"The Saboteur" Release
Added 2023-01-28 22:00:02 +0000 UTCHey all! I know it's been a minute since my last render, but today I'm excited to share with you... my first Ada Wong render! I had mentioned in the previous update I was going to keep the model choice a surprise, but hopefully Ada is a welcome one. Since Ada's well known for her signature red dresses, I've also included a red dress variant with this render release :)
Sorry for the delay on this. Life has been keeping me busy lately on top of not feeling well, as I've mentioned in previous Patreon updates (and on the Discord). But I've been spending what spare time I have (when I'm feeling well) to continue making Blender content for you all :)
Another factor that contributed to the delay on this project was this scene ended up making a not-so-great render environment for a pinup. To put it simply, while the environmental lights look great for illuminating the car, they made Ada look flat (i.e., uniform exposure levels with no shadows or detail). Thankfully, I have a good friend who is also a fellow Blender artist who showed me a technique I could use to light Ada independently of the scene. Back when I first started working on this idea, it was just supposed to be a quick-and-simple car pinup, but this actually ended up being one of the most labor-intensive and complex renders I've done to date lol. I hope you all enjoy the result!
And, as usual, the images in this post are the 4K versions. You can grab both these and the native 8K renders from the MEGA archive :)
