Custom HDRI environment

On November 15, 2011 by ktysdal With 4 Comments - 3d Work

For those of you who don’t know, HDRI-environments are 32-bit images that you can use in your 3d scenes as way to more accurately replicate lighting and reflections from a real life set. That makes it perfect for VFX integration work like in the image below

This image is a frame from a short animation I did for my demo reel.

The background plate was shot in 720p with my handheld Panasonic DMC-TZ10 camera. It was rendered in Cycles, with a custom HDRI-environment. Additional passes was rendered with Blender Internal and comped on top, like AO, Shadow and Velocity-passes.

I’ve used HDRI’s for years, but I have never actually known exactly how make one from scratch… until now

Real life shiny ball to the left, and Computer Generated version of the same scene on the right. That is really cool!

Unfortunately Gimp does not support 32-bit images so I had to use Photoshop to create this. It would be really nice to be able to create this kind of HDRI with open source software. Hopefully Gimp will support 32-bit in the future.

Viking Mech Rig

On November 8, 2011 by ktysdal With 0 Comments - 3d Work

I’ve spent a bit of time organizing all the objects in the scene. Everything is now named properly + fully rigged and should be ready to animate!

Viking Mech screenshot

On November 7, 2011 by ktysdal With 1 Comments - 3d Work

It’s been a while since my last post. There’s 2 reasons for that. 1st is that I’ve been sick. Nothing serious, but I wasn’t able to work for about 1.5 week. That was very annoying.

2nd reason is that I’ve been very busy making a HiRes-model of the Viking Mech from the Starcraft 2 game.

Here’s a Blender-screenshot with a “cycles render” on the left + openGL-wireframe to the right.

(click on the image above for HiRes version the screenshot)

I’ll post more about this project later

Hydralisk – update

On October 10, 2011 by ktysdal With 0 Comments - 3d Work

Here’s an update of the Hydralisk-project. It’s just 1 frame of a short animation that I’m currently rendering.

It’s rendered in Cycles, with additional passes rendered in BI.

QuickTip – SSS in Cycles

On October 8, 2011 by ktysdal With 0 Comments - Tutorials

http://vimeo.com/30236062
Quick little tip on how to render a SSS-pass with BI and comp it into a Cycles render.

Tauren Head Timelapse

On September 29, 2011 by ktysdal With 2 Comments - Tutorials

Here’s a timelapse sculpt- and modeling-session where I do a Tauren head. This is a “prototype-tutorial”. So no voice or music, just timelapsed screencapture.

http://vimeo.com/29774128

The tutorial is a little over 18 minutes long. I start by making a “concept-sculpt” in Sculptris, then I reduce and export that sculpt to be retopo-modeled in Blender.

This is not what I would consider a “beginners-tutorial”. It’s more just a demo of how I work.

Software:

I used CamStudio, Blender and Handbrake to capture, edit and encode this tutorial.

Hashima animation on vimeo

On September 24, 2011 by ktysdal With 0 Comments - 3d Work

Small post. I rendered a short camera-animation + compositing breakdown of the project

watch it on vimeo!

http://vimeo.com/29521045

Hashima (exterior Cycles-render)

On September 21, 2011 by ktysdal With 1 Comments - 3d Work

I wanted to test Cycles with a real environment project. So I recreated a scene from an actual place called Hashima.

(click to watch Hi-Res)

Hashima is an island outside of Japan that was used as a coal mining facility from 1887 to 1974. It’s been completly abandoned since then. You can read more about it here:

http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/08/hashima-island-or-gunkanjima-nagasaki.html

I used Cycles as main-renderer. Additional passes like volumetrics, ID-pass, AO and Mist was rendered in BI and composited in.

The ivy was made with the IvyGen addon, the rest was modelled manually.

Hope you like it!