Gnomon Workshop KeyNotes (2022.03 – 2022.05)

creating a sci-fi alleyway

1. Refining your idea
2. To have a clear path forward
   • Inspiration
   • Reference
   • Blockout studies
   • Photobash && Concept
3. To have a rough idea of what, final layout and  camera angle will be 
   • Ref man
   • Move fast and make big changes
4. Finishing the blockout
5. To detail out the final blockout and solidify the camera angle
   • Add simple details
   • Play with camera angles
6. Find the crack : to not get overwhelmed with our scene and start designing and creating some props
   • Decide which prop to make 
   • Using Reference, design and create our props
   • Consider functionality and efficiency
7. To go over useful steps for efficiently creating props
   • Reference searching basics
   • Reusing props and elements of props
   • Replacing blockout shapes with props
8. Initial lighting set up
   • Speeding up the rendering processes
   • Initial things to consider
   • Very basic render settings
9. Render pass and composite
10. Proper way to composite layers
11. Decals and paint adjustments
12. Glow. Flares, Dof (depth of field). Finishing touch

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