Musings of a Creative Slacker » 3d

What I did today

Korvar — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:28:34 +0000

I’ve not been well for a few days, but I have been trying to actually do more than just vegetate. Specifically, I am trying to teach myself 3D animation

My current project is making a 3D version of the animated Justice League. This is where I’ve got to thus far:

3D Superman figure, based off the Justice League Animated Series

I’ve also been occasionally doing the Speed Modelling Challenge on the Newtek Discussion Forums. This week the topic is creepy crawlies:

Creepy Crawly for a Speed Modelling Challenge

The beastie itself took an hour to model (that’s all you get, Speed Modelling Challenge and all), but a while more to rig, texture, and render.

Free Poser/Daz Studio figure – Apollo Maximus

Korvar — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:31:00 +0000

Wow. Just chanced across this from someone’s forum signature: Apollo Maximus, a full 3D character usable in Poser or Daz Studio, including clothes, morphs, textures, the whole shebang, is now available for free download:

I am playing with it now, and may do a few renders of my own to see what’s possible…

Daz goodness

Korvar — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0000

I am really enjoying Daz|Studio – recently I’ve found out that people can write shaders for it, and a bloke called Arthur Heinz has done a very nice one. Makes for some very pretty pictures if used right. This was for a render challenge under the title “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know”.

This image was made using David, wearing the Jasper texture and Steampunk Cowboy for David clothes, wielding one of the Gunslinger’s guns. Background in Vue 5 Infinite.

$%^&

Korvar — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 19:58:00 +0000

There is nothing – nothing – as stroke-inducingly enraging as a computer that doesn’t do what it’s bloody supposed to. I’ve been struggling with Lightwave tonight, for U.S.S. Intrepid, trying to get a tractor beam to look like a tractor beam. Simple enough, until Lightwave decided that it won’t even let me create .avi files, and any Quicktime movies it creates are pure black – no picture at all. What a fun few hours this has been.

So sod this for a game of soldiers, I’m playing World of Warcraft.