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Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:17:55 GMT

After following some earlier posts regarding renders in the sketch engine, I have been playing around with the different settings, overlaying onto Lightworks renders etc etc....

Anyways, the boss has requested some grass be shown, and im a little stumped as to the best way to get a nice grass effect. Had a go in photoshop, just painting the grass in with a grass looking brush, but im not convinced it's a great or even a good outcome.

Ive attached my attempt so far.

Does anyone have any ideas or tips that will help.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Dwight — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:34:50 GMT

That is plausible grass.
[even in my Artlantis Attitude book,
I call the best renderings merely "plausible"]

Can you make it smaller?

If you still don't like it, just use noise....

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:39:30 GMT

Dwight,

thanks for your speedy response and comments. What did you mean by 'noise'?

Another attempt:

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Dwight — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:00:19 GMT

In Photoshoppe, you would select an area and apply the Filter "Noise" It makes a bunch of dots.

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:49:44 GMT

Gave the Noise Filter a go, it did have a worthwhile subtle enhancement.

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:22:30 GMT

I'm suprised no one else has commented, but they are really nice images, and an interesting design also, Mike. Thanks for sharing them!

The plants are good too. Simple but effective. Are they photoshopped in or are they 2d dwg converted to library parts, like James Murray described recently - http://www.onland.info/archives/2008/12/slabifying_lines.php?

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:31:42 GMT

Thank you for your kind words Peter.

The trees were done in photoshop because I couldn't think of a way to model them in the sketch engine. But I will definitely be having a crack at the 3D sketch tree in your link, cheers for that too.

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:45:12 GMT

wow they look great.. any chance of a link to a "how to" on doing some images like that ?

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Arcadia — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:57:07 GMT

These images are great. I'd love to know what settings you used to get these as they are exactly what i would have wanted if I had time to play around with the sketch engine.

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

haymont — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:27:04 GMT

These are great images. To be honest i prefer using the sketch render tool 90% of the time. Its easy to pump out a huge amount of renderings in a short time vs the one photo-realistic render churning away over night....time is money. Besides clients love to see them as they are emotive and have that sense of 'work in progress' for early sketch design vs 'here this is what WE think you should do' when you put up a photo render/

great work...would love a screen capture of your settings if you're willing to share.

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:01:10 GMT

The settings I am using came from other people's posts in this forum, thank you to those who shared their knowledge earlier.

Start with Kor-I-Nor and adjust settings to match.

Tip: For internal sketch renders with shadows, turn Shadow Line Settings: Darkness down to approx. 20 or to taste.

Mike

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:15:20 GMT

those settings are perfect i just tried it on one of my current jobs and its exactly what what im gonna be using from now one.. thanks for posting them. only thing i did change was teh darkness of the shadows.. from 100 down to 60%

thanks again

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:22:16 GMT

hello!

I have been surfing these forums for a while now... and your renders have inspired me to finally register...

could you give some advice on how you are adding your plant images... are they vectors? How are you rendering them "sketchy" Where do you find images like this to place in the render?

Thanks!

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:41:33 GMT

Standard wrote:
hello!

I have been surfing these forums for a while now... and your renders have inspired me to finally register...

could you give some advice on how you are adding your plant images... are they vectors? How are you rendering them "sketchy" Where do you find images like this to place in the render?

Thanks!

my guess is there just 3D trees from the library?

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:44:06 GMT

Standard wrote:
could you give some advice on how you are adding your plant images... are they vectors? How are you rendering them "sketchy" Where do you find images like this to place in the render?

fuzzymike2002 mentioned that the trees were done in photoshop (great job by the way)... and Peter Clark provided a link that describe yet another cool way of rendering some sketchy trees (most advantageous when using the sketch rendering engine IMHO).

Re: Sketch Render - Grass

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:10:00 GMT

The trees were done in photoshop.

I took some pages of hand drawn trees from the old days, stuff my boss had lying around that he used to trace when it was all pencil/ink on paper/film.......scanned them and them cut and arranged them in photoshop.

If I think of it I might post the tree jpg's on here, but don't hold your breath waiting, too busy at the moment.

Mike