After some texturing...

Hey everybody,

here are a few more renderings you might like to check. None of the textures are finished yet but at least I got a solid base that I can continue with. I'm pretty proud of having used only self-made pieces to build up the shaders. The skin of the poor little guy is actually the paring of a mango which I scanned and cleaned. There still are a few seams on his body but those will disappear soon ;) I also did some hi-res scans of leather which I'll blend into the mango-stuff to get some variation.
I'm going to make over the mask completely and give his armor a bit more rust and dirt in some areas. So far the rust is just a test of how I can get good results with completely different materials blended into each other.
The teddy is made with hi-res scans of rough fabric that used to be my advent calendar and dirt I found in the garden ;)

I think that the next step I'll take is to light the scene roughly to get to know which parts of the textures need more detail and which will be dark anyway. My lighting tests will be posted here soon I hope. Probably I have to wait till I get home to Stuttgart to have a better computer than this one which only lets me work with bounding boxes ;) Not the best circumstances to do lighting, right?








If there's anybody who wants to use any of the photographies or scans I made for this piece, -you can just send me a note and I'll make them available.

I just update my LinkedIn profile. On the right side is a link for everyone who is interested. Feel free to contact me via one of the eMail-adresses that are available there.

Twitter is a really cool thing, check it out if you haven't! It's nice to notice what others are doing or thinking. Aaaand: It works with my new Ipod!
Really fell in love with the little thing at first sight. Listening to music seem to be the least fun part of it ;) Gonna have to find a solution how to access internet while being in university. Today I finally got AirSharing to work after updating vista. I don't like vista at all...

That's it for today! Did I mention I went to watch "The Dark Knight" again? Still stunning...

Greetz from Germany,

Matti

First Render

Hey guys,

here's another update. After some frustration caused by the fact that ZBrush just didn't export my UVs I got my shaders set up and render correctly. By now it's just a quick test with colors and stuff.

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At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to design the supermarket. I somehow don't like this usual blocky design and I'd like to have something more futuristic in a way... On the other hand it's gonna be pretty dark and you'll probably won't see a lot of it. Something that I'd like to avoid as I've mentioned in my last post... We'll see.

I finally saw Speed Racer a few days ago. Damn, I admire their courage to do something like this, but... I don't know. Remember those scenes with the monkey and the kid jumping through strange, colored lines and having a really thick outline? What the hell? I have to admit that I'm no fan of animes anyway so those shots really took me out of the (strange) movie. But I loved the carshading :) Digital Domains work is just awesome.

So much for the moment. Updates are about to come pretty soon, I hope ;)

Matti