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I thought about doing that, but wasn't sure if was needed. Thanks for the feedback, I'll try that for the next one!

@@xanders1813 Right! There's a severe lack of cosplay photography related learning content! I wish more people made stuff like this because I like to learn by watching other people's workflows.

@@ryanansen It's seriously so helpful. I've been working with blender and photoshop separately for 5-6 years, but combining them is a whole new beast. thanks again, will continue to tune in!

@@xanders1813 that's awesome to hear! I'll try to keep bringing helpful content to everyone!

@@xanders1813 most definitely, instancing will almost always yield the most efficient results.

@@mishmrose hahahah, if only I got paid that much! Thanks for watching! I'm glad it's useful!

@@JoeBreeVideos Thank you so much! 36 minutes in is a lot! Good luck making it through! Hahaha

@@ryanansen hahahah 💕💕💕

@@MarquardDK Very much appreciated!

@@FangDigitalArt The whole thing!?! That's crazy! Hahah I'm glad you learned some new stuff!

Hahah, that's good to hear! Though I'm hesitant to call it a tutorial, it's more like me rambling on for 4 hours.

@@ryanansen As long as I can follow your steps while watching, I'd call it a tutorial😌

Eyyyy that's awesome to hear! If someone can pick up even one new thing from my videos I'm happy!

Appreciate it, bro!

Thank you!

Hey bud! Long time no talk! Feels good to make stuff again! Finally having some free time to be able to make these.

Hahah, glad to hear it!

Thanks!!!

@@dfalekulo9138 thanks for the suggestion! I'll have some free time next week to make another video, so maybe I'll go over that process!

It's actually pretty easy to use Imperial measurements in Blender! Go to the Scene Properties tab (the icon that looks like a cone) and under the Units section change it from Metric to Imperial. The grid will automatically change as well and each square will represent 1 ft. Hope that helps!

@@ryanansen I truly appreciate your response. But if we're thinking on a scale of a human, then I'm trying to find a grid system that reflects inches, feet, and yards. If you dive deeper into managing the Imperial settings... it's as complicated as the Imperial units are IRL. Like I referenced in my original comment, Blender seems to just use factors of 3. The smallest grid increment is 3 units long. But if you count the next level of units, there are 24 units between each grid line. And if you go out further, the next grid increment is in groups of 10 which makes absolutely no sense in Imperial. I'm at a loss.... I might be an idiot and simply not grasping something obvious. But I've given up. Metric just works.

@@dwightfry99 I might just be misunderstanding what you're talking about, so I apologize if I am. That being said, When I set Blender to use Imperial, the default grid scale of one has the smaller squares equal to 1 foot, and the larger squares equal to 1 yard. And if I need to see grids for inches, I just go to the grid scale and type in 1/12 and now each small grid square is 1 inch long. With that, it seems to be working perfectly for the Imperial system. I'm using Blender 4.2, by the way, so I can't speak for how it works in other versions of Blender.

@@ryanansen What you describe is exactly what I am looking for. I guess all I can do is try again tomorrow.. I've updated to 4.2 as well. Thx for letting me know that it's intended to work as one would expect.

That means a lot! I want to see as many people as possible create art, so I really enjoy showing my process as much as I can to see that happen. I'll keep doing this for as long as I can!

Firstly, thank you so much! I'm very happy to hear you're a fan of my work, and I'm glad I've put out a video that let's beginners follow along! To answer your question, there's no big reason why I chose this method! There are a thousand ways to do things with art, many of which all arrive at similar results. This method is just what I happened to use!

That's great to hear! My goal with this was to allow beginners to follow along, so hopefully there wasn't anything to confusing or hard to follow!

I'll try my best!

@@ryanansen Awesome. I feel this, your “jam style” session, is far superior to polished and overly-edited tutorials 🙌🏻💪🏻

@@MarquardDK That's really good to know! I've always been heavily against making something like this because I am an extreme perfectionist and everything about making this was so unplanned and structured that it felt like low quality content. But at the same time it was way more fun to make. The hard part is my ADHD makes me go off on a thousand tangents and spend 30 minute explaining what should only take 5 minutes.

That is so awesome to hear! I'm super happy to know you were able to pick out some useful information in this! And yes, experimenting in 3D before a shoot is a great way to plan it out! Especially if you bring in posed 3D models of characters, you can even plan out your lighting ahead of time. In fact, I think I might make a video on that, thanks for bringing up that topic!

@@Ance_photo that's so cool you've been around for that long! I hope to keep bringing useful information to you and everyone here!

@@RobertVanderStelt thank you!!!

@@DustinValkema it loves you!! 🤙

@@wilmerlens Thank you! Let me know if there's anything in this you'd like me to go extra in depth on or explain!

Definitely do more! Just the best tutorial ! 🔥 There was a lot of use, for me especially how you did the shadows and set up camera composition. Time flew by while I was watching. Thank you very much, man! 🤝

@@NikolayZharov thank you! I'm glad it's helpful! I'll be doing more of these longer, casual videos about the various techniques I do! This video was way easier and more fun to make than my usual super planned out breakdown videos.

Thanks! And yeah, there's a ton of shortcuts I don't know or don't use. Between all the various programs I utilize, it's so hard to remember all the shortcuts.

Thank you for the comment! This photo was taken so long ago, I don't remember exactly how my planning went, but I can definitely tell you how I go about pre-production in general! It starts with a concept or idea. In this case, my friend had a Gogo Yubari cosplay that she wanted photos of and hired me for a shoot. Depending on how long I have or how much time I have, I'll spend an hour or two researching the character or show/movie/game to get a stronger idea of who the character is and their style. I'll then start gathering reference photos that are similar to how I might want to approach the photo. It might be a random photo I found that has lighting I like, or one that has an interesting composition/framing, always taking note of what exactly I like about the reference image so that I know why I chose that image. I'll usually have a good 50-70% idea of how I'd like the image to look before I do the photoshoot that way I can make sure my lighting works for the idea I have in mind. Sometimes I'll plan out exact poses and lighting I want per photo, sometimes I'll just wing it and let my subject express themselves naturally and see if there's something I like. I'm always taking a bunch of photos per shoot, even if I'm editing only a couple of them, just so I have options to choose from. Hope this helps!

@@ryanansen Thank you this helps a lot!

That's great to hear! Good luck!

What do you mean?

I mean, do you eddited, other pictures

@@Annemariewessel-sf6hx Are you asking if I edit photos that other people have photographed? If so, then yes I take on editing commissions.

@@ryanansenYes, ecaxly - i have one as an eks i would love too get eddited❤

@@Annemariewessel-sf6hx Okay! I'm pretty busy right now, but I should have availability to take on a comission in a couple weeks. If you can, send me a message on Instagram (@Ansen.Mono) or send me an email ansen.contact@gmail.com and we can talk about the details

Hi! I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking. What matting?

sorry,I said I want the image materials that is used for the role's surroudings.(the muminous effects) Or could you please tell me where can find them (website is okay).Thank you very much!Your creation blew my mind,so wonderful! @@ryanansen

oh luminous not muminous@@ryanansen

@@RABBIRAIN-id3ud Ah okay, I understand now. The assets I used in this video are from here: ansenmono.gumroad.com/ Though I've made much higher quality assets that can also be found here: cghacks.com/

thank youuuuuuu!!!(love u~)@@ryanansen

Hey hey! Thanks for watching my stuff! And yeah, I plan on making much slower, easier to follow videos. I'm trying to finish up a couple of really big jobs right now and it's taking up all my free time, but when I'm finished, there will be more content that is easier to learn from!

Thanks!

I really enjoyed your Patreon that also, included assets to follow along with your lessons. Hope to see you back on Patreon soon!

This was cool i wonder have you ever done a edit fully in photoshop without any 3d assets? Just 2d

@@mrmustache7023 Thanks! And yes of course! I started out doing this kind of stuff way before I ever learned how to use 3D.

Thank you thank you! I'm definitely no animator, so it's a bit choppy, but was definitely fun to make!

Yeah, it's a bummer. I wasn't sure how much of it would be seen when I first made the asset, but it's a good lesson to learn, don't waste time on things that won't be seen!

Hahah, now if only I was as successful as him!

That's great to hear! It's a pretty outdated video, so good to know the technique works still!

@@ryanansen I needed to make a mask that matches the shape of my unique object from multiple angles, so this is definitely still relevant. You should do a recap video in case anything changes in Blender 4.0.

@@SunsetArchon thanks for the feedback! I might even discover a more efficient way to do things!

Thanks for watching! I definitely don't have much content for absolute beginners just yet, but that's definitely going to change as I'm writing up scripts for more content for beginners. That being said, the progarm I'm using is Adobe Photoshop, but most of the stuff I'm doing here can be done in most photo editing softwares!

@@ryanansen thabk u so much for answering me, can u maybe name some good software applications for photoshop? I would really appreciate it 💓

​@@emilygleyzer7114 Well if you can afford it, Photoshop is pretty good, especially with some of the new features. That being said, there's a free alternative program similar to photoshop called GIMP.

@@ryanansen YOU.ARE.THE.BEST🤞😭🫶