Archive for December, 2006

I got back home today, after being on the road for a few days during the Christmas holiday. One of the two December holidays are over anyway. Now I just gotta make it through New Years Eve alive as well and everything will be just excellent.

The first thing I did when getting back today, was booting up my workstation and got working on a new female character. I’ve just spend about 2 hours so far, but blocked out most of her proportions, made some basic facial features and added some dummies as clothing placeholders. I’m pretty happy with the overall progress so far.

I am going to need this girl for a project pretty soon, so I hopefully wont delay this one, so I’ll just take this opportunity and post this fist work in progress image, and get back to work.

Overall proportions in place and first simple clothing added, so I can start detailing.

I’ll tune her proportions some more, and add in all details to the clothing. And then finally give her face the appearance and features I want. That should be the end of the modeling part me thinks and I can move on to texturing her. This is going to be some sort of 3D toon / semi-realistic style. At least that’s what I have in mind right now. Let’s see when the next update comes, soon.

Working Music: The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

Tags: 3D, Art, CG, Character, Female, LightWave, Work in Progress

Oh yes, the living room is finished. I made some final adjustments on the color scheme from the the last work in progress image and also added a bottle of wine and a decorative bowl placed on the cupboards.

The Final Render of the Living Room

A version in higher resolution can be seen in my portfolio. Also feel free to see how it evolved in my Work in Progress images. This was just a personal project of mine where I wanted to test out a couple of things. Time flies and 2006 wasn’t a very productive year for my website, yet. But there is still two weeks left. ;) I’ll actually take some time now and prepare some more things to update the website with and set my CG pace for the next year.
As mentioned some blog entries back, I’ve have a filmmaking project in the pipeline, and I’ll post more about that in January, and before December ends I’ll try to get another character and another environment online.

Stay tuned, I’ll soon post some more about everything mentioned above, and in the meantime, enjoy this image, I hope some of you out there will like it.

Until next time, take care and live life well!

Working Music: Stan Getz - Utopia
(Of course, I needed the jazz when finalizing this image)

Tags: 3D, CG, Interior, LightWave, Portfolio, Render

Here’s a new update of the living room. I did some major redesign of the mood in the room. Changed the location to a city night shot, in a more pleasant area than the industrial view. I also completely changed the color scheme of the image, to a more pleasant combination.
Almost done now, just gonna add some small detail objects, some minor texture tuning and then do the final render of the image.

A new mood in the room

Working Music: Slagsmålsklubben - Den Svenske Disco

Tags: 3D, CG, Composition, Interior, LightWave

Alright, I’m back, a few days later than expected, but now I’ve started texturing and lighting the living room. It’s a pretty basic daylight lighting at the moment. I’m thinking of taking this image into a nighttime shot instead.
I still though have to work a bit more on the textures, and add some objects for detailing the image so the room doesn’t look to empty. I’ll continue working on this image tonight, and hopefully post the final image tomorrow. Stay tuned for another update soon.

Initial texturing of the room

Working Music: Baby Shambles - Down in Albion

Tags: 3D, CG, Interior, Lighting, LightWave, Texturing

An evening a few weeks back I started working on this living room. Then I didn’t touch it until today. Other things have come in between, like my daytime job. And the last two weeks I have been doing some house cleaning, I’ve gone through every image and animation I’ve done since the 90’s and sorted all renders and all 3D files in a very structured way. It was kind of a mess before. And that feels pretty good to have everything I’ve ever done in order.
I’ve also kept myself busy with some independent filmmaking. But, that I’ll write more about in another blog entry later on.

Anyway, so I loaded up the scene file for the living room I started some time ago and continued working on it tonight. The last time I just blocked out how I wanted the overall layout. So tonight I spent some time sculpting in some details in the objects that were present in the scene. The modeling went pretty quickly, so tomorrow I’ll get very close to finish this image, as I’ll be doing the texturing and lighting. And maybe add some final details and props into the scene.

Now it's actually starting to look like furniture.

Working Music: Elliott Smith - XO

Tags: 3D, CG, Interior, LightWave, Modeling