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Newport Civic

2010-10-02T07:16:00.000-07:00

Tradigital Techniques

2010-09-29T07:25:00.000-07:00

Been a while since my last update, but over the last few weeks I have been investigating the capabilities of Googles 3D modeling application Sketchup, to test Sketchup, I have modeled Newport Cities Civic Centre, its not an accurately scaled model, but I thought it would be a good test project.

RDF and Out Campaign Wallpapers

2009-10-11T12:56:00.000-07:00

Been a while since my last update, but I did a few Photoshop projects a while back and one and maybe more have been accepted as submissions on the “Atheists Out Campaign” pages which are part of the Richard Dawkins Foundation websites, the RDF website is quite high profile, so I’m more than happy to see some of my work there.

As requested I have updated this this post with some more RDF Wallpapers, thanks for the input, these are low res images if anyone wants high res or has a request, get in touch.

Menai Suspension Bridge

2009-06-29T10:03:00.000-07:00

It’s been a while since my last update, so I thought I’d better post something, so here are a few NPR (Non Photographic Renders), the idea is to produce renders that look like they were done using conventional media, for this project I did 3D model of the Menai Suspension Bridge and tried to recreate the scenes as Watercolour style prints.

Another Chris Foss style render

2009-04-26T09:42:00.000-07:00

Another render this time more true to the original tutorial and style.

Chris Foss Style Render

2009-04-18T07:54:00.000-07:00

Start of an After Effects composition and animation project, the ship is based closely on a tutorial by Adam Benton which was featured a while back by Computer Arts magazine, the tutorial itself, was inspired by and based on the works of the Sci-Fi illustrator and cover artist Chris Foss.

Car Render

2009-03-10T07:28:00.001-07:00

Acura RSX, not my model but I did the materials and rendered it using C4D, post work and composition done in Photoshop, the car was rendered at to low a resolution, but the main objective was the composition in Photoshop.

Watson Microscope.

2009-01-25T08:40:00.000-08:00

A render of an antique microscope, a Watson "Edinburgh Student" from around 1922, another weekend entry for a C4D Cafe Challenge, produced from low res photographs.

Four budda

2008-10-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

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.

Ajax Render

2008-10-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

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

Sponza Atrium

2008-10-08T12:38:00.000-07:00

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).

Colour Perception

2008-09-20T16:53:00.000-07:00

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:

Total War Poster

2008-09-06T12:00:00.000-07:00

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.

Placed Second

2008-07-28T04:57:00.000-07:00

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…

Old School

2008-07-17T08:38:00.000-07:00

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.

Advertising Flyer

2008-07-01T08:49:00.000-07:00

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.

Plasma Ball

2008-06-27T04:50:00.000-07:00

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!

Competition Entry

2008-06-23T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

Eclipse

2008-06-16T05:22:00.000-07:00

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.

Kitchen render

2008-05-26T07:46:00.000-07:00

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

Pollen Render

2008-05-25T11:38:00.001-07:00

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

2008-05-25T09:05:00.000-07:00

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

Painting with light

2008-05-23T07:08:00.000-07:00

"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...