Tactical Watch

Artwork Focused Critiques
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Hello all! So, over the past 2-3 days while I have been waiting for my BlenderGuru competition entry to finish rendering, I have been working on a tactical watch. I think it turned out pretty well, but I would like a few more sets of eyes to run over it and detect major issues, especially as it is the first watch I have made. Any ideas for a setting to put this puppy in would be welcome as well.

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All materials are 100% procedural, including the Carbon Fiber watch face. No images were used in the scene.

AO render pass:

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This is fricking awesome :smiley:
Really love the lighting. You could maybe place it in a store for spy devices…
Maybe make the knobs a little less pointy. It looks like it would hurt when turning :slight_smile:

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Thank you! I was trying to make it easy to grip, but I can see how that could be an issue. Easy fix :slight_smile:

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The fact that this is all procedural made my jaw drop, no crits from me.

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Thank you! The new Cycles Pointiness attribute really makes realism much easier.

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Here is my basic Carbon Fiber node setup. This basically makes a glossy material with the appropriate texture, from which I can build.

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Looking really good mate. The only thing i can suggest is maybe another level of subdivision in certain areas, i can see some corners on places that are supposed to be round.

You are really skilled when it comes to procedural materials, and i envy that fact. I still have a long ways to go when it comes to fully procedural materials, I usually lose my bottle and end up throwing an image in there when i run out of ideas :o

How did you do the text on the watch face btw? is it done by vertex painting? or blenders text feature?

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Thank you! The subdivision is a very good point, especially on the main case. As far as text, I made a simple emission/translucent material and used Blender’s text object functionality.

I can not stress enough how critical proper lighting is though! I took the time to look up some professional shots of watches and some setups, and it really helped take this another notch up.

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BTW, here is the AO render pass in case that might interest any of you:

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The lighting, is quite literally amazing! The red/blue combo works well to accentuate the lines of this time piece :slight_smile: Maybe it might just be the lighting, but it seems that the glass/plastic top to the watch seems to be only transparent. I think it would look slightly better if there was a reflection/shine to the top.

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I didn’t want to disrupt the line of sight with the watch face, so I did mix a transparent node in the material. Probably should have toned it back a bit.

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I can barely believe that that is all procedural, I couldn’t even create a half decent material with actual image textures :o
My opinion is that some areas on the watch face, knobs, and band are slightly too sharp. Maybe do an oh-so-subtle rounding on everything using the bevel modifier.

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WOW! O.o I must try to redo that node setup… :stuck_out_tongue:

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How do you get that extra point like where the value node is?

15

I think you’re talking about reroutes? Shift click on the strand, or add a reroute node from the layout section in the add menu.

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Yeah! Thanks! I’ve done it before but not in like a year, so I forgot :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wow! Just made that node setup… Sooooo amazing! :smiley:

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Oops, double post

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Glad to find you like it :smiley:

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as per the rest of the thread no crits from me, looks really good.

shaun