POSTED BY Dave on Thursday, April 21, 2011 under

So this is a thing now. New site is up and running! My old blog and portfolio have been taken out back and shot, and this shiny new site will carry on in the glorious tradition of me pimping my wares in their place. Take a look around! Tell me what you think!  And be sure to update your bookmarks and/or RSS feeds if you've really been following me that obsessively!

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POSTED BY Dave on Wednesday, April 06, 2011 under , , ,
...Some architectural renderings! I was hoping to bulk out my portfolio a little for the purposes of getting some freelance work on the side, cause who in their right mind hates money?  This in mind, and knowing that there was not really a bustling market for freelance character artists, I decided to add some arch viz work. This is the result. I learned how to light and render properly using mentalRay and the daylighting system thanks to the Jeff Patton Gnomon video series, and a great book, called Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray

In the end, I learned a ton and am that much closer to knowing everything about everything ever. Hooray for me.

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POSTED BY Dave on Tuesday, April 05, 2011 under , , , , ,
I've been spending some time lately doing arch viz, since it's really the only thing you can hope to get for freelance, and boy howdy, would I like some freelance. Anyway, after like 3 weeks of playing around with that stuff, I was DYING to get back into sculpting again, so I just kinda started doodling this.  When I finished, I decided, "why not throw on a quick poly paint?" and so I did that too.  After that, I thought to myself, "self, I've been spending a lot of time with Mental Ray learning how to light and render with physically based lighting, perhaps I should toss this dude into a scene" and so I did that too. All in all, I spent maybe two and a half hours on this, every moment of which was spent with me proclaiming "I'VE MISSED YOU SCULPTING!!!"

So in summary: bust of Kilowog - A member of the Green Lantern Corps. Modeled / textured / lit / rendered in about 2.5 - 3 hours, rendered in mentalRay. Feel free to C&C if you so desire, but like I said, this was just a doodle, and as such, there's not much chance of me going back to work on it.

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