Lair Entrance

So I finally decided to start my superhero lair after the past few weeks of practice.

I thought I would give something different a try in comparison to the 'blocky' style castles I have attempted in the past...so opted for a rocky and unstructured approach. SERIOUS experimentation with materials here!

Here is an image of one of the intital renders of the entrance. =)

My Inspiration came from the Art below, entitled "and the gate opens" by Tony Holmsten. Check him out here on deviantart!

A Lil' Detail

Messing around in 3DS Max. Seems to me that a little detail goes a LOONNG way. =)
I was going for the Town Hall / Market Square style composition.
Ive opted to use no materials again as I'm still practicing using the right settings etc, but I'm pleased with the finished look.














































So I recon ive probably played around with 3ds enough now to finalise some designs for the superhero lair!

GOOD Morning Postman!!

• 3ds Max 2010
• Maya 2010
• Softimage 2010
• Motionbuilder 2010
• Mudbox 2010
• Sketchbook Pro 2010

Visual Essay - Test Flash Page

So I've been working on some ways to display my visual essay over the past fortnight, and I've been asked to show something at this weeks tutorial. My plan is to create a flash-based interactive website that feeds the user through my thoughts and experiences to ultimately choose Virtual Environments as my pathway for years 2 and 3.














CLICK ME TO SEE A TEST FLASH PAGE

To create this small sample extract i had to use the following programs:

• Adobe Photoshop CS4
• Adobe Flash CS4
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
• Audacity
• iTunes

The practitioners I have chosen for this project are:

1. EA GAMES
2. PASCAL BLANCHE - Character / Concept CG Artist
3. ZORRO DESIGNS - 3D Arcitectural Designs

Remember, this is just a trial to see what works and what doesn't!

Let me know what you think! =)

My Citadel

So I loaded up 3DS Max this morning, (As sadly I only have 7 days left of my trial) and this is what manifested!

To be honest, this was pretty neat to create! The only limits I had was my imagination and I just kept adding more and more. It did get a little boring in the end though, so I might try this again but in a different style.

I present to you My Citadel =)

Flash VIsual Essay

So I didnt really make any worthy models yesterday, so instead decided to work on a structure for this flash essay. After a WHOLE day of messing around with different styles / themes / animations, I still have nothing im completely happy with.

Thankfully, Ive now found most of my images..but this is not going to be easy...

My Cartoon Park

The lighting on this was A NIGHTMARE. Probably took me longer than the actual park. ;) - Still not that happy with it.