Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Work in Progress : 3D Photorealism


Well, my website is back to normal and as you can see I've been busy working on this model here. That rendering of the hand is still a work in progress (needs to look a bit more slender), I've still got to finish the bump maps and specular maps but you get the idea. I've never created a photo-realistic 3D character before so I thought I might as well challenge myself. Its a female character model and the entire body is about 75% complete. I'm still working on the feet, and I've yet to tackle the eyebrows and eyelashes etc.. I'm learning alot, and even though texturing a character with this level of detail is tedious as hell, I reckon next time I need to do something like this I will fly through it. Once I'm finished the entire skin texturing process I'll model a few outfits for her then put a quick animation scene together maybe using that ship interior I made last month. It will take a couple of weeks to render but its worth it.
If you are interested in learning how to model characters like this then you should visit www.3dm3.com. Its a great website, with loads of tutorials and techniques for 3D explained. Until next time..

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Where's my website?

...Bloody hell! Seems that my website is down temporarily because I moved web hosting companies and the old web hosting company I had still hasn't transferred my domain name registrar info, and it expired. So I'm on it and have contacted those responsible and should have everything back to normal soon.

Easy now

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