She had already made improvements to her materials and lighting work from going through our training.
But it still looks like an average render of some bottles and It’s not something you can really use or show a client..
Here’s where it started breaking down:
1. Workflow & Understanding
2. Technicals
1. Mindset & Direction:
What most people do when they create a new project is they model things, place them around the scene, place in some lights, start rendering and keep changing things until it hopefully looks okay..
And often that process of just throwing things together results in a render that looks like someone just threw things together.
Few people think clearly about what exactly they’re going to make before they make it.
So I had to teach her how to think like a professional. This is professional work for a companies to use, not a random render of bottles.
Random renders are not very valuable..
And that will guide her whole process of the image from where the camera is placed, the lighting and colors that are used, and even how the materials are set up..
2. Technicals:
Once she understood the thought process It’s now about how to do it technically.
Her render settings were incorrect, her lights were lighting multiple products and reflecting in the background, and she had a plethora of other mistakes she had no idea she was making like products intersecting each other and casting wrong shadows.
But after ironing out all the kinks her work saw a drastic improvement!
Here’s her work after: