Day 8: Lighting and Rendering

The next day was fully spent understanding lighting, speculars and rendering. I experimented a lot with the different color settings, creating renders of the trophy with all sorts of different materials, before finally deciding on a metallic gold with a reddish brown base. However, the hard part was not over. There was text on the trophy, and to get that text on the trophy, I had to create stickers to apply on the surface of the trophy. This meant using photoshop to crop out certain images and using a layer mask to get only the text as a .png file, which could then be imported and attached onto the right places in the trophy.

Image Source: The completed model of the trophy in Blender

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What are speculars?

Specular reflection, or regular reflection, is the mirror-like reflection of waves, such as light, from a surface.

What is rendering?

The output or the final visualization in a three-dimensional form which gives an idea of how the project will look if built in real life.

What is photoshop?

Photoshop is an image creation, graphic design and photo editing software developed by Adobe.

What is a layer mask?

A layer mask is a way to hide or reveal a layer in Photoshop. Pure black masks hide the layer, and pure white masks reveal them.

Image Source: https://rendercrate.com/3D/articles/3D-texturing-concepts-for-beginners.html