3D Modeling Tutorial of Chang’e, the Chinese Goddess of The Moon

This time, your TPN-Accredited cloud rendering service provider, Fox Renderfarm brings you a 3D modeling tutorial of Chang’e, the Chinese Goddess of The Moon Ⅱ. It is shared by the Chinese 3d artist CGWang, we hope that it can help you in 3ds Max learning from this production, and get inspiration from this artwork. Introduction This work is inspired by a myth in ancient China, telling the story of Chang'e who lives on the moon. In order to highlight this story, the center of the vision is made into a circular moon, and a crescent moon and osmanthus trees are used to form a circle. With a full crescent moon and a figure running towards the moon from a distance, you can see a cyclist running towards the moon when you look up close, and the little rabbit in the car is not only her partner but also illuminates the shadow with a lamp that gives directions. Modeling The model was made in ZBrush. Based on a body model from the previous project, some modifications were made on this model. After the model is made, I will not make clothes, but use ZBrush tools to take a picture of the POSE. The pose requires attention to the coordination of the body and limbs to make the character's pose look natural and comfortable. Composition After the character's body was made, some other important objects were added to the scene, such as the addition of a bicycle that used a model from the previous project, the waning moon, and the osmanthus tree. These objects form a circle in the center of the vision, and this circle constitutes an important structure in the work. In this step, there is no need to consider the details of those objects, as long as the overall shape is intact. Clothing After the composition is complete, you can add some details to the character. The production here can start with the costume. Because the protagonist is a legendary character in ancient times, her dress skirt is very long, and she also has some streamers similar to a cloak. Firstly make the shape of the clothes in 3ds Max, and then import it into ZBrush to use some plug-ins to sculpt the folds of the cloth. Now that there are not many elements in the scene, you can continue to refine the scene and add other objects. Because only Chang'e lived on the moon, it was deserted. The palace where Chang'e lived was on the moon, so the moon and the palace were blended together during the production. For the balance of the scene, a small resting pavilion was made and placed on one end of the moon. When the character was finished, the bicycle basket was a bit empty, so I added a bunny to the basket and made the bunny to carry a light to show Chang'e the way. Then it is time to modify some details, such as thinning the hair and adding headwear to the character, adjusting the details of the clothes, and giving some details and some leaves to the trunk. The bottom part is some clouds floating in the air as decoration. Rendering All models have been finished, but some adjustments are needed after stitching together. One of the most important points is to pay attention to some proportions and perspectives of the character and the scene, and then choose the best frame to render.

Your TPN-Accredited cloud rendering service, Fox Renderfarm still shares with you a toilet scene made with reference to the horror and thriller game "Silent Hill". Texturing If you want the scene to look real, the production of normals and textures is very important, especially the normal mapping, which can record the details of the high-variable polymorphism perfectly. The details here refer to the normal mapping with bump information, color mapping, metallic mapping, roughness mapping, and others. After the baking is completed, import the low poly model into Substance Painter for material production, adjust the parameters of various materials, increase the details of the texture, such as dirt, wear, and cracks, to show a more realistic effect. To make the dirt on the ground, first, fill the model with the original color based on the ground color of the original painting, and then use channels to fill a layer of dirt in the dark and bright parts: Then fill with a layer of roughness and bloodstains; Roughness of tile The effect of the texture refers to the actual falling off the situation of tile, adding the inherent color, dark part, and bright part as above, and adding soil, moldy stains, dust, etc. with Alpha as a new filling layer. Wall cracks Observe the color of the cracks on the wall of the original painting, and create a new filling layer to fill the natural color, the dark part of the crack, and the bright part of the wall. Now you can see the color of the wall, and then depreciate the wall and add stains. In order to be more detailed, you can add moss material to the cracks to highlight the age of the scene. After determining the texture style of the wall, you can make some personalized adjustments, such as adding some bloodstains, blood handprints, graffiti, etc. to highlight the style of horror and thriller. The same steps were performed on other walls. Lighting rendering 1. The most important factor affecting the rendering effect of the overall scene is the lighting. First, enable lighting, global illumination, and ambient occlusion effects. 2. Main camera options, change the field of view and adjust the effects of sharpness and noise. 3. Import the model and load the texture. The gloss channel must remember to invert the rough texture. 4. Change the angle, adjust the brightness of the background to achieve the desired environmental lighting effect, and then add lights to illuminate the object and corners through multi-angle observation to show the clear structure of the object, the roughness, and details of the surface texture. Remember to add light used for basic lighting. Now that the production of the scene is basically completed, you can also try to make a browsing animation of the camera.

Today your TPN-Accredited cloud rendering service, Fox Renderfarm will share with you a toilet scene made with reference to the horror and thriller game "Silent Hill". The process is from the original painting to the 3ds Max model production, then to the texturing in Substance Painter, and finally the Marmoset Toolbag for rendering. Let’s have a look at the final effect. Software used: 3ds Max, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Marmoset Toolbag How long does it take: one and a half weeks Introduction This is a personal project for practice, the purpose is to learn some new skills and improve workflow, and make your work better. In this project, the production is not so difficult, but the texturing and rendering took a lot of time. A lot of tests were carried out in these two stages, and the most perfect results were obtained. And through texturing in Substance Painter production and rendering with Marmoset Toolbag, the overall thrilling atmosphere of the scene is perfectly displayed, making people feel as if they are on the scene at a glance. The whole production process is divided into five parts: target, modeling, UV, texturing, rendering, etc. Modeling The scene is based on the original setting of the game scene, so the model production is not too difficult. In the early stage, I first decide the angle of the scene, and then increase or decrease the number of model faces according to the distance from the scenes. First import the image into 3ds Max, build the entire room with simple shapes and then start adding props and details. For the smaller details, such as the breakage and cracks of the wall tiles, they are all made by Dam Standard brush, OrbFlatten_Edgeprotect, and Alpha. Part of the details after the carving is completed: UV Most of the work in the UV part is relatively simple, and the most difficult part is the broken tiles and gravel falling from the ground. 1. The small pieces are baked as much as possible in the post-production 2. Reduce the number of faces of other models that are not part of the visual center 3. Use the correct model resolution to make the size of the texture, etc.