This started as a model of an Audi TT but after I Googled "Audi" I decided to go for an Audi A6 - I like the shape of its front for some reason. It's still a bit choppy around the front area but it'll get there with a little tweaking.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Modeling practice session in 3D Studio Max - Car
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Motor Scooter Render - Vray - WIP
Gamma correction applied to bitmap textures and in the Vray render settings. I need to think of a better background... hmmm
Sunday, 6 November 2011
W.I.P - Modeling A Scooter
Scooter modeled from a photo I took of one that I thought looked kinda cute.
Here is the modeling session.
Here is the modeling session.
Vray render of a scooter I modeled... W.I.P
Friday, 14 October 2011
Vray - Back to the basics
I decided to go back to rendering basics with Vray for 3DS Max before diving into some more complex rendering.
2. Indirect light (no secondary bounces)
3. Indirect light (with secondary bounces)
2. Fog bias 0.0
3. Fog bias -80.0
4. Fog bias 80
Fog is a refractive parameter and describes light absorption/object thickness. When fog bias is set below 0 thick areas become darkened.
2. Hard wax translucency
Translucency is subsurface scattering type effect
IOR Examples -
1. Diamond - 2.418
2. Milk - 1.350
1. Blend material with checker transparency mask
2. Dirt map added to mask based on occlusion
3. Cellular procedural added to radius of dirt map to approximate areas where dirt would form based on ambient occlusion
Dirt maps can be added to existing materilas using the vray blend material. Because it is based on occlusion it is size dependent.
1. Dirtmap where something like rust would be
2. Dirtmap with a bias on the negative Y to approximate where rust would form underneath an object or pilon that interects the wall.
3. - Normals inverted = dirt appearson outer edges of object.
4. Normals not inverted = dirt appears on inner edges.
5. Blend material can blend the two together.
I created a Sphere with noise displacement + directional light with caustics turned on to create a caustics effect on the floor.
Global Illumination
1. Direct light2. Indirect light (no secondary bounces)
3. Indirect light (with secondary bounces)
In Vray - Four main ways to calculate GI
1 - Brute Force - (good for primary bounce if scene is detailed)
2 - light cache - (traces paths from the camera into the scene - opposite of photon mapping - fast and good for secondary bounces - good for interior scenes - speed vs quality)
3 - Photon Mapping (old method - slow but accurate - still good for caustics)
4 - Irradiance map (adaptive- can cause flickering - min/max - stores objects irradiance)
Fog (refractive parameter)
1. Fog bias -10.02. Fog bias 0.0
3. Fog bias -80.0
4. Fog bias 80
Fog is a refractive parameter and describes light absorption/object thickness. When fog bias is set below 0 thick areas become darkened.
Translucency
1. Soft water translucency2. Hard wax translucency
Can convert all material (for example; from Maya FBX import) to Vray materials
Right click in material view port and select vray scene converter - select yes
I.O. - Index of Refraction
IOR Examples -
1. Diamond - 2.418
2. Milk - 1.350
Vray dirtmap
1. Blend material with checker transparency mask
2. Dirt map added to mask based on occlusion
3. Cellular procedural added to radius of dirt map to approximate areas where dirt would form based on ambient occlusion
1. Dirtmap where something like rust would be
2. Dirtmap with a bias on the negative Y to approximate where rust would form underneath an object or pilon that interects the wall.
3. - Normals inverted = dirt appearson outer edges of object.
4. Normals not inverted = dirt appears on inner edges.
5. Blend material can blend the two together.
I created a Sphere with noise displacement + directional light with caustics turned on to create a caustics effect on the floor.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Speed modeling a room in Maya
I'm currently playing with Vray in max and rendering this scene. Thought I would start in Maya
A quick render with some shaders applied -
...and another quick modeling/textureing test using Aman New Deli as a spring board - I used a Vray skylight, some portal lights and tossed in an HDRI image into the environment slot to see how it would look - also quickly added some depth of field in post;
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Video copilot - AE Particles & Origami Pigasus
Thought I would follow along with a cool particle tutorial by Andrew Kramer on videocopilot.net.
I'll have to think up some cool ideas to see how far I can push these techniques.
A ghostly Origami Pigasus animation i did years ago for fun and very quickly - (my excuse for not motion tracking it properly) - I wouldn't mind finding the original maya files and making it look good - - with - AE particles perhaps? Hmm....
Monday, 19 September 2011
Short animated film: Outhouse - Secret Life Of Objects
Outhouse tells the story of a cynical, used up, toilet paper roll and a far less worldly "new kid on the block". It is a modern day parable, a dark comedy, and a humorous exploration of social politics. Every object has a story...
"Secret Life of Objects" is an animated series about ordinary, common objects and what object is more common then the humble toilet paper roll? When we look at one we can instantly guess it's age. The rings of paper on a toilet roll are like the rings of an old tree when you cut one down and view the cross section. The rings of paper represent the toilet rolls life.
Poser, stills and wires:
Initial render of the two rolls:
"Secret Life of Objects" is an animated series about ordinary, common objects and what object is more common then the humble toilet paper roll? When we look at one we can instantly guess it's age. The rings of paper on a toilet roll are like the rings of an old tree when you cut one down and view the cross section. The rings of paper represent the toilet rolls life.
FILM FESTIVALS
Poser, stills and wires:
Initial render of the two rolls:
Monday, 5 September 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Modeling Practice Session - Warrior
2 vids -
2. Maya polygon base mesh modeling process - a few hours condensed into 15 mins
1. A rigging test to see how he moves. I need to think about edgeflow some more.....
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Modeling Practice Session - Female Character
Monday, 15 August 2011
Funnel Web Spider - WIP
Render test in Vray for Maya - nowhere near finished - hair and shader correction to do. I recently went to the Australian museum and got a few cool pics of dead Funnel webs. I might remodel this one and make a few different varieties - good rigging test to do as well.
Modeling Practice Session - Human Head
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Modeling Practice Session - Dragon
I modeled a Dragon in maya today and recorded the process - fun! Might put some more time aside to see where this goes - still at an early stage atm.
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