Camping

Camping 

Working on some more scenes in Blender.  Built up this one using a few resources.  The fire was animated using method in s tutorial from ClarkusMarkus.   The stars using method  from this tutorial by Curtis Holt.  I also tried to use the volumetric effects from there also but balancing that with the fire was difficult.

studying

Blender tut

Another blender effort  following a blender tutorial by Blender Guru.  This was a really good series to get familiar with the Blender basics.   I spun it a little for this. Going to keep working through some more tutorials

Still 3d ing

Light Sabre 

Continued learning more modelling.  For now I am just following the Tutorial by CG geek.  Though it is not all virtual - to balance here is a watercolour. 

Dog in helmet 

Venture into 3d (again)

First 3d in a while 

I think this is the first time I have shown any 3d work on this blog.  I started out learning 3d way back when.  I did some tuts in Maya and decided the software was too cumbersome for 1 person to work on projects at a reasonable rate and my 2d skills were too poor to model well.  That was about 10 years ago. Well the software and myself (I hope) have improved so I thought it would be useful to get some skills in 3d.  I decided to use Blender primarily because it is free but also because I have noticed more folks using it. So I went back to the tutorials and have been working through them with varying success,  This was the first one a tutorial by  CG geek  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lj643VmTsg&t=867s.  

landscape lowpoly blender 

Little buildings

Abbey

Castle

Practiced a few isometric buildings in Photoshop.  Not too much  to say about these except I was trying out a few different processes and tools to see which would work best.   

Water Scheme

Water Scheme Gif 

Water Scheme 

Tried something a little different here.  Went back to Photoshop with an isometric layout and some simple animation.  Played about with some different techniques and work flows.  

Dawn Chorus

Dawn Chorus .avi

Dawn Chorus

I had previously tried some basic animation in Photoshop.  With this image I did create a simpler animation but I did want to try it in Flash. Yip I have some old software.  This was the first time I had tried to use it for this.  I got some basic animation and then dropped some sound in as well so there is a still image and this animated version.  The biggest thing with the animation is to plan ahead and have the right elements separated out - still lots to learn.