Work in progress: March 2008 Archives

This is the idea I came up with last night. The cool thing about living in an 80-year-old house is that there are some really neat interiors and objects to work with. I can do all kinds of things with this room... daylight (it has a window), night with candles or a nightlight (maybe one of each), artificial light, etc. I'm dying to model that claw foot tub anyway.


Actually I think I'm going to start with this one. I can accomplish quite a bit with this one environment.

Oh yeah, I did what I said I would and updated the motion page today. It's now separated into "Lighting & Compositing" and "Experimental & Video." Someday maybe I can take all that other graphic design work down and just focus the entire site on this. What a nice day that will be. It's good to have a goal.

Glenn and I drove around a lot today looking for interesting outdoor environments I can model and light. The guys I talked to yesterday said I could just use someone else's environment (giving them credit of course) and light it, but since I really want to get back into Maya, I decided I'd spend the extra time and effort creating something from scratch. We finally found this abandoned car wash on 380 in Princeton. Not too complicated a model, and it has some nice qualities, allowing light to pass through and providing a good amount of shadows. Today was pretty cloudy, which is one of the lighting scenarios I want to explore. We did some shots with my gazing ball but they didn't come out very well, so I may go back out there next weekend and try again. This is a good start though.