The Queen of Babylon

Here's a pic of the Queen of Babylon. It's more a screenshot of a film project I'm working on. I liked this shot of her, so I decided to render out a large image. The texturing and shading isn't quite done yet, but it's already at a stage where I feel it's taking shape. The set she's in is a combination of 3D elements and painted Backdrops. It's awesome what some DOF and environment fog will do...

I hope you like it...

Myth Project Update (Final)

She's finally done. Thanks to Siller from DigitalTutors.com I managed to render in Mental Ray. Thanks a million Siller! I changed the hair completely, since it didn't work from this angle. And I started playing around with the shading, because up until now it was just the default shading. I added some caustics as well as a lens flare glow on the specular of some of the metal shaders. I added one more spotlight with a fractal material that has no effect on the objects to create the light shafts beaming down from the upper right corner.

I hope you like the image and please feel free to leave your comments ... I'm really excited also about next month's project, which should be very interesting...

Myth Project Update

Here is a preview render in Software with a different camera angle. I prefer this angle because it's more dynamic and better in terms of composition. I also added some fluid effects that's more prominent in the background than the foreground because of the low antialiasing. If I'm going with this angle, then I would have to tweak the hair a bit to get rid of any bold spots. I'm almost done, I just need to figure out the little details and then render the final in Mental Ray.

Myth Project Update

Here's the first render. It's not Mental Ray, I rendered it in Software just to see what it will look like. I've also added all the render passes. Shadow Pass, Specular Pass, Diffuse Pass and then the final render. It's not quite the look I was going for, but I'll keep playing with it in Mental Ray until it works.

Myth Project Update

The textures are finally done. What really saved me in laying out the UVs for a posed character was the fact that I continually moved UVs around as I was modeling. It makes the modeling process longer, but it seriously makes the texturing process easier. I also added a lot of procedural textures to the accessories, so hopefully it will turn out nicely in the final render. Next will be the clouds and then I'll add some SSS for the skin. Most probably, my next post will be a render, just to see how things are looking so far...

Surf Advert

I was responsible for the animatics of this live action commercial. It's great to see everything taking shape...

TetraPak Advert

I worked alongside DepthVFX a while ago to develop this commercial. It is one of several in a series for TetraPak, and it's currently showing on TV in the States and in SA. There are others as well, but I don't want to bore you with the entire series...