Sendai Alley

Since moving to Japan, I've only been able to work on my laptop so it takes much longer to see what I'm doing with lighting/ texturing in Blender. I spent some time in the morning adjusting lighting and whatnot before I set it to render while I'm at work. When I get home I nitpick the image and move on to my next step from there. Because of this, I have a ton of renders stored up showing the progress.

10/18/24

After sometime working other small projects and art mediums, I've returned back to this. No new renders yet but more so just thinking about lighting changes. First thing I noticed was how DARK this image is. It partly might be the screen I'm viewing this on, but regardless this is way too dark. Now that I haven't been staring at this for hours a day, fresh eyes are picking this apart. When I was doing the lighting I think I was trying to do too much of the work in scene. None of these renders have been edited yet. I need to go back and brighten the whole scene then worry about the contrast/coloring in post.

On a side note, I have a little dango clip to post. It was one of my quick projects to help reset my brain. I might start a small series of different foods/ objects. However, I am hesitant since it takes a few days to render a few seconds. My laptop is not built for that but tries its best.