Using my existing Gundam model, I used 3DS Max and VRAY to create environment where I could experiment with lighting and camera work – I then decided to expand the animation into a kind of viral style ‘UFO conpiracy nut’ type video (and yes this was well before seeing Transformers 2), which I proceeded to upload to LiveLeak.

Although slow and meandering, I got to use a variety of skills and produce some nice looking results – I even managed to camera track from mobile phone footage and composite a motion-captured animation of my rigged robot.

Other camera work was done by matchmoving a DVD camera and utilising the generated camera movement.

Compositing was done in After Effects and the video put together in Premiere.

Yacht

Gundam

This image was an entry into the 3D World Magazine “Creative Challenge” competition, which it won; it was also published in 3D World and made the CGTalk front page.

Sun in an Empty Room - After Edward Hopper

Image inspired by Edward Hopper’s Sun in an Empty Room painting. Every now and then I try to recreate one of his images as a personal exercise in image creation.

Hopper deliberately painted scenes from memory to allow his personal experience to alter the scene according to what stuck in his mind. The results are striking and some have said they have a surrealist quality to them – I do not agree that they are surrealist but I do believe they manifest a lot of his personal psychology.

My exercise for this image was to attempt to recreate his image in a photorealistic way, as if Hopper had simply taken a photograph of something real.

This image was published in 3D World Magazine.

Wir Alle Lieben Wie Roboter

Drugstore - After Edward Hopper

Image inspired by Edward Hopper’s Drugstore painting. Every now and then I try to recreate one of his images as a personal exercise in image creation.

Hopper deliberately painted scenes from memory to allow his personal experience to alter the scene according to what stuck in his mind. The results are striking and some have said they have a surrealist quality to them – I do not agree that they are surrealist but I do believe they manifest a lot of his personal psychology.

My exercise for this image was to attempt to recreate his image in a photorealistic way, as if Hopper had simply taken a photograph of something real.

This image was the winning entry for a 3D World Magazine Creative Challenge competition.

Angels in the Architecture

My Gundam robot (again)!

Gundam - CGTalk front page

My Gundam robot made the front page of CGTalk, of course I was so proud I had to take a screen-grab.

Click here to view the thread.

Tin Robot

Tin Robot – exercise in modelling, MentalRay and HDRI

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

A Christmas image created in VRAY just for fun.