 3D with lots of post in Photoshop. I was going to reply to your comment with a link to a 'before Photoshop' version but realised I had nowhere to really upload it so I decided to finally use my Tumblr .
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Interesting process. I tried a 3d program a long time ago (Corel 3d dream I think it was called) - drove me nuts trying to extrude along the z plane. I get by with 2d paintings of backgrounds
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Technically I do make art for games (if you consider visual novels games) but I assume you mean my own thing? It's something I've thought about many times and I've started a few projects which didn't work out due to my lack of experience. I'm much more aware of (though still learning) my own limitations now, so I'm approaching my current project with that in mind. I also need to put commissions ahead of it so...
Mako Dawn was the first project I worked on by myself, though there's still significant work from a friend in there. It was a Final Fantasy VII total conversion mod for Fallout 3. I did regular releases when I was developing it so there's a build available for download if you have Fallout 3, but it's incomplete. (The user "JigsawPieces" is me on ModDB / IndieDB.)
There was quite a few other projects after that which I never publicised, but for which I wrote code / made art and music. (This is one such example .) Currently I have a project that means something to me, unlike the others which were just sort of cool ideas. So I may post about that in the future. It'll most likely be a linear visual novel, an animated short film or something in between though -- not really a game.
Sorry, kinda long answer, haha.
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Ah, I forgot to add that to the description. I used Blender and Photoshop, but really any fully featured 3D program and image editor combo capable of this (one could use 3DS Max and Gimp, for example.)
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thanks, I'm thinking about maybe learning this so I have to decide which program to use. Blender is free and seems pretty good, maybe I'll go for that one. I read about Zbrush the other day, some guy claimed it was really good to create the objects/ doing the modelling.
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Zbrush, as I understand it, is more geared toward sculpting. There's a free program that (I think) is by the same people called Sculptris which you may wanna try out first to see if that's the type of thing you want. Sculpting is good for organic things and adding lots of little detail, but for something like the background above it'd make more sense to use a fully featured 3D modelling program (Blender, 3Ds Max, etc.) to create it.
Whatever you choose good luck
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Thanks
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Thank you! I'm familiar with your work on Exogenesis. Looks like you have a lot of other neat art too
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ohhh such a honour !! thank you ^^
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