Here's another round of Christmas themed images for the LIL! I still have a few more items in my list of images to make, but we'll see if I can get to them all before Christmas! 😅
I seem to always talk about what I enjoyed about creating the image, what I struggled with, and I could improve on. It's kind of a way for me to document my progress in 3D, so here goes if you care to read haha.
With the snowman, I really wanted to get a nice, tightly-packed-snow look to it, without having to actually model all that. Very time consuming, and also really hard on (old) computers to add in all that extra detail through geometry. So a bump map was perfect. It "fakes" geometry without actually putting it in there.
I actually used two noise texture nodes, one for the big lumps, and another for the smaller lumps, and joined them together with, I believe, a mix shader. Maybe it was a mixRGB, I can't remember. But I REALLY like how the snow turned out. I felt like it had a nice balance of bigger lumps (from hand packing the snow), and little shimmering, sand-like, detail.
The scarf was a bit different. I didn't really know how to go about creating a wide scarf that wrapped around the neck, but still looked realistic with being smashed in certain parts, like how it would in real life from just being cloth. I started with a single vert and just wrapped it around and extruded it to give it depth. Then I just rotated it in parts so it would lay flat. It kind of worked I guess haha. I feel like it ended up being too thick and not wide enough. Also the hair I added to it looks a bit weird I think.
The gingerbread man was a lot of fun and I basically traced around a picture of a real gingerbread man. Then I did "single vert - to curve - with beveling" in order to create all the icing. No real issues with this one.
Same thing with the gingerbread house. I didn't really have any issues with this one. I try really hard to stay under an hour when I create images for the LIL. It's kind of like training myself to work faster haha. This one took about an hour and a half. It would have been longer but I already had a bunch of textures from the gingerbread man.
Icing was all done the same way here. Single vert, converted to curve, adding beveling in the options to give it depth. I used a TON of arrays and mirrors on this one for the icing and candies.
Enjoy!
| Snowman - Front View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Snowman - Left View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Snowman - Right View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Snowman - Top Front View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Snowman - Top Left View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Snowman - Top Right View | snowman, snowmen, snows, snowy, decorations, cold, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread Man - Front View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, candys, candies, sweets, happy, persons, peoples, faces, smiles, man, men, woman, women, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread Man - Side View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, candys, candies, sweets, happy, persons, peoples, faces, smiles, man, men, woman, women, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread Man - Top View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, candys, candies, sweets, happy, persons, peoples, faces, smiles, man, men, woman, women, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread Man - Bottom View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, candys, candies, sweets, happy, persons, peoples, faces, smiles, man, men, woman, women, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread Man - Bottom View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, candys, candies, sweets, happy, persons, peoples, faces, smiles, man, men, woman, women, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent | |
| Gingerbread House - Front View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, happy, houses, homes, buildings, stores, desserts, candys, candies, sweets, baking, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread House - Side View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, happy, houses, homes, buildings, stores, desserts, candys, candies, sweets, baking, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |
| Gingerbread House - Top Front View | gingerbreads, cookies, decorations, Chirstmas, xmas, noel, yuletides, jolly, joyful, happy, houses, homes, buildings, stores, desserts, candys, candies, sweets, baking, holidays, cutouts, transparency, transparent |  |