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sakuwura-meow-meow · 9 hours

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Made this for one of my team mates birthday that was a few days ago happy birthday heavy!

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #team fortress two #heavy weapons guy #tf2 heavy #heavy tf2 #sfm tf2 #tf2 sfm #sfm #tf2 source filmmaker #source filmmaker

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sanshiroiv · 13 hours

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funni gopro coin boi

#ultrakill #ultrakill fanart #v1 ultrakill #sfm #source filmmaker

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pyrofromtf2real · 17 hours

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Shelly getting revenge on snipers for ruining her life.

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 pyro #shelly #tf2 oc #infection au #sl:fortress #sfm #slf #pyro #claws #tf2 infection au #tf2 sniper #sniper

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the-sound-of-progress · 9 months

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This is one of my favorite bits of incredibly clever fuckery that goes on behind the scenes of 3D modeling, and I have an intense compulsion to talk about it right now.

If you've never seen the true geometry of the merc models, you're probably wondering what the hell is going on with the one on the left. Minecraft Steve 3D-printed looking motherfucker.

Believe it or not, it's the exact same model as the one on the right. The light is just being instructed to interact differently with its polygons! The one on the left is being given flat shading, while the one on the right is being given smooth shading.

The mercs have far fewer polygons than you probably think they do. And that's not just because the game was made in 2007! Most stylized faces probably aren't going to have many more polygons than this, especially faces designed for video games. Thanks to the magic of smooth shading, they don't need more than that.

So how the hell is this possible?

I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! Class is now in session!

For our example, let's focus on this area of his ear.

On the left, with the flat shading, you can see that there's a pretty stark difference in the perceived color between those surfaces. But on the right, with the smooth shading, it's... well... smooth!

To understand how smooth shading works, first you have to understand what a 'surface normal' is. They are also just called 'normals'.

See, a single polygon can only ever be perfectly flat no matter how you arrange the vertexes. If you have three vertexes making up a triangle, and you fill in the space between those vertexes to make a face, that face is completely flat. It doesn't matter whether the vertexes are 2 millimeters or 2 miles apart from each other; the plane that intersects all 3 points can never be curved.

In simple terms, the normal of a polygon is defined as the direction in which the face is pointed. Because the face is perfectly flat, this direction can always be expressed with a single line.

On the left is a simple example of the surface normals of a cube. Each blue line represents the direction that its face is pointing.

On the right, the red arrows are pointing to the normals of these ear polygons. In these two clusters of two polygons, you can see there's a pretty big difference between the angle of the normals. This means that there's going to be a big difference in the way light bounces off of them - and that's why it looks so blocky when we just let it be flat shading.

On the left, I've illustrated how light is going to bounce off of each polygon the same way, all the way across that polygon.

If we GREATLY increased the number of polygons, we could make it look a lot smoother, but we don't want to do that. More polygons equals significantly more work for the computer, so the solution is a little concept called 'interpolation', which I've crudely illustrated on the right. See how the angle of each light bounce is ever so slightly different as we move from one normal to the other?

Instead of just calculating the light the exact same way across a whole polygon, smooth shading also looks at the normals of the polygons around it. The rendering engine then pretends that the surface is curved, based on some very complex math.

I don't fully understand it myself. But I imagine that it is probably grossly oversimplifying it to say that it's taking the average of the two normals. Hopefully that description kind of gives you an idea of what it's doing, though.

Imagine if you took a sheet of paper and lightly pressed it over the two angled polygons to try to give it a bit more of a curved surface for light to bounce off of. That's what smooth shading does, but instead of using a piece of paper, it uses whatever material is defined for those polygons.

And that's just a little bit of the magic of shaders in 3D rendering! It is shocking just how much of a render's quality depends entirely on the way light works. There is a whole bunch of stuff happening that honestly has very little to do with the quality or poly count of the model's geometry - it's the shaders and the light simulation that are doing the REALLY heavy lifting, and that's why RTX technology in particular is such a huge fucking deal!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Class dismissed!

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #blender #sfm #3d art #infodump #cw swearing

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lumikore · 1 year

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i think this is my magnum opus. the pinnacle of my being. nothing i ever create from now on will even come close to this

#tf2 medic #jerma985 #tf2 #team fortress 2 #jerma #sfm #source filmmaker #sfm render #medic tf2 #tf2 fanart

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gulper-eels · 1 year

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it's okay it was just a movie :)

#emesis blue #team fortress 2 #tf2 #sfm #my stuff #source filmmaker #still learning how to pose a bigger scene lol

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poopyboiman · 1 year

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this movie was a master piece

#emesis blue #tf2 #tf2 medic #team fortress 2 #medic tf2 #tf2 shitpost #scout tf2 #tf2 scout #fortress film #tf2 sfm #sfm #tf2 memes

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roadkill-art · 1 year

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Some studies of Emesis Blue! colors all taken from screen shots of the sfm since the red and blue grading is immaculate- makes me feel like it’s 2018 and I’m doing paint overs again

#tf2 #emesis blue #sfm #tf2 medic #tf2 fanart #art #fanart

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pluvillion · 1 year

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Alleyway Rendezvous "stay still. we're not done yet."

i read könig's bio. it made me even more motivated doing the render. the pose was supposedly something different (him just standing with a wide stance) but i after pondering on it, i thought this one looked more... feisty.

there are more things that i originally planned that i unfortunately cannot share (if were to be vague, he was supposedly stepping on the... yeah.)

got my rhythm going again. even if i'm not making fully-pledged renders, i like posing random characters.

#sfm #source filmmaker #call of duty #modern warfare ii #cod #mw #mwii #modern warfare #konig #könig #kilgore #3d art #fanart

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mariceau · 9 days

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