For the first time, I decided to hop into blender to create a SciFi scene, with some reference; could I have some feedback (what should I try do next), how can I improve this, etc.
Keep in mind I use a trackpad so I’m pretty limited to what I can do.
The scene is meant to be something like going into and from a pixelated land, from the regular world to the alien world, vice versa. The inspiration was from the Area 51 memes.
I can see that you’re going for a sc-fi look although it comes off to me as just a cool little visual thing. I think that’s because there’s not much space/sc-fi stuff in this scene.
The green looks weird and out of place in my opinion. I didn’t even know it was alien goo until you said. If you want it to look more like alien goo maybe have some drips coming off of it like this?:
Looks really nice! From my perspective, here is some feedback:
Make the goo more natural, for example, running down the side. Also, you should spread it out a little bit, so it’s not all in one place. I can understand it’s hard to balance subtleness and too much, but you can definitely put some more in here!
The black things on the sides, what are they? Perhaps they’re just shadows and I’m not seeing them as they are meant to be viewed, but I’m not sure.
If you want to go further with this, you could smooth the sides and perhaps add a spaceship or something faintly in the distance?
The black things extruding on the sides is me using a displace node, then in the properties, distorting them. As far as the goo goes; I haven’t used physical models, I’ve used a mapping node with a ColorRamp to randomize and make certain parts glare, though this is all random with the rotation value. I’m not really a modeler and this was my first try at something pretty difficult.
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll attempt some of your suggestions!
It looks very good, but I feel like it’s missing something, like a ship.
Right now it feels very empty, and that’s okay if you were going for that feel, but you can definitely make this piece much more interesting.
Yeah, they were just some ideas. The things I picked out were just me being extremely picky and trying to give some feedback that could potentially help you out. Regardless, it’s still really cool!