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In some cases it’s obvious which produces more easily good looking images, 3D or photography. Take for instance portraits or food shots. There really is no contest at the moment: photography rules. Then there are all sorts images that would be harder to create using real world photography: It’s certainly possible to make a cut-away [...]

This image is available as photo print from deviantART: click here to buy the image! Sometimes ideas just pop into my head… this image was definitely one of those. Once I had the idea, I really felt I needed to create the image. This is a short “making of” for the image.

Is this our future? Maya + mental ray. Just for fun.

Here is my animation and rendering demo reel.

This is a user manual I wrote for a radio controlled motorcycle. All the CAD data in images was created with Pro/ENGINEER. Icons and some texts were added in CorelDraw and final page layout was done in PageMaker.

This is a product catalog I did for Ensto Control Oy. The images were rendered in LightWave from exported Pro/ENGINEER data. Page layout is done with PageMaker.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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.