A fun Daily 3d Project working with oversized micro scratches, glass and my pavement shaders. The pavement is workinig really well in Modo 901.
Sub Surface Scattering Study
Had some fun with sub surface scattering last night. I really enjoy the textures on this one.
Daily 3d Project
I started to do a Daily 3D project about a week ago and it has been a really intersting excercise so far. I am attemping to post one 3D project a day to my instagram account but I don't always get something worth posting. Which is a nice way of saying that I have gone down some real ugly rabbit holes of bad ideas and misplaced direction, lol! It has beat into my skull that once again that simpler is almost always better. Get an idea and see how far you can strip it down just to get something decent looking. Ton of fun though and learning all sorts of things doing it. Highly recommend it or something similar if you are in the arts.
Roots and Rocks
Tonal study, Roots and Rocks. Queen's Bath, Princeville, Hawaii.
Digital Painting Study
Digital painting I did in Painter 2015 using oils and conte crayons. The composition on this one is really interesting and having a non-right angle bend in the road is what gives it that tweak. Plus, there was a hell of a lot of stuff on this corner as well. I spent a good amount of time pulling the details out of the boat bumpers and traffic lights learning my way around the brushes. The palette knife was a lot of fun to scape back down to white with, though I still have a lot to learn about the settings on that.
Personal work, Office and Ice Study
Worked up two CGI personal projects this weekend. The astronaut "Office Hell" image was to work on interior lighting, dynamics as curves and some simple UVing. Also shattered the helmet a bit to get those cracks which is always fun to do. Then I brought it all into Painter to explore some treatments in there. I wanted to take it away from the fully clean CGI look and grunge it up a bit.
The Ice Flowers was done in responce to Makoto Azuma's installations which are awesome looking. I wanted to see how close I could come to those using Modo. Besides some work on modeling the ice block I am pretty happy with how it came out. Fairly minor post in Photoshop adding some slight grain and darkening the foreground. Took 8 hours to render that out using 38 cores.
Kubricks' 2001: One Mans Incredible Odyssey
Awesome blog post on the VFX in 2001 a Space Odyssey. Great read.
Doug Trumbull: "Filming of the 'Dawn of Man' sequence took place entirely on only one stage at the studio. Distant backgrounds for all the action were front-projected eight-by-ten Ektachrome transparencies, using probably the largest front-projection device ever made, and constructed specially for 2001 by Tom Howard. The projector consisted of a specially intensified arc source with water-cooled jaws to hold the oversized carbons, special heat-absorbing glass, giant condensing lenses which would occasionally shatter under the intense heat, special eight-by-ten glass plate holders and positioning mounts, an extremely delicate semi-silvered mirror, and a specially built nodal point head so that the camera could pan, tilt, and zoom without fringing of the image."
"Tip Well" Featured on This World's Against Me.
The new portal website for predatory friendly records, This World's Against Me is featuring my bar series "Tip Well You Bastards" in the photo section with a lovely write up. Swing on by and check it out.
Personal Work: Modo Stencil Study
Was working with stencils, replicators and volumetric lights last night and pulled this one off. The volumetric light started breaking up into almost a plasma type feel. Included the AO render as well so you can see the model without the volumetric light turned on. Interesting shape there as well.
Personal Work: Grass Fields.
Just picked up a bunch of new models of grass and did this quick test render with a stock photo backdrop. It is a tad "glossy" on the plants but I enjoy it visually quite a bit. Great models...
Art: CGI Art of Lee Griggs
Lee Grigs does some amazing things with Maya. His Blog here with a tutorial. Now can I translate that into Modo? VIA Colossal
Art: Gediminas Pranckevicius Illustrations
Gediminas Pranckevicius makes some really luminescent illustrations. I would go to town with some replicators to try and do something like this in 3d. Getting that rich atmosphere would be damn impossible though.
Art: Mark Gmehling’s 3D-rendered.. things?
Super fun high plastic 3d art by Mark Gmehling, I really enjoy the toy feel of these. A lot of whimsy and still has a consistent feel. Motivates me to up my modeling game in Modo.
Art: Animations by Andy Thomas
Awesome animations here of bird songs by Andy Thomas. Really enjoy the movement and abstract look of these.
There is a nice breakdown on his blog as well.
Art: Martin Kimbell Light Tornados
Martin Kimbell makes light tornados with some LEDs and hula hoops. Pretty fun idea. Makes me wanna go out and shoot some nightscapes with the Fuji.
Art: Yuichi Ikehata
Can't tell you much besides I like it.
"This site is Yuichi Ikehata works site.
Kakuunohito “架空の人” is
my disappearing performance unit name.
Art: Miriam Escofet’s Esoteric Paintings of Idyllic Worlds
Found this on the High Fructose tumblr. Really enjoy the textures and lighting on them. It would be a lot of fun to do a 3d study on this style of work. Painter Miriam Escofet.
Band Artwork in Progress
Working on some imagery for a local band called "Whiskey or the Concrete" here is one of my concepts that I was working up the past few days.
New Flexible Paper Sculptures by Li Hongbo
Li Hongbo’s stunning, stretchable, paper sculptures, inspired by both traditional folk art and his time as a student learning to sculpt, challenge our perceptions. With a technique influenced by his fascination with traditional Chinese decorations known as paper gourds—made from glued layers of paper—Li Hongbo applies a honeycomb-like structure to form remarkably flexible sculptures.
An investigation into expression through one of the oldest mediums in history, Li Hongbo invites viewers to experience paper and sculpture in a revolutionary and insightful new way. Utilizing his expert knowledge of paper’s natural strengths and weaknesses, the artist has transformed the media to stretch, twist, elongate and retract as if it were a giant slinky. Through this juxtaposition of playful mobility and a traditional aesthetic, Li Hongbo breathes a unique life into his works that stuns and awes the viewer.
Via- This is Colossal
Abstract CGI Study
Here is a abstract study I did yesterday, rendered over night and printed out this morning. Loosely based on works by John Chamberlain, I wanted to explore some different finishes / materials and do a lighting study with brushed steel. Keeping the highlights smooth on the steel and placing the lights was fairly tricky to get how I liked. Slightly added a HDRi map of some clouds in a landscape to just give a hint of location to the reflection. Printed on Ilford Gold Fiber Silk.
