silver_est

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These tips are really useful in my opinion

Hey, I'm almost ready to help you. Here's what I need to help you: A list of the animals that you need sounds for (the zoo apparently didn't upload a complete list of animals they have: https://tallinnzoo.ee/animal/) A 3d model of a parabola that would work for my mic on my Blue Yeti (to increase directionality of recording since it's a podcast mic) My local Zoo allows recording of animals. I'd prefer to record them using a parabolic mic though, which I haven't built yet, the mic I can use is Blue Yeti. If you could make a list of animal sounds that you need then I can contact the trade manager of the Zoo. They have mentioned that educational use (non commercial) isn't charged for. Also, they haven't mentioned anything about just recording sounds. https://tallinnzoo.ee/pildistamine-ja-filmimine/ They have 500 different species and the ticket to enter costs me very little. Now I just need some advice on how to equip my Blue Yeti with a parabola since it would greatly improve the noise / signal ratio. I need a 3d model that would fit the mic and I could then order the printing of it from a local firm which again costs about as much as the zoo ticket (nothing).

Have a look at https://texturehaven.com/ It has quite a few CC0 8k PBR textures, this guy and his friend are doing this project to have a library and to help people out. He is an environmental artist. I bought his course on environmental design on Udemy and he explained how he made the textures. He used a good camera and took pictures of the surface which had the texture. Then he used a program to create a 3d textured mesh from the images. After that he opened it up in blender and somehow exported all the texture maps from Blender. This is my first post! Glad to join you. Edit: The site has CC0 content only.