A few years ago someone posted this on Reddit claiming to have made this character in blender. I thought that was really fucking dumb because it would take less than an hour and it was clearly ai. They argued with me when I said as much, so I did it myself in about 30 minutes to prove a point.

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[–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

Lighting for simple scenes like this is easy. This is a free hdri (you'll notice of you look closely at her helmets reflections, you can see she's in a room indoors lol), and a plane object with an emission shader and a blackbody node - there's a few of these in the scene trying to match the weird lighting in the ai slop. Takes two minutes to set up, tops.

Then you just set the temperature for the light colour in the material settings. You can see the plane reflected in her helmet as well. To adjust the light, crank the emission value for brighter light, scale the plane up for soft shadows or down for harder shadows.

Using temperatures instead of RGB ensures it's only using natural light colours found in the real world and helps your render feel more real at a glance.

The only other type of light I have in this scene is a little yellow one at the bottom right, because I noticed inconsistent colours in the ai image and I was trying to match it.

To make the moon I traced a crescent by extruding a plane along a reference image, and extruded that back to give it depth. Then to make the holes I just created a bunch of spheres, made them blobby to try and match the shape of the holes in the reference, clipped them into the moon and used a boolean modifier to cut them out. Everything has a sub d modifier to smooth it all out.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    You need to understand, that when you tell me to add an HDRI, I will first google how to add an HDRI.
    The most I have done is played around with different kinds of light objects that are available in the menus.

    The moon part is easy. I have made similar stuff. I'd say 15-20 minutes for that. (Yeah, I don't remember any of the shortcut keys)

    For the body, I see that I'd just need to make some pipes and rings and that box on the front and the backpack, easy peasy. 7 hours.
    I would have done that part faster in AutoCAD.

    The face?
    I can't even draw faces.
    Give me 2 days to try ~150 iterations to get something satisfactory.

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