radio flyer classic trike

i was playing with 3dsmax's modifiers the other week and i came up with a generic "radio-flyer" trike. it's still a work in progress. a lot is yet to be re-modified but i was glad i ended up with this result with just 3 free hours of toying around with stacking modifiers on top of each other.

reflection

this scene has long been waiting for me to render it. i don't even know where i got the inspiration for this. it is an actual house. i hope i can remember where i got this. email me if you know the project's name or post a comment below.

as always, it is modeled in sketchup and rendered in 3dsmax mental ray. unfinished but i posted anyway. i was just playing around-refreshing my rendering. :)

andy wants some glowing orb

the rendering part of my brain is collecting cobwebs and dust. here's a little scene to shake the dust off.
i think i'm a little bit rusty though.

grass-o-matic was used for the grass and with the proxy script of Master Zap for making things a lot "lighter" to handle. the main lighting is only a HDRi plugged into the sky slot. mental ray glow material for the orbs and for andy's eyes.

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Night Scene

This scene is where I got my blog banner. It's the same from my last post Lomo. I got a bit crazy that's why I rendered it the way it is now. Well it's a personal challenge. I needed something to tinker. Anyway, a night render was something that was in my to-do list. Thought this was an interesting set for such and a photo from a magazine where two light bulbs are laid on a parquet floor just caught my imagination and got stuck in my head.

Wired!

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Lomo

Been toying around the image processing software lately. Scouring the net for some sort of inspiration and one type of effect has caught my fancy - lomography.

It's a photographic look that adds (imho) artistic flare to an image. A somewhat ordinary image like this, which is by the way rendered in 3dsmax mental ray, could be more interesting if given some post-processing magic.

3dsmax(mental ray) Out-of-the-box-render

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Of (Christmas) balls and 3D

I have finally in my possession a reflective ball. It's something that I have been looking for here in the UAE for months now. I have almost given up hope of trying out mental ray's production shader with my own background and reflection images. A good friend (Hey, Glyndon I hope you can read this) told me to wait for Christmas and true enough Carrefour is now selling decors for Christmas and I bought two pieces at City Centre for 2.50 Dirhams only. I know I won't be able to obtain perfect reflections from a cheap 7 centimeters diameter Christmas ball but it IS perfect for a simple scene practice. 

The Christmas balls.