Sam's Artfolio

Daguerreotype case

2009-11-22T19:20:00.000-08:00

Stills from an animation in which the client had a specific vision in mind for the casing of the book. Design for the book was based off of the reference image supplied seen below.

Due to the object having so many dips and grooves , bump mapping wasn't an option. I wanted to keep the object manageable within the viewport and maintain a reasonable poly count .Since time allowed for it, modelling it poly by poly seemed the way to go.

Speed sculpt

2009-08-05T19:04:00.000-07:00

semi speed sculpt straight out of the zbrush oven . Just kinda went with the flow on this one, I really wasn't tryna to attain any particular likeness other then making the sculpt look aged.

Medical animation

2009-08-01T12:27:00.000-07:00

-Lighting,Texturing, Animation

animation done of a gastrointestinal medical procedure. Still was taken from a frame done for a stereoscopy video. Progression from earlier renders of the scene can be seen below

2009-03-05T16:34:00.000-08:00

Animation done for a cholesterol filtration machine. The image on the right is a conceptual look for the animation prior to being animated.

-lighting,animation,modeling,texturing

Scene is lit using Mental Ray.2 spots for the for the main lights with 2 fills and an ambient light setup to give the illusion of global illumination. Global illumination was not used because it just seemed impractical for filling the atmosphere. Render times for this scene were actually pretty light coming in at about 2 mins a frame at 1280 x720 on a Dual processor

2009-03-03T17:12:00.000-08:00

-modeling,texturing, lighting

An exam room interior developed for an interactive flash application. Design for the room was based on the client's sketch. Per the clients request a great deal of space was left on the side to make room for the video composite.

room is lit with 2 area lights using global illumination and final gather

Modeling the Stomach

2009-03-02T19:44:00.000-08:00

This model began in the early storyboard stages of an animation and was later aborted because the client wanted a more stylized feel that was not so detailed. Tubular folds in the stomach were modeled manually by edge extrusions. The whole process of doing so was made easier by making a variant of a freehand face extrude script I had developed prior which can be found here --> http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sketchxtrude-0-95-beta

-lighting,texturing,modeling

"The Levite's wife"

2008-03-09T18:12:00.000-07:00

The Levite's wife is a sculpture based on a biblical story from Judges 19 . The sculpture is divided into 12 pieces to represent what occurs in the story.

Base mesh was constructed in 3d studio max. The topology on the hands and feet caused some problems later on in higher subdivision. No specific reference was used. To attain the look I wanted I collected various head shot photographs of different women found on flickr and myself :) .

The clothes were made using cloth simulation simply because It was the faster solution .

Sphynxaraffe

2008-03-09T16:29:00.001-07:00

A study of Faces

2008-03-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

A piece done in zbrush 2 then later in zbrush 3. Base mesh was created in zbrush2 using zspheres only . The zipper on the neck was done with the scatter tool. Normal maps made in zmapper.

Closer look at the Anatomy of a Cat skull

2008-03-08T15:21:00.000-08:00

Study of a cat skull was originally intended to be part of an animation . Modeling of the Base mesh was done first then later transferred into zbrush to create the diffuse and bump map.
The Standard Blinn shader was used, nothing really fancy . No normal maps were used because max handled the hipoly version pretty well and GI bounces do not pick up detail properly from the normal map so...hipoly it was.

Behind the scenes : Airmax 97 render

2008-03-07T14:31:00.000-08:00

Airmax '97 Colors aren't really from a specific airmax'97 model but are just the colors that i thought looked best with the model.

Average render time of a still, using pre render finalgather and photonmaps per frame is about 7 to 9 minutes.

as always comments and criticism are welcomed.