All hail.
Once you start using the sculpting tools in Cinema they're really not so confusing, weird, but not so confusing. I really wish i had one of these in real life... not to eat, but if I won it in a corn dog eating contest I'd feel pretty proud.
Understanding the concept of mograph effectors has been and is still difficult. namely shader, plane, random, and the use weight maps within them. There isn't a single editable polygon anywhere in this comp, everything is a primitive which makes fine tuning once all the effectors are on really easy and time saving. This one combines a few cloner & effector techniques, but was more concentrated on achieving a plastic/glass looking frosted material and getting the overlaps to really show where the objects intersect. Planning on using similar styled material on an upcoming project. Just wish rough reflections weren't such a render hog on Physical.
Actually just a test render I set up for material, reflection, and lighting accuracy that I added a viewfinder focus concept to in post. Really digging the idea of fantasy 3D + fantasy UI creation lately. Had no idea until recently there was an entire job market for it, but just look at Iron Man and Total Recall, really amazing stuff. Render settings were super high on this mother, I let my little laptop rip this one out while I worked on the desktop beast. Took the poor lil' guy four hours
Sites Live yo! here's a bumper for it. like one of those Adult Swim bumpers that were more like "hey here's something weird and creative that we made that's mostly just for entertaining stoned dudes watching cartoons at 3:30am, also our name at the end of it so its kind of a commercial" I've always loved those. song is Fine Wine by Brock Berrigan
Cause ur pretty and smart and make really good eggs.
Done with dynamics, which went "unbaked" as the kids say. I was essentially watching where the math gets heavy in slow mo unknowingly and animating based on that. Which is why the speed of the second group of letters is sorta too fast and awkward. Because cinema 4d thinks each one weighs 12 tons and worth more than the Pacific Ocean, like if you were to buy the Pacific Ocean and pay... everyone? is that how it would work. Ahh, pay all of the countries touching the Pacific Ocean. Yes that's correct
Anyone know what blurry reflections did to make the physical render hate them with a hours long passion. Took forever.
A place to post my successes and failures while I explore the tools and processes of creation. Currently tackling Cinema 4D, and its learning curve seems to never plateau. On top of it all, I've been putting this portfolio site together for the last couple weeks. So this particular post is a touch behind, and is a backlog.
I had been chasing the golden donut idea since I came across 3D. there are plenty of really terrible versions that I gave up on or that literally the geometry exploded scattered throughout my recycle bin. This one was a big accomplishment for me. I still don't feel like the golden donut will ever be mine.
Really proud of the materials I created in this. The glass object in the middle crashed my PC. I connected it all and threw it in a subdivision surface with the render setting at 63 subdivisions instead of 3 -_- ol' fat fingers over here
Trying to simulate light and shadow using camera projecting (kind of) this is more of a test with a simple lighting setup, the composites I have in mind will be hard to emulate the right lighting since I wont have scene accurate HDRIs to help me. Better quality + sound on Vimeo
did you know you can loop things like shaders and displacement maps? I really should have by this point but hey I got this weird thing after learning. Better Quality + sound on Vimeo
This is basically a modelling experiment utilizing greeble - a egregious addition extra geometry in order to make something look more intricate and complicated.
Photographer - Natalie Hords Model - Beth Mansueti. Really fun real project, great people collaborating with me. Used no HDRI, no reflection environment(not photo at least), no projection mapping, I didn't even know camera calibrator existed at the time. still proud of it.
heard someone get called a floopy goober once and it really stuck in my head, just always liked it. Anyways this was done in octane, well the student version (1.3 or something) its standalone only and kinda cool but too much of a pain when there's no bridge. I'll keep adding grain and subsurface to the physical render settings so I can be like one the cool kids that own octane.
I don't know if this was done in octane or not, looks like it... but then again, grain, subsurface, shallow depth of field. Yep I faked it in physical
pretty unoriginal, the textures are from a pack and the model is a rip off from a tutorial, but it looked cool and I have no shame
Not personally a fan of skulls (like comic sans, they have their place). Can't recall what inspired this, something to do with realizing that you can download models online and getting a free skull.
Check out Marcin Ignac's free online Geo Editor yo http://marcinignac.com/projects/geo-editor/
Bools and instances galore
This is a high poly model of a hand set as a hair material covering a plane object. I wanna say this took more than 4 hours to render, which I thought was totally normal at the time.
an old render test for a gold material.
The actual first thing I ever created in C4D. This needed to start where I started... pushing forward on the quest to suck less at C4D
