Comments on: 10 Reasons Why Your Render Sucks

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:41:42 +0000

YIKES, what a critic. This isn’t even criticism, this is just being a giant fag.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:57:40 +0000

you my friend are a genius. thanks for that post. It can not be more true.

From point 1 to point 10

All i can add is that your “render sucks” also in part because you don’t understand 2 main things.
1.You allready mentioned. ( its not planned)
2. you don’t understand reality and photography

if you understand those two then you might be able to make a better render.

my 2 c

By: Industrial Industires

Industrial Industires — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:33:10 +0000

You could apply those point to lots of things, including blog/posts like this.

ex. Putting a numbered list in your title is problogger advertising fodder. Just cause people generally like lists bloggers use that to get them to click….doesn’t stop you from doing the same does it. 10 reasons we all need to be more tolerant…an so on

But don’t let my inflammatory rhetoric put you off…On the Web, everyone is an expert, and so am I, so we are all correct! :p

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:11:26 +0000

One thing I’d add is: “sometimes your render sucks because it’s not a great photograph.” Read the books by Ansel Adams, and (not just the picture) books by O. Winston Link. Read up on large-format studio photography. Know what the “Zone System” is and why it matters.

The technical limitations of both video and print media are quite severe. They have a very limited tonal range. If you ask them to do what they cannot do (i.e. because you don’t know any better), you cannot get a satisfactory picture.

By: John A.M.

John A.M. — Sun, 02 May 2010 22:26:16 +0000

thanks!
maybe only a quarter if the time i “don’t plan it on paper first” thats odd because i’ve been able to do pretty good drawings since i was little

By: Renaldo Creative

Renaldo Creative — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:48:57 +0000

Thanks I’m new to 3D. This article is good for me.

By: satriya mujung

satriya mujung — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:06:30 +0000

(7). i can’t agree with that. dark makes you thrill. so andrew, are you afraid of the dark? just kidding..

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:44:10 +0000

I think you can post what you wish.. If you want to teach art teach art. If you want to teach blender trees from curves then teach blender trees from curves. I cant get the complete tutorial on my dial up . I dont need to download a picture of a tree . Ive been drawing trees longer then you been alive. Your trying to teach art. and your not that good.

By: fr0sty

fr0sty — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:46:29 +0000

My top 3.

1) When a tutorial is made, but the window is cropped out, and we don’t get told what version is used.

2) When some-one creating a 3d model(For example); gets blasted for being new, and yet still no-one helps, in step by step mode(As we all live in different time zones)

3) When there’s a second decimal point in program versions (Ie; blender, with its 2.11; 2.12; 2.49 etc etc.)
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With number one, I noticed that one of your tutorials Andrew, was just done with you in the bottom right, and just windows popping up (Still I knew it was version 2.5alpha… sorry; 2.50a alpha:P)

With number 2; Ive come across numerous sites, that when people try and do-it-yourself, and they ask a question all they get is “google it” or get ridiculed for asking. (Yes, Ive done some ridiculing, but ill send a pm to them explaing, or even directing them to a place that may help)

And 3; is just a general point; it reminds me of school… “okay class, open to page, 3.45 section c; now for graviton pull”
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Ive got version 2.4…9 (:P)
Oh; and I mainly use sketchup; so blender questions I direct people here