Small Game Project

So my roommate and I have been working on a small MMO project. He has come up with a basic outline and has asked me to flesh out the story.. I have more of a post apocalyptic/dialogue driven taste for story writing so I need to deviate from that a bit for him but I have come up with a few things he has liked as a base but big plot rollers. Anyways I also in my writing setup the environment for one of the playable "races" and why it is the way it is. Without revealing too much I'll just say it has to do with the moon and what it has inside of it... Ill upload a really raw test render since I don't like making posts without pictures :P...

So this is just a base model and crappy light setup for my own benefit butttt I hate posting without a picture :P...

Product of boredom...

I got bored and decided to start just a fun project to make something simple and cool. Here is the resultant render....

CG iPhone

I modeled, textured and lit this in between lecture and lab today. I have been wanting to model my phone for a while not haven't gotten to it so I finally did it. There is still a bit of work needed to be done like the buttons and some textures on the back but for this post I figured no one would mind... Modeled out of Polygons, Mental Ray used with all Mia_Mat_x. FG on with HDRI and DIR light.

Errr...

Blah haven't posted in a while... Guess I've been busy. I just got done with rigging class... That class took everything out of me jeez! It was a lot of fun though and I think its the first at FullSail that I really learned a lot from... Anyways I guess since I started my blog with a picture in every post I won't break that tradition so early so here are some renders of some random models I have been working on to fit into a ArchViz project for my reel

I just threw this material on the vase thing cause I was working with it on the model down below. I used a directional light for the shadowing, HDRI for reflection and bounce lighting. For the correct GAMMA levels I added a simple LENS modifier to the camera. All renders use Mental Ray.

Small Project and Maya 2010

Hey been working on my shading and lighting techniques a bit because I'm getting preparred to take an art test at school. The image below is what I was testing some things out on. i still need to get caustics to render properly but so far so good.

Base mesh with shader and IBL.

Base mesh with HDRI Map and Dir Light.

Base mesh with HDRI only.

I also got to play with the new 2010 version of Maya and this is my first render with it...

I'm bored... So look what I'm posting on my blog...

Short film!

Alright so I've been working on this short film for a while now and Im finially ready to move on with its actualt linear production.... I've got a bunch of the ship models ready for rendering aswell as the main set modeled, lit and textured... My main problem now is working out all of the vfx needed for the shots... The openeing shot is what I am trying to build right now and I really want it to open with a BANG but to get that effect takes a lot of work... I've done a bunch of research on space warps but haven't really found something that interests me... I might have to come up with my own idea for a spaceship coming out of a warp. Anyways here is a production still for the opening shot...