Friday 17 October 2008

Four budda


Taking the bronze texture I used in the Ajax render a little further along, these Buda’s are textured with three “procedurals” the base bronze, then shiny bronze (inverse ambient occlusion in the alpha channel) and finally a straight AO alpha channel for the oxidisation.



Wednesday 8 October 2008

Ajax Render


This render is a bronze of "Ajax" rendered using C4D's new advanced render engine.

Sponza Atrium


The Sponza Atrium, is a model created by Marko Dabrovic at RNA Studio, It was donated to the public for a radiosity competition in 2002, the Sponza Atrium scene has since become one of the most widely used 3D scenes for testing global illumination and radiosity due to it's specific architectural structure which is particularly challenging for the application of global illumination lighting techniques.

I used it to test drive and practice using the updated render engine (AR 3) in the new release of Cinema 4d (R11).

Saturday 20 September 2008

Colour Perception


As we get older, our ability to discriminate colour hues becomes more difficult, so here an online test of your ability to distinguish colour, good luck I’ve managed to score 15, but allowing for age, that’s not so bad.


Take the test here:



Saturday 6 September 2008

Total War Poster



I haven’t updated my blog for quite a while and feel a little guilty about it, I haven’t been idle and just completed another project, this one is a games poster based on the “Total War” franchise, the basic project concept was to give it a movie poster feel, the knight was modelled and rendered in C4D as usual and most of the compositing was then done in Photoshop.

Monday 28 July 2008

Placed Second



Just heard today that my entry in the “Power Tools” competition over at 3DCafe has been placed second, my project was a Battery powered DeWalt drill which is modelled in a studio shot setting, so happy days…

Thursday 17 July 2008

Old School


An old school type image created in Photoshop... just because... lol don't ask me? again thanks to the good folks at PSTutes.com for providing the original inspiration.

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Advertising Flyer







Work in progress for an advertising flyer for the HP iPaq palm computer, I'll be posting images for each stage of the project, I hope that people will find the different stages required before the final render and composition interesting or at least informative… or maybe not.

Friday 27 June 2008

Plasma Ball


Still working my way through the Photoshop tutorials over at abduzeedo.com, this "plasma ball" image is 100% Photoshop, I'm currently working on C4D and After Effects integration for a short demo reel... so watch this space!

Monday 23 June 2008

Competition Entry



Apparently these sociable little chaps are actually Arachnids, anyway... This is my entry in the C4D model a "bug" competition over at C4D Cafe...

Monday 16 June 2008

Eclipse


Another Photoshop image, this one based closely on a tutorial found at Abduzeedo's design and Photoshop site, a great resource for Photoshop users and a fantastic source of inspiration for designers working in any media.

Monday 26 May 2008

Kitchen render




What can only be described I suppose as the ubiquitous kitchen render, everyone has to do at least one….

Sunday 25 May 2008

Pollen Render


Pollen render using Cinema 4D and the VRay render engine, in this render I have tried to simulate the images produced by electron microscopes.

Vray Render




Test render using the VRay render engine and soft depth of field effect, some post work in photoshop.

Friday 23 May 2008

Painting with light



"Painting with light" is an Experimental image, created by using geometric shapes to produce a glowing image, the main exercise was to create the "glow" lighting effect in Photoshop and create something from simple geometry, a good example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts...