While finishing the renders on my house project, I had a quick 4 day challenge for an unnamed project. I created a prop with an animation. The animation cycle is quick and easily variable in length - with the progress animation in the screen.
https://youtu.be/J8_DvxX1MPI
From the 2D layout to the finished render. In combination with the bathroom interior I've created an exterior of a modern house. I added a little animation to it:
https://youtu.be/hZISPVJYNdU
Since many people are looking for architectural visualizations and interiors, I decided to take a couple of days to reconstruct a bathroom from some old images I had and other references. See the full video here:
https://youtu.be/3MiWeg64rMs
For some time now I had the idea to take some of the 2D art of 'The Dark Eye' and turn it into a small 3D project.
With my partner Clotilde Ries, we worked for 2-3 weeks to have these lovely shots. Basically our interpretation of the things one can find on an adventure through Aventuria.
After finishing up my studies and moving back to my hometown, I am focusing on applying for jobs. And also a little christmas project: A simple glas ornament with a snowman inside.
Wishing everyone a very merry christmas!
As it fits for Halloween I wanted to do a little succubus character. Clotilde Ries (from clotilderies.com) has drawn a 2D concept art which I decided to use for my character.
Since it's not as big of a project as the environment I did before, I was able to focus on the details on the high poly and some texturing work.
Currently I'm rendering one of my big projects which is my Bay City - a mystical medieval city by the sea. I've prepared my compositing tree already, so once the render is done I'll not spend too much time tweaking and refining.
At first I implemented the BiFrost water system for my ocean but the result was shifting the overall focus away from the city, so I decided to go with a calmer animated shader for the sea water.
Especially in my wide shot, I wanted to integrate two levels of clouds: background and midground clouds. The background clouds were easy but I wanted a realistic look for the midground clouds. So I used the Maya fluid system to build slightly moving clouds.
Knowing that the camera would cover a large area I wanted to fill up that space with assets NOT built by myself. The reasoning behind this decision is pretty easy: in a real scenario I will work in a team, therefore, not every asset is built by me. So most of the vegetation I built in Speedtree also I imported some scanned assets from the Quixel library and successfully integrated them in the scene.
Next to the water and clouds, I wanted to use some dynamics so I added some flags on top of the city walls. I simulated the flags with the Maya nCloth system and imported the cached versions into my scene.
Since I haven't done any crowd simulation yet, I still planned to add some animation to the scene but it shouldn't be too distracting. So in roughly one week I modeled, textured, rigged and animated a spider. It's just a small addition to the foreground of my wide shot but it definitely puts a smile on my face everytime I see it.
I clearly do not want the perfect result straight out of Maya because I'll have that with many of my modeling projects. So I used different render layers to be able to add things like glint, depth of field, LUTs and god rays in Nuke.
I'm really trying to build a pipeline which still offers a lot of control to compositing.
