Filed under 3D, CAD by Juha | 0 comments
Product photographs taken for marketing purposes are more than photographs: The product is polished and cleaned with great care and every reflection and shadow is painstakingly checked. To take real photographs you need a real product or at least very realistic mock-up. What if you could make the same advertising photos using only Pro/E data [...]
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Why would you want to scan money, say 100 euro bills? I don’t know about you, but I need textures for my 3D images… It turns out that Photoshop politely refuses to open scanned images of banknotes! Fortunately there are easy ways around this and in the end I think it’s ok system. At least [...]
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This image was generated by first rendering with MR and outputting contours as PostScript file. The PS file was then imported back to Maya and some turbulance was added to vertices to make the lines less perfect. The lines were rendered with Paint Effects to get “pen-like” look. The original 3D model was Pro/ENGINEER file [...]
Filed under 3D, Coding, Gallery, Maya by Juha | 0 comments
I made a mental ray shader and small utility program to capture and display rays during rendering. It’s just a proof of concept (and a proof that I can still code, if I need to…). The shader operates as environment shader, so it sees all fired rays. It uses a named pipe to send ray data. [...]
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When I made this image I wondered if the connection is for heating or maybe vibration or it could be something else… Maya + mental ray. Just for fun. This image is now available as photographic print through deviantART. Click here to buy the image.
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This is an image for a client that was used in a huge light box (2.5m x 1.2m). Lightwave + PhotoPaint + Okino PolyTrans for converting original Pro/ENGINEER data.
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This is an image of electrical enclosures I made for a client. LightWave 5.6 + Okino PolyTrans for converting the original Pro/ENGINEER data.
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The green stuff coming out of a test tube may be just what you were hoping. Maya + mental ray. Just for fun.
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Sometimes less is more and other times the opposite is true. Maya + mental ray. Just for fun.
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Life gets busy for all of us sometimes. Here are the tools I use to manage my life.