Podracer Render

I finally finished my podracer! The texturing took the longest. Especially since I used 4K texture maps. Surprisingly, it only took 5 minutes to render the beauty shot at 1080p. This time I animated the podracer moving so I could let Maya do all the motion blur work for me. I'm really happy with the results. I wanted the final render to be 100% Maya but I had to composite the shadows in Photoshop.

AO render.

Table Render

The render only took 5 minutes but setting it up the right way took a whole day. If I have time before the deadline, I will probably add a wall and some more fancy stuff to it.

Shark and Tron Bike Renders

Finished rendering my Tron bike and Shark. The shark is 100% rendered in Maya, whereas for the Tron bike, I added motion blur and lens flare in Photoshop to make it look cooler.

EDIT: I added blur and chromatic aberration to the shark in Photoshop.

Photography for Art Skills Brief

Today about 15 of us met up to take the remaining photos to satisfy the brief. Here all all my photos for the brief so far. Tomorrow I should have my last two finished (photo montage).

Black and White Abstract

Colour

Still Life

Portraiture

Social Landscape

Uni Work Update!

I know I haven't posted up here in a while but that's because I've been really busy with university work. Here's a link to my 3DHit work thread. I've been posting a lot of my work there for feedback. I kinda forgot about posting my work on this blog. I'll try and update this blog weekly from now on. Now back to work, here's a bunch of stuff that I've been up to.

Tron Bike test render

I think I might use Nuke to add glow to my final render.

Here are two test renders I did for colour. I immediately went with the second one since it looked like it was from the movie.

IMAP Complete

So for one brief, we had to create an IMAP (information map) to show that we've done some research before creating the essay. I didn't really find it interesting at start, but because I found out about Prezi, it was suddenly more entertaining since I was making something that I've never made before. I had to do research on "Do video games tell stories?".

One Brief Complete

Last night I finished "The City Street" brief. Here are my two final images.

I also finished modelling  my Shark model. This was a challenge because its an organic model. Now moving onto UV mapping.

VFX at University of Hertfordshire - Work so far (week 1 - 4)

Because I was meant to start blogging from the first week, I will just summarise what I have done so far. We got a couple of briefs and the dead lines are all over the place.

Street Concept Art

We started off with the basics of shading and perspective.

Then we created our own work by using the same techniques that we learnt.

Photo collage - Before

 Photo collage - After - Painted over.

3D Table

The first exercise in this brief was to create a desk or table with props on it.

Here is my desk created in maya. I will texture it later when we learn how to.

Tron Bike

Tron Bike so far.