Render Artist Critiques YOUR Renderings Vol. 1

[@robsproducts]

Thanks Will for the critique on the RulerWrap. Super helpful and already implemented your suggestions and see a big improvement. Love the zoom out test, 👌 excellent quick test.

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for the comment! I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, I find myself relying on making the image small for a quick test, or desaturating it to just black and white to look at values sometimes. All the best!

[@memocabrera5296]

Of course we'd love to see more off this, thank you so much for that feedback, it would be interesting to see the improvements made by the same artists

[@WillGibbons]

That would be cool! Thanks for your comment and you're welcome!

[@mrjamesbrandltd]

I completely i agree with you

[@jbavar32]

This a great video, really helpful for industrial designers who use 3D to express their designs, Teaching designers to have an eye of a photographer is important.

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for your comment! I appreciate it!

[@HavenMonahan]

Great video! Would love if this became a regular thing. I liked that your critiques focused around fundamentals like composition, context, clarity, etc. as obviously those are 1st priority. It'd be cool tho if (in a future video) you took one submission (with already good composition) and did a "render makeover". As in, opened their .ksp file, and-using the same geometry and composition-demonstrated how to take it to the next level. Would be neat to see a before/after photo and how average keyshot users compare to experts in both process and end-product.

[@WillGibbons]

Hey! I agree. I'd love to. Figuring out how to choose one to do... that's hard, haha.

[@kirisilvermane]

the Victorinox forester (the swiss army knife) doesnt always have that shield coloured or embossed in silver. The trailmaster etc usually do but the forester doesnt as the rubberised doesnt lend itself to be able to have that inset chromed. i would suggest the artist was replicating the real world item as best and as accurate as they could.

[@WillGibbons]

Another person pointed this out. I'm by no means 100% familiar with their products, so I wasn't aware that they had products without the silver cross. Oversight on my part!

[@muhaY-vb5vp]

will, i learn so much from this video alone! cant wait for the next part, i hope you make it as a series

[@WillGibbons]

Wow! Thanks for letting me know. I guess I'll have to now!

[@joshkasper9998]

Really good criticisms! You did a good job of providing things that you like as well as the things that need to fix. I appreciate you bringing attention to details such as textures being scaled too large, or not correctly focusing on the product. Its a pet peeve when I see really professional product renders on completely unbelievable textures, ha! Keep up the great work

[@WillGibbons]

Glad you liked it Josh! Thanks :D

[@garmash.design476]

Some images you mentioned here - and they are really great after all, congratulations to everyone participated - require a little bit of composition fix, this helps a lot too

[@sophiak7699]

As a 3D artist I loved listening to you discussing ppls renderings

[@RPoltavchenko]

I am in the video. Wow! Thank you Will!!

[@WillGibbons]

Absolutely! Thanks for participating!

[@rtsstream]

in the Glass bottles example, you can clearly see the top edge of the shadow catcher. I also think the whole picture would benefit from a top and sligth bottom crop. A little less open white area would be nice.

[@_undefined1744]

I would like to see more of this. but not at the cost of "educational substance". speaking as a render technician and (former) content creator

[@WillGibbons]

Glad to hear it. Yeah, don't worry. I can't do this kind of thing all the time. I enjoy it, but we all need some variety.

[@kornyDoesVFX]

Great Video! Its super usefull for beginner Artist like me to hear Industry professionals break down shotdesign like this! Hope you keep the content coming, Im definitly subscribing!:)

[@danielsian380]

That's awesome. I really love how you approach the feedback, really straight and respectful. My 2 cents here: the image with bottle glasses that you said there was no feedback, I would say the glasses need more reflection as there's no diffuse light contributing and thus the legibility of the surface relies on the reflection

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for sharing. My only counter to this is that glass (like metal) is fully specular and does not have diffuse reflections unless there's smudges, scratches or residue on the surface. Unless I'm mistaken.

[@danielsian380]

@@WillGibbons yes, perfect. Some render engines have reflection and specular separated, which is technically accurate. I was referring to specular.

[@Iswhars]

I absolutely love this and would love to see more! Can't wait to see more

[@tirth5405]

Please continue this series!

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks, maybe. They're surprisingly quite a bit more work than expected.

[@aqilghaffar8529]

Hello Will, Nice to see such effort from your side. In My opinion, if you can ask the submitters to send your the keyshot file as well and then you start making changes in that, it will be awesome as it will be like a case study for us!

[@WillGibbons]

Hey, I hear you. The issue is really a limit of time. It would take an entire video just to show what I would do to a single submission. I'm not sure how I would be able to pick just one. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[@designedby]

Thank you very much, Will!! time to make some changes to the render :D

[@addisonhouston6649]

Nice work bro

[@almostcinematicfpv]

Great critiques. Adding an edge highlight to the rim of the green bottle would help with separation. Also lighting the glass bottles from behind (see Absolute Vodka ads) looks more appealing IMO.

[@WillGibbons]

Great points! Yeah, glass can be tricky and almost always benefits from backlighting like you said!

[@ChrisScottNI]

I could go for more of these. Possibly once a month.

[@subjectxyz]

Awesome stuff. Can't wait to submit one of my own!

[@pezpolera]

I totally dig this, man! Found it very, very usefull One of your best content ideas (i believe) cheers! I'll be waiting for the next one 👍

[@WillGibbons]

Awesome, thank you!

[@ratkoradujkovic1419]

Very useful, hope you keep going with this!

[@WillGibbons]

That's the plan!

[@1134baba]

Definately would love to see more commenting videos, and hopefully will get a critique on my render as well :)

[@DRONEMANMARC]

Love this please keep them coming!

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for letting me know! I will :D

[@artistrasmusolesen]

Good watch, would love to see more

[@motoing32]

Will, it would be great to see your improved version of a rendering after critiquing the submitted rendering. Is that something you already do and have videos covering? Look forward to know more! Thanks.

[@WillGibbons]

Yeah, I think I titled that video 'I tried fixing your KeyShot renderings' or something like that.

[@alexandrepiton5926]

Hi, great video, thanks ! About the desk lamp one, there was that cart you described as polarizing and didn't like. That's funny because is a masterpiece of modern design, created by Alvar Aalto for his company Artek. Not to say that it fitted on the image (I tend to agree with you), but it was almost chocking for me to hear it being dismissed like that in favor of this (not ugly) lamp ;) - No idea who designed the couch though haha

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for your comment! I think design is super subjective. Sure Aalto is famous and often respected, but I think the tea trolley he designed in this scenario competes with what the designer who made this rendering wanted to be the focal point. I didn't mean for it to be a true critique on Aalto's design.

[@peteraagaardcarstensen400]

I loved this and I think this kind of video is awesome ... Learned alot from it and I would personally love to get some pointers on one of My own renders

[@souvien3227]

gr8 job m8, please do more!

[@gregwillis8876]

Enjoyed this - learning a lot :)

[@anwarhussain5875]

I would like to see more vidoes like this. Please try to make it a regular thing. TIA

[@WillGibbons]

Glad to hear it Anwwar! Thanks for letting me know.

[@Juno-mq2bp]

Very useful video! I'm wondering if there is any chance that you will criticize the drawings in the future?

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks! I am not qualified for that in my opinoin. Thanks for asking, but I am too afraid to judge something I myself am pretty bad at.

[@МихаилТитов-х9й]

Waiting for the next part!)

[@Waskuli]

Keep doing this kind of videos

[@WillGibbons]

I plan to do some more that are similar. Do you mind sharing me what you get out of this style of video and why it's helpful? Thanks!

[@afrosymphony8207]

top tier critique, so fucking good

[@pastuh]

Can you say which method was used for Industry Giant 2 game? 3D and pixels? Last time when I tried to replicate my renders was very bad..

[@WillGibbons]

Honestly, I'm not familiar with that. Sorry, but your guess would be as good as mine.

[@amitdeshmukh9660]

Thank you for enabling ads on your vedio we can see it. Can u please make vedio for water flowing through a pipe Animation or water Falling from tape .Is it possible in keyshot.

[@WillGibbons]

Hey, in order to create a fluid animation such as the one you're talking about would require me to use a different software. There aren't any fluid animation tools in KeyShot or in any CAD apps. You'd need to look into Blender, Houdini, Maya, C4d or something like that.

[@bomberutkrec]

i study industrial design too (im about to start my thesis) and i'm more into cgi everyday, so you won a new sub. cool video, i hope you can critique some render of mine soon

[@WillGibbons]

Welcome aboard! Glad to hear it.

[@PedroBarrosBra]

love this

[@mikedamisch]

Great video, love the Concept. I would love to be able to be critiqued.

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks! I'll share how that people can submit images soon. Keep an eye out here and on my social media (Instagram probably) or email list.

[@yojidean]

awesome!

[@tonsab.assist.master]

I see you have upped your thumbnail game! ;)

[@WillGibbons]

I feel bad because it's cheesy af, but the click-thru rate is noticeably better...

[@tonsab.assist.master]

@@WillGibbons Cheesy sells. Click-thru is King!

[@willianpessi6510]

Nice! Tks mate.

[@WillGibbons]

Cheers!

[@robertojofre15]

hi, great video, i been entering my email, twice and i havent received the free rendering roadnap, any where i could get a copy??

[@WillGibbons]

I just sent you an email with it!

[@robertojofre15]

@@WillGibbons you the man!! thanks a lot,!

[@MINECRAFTandSEB]

id put a blue space athmophere in the back of the nasa render

[@WillGibbons]

I could see that.

[@sanglierbenjamin8617]

I don't know why but when I put my email to receive the roadmap, I never recieve it ? Is it working for somebody ?

[@WillGibbons]

Is there a chance it's made it into your email spam folder? I can see it's being downloaded for other folks.

[@jaujud]

There's this one thing in that yellow chair render that makes me restless. It is the way how the legs are attached to the chair. It is placed in such an angle to the camera that it leaves ambiguity of how it would really look in real life. The strut that joins chair's right legs and the one that joins chair's front legs align almost to an ideal angle so that it looks as if it was the same piece. This makes it hard to understand how object looks in 3D space and makes it less believable. I would try to avoid this perfect alignment of lines which belong to different planes. Don't know if it's even clear what I'm trying to say. English is not my first language so I'm sorry.

[@WillGibbons]

Good call! Yeah, camera angles that create weird tangents and such can be problematic. Interesting suggestion! I don't disagree.

[@TheNeatGuy]

Great content, how can we submit our renders?

[@WillGibbons]

I'll let you know!

[@MINECRAFTandSEB]

why does that ligth have heatsinks if its using leds, thats doesnt make sense, its probably not leds

[@WillGibbons]

Could be. I'm not a lighting engineer, so I'm probably wrong with that assumption.

[@MINECRAFTandSEB]

@@WillGibbons its probably not LEDs or the heatsinks are a bad or useless design. only very powerful lights need heatsinks these days, stage lights and such so im not sure if this was designed for some industrial purpouse. Great video btw and thanks and replying to the comment!

[@omarliew1164]

about the interior with the chair... A glass table shouldn't refract like that.

[@WillGibbons]

You don't think so?

[@omarliew1164]

@@WillGibbons well, i'm not 100% sure. But it was the first thing i noticed looking at it. Seems off to me. I believe a clear glass table without curvature should be just see trough without any deformation since the glass is the same thickness everywere and not bend or curved. I've searched some glass tables on google and none of then showed this kind of refraction. Otherwise the world would look silly when looking out of the windows haha🙈

[@Tharros95]

@@omarliew1164 I think it could, because of the viewing angle of the camera relative to the normal of the glass. Also, this glass table appears to be thicker than glass used in most windows, so its not a very apt comparison

[@omarliew1164]

@@Tharros95 but i learned that when you have a straight piece of glass the refraction happens 2 times. When the ray goes into the glass and when the ray leaves the glass again. This makes why you can look trough glass windows without having any deformation. Shouldn't matter how thick the glass is. Could be that there's some slight imperfection or roughness in the glass though. And it might be intended to be like this by the author of the render. It just looked off to me, making the render look less realistic in my opinion. Other than that the render looked good👍

[@Sasasala386]

Amazing critique! I consider myself a specialist too and would LOVE if you could critique my work! I sent you mine in the google form, if it's not ok to show the brand in the package you could blurry it. Lovely video!

[@tonsab.assist.master]

Woah you are colourblind? Red green?

[@WillGibbons]

I am. Not sure exactly, but I have failed those tests with the dots... also, whenever I mention or comment on color, people tend to disagree with me 100% of the time, haha

[@tonsab.assist.master]

@@WillGibbons I am mildly red green colour blind. The test you are referring to is called ishihara colour blindness test. You should try to identify which spectrum you don’t see well! My bet is that you are mildly red green colour blind as well!

[@DamianMathew]

I don't make jokes, I just straight up spit on art.

[@WillGibbons]

You mad?

[@DamianMathew]

@@WillGibbons no, just disrespectful

[@WillGibbons]

I'll have to assume you didn't watch past the intro? Everyone who submitted images asked for feedback, I gave objective feedback that was constructive and not rude. The introduction was a joke, thinking back to when I was in college and as students, our work was often torn apart by faculty to help push our designs and build a thick skin. In this video, I never once said anything disrespectful to any of the images submitted. And if you did watch all the way through and found something that was disrespectful, I'd be curious to hear what it was. I appreciate you sharing your opinion.

[@ingmarslazdins2853]

Make it more greenish, like Mars. I stopped at this point :D

[@konstantinpekov2798]

apple keyboard doesn't have such reflective surface

[@WillGibbons]

Probably not... but maybe the person typing has been eating chicken nuggets? lol

[@klickj26]

ken i get a discount on ur keuyshot tutorial thinkgme cannot affordy itttttt

[@WillGibbons]

Are you a student by chance?

[@klickj26]

@@WillGibbons ya

[@jasquesbenq9688]

3:27 if you would have done any kind of research you'd know that it is a faithful copy of the knife. Victorinox - Forester M Grip. Great render by the way.

[@WillGibbons]

Thanks for sharing the name of the specific model. I'm not exactly sure how I'd have found that on my own. A cursory search of their products didn't reveal this one.

[@jasquesbenq9688]

@@WillGibbons Sure man, sorry I just found it a bit unfair that your main issue with the image was something that was perfectly fine. Great series hope to see more in future

[@_sofie]

But … you tell her to highlight the logo but not how? How is that helpful

[@WillGibbons]

Feedback is very different from a tutorial. Tutorials are when I show how. This is feedback. I've got a lot of tutorial videos that would cover how to add a highlight. Or it could be faked in Photoshop. There's lots of approaches that could be taken.

[@djjj614]

I stopped watching after he said the glass bottles was almost perfect. To my eye that picture was way over exposed and quite obviously so.

[@WillGibbons]

To each their own! Keep in mind everyone's monitor displays images differently.

[@EarthKingPrime]

being colorblind and trying to talk about tones.. smh..

[@WillGibbons]

Tone I can see, hue, not as well. :D