The Complete Builds are a series of projects related to CGI where you get the opportunity to follow along with Maxon Master Trainer, Dustin Valkema, as he moves through real-world projects. In this episode, Dustin tackles doing a new colorway on a classic shoe, developing both a white sweep, eCommerce style scenario, and a CGI-produced stylized ad for the shoe. Follow along as Dustin takes you through the process from beginning to end, learning all the skills needed to be a working professional.
Using assets from the Air Dusty Complete build, Dustin explains his creative vision for placing those shoes into a CGI environment that can be used for commercial ad space.
Using basic cubes, spherical fields, and displacement maps Dustin creates a unique environment for the shoes to rest in.
Here Dustin continues to build the scene for the Air Dusty Commerical Ad by working on the camera placement and lighting for the images.
Grunge maps, displacement nodes, transform nodes, multiply inputs - these features are just a few of the Octane node editor features used to breathe life into the CGI environment as materials are added to the circuit boards the shoes are resting on.
Dustin uses this opportunity to give the images a once over to examine all the details involved before rendering the final images that he will bring to photoshop for the post-processing.
After the rendering is complete, the renders are still brought into Photoshop to be retouched using Dustin's advanced retouching methods for every render layer.
Giving the image the final looks to tie it all together. Color grading can be one of the most exciting portions of a retouch and one of the things that can really separate your work from the masses.
Now it's time to take what you have learned on the commercial build and put it into action. Can you accept the challenge and build a completely new product placement idea?
Lots of challenges were met as part of the Air Dusty Complete Build. Dustin recaps the learning objectives and closes out the tutorial.
