Level 4

Question 1

How do you find the dimensions of an object?

Answer 1

Look at the N menu.

Question 2

How do you change the aspect ratio of the rendering?

Answer 2

Output properties > dimensions.

Question 3

How do you change the focal length of the camera?

Answer 3

Camera pane > focal length.

Question 4

What’s an easy way to pan the camera?

Answer 4

Press R when looking through the the camera (need to hit G first?)

Question 5

In the shading compositor, how do you change the scale of an image texture?

Answer 5

Control + T.

Two new nodes will appear, one of which has scale settings.

(This is thanks to the node wrangler addon).

Question 6

What has he noticed is the difference between mediocre digital art and the good stuff?

Answer 6

The good stuff is created using tonnes of tryouts, to find out what looks good. (Kitbashing). If you watch work process videos that’s what they do.

(I think there might be a gap in the market here for properly design processed digital design…)

Question 7

What do you put in between the wall normal texture and the principled node?

Answer 7

A normal map. (Converts colour to normal values).

Colour > colour
Normal > normal

Also need to change the colour space on the image texture node to non-colour data.

Question 8

How come you can change the colour of the wall by changing the base colour?

Answer 8

Cos the texture is only applying normal data, not colour data. That’s free to be manipulated.

Question 9

What’s a quick way to savage something to double size?

Answer 9

Press S and then press 2

Question 10

Where do you connect the image texture node for the marble texture, and what’s the other thing you want to change?

Answer 10

Colour > base colour

Roughness to 0

Question 11

How do you change more than one value at once?

Answer 11

Drag down from the top one over all the values.

Question 12

What subsurf values do you use for marble?

Answer 12

0.1, and then 0.18 x 3

Question 13

What’s something you should remember when creating a scene?

Answer 13

There are always going to be things to tweak at the end. Eg maybe you thought the doughnut bread part was perfect, but once your scene is assembled you realise it’s actually slightly off.

Question 14

What’s the IOR and what are the values for glass and liquid? 3/3/2:00

Answer 14

Index of refraction.

Glass:1.45

Liquid: 1.33 (boiled water 1.31)

Question 15

What’s an extra thing you can do t the top of the glass?

Answer 15

Dog it up - increase the roughness a little.

Question 16

How do you edit both the code and the cup at the same time?

Answer 16

Select the coffee, then the cup, simply with shift. Then you can edit both at the same time.

Question 17

If you’re pressing control and scaling something but it’s not doing it incrementally as you were hoping, what’s the problem?

Answer 17

Your ‘snap-to’ tool isn’t set to ‘increment’, it’s set to something else.

Question 18

when you’re repositioning an object in the scene, how would you get it to snap to various faces?

Answer 18

set snap to = face and hold down control while you’re moving it around.

Question 19

What’s environment lighting and how do you change it?

Answer 19

It’s the ambient light. This would always occur even in a studio setting - where you’d have light bouncing off walls from the studio lighting.

world properties > colour and strength.
For example, and overcast day would be way up. If there was another pink wall out of sight, it would have a slightly pink cast.