Clay Sculpting - Alien

Hear it is so far, it still needs a lot of work but I really do need it to dry first.

Transcription - Trow Poster

This is something like what I had in mind for my final poster image. I looked at Harry Potter posters for inspiration, they have very dramatic lighting with really high contrast.

Transcription - Final Trow Turnaround

Transcription - Trow Details

Transcription - Trow Portrait

Narrative - 'Destination Mars' Final Edit

Narration by - Darren Altman http://www.voiceoverdarren.com

Music by - Kevin McLeod  http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Narrative - Destination Mars Hibernation Capsules

I've added the condensation one this shot now looks much nicer. There is another moving shot left to do too.

Narrative - The Crew

OK, here is the crew, there are a couple of things that need to be tweaked but overall I'm pleased :)

Maya - Mustang, Final Render.

I really wanted to tweak it just a little more. I've added the aerial, reflectors and windscreen wipers. They really do make a lot of difference to the realism :)

Maya - Harley Davidson, Nightrod Special, Final Renders

 

 

Photoshop - Eye Ball Texture

Here's the final texture rendered. The final gathering dome lighting used for the cars has been used here to light, so it's not quite right but it gives an idea of how good it can look.

1. Draw a coloured circle and blur edges.

2. Overlay a texture, in this case I chose fire.

3. Add a lighter circle and smudge out fine lines.

4. Add more smudged lines varying colours.

5. Add pupil then set a small brush to fade out at 500 pixels (may vary) and draw in the veins.

6. Duplicate the vein layer, blur and then give a slight hint of pink and yellow to the rest of the white part of the eye.

7. Use a colour layer over the iris to change the hue to desired colour.

Maya - Concept Model

 

This is a random concept that came from another tutorial. It got a little bit boring modelling another car so it got a little abandoned on the rendering side of things. As a modelling exercise it was great though. Lots of nice tricks were learnt.  

If you look through the mental ray shaders  you will find a metallic paint shader. It doesn't look very metallic to me but it still mades for a nice shader. 

Maya - Car Model

I just spent around 35 hours modelling this sports car. I'm so pleased on how it came out. The tutorial came from Digital Tutors.com. 

Final render using mental ray, and projected light with final gathering.

Nurbs curves to set up the contours of the car.

Nurbs surfaces are attached to the curves.

The Nurbs surfaces are converted into polygons and extruded to get higher detail.

Front and back are half built and mirrored.

Details of the back.

Top view

Full mesh took about 35 hours to build.

Shaded with mental ray shaders.

Ambient Occlusion

Beauty Pass

Mmm, bit of Photoshop fun :)

Maya - The Cell

 

This is an idea I had a while ago, thought I'd knock it out and I'm pleased with the result.