Comments on: 19 Resources to Help You Get More Productive at Art (One is Truly Superb)

By: Gleb Alexandrov

Gleb Alexandrov — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:52:00 +0000

In reply to Nahuel Belich. Nahuel, thanks for the link. I will test it in the next few days. But already it seems to be cool! :)

By: Nahuel Belich

Nahuel Belich — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 06:46:00 +0000

if i may add to the screen captura and broadcast software, open broadcaster
https://obsproject.com
really powerfull, great compression and can brodcast directly to youtube, twitch and others or save a file on the hard disc or both, also a great customization options for the place of cameras monitors text and so.
And to other map uses also awesome bump, http://awesomebump.besaba.com more used for pbr but it could be usefull to get free normal maps, cavity, displace or tiled textures.

By: Classy Dog

Classy Dog — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:55:00 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Gleb! It’s always an honor to be recommended by you!
For my own little recommendation, I recently found out about episcura.com, which has a lot of nice textures, as well as some HDR maps. I downloaded about two pictures before my daily quota ran out (I have a free account), but boy were they worth it!

By: Kai Neumann

Kai Neumann — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:15:00 +0000

In reply to Gleb Alexandrov. Thanks Gleb! I guess you're right. I'll try using some models from Archive3d in my next project. :)

By: Gleb Alexandrov

Gleb Alexandrov — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:45:00 +0000

In reply to Kai Neumann. Kai, I understand what you feel when you use the third party models. We all want to keep our projects unique :) But when I overcame that feeling and tried to incorporate Blendswap or Archive3d models to speed up the process, I saw that in the end the image is unique anyway! :) It's like the context transforms every single object into the cohesive whole.

By: Kai Neumann

Kai Neumann — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:55:00 +0000

Nice list! Since you praised the book “Steal like an Artist” so much I’ll go and buy it! I’m really looking forward to reading it. ^^

I also tried alchemy. It’s fun! I’m sure it can help a lot to get inspiration.

Oh and about Archive3D. I never know if I should use any third party models in my Images. It sure speeds up the whole process, but I somehow always feel like I’m loosing some uniqueness of my images. Sure it’s not only the modeling skills that make a good image, but I cant get rid of that feeling. ^^”

Kai

By: Gleb Alexandrov

Gleb Alexandrov — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:31:00 +0000

In reply to ronenbekerman.

Yea, remarkable project and making of!
On Blenderartists forum there is a bunch of nice architectural projects:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?255681

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?320716 (this one is rendered in Octane I believe)

I tried to squeeze everything possible from Cycles too, trying to achieve photo-real results:

http://www.creativeshrimp.com/making-of-in-blender-brushes.html
http://www.creativeshrimp.com/lighting-tutorial-and-visual-overstimulation.html
http://www.creativeshrimp.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/seoul_1100_1519_60.jpg

http://www.creativeshrimp.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/brushes_final_02_1023.jpg

By: ronenbekerman

ronenbekerman — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:19:00 +0000

In reply to Gleb Alexandrov.

Well, I can see great images being done with Blender and Cycles alone. For example this Vertical Garden project by Paulina Kochanowicz you probably seen already. Just published the making-of on my blog – http://www.ronenbekerman.com/making-vertical-garden/

By: Dominik Liss

Dominik Liss — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:27:00 +0000

Thanks for the list 🙂
And as always … awesome thumbnail if you call it ‘thumbnail’ on a blog 😛
Check out the http://www.creativecrash.com if You haven’t already

they have a lot of free stuff and .obj files
no section for blender though :-/

Dominik

By: Gleb Alexandrov

Gleb Alexandrov — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:57:00 +0000

In reply to Reynante M. Martinez. Heh, our top-10 resources seem to overlap and that means that we're on the right track.