3delight 9.0

3delight 9.0 is out and its better than ever (look)

silly fur balls rendering in blazing speed

Creature Bash

some weeks ago i did this for the sinister circle creature bash

zSketch speed sculpting

happy Halloween wip

dont have the time for finish this pumpkin

if i have some free time i will finish the retopo

and give him some light

pipes

ibuki

here is a new modeling/sculpting
i did for The Sinister Circle

Modeling Showdown: The Art of Capcom

dracula

here is a new sculping - i did this last weekend
for the sinister circle

annecy 2009

here some annecy pictures
had a great week there

some new fotos

sunny day 2

mental ray (again a fast rendertest / look development)

sunny day

mental ray (a fast rendertest / look development)

Easter bunny 2

something goes wrong with the hair restorer

Easter bunny

some trappers hunt him down and look what they did to him ...
poor bunny

i like apple ;)

foto with nikkor 50mm 1.8

Flashback to Challenge #7: An Eye for an Eye

ok here again a Lighting Challenge this time a Flashback

of an old Challenge
i missed the first one - here we go

model was built by Serguei Kalentchouk

skeleton

a new foto with nikkor 50mm 1.8 

Lighting Challenge #18: Science Fiction

Lighting Challenge again this time i was very late

and spent no time on textures -

i use dof to hide the lacking texture detail

and bring a film look into it

i have an other version with a cleaner engineering look

but i like the movie look more :)

This scene was modeled by Juan Carlos Silva

shapes

i love the 50mm 1.8 nikkor

butterfly

speed project 2.5h work

modeling in clay3d
texturing ps

rendering in 3delight 8.0.39

bad rabbit

merry christmas

have some nice days

playing with ajax

a light study with 3delight and a schoko ajax
no gi or compositing raw very fast :) 

3delight renderings with a bit real dof 

red cat

the background is a foto with extrem dof 

nikon 50mm 1.8 - the red cat is painted 

completely with photoshop - 

spacegun

zbrush sculpting

something yellow

Lighting Challenge #17: Natural History

Natural History Museum is the new

Lighting Challenge on cgtalk

modeled by Alvaro Luna Bautista

lighting/rendering/compositing by me

3-4h work (1h scene cleaning)

2 new fotos

this is my cat milo

Lighting Challenge #16: The Lighthouse

lightbeam was done in maya with a spotlight

lightfog, intensity curve, color ramp, quadratic decay

all rendert with mental ray

main light is a physical sky light (linear workflow)

This scene was modeled by Juan Carlos Silva more here

i play ~2h with it

Irradiance Particles

i test the new Irradiance Particles that comes with

mental ray 3.6+ - i dont want to go in depth here if

you want more info have a look here

http://forum.lamrug.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1608

the setup:

physical sky with sunlight

glossy mia-x (64samples) on all obj

linear workflow

30sec rendertime

quality looks very good for that rendertime

and i think the new Irradiance Particles do a great job

kid

rendering with renderman (3delight 8.02) 

6x2k displacement maps 

2x2k color 

3x1k color 

eyes is a procedural renderman shader 

resolution 640x1000 

samples 6 6 

shadingrate .4 

5 lights 

3 deep shadow maps a 1k 

rendertime 12 sec :)

Hier + Jetzt

kid

i finished the texturing - next steps are rigging, posing  

and rendering with 3delight 8.0x

without shirt he looks like a gangster :)

color reflection

first floor of the Torre Agbar

colorful light reflection on the ceiling

big dildo

The Torre Agbar of the French architect Jean Nouvel

kid

the kid get some rough colors 

have to polish them in ps 

sugar

hafencity hamburg 2008

why so serious?

digital painting (photoshop) 

thanks to goro for all the hints and brushset  

here is a new version with more contrast and depth

old one

kid

here is a new model iam working on

char concept by oli josmann

renderman grass

grass test with 3delight
15000 ri curves
2 lights / 2 dmap
rendertime 21sec

grass animation test LINK

La Pedrera

time tunnel (sagra da familia)

canopy (Sagra da Familia)

lattice (Sagra da Familia)

yummy (Mercat de Sant Josep)

Park Güell

out of focus

sculpture (foto)

space invaders

rush hour

out of focus

i have many new fotos and will up some here
from time to time

into the light

i finished working on Niko - the way to the stars
hope i have now more time for this blog :)

Lighting Challenge #13: Christmas

oh long time no post :( hope your get in one piece into the new year and had nice xmas time :)
here is my Lighting Challenge #13 entry - made with maya and 3delight 7.0 - yeahh renderman
rocks and if you search for a production renderer have a look to 3delight its well integrated into maya
and the output is on very high quality

modeling by jeremy birn the displacement comes from me

here is a 100% crop from the 4k render

Lighting Challenge #12: Halloween

this month jeremy birns lighting challenge on cgtalk
here is my entry i go for a stylized look
perhaps i do a texture version too ....



modeling done by jeremy

swag monster

clay beta is active again and i did some modeling doodles
for fun here is the swag monster

some new fotos from me

Lighting Challenges

there is a new Lighting Challenge on jeremy birn page
i play a bit with 3delight here without gi ...



gi mr version




leet hold on - he is finished

Ettore Sattsass

this is a old scene from 2006
i test some new mr shaders on it

elephant

elephant shot in zoo hagenbeck in
hamburg germany

unicorn

screen capture with some rough color texture

one eye

for some upcoming chars i build a new eye
the iris texture are easy changeable
here is a quicktime with a iris animation eye-mov

sweet little cat (render)

i polish her a bit more and make a render
i like the cuteness (cats are all the time cute)

sweet little cat

here is a cat iam working on its on wip stage
and need some work :)

hello world!

so what can i say ... ok this is my first blog and i hope
i have enough motivation to get this alive - mostly you can
see here modeling and sculpting stuff but i try to show
some fotos and animation too - so i hope this is enjoyable
for you

-swag