Hiya,

Here’s a quite fresh render I made a few weeks ago, had a short vacation and forgot to post it to website. Anyway, here it is now… This time I wanted to make a parody of this bit too typical blood’n'guts gasmask nazi imagery that seems to dominate 3d renderings in certain forums etc.
I spent quite a while modeling the character and chainsaw model. Textures took also quite a lot of time to create. I used photos I’ve shot over time. I’ll post bit later a few work in progress links to this same post.

Hiya,

Here’s a hires model I’ve been working on. It is not done yet - Modeling is about there and also it’s completely UV mapped. Clothes are not shown yet in the renders.

Phew,

Here’s 6th and final batch of photos! I added my humanoid photos of 2004 to photo gallery. People from all walks of life, some selected ones from last years archives. That’s all, going to bed!

Here’s 5th batch of photos! Uploaded photos of animals - Random animal photos from 2004, birds, fishes, crocodiles etc. I also added a batch of photos from this spring. Some city photos etc…

Here’s 4th batch of photos… I uploaded a set of urban area photos from last year - Selected photos from 2004, cities, towns and also night photos in low light situations.

Click on link below.

To Photo Gallery, Night photos
To Photo Gallery, Urban photos

Hi again!

Here’s 3rd batch of photos I’ve managed to put to web. I uploaded a set of photos from last year - Selected scenic photos from 2004. Some cloudy mountains, misty forests and sea.

Hi all,

Here’s second batch of photos - Two sets of abstract photos I shot during 2004. Click on image or link below to get to updated photo gallery

Hi all,

Had some spare time this weekend so I thought to waste it on upgrading my portfolio page… I replaced photo part of my portfolio with more up-to-date system for photos.

Posted also photos of 2004 autumn and winter.

Hi all,

Been busy working… Here’s something new - My interview on Digital Tutors’ website. Click on the image or the link below to get to directly to the interview. Hope you find it interesting!

www.digital-tutors.com website.

Updated blog software in use (Wordpress) to a new version 1.5! Great work, WP guys!

Anyway, in case there are some anomalies in next few days, they might just be my mistakes in quickly fixed style I made based on my old skin for WP1.2.

Hi all!

It’s been some time since I last posted anything new! For a change this is an architectural / environment study, not a silicon babe this time, in case those irritate some viewers.

This image is called “Morning street”. I got inspiration from a few photos I shot some time ago. I tried to catch atmosphere of a morning when it’s quiet in a small town and there’s not that much traffic or people around.

I modeled this scene in 3dsmax and created all textures from photos I’ve shot, there’s no stock or so called “internet photos” used… I spent most of time modeling details and adjusting texture and bump maps. There’s not much post processing in this one, just slight contrast correction with a s-curve in curves correction layer.

Hello again;

More updates today!

I finally had time to update my portfolio page - There’s a lot of new character renders and modeling shots, a few animation tests and 2D art… Check it if you have spare time or need for good 3D modeling work etc!

Hello all!

This is something I was going to do for a company, but then they didn’t need it.
Thought I would show it anyway… as no-one paid for this…
This was dumped already in december but haven’t had time to put it to web.

I kind of left him a bit unfinished a month ago, it was only going to be for pre-viz or similar stuff - Concept I dn’t have anything except generic clothing and no face or any other details, so I had to do colors, details and head.

Images are 3dsmax renders, two spots and shadow maps.

Hello!

This is second of the models I’ve been working on in last few days - It’s a Tyrannosaurus Rex model - Since there was no photo reference to be used a few low resolution of Tamiya plastic T-Rex and a few artist renditions were used as reference… This model too is made of quads and probably work will continue next in Z-Brush.

Okey, you asked for it, I didn’t have that many months comments system on, and many enough suckers have started spamming + exploiting the system, so I will close it down for good…

All nice ppl who have used some time to write creative feedback, Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Hmph!

It’s been a struggle again - Wasted too much time on frustrating work hunt last week and re-rendering old stuff for a few magazine features… Anyway - hopefully that wasted time results into something.

Here are a few new test renders - Might look like nothing has changed - I re-shaped mesh flowlines and optimized mesh more and now it skins way more nicely without much of artifacts. I also quickly made a few pieces of clothing for this character so that she doesn’t have to jump around naked…

Renders are just quick hacks of previous test render studio setup. Maybe I’ll next try to work on facial animation setups…etc. Anyway it has to be something that can be recycled easily…

Check the links below to see other poses etc.

Render 1
Render 2
Render 3
Render 4

Late night…Or is it early morning… Hard to say as it’s pitch black here all day long this time of year. Anyway -

Here are a few test renders of a character design I’ve been working on last few days. I started this 2 weeks ago, but work got cut off by a short vacation I had. Something like 8 days so far, most of time went to shaping face + creating hair. I used old body as starting point, but reduced mesh resolution radically to get more easily animatable body. Face took quite a while to get look okeyish…

Boobs might look bit boxy, which is explained by missing clothing that will be there in a few days. I didn’t put anything there right now to hide body right now. I’ll also (maybe) add some morphs to shoulder so that it will look bit more natural, just like that previous character I made. Anyway, maybe I’ll use this in some image I’ll create sometime soon, who knows!

There’s no post work on character or scene, except color correction and glow etc typical corrections to make image more dynamic…

Here’s a close-up of face.
Here’s a close-up of upper torso and head.
Full body frontal shot.

Hello all!

Something different this time - Sonic Pulsar (a Portuguese progressive rock band) guys asked if I wanted to make a scifi backdrop for their video… Being a progressive rock fan I said yes!

There’s one scene where you can see a scifi backdrop I made. Video was produced and directed by Hugo Oliveira. You can soon download a video clip from Sonic Pulsar’s official site. Below you’ll find link to official site and also direct link to video page.

Sonic Pulsar Website.

Hi all,

A few of Sami’s work-in-progress images got into Nevercenter’s October Gallery. In case someone still wonder’s what Silo is, it’s a very fast polygon modeling tool for just that pure task, makes life easier when you have to adjust shape of characters or create something new.

Hiya all - New tutorial published!

How-to article published on VOCMAG - Vocanso’s fabulous french digital graphics site, amazing source for great ideas + inspiration! They published earlier one tutorial I wrote and also translated english version to french too!

I hope someone finds this interesting etc as I spent some hours writing it!