I also finished a first version of my 2013 demo reel and did a redesign of this website. In addition to that I was asked to write an interview by two different websites. That was really cool. I’ve never been interviewed before.

oh! And one more thing. I wrote some tips for an upcoming issue of 3d Artist magazine. That magazine should be packed with blender-goodies, so if you are a blender-fan then you probably want to get your hands on that one.

The interview on BlenderCookie (interview in English) – BlenderCookie is one of the best tutorial-sites for Blender.

and Spetakkel.org (in Norwegian) - this is a Norwegian-online-magazine for creative people.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Link to youtube

This is my attempt at doing paintovers. This is something I did quite a lot of when I made the Quadbot for Tears of Steel.

The point of doing a paintover is to get an idea of how the model is suppose to look like before you go too deep into the time consuming modeling stage. I find this to be extremely useful to do once in a while on complicated project like this. I’ll probably do another paintover for his back, and maybe one for his gun as well.

The model is now beyond what I call the “blocking and design” stage. That just means that up until now I’ve made sure that the overall proportions and design of the thing works well. I have also started doing some smaller detail work. I still need to refine the model, add more details and convert certain parts to subdivision surfaces, but i won’t bother spending time on that yet.

I actually started the Tauren Marine project over a year ago by sculpting and retopologizing his head. That was in September 2011, but at that time i had no chance of finishing the character. But now i do

The Tauren Marine is a Easter Egg in the game Star Craft 2.  My main reference for this model is a concept drawing by Samwise Didier (art director at Blizzard). You can watch the concept art and get more info on the Tauren Marine at the link bellow:

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Tauren_marine

It’s still very early but most of the big parts are in. I’m probably still going to change parts of it though.

here’s the video of me modeling the tauren head from 2011  (18 min long)

So now that Mango is over i decided to spend a bit of time to explore the fluid simulator. I’ve been working at a studio in Oslo for the whole month of October, so i only had time to play with this stuff after work hours.

Update nov 09 2012

Here’s the blend file if you want to play with it:

http://www.kjartantysdal.com/blends/fluid_hallway_03_sharefile.zip

I researched the websites of the other fluid-simulators (like naiad, realflow, pheonix and houdini) just to see how their stuff looks like compared to blenders. I also watched a lot of tutorials on the subject and scoured youtube looking for blender fluid videos.

One thing i realized was that none of the blender fluid examples had foam/spray in them. When you do a water simulation, that is bigger then lets say pouring water in a cup, then you probably will have small droplets being created. If you don’t have that then the scale of the simulation will always look smaller then what it really is. So i spent a lot of time trying to find a good way of rendering foam and small droplets.

It could still be improved, but i’m kinda happy with the results.

Since then i always wanted to make a digital sculpt of him. 5 years later i finally had time to do just that

He’s still work in progress. I’m not a 100% sure if i’m going to finish him because i know its going to take  a very long time to get him to a final state.

I used sculptris to start, then i moved it over to zbush (used qmesher to retopo).

based on screenshot of a Mass Effect cinematic from Digic Pictures

based on a 3d render made by Dmitriy “zxcman” (that is again based on a concept by Joe Peterson)

this one is also based on a Mass Effect cinematic from Digic Pictures.

This is painted from the movie Gruffalo.

Here’s a tutorial on fracturing dynamic workflow in Blender. It shows one way to break up a wall using boolean operations, how to use the new voronoi cell fracture addon that comes with blender and how to make it all move and react dynamically.

This is the first tutorial i’ve done with sound and i have to say that recording my own voice was incredibly difficult to do! But it was a nice experience and i’m happy to have done it.

I hope you find it useful.
Thanks for watching.