Another Winner

Well it’s been a good month. I received a facility staff award for innovation in teaching and learning (mostly for my use of video and screencasts) and also Won a 3D rendering comp over at Cornucopia3d with an image that took me 20 minutes. Admittedly I used an ice texture I …

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Vue 9.5 (pre-release)

I got my hands on a pre-release version of Vue 9.5 and it’s got some cool new features, including: Advanced Cloud Control, Interactive Texture Placement, Localized Cloud Layers, Fast Hybrid Depth of Field, and even a Velocity Pass (great for post processed motion blur). After playing with it a bit …

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Creation of complex form

This is an animation showing the creation of complex form derived from nParticles in Maya. The small lines indicate the location and velocity of the individual particles. For more information please refer to the section “Modelling with Dynamic Particles” in the paper “Digitising the Complex Form“. Note that I have …

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FilmCAD Blog

Just started a blog for my FilmCAD Class. If your an old student by all means pop on over for a look. http://filmcad.wordpress.com. Eventually there’ll be info about e-onsoftwares Vue (a software package we use for doing all our 3d Visualisations). Links to Student work, examples of work out there in …

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Spiral Storm [Updated x4]

After completing a real site I decided to create something a bit more surreal. [update] I wasn’t that happy with the post processed lens blur in my original version of this image so I re-rendered it with a raytraced DoF Blur. I also spent a bit more time in photoshop creating …

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