Rendertest

I have been doing some more rendertests this week and working on revisting my assignments from last year and make them render-ready for my reel. This is an image from my heavy push assignment. Just a few more tweeks and my machine can render this file too this weekend.

Rendertest 2

So today it was time to do some more testrenders and dressing up the character with some hair and clothes. There are still some tweaks to be made. I am not so happy about the eyes. They have a weird glow around the iris. I also need to tweak the animation just a little so I guess be the end of the week I will give my computer no sleep to do the renders for me at night.

Rendertest

Working on my first 3D character showreel at the moment and trying to figure out all these render settings like Ambient Occlusion, Final Gather, Global Illuminatio and also trying to understand Subsurface scattering. Lots' of technical stuff to cover and it almost drove me crazy that I was not able to render out some decent pictures.

This weekend I finally made some progress and was able to create some renders that are a good starting point. In the above picture your can compare a playblast with a rendered version. Just a little more tweaking and I can render out my first short this week for my reel. Of course it's not necessary to render out your shots but a nice render will just add that extra appeal to your reel. Now only some hair and some clothes :-)

Doodles

Just some funny doodles I created this morning. Made me create a new banner for my blogsite.

London gathering

Just came back from London where I met a bunch of new Animation Mentor students and some old friends to do a studio tour in London. I visited Nexus, Famestore, Uli Meyer and Double Negative. It was a blast. Next gathering will be the FMX in Germany.