jthrash's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Retro roses]

Briar > Lady Dimitrescu.

[Earworm Bounce]

Unfortunately, my ear worm seems to only enjoy “Let It Go” and Justin Bieber...

[Dimitrescu]

At least everyone is smiling!

[Pig: The Dam Keeper]

The design is very graphic (like an old UPA cartoon such as Mr. Magoo), which in my opinion is great considering how bland a lot of CG Animation still looks despite advances in rigging and animation technology. My biggest critique is simply that you should have increased the Render Samples (I'm assuming you're either using Cycles in Blender or Arnold in Maya)--the shadows have some rather ugly and noticeable noise. I know it takes forever to render, but especially for a single image like this here, one should be willing to wait as long as necessary to get a clean, crisp image. Also, when you are done rendering, maybe you can bump up the saturation of the colors in a photo editor like Photoshop or Gimp? The slightly desaturated tones imply that this is a depressing scene set in a factory farm or something, which I don't think you're going for. Making the backdrop any color other than gray would also help a ton. Finally, maybe try to learn how to make textures and bump maps, especially for the clothes, to create the illusion of more detail?

Again, though, the actual character design and 3d model is actually fantastic for a beginner, my critiques just have to do with literally every other aspect of the CG character pipeline, like lighting, color and texturing.

OctavioJG responds:

Wow ... that was a complete criticism, and I really appreciate it, almost no one had taken the time to give me a criticism of such magnitude because many of my friends do not know about 3D. I am a beginner and I continue studying, this is my first rendering, and I am very aware of the problems that render has, in fact I could already give it a touch up because I finished the matter, and I ended up liking the world of 3D modeling a lot. I had taken other renderings in different camera shots, but I don't know what happened that Newgrounds wouldn't let me upload more than one image, if you're interested you could go to private for you to see. And yes I use maya, although I want to explore Blender, I am starting it from scratch. Once again, thank you very much for the time you have dedicated to me. Un pinche saludo grandote! , bro!

[Hug me.]

...Is this a trick?

[Leona]

Leona from King of Fighters ‘98? I always liked her a lot more than Mai and Shermy.

[KLONOA WORKS]

A port/remaster of the two major Klonoa games—is that too much to ask, Namco?! Great rendition of this little dude, btw.

[COULD YOU HELP ME TREAT MY INJURED DINOFLY?]

Now here’s an interesting, obscure reference! LittleBig... LittleBig... the video game that’s not LittleBigPlanet! I’ll get around to playing it someday...

[What are you looking at?]

NICE.

[Foamy Phone Wallpaper]

Is it bad that this is actually my philosophy for dealing with toxic people in my life?