Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 133 i 3D Artist

“My goal for this project was to create something dynamic and with motion. Inspired by two things that I really like, fixed-gear bikes and vegan pizza, I had the idea to create this girl who delivers fast and delicious pizzas. The bike was inspired by my own bike, but my tyres aren’t purple”Lucas Falcão, Bee, 2019 Lucas Falcão blog.lucasfalcao.com Lucas Falcão was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and has been working as a full-time freelancer for the past three years. Software Blender, Substance Painter Work in progress… Hadi Shahabi behance.net/hadishahab8511 Hadi has worked as a CG artist for many architectural firms in Iran and internationally, and has five years’ experience in archviz. Software 3ds Max, Corona, Photoshop Work in progress… “It’s been a long time since I started learning Corona…

SIMON EDWARDS Simon runs 3DArtvision and History Rebuilt, based in Northumberland. He has worked professionally as an architectural visualiser and 3D artist for 25 years. www.historyrebuilt.com I first got my hands on a copy of 3D Studio in 1994, which I ran on an Intel 486 desktop computer in MS-DOS mode. I was at the time working in Amsterdam with a small architectural practice building a business park just outside Schiphol. My role there was to produce design presentation work and technical assembly drawings either using AutoCAD 2D and 3D or with a pen, ink and a drawing board. With a new project for KPN just starting up in the neighbouring town of Hoofddorp, I decided to give 3D Studio a proper try out. This didn’t get very far though…

Ark Ark is CG generalist biasing towards lighting and compositing for film and animation. He was always fascinated by lifelike digital characters and cinema in general. He’s currently developing a 3D animated horror/mystery short film Relicts. In Light of Decay, 2016 Maya, Arnold, Nuke One of the first interior images for Relicts. It uses yarn balls, described in this tutorial. The spiderweb is a result of curve rendering and tons of compositing. Bleak, 2017 Maya, Arnold, Nuke Environmental tests for the project packed together into an artistic clip. Scattering was done with old-school particle instancing of Arnold stand-ins. Pot Teaser, 2018 Maya, Arnold, Nuke A clip made of compositing tests of turning still images into moving shots. Every shot in this video was rendered…

Jeremy Heintz I’m a CG artist from Salt Lake City, USA. I’m formally trained in computer science but my passion for art has led me to an internship at Pixar and DreamWorks Animation. I’m always looking to experiment with new technologies. Rolling Teapot, 2017 Maya, RenderMan, Substance Painter This was my submission for Pixar’s RenderMan Rolling Teapot Art Challenge. The render of the teapot model was composited over a background plate. In The Pines, 2017 Maya, RenderMan, Substance Painter, SpeedTree This scene was a personal SpeedTree and RenderMan study with an architectural spin. Lakeside Retreat, 2016 Maya, V-Ray This personal project was an exploration of rendering trees and plants. It was created for a large-format print.…

The EIZO ColorEdge CG319X’s street price hovers between £4,000 and £5,000, which is more than most of us spend on an entire workstation and representing a serious investment. It has a 31.1-inch IPS panel, with quoted specifications of 350 cd/m2 maximum brightness and an impressive 1500:1 contrast ratio. It supports 99% Adobe RGB and 98% DCI-P3 colour spaces. It uses a DCI-4K resolution of 4,096 x 2,160, a wider format used for video editing. On colour-accurate screens, you usually don’t get any kind of gaming features such as G-Sync or 144Hz refresh rates. Instead, you’re presented with a range of other goodies. Built-in hardware calibration, bundled monitor hoods, and an ambient light sensor are all found in the CG319X. The key area where the CG319X pulls away from other brands…

Experimenting with colour palettes is a long part of the process Back in the early days of 2016 the London-based graphic designer Design Lad made the switch to 3D, specialising in character and environment design, and developing a style that is uniquely his own. “The graphic design projects I worked on were heavily based on brand guidelines, which always limited creative freedom, and I wanted an opportunity to stand out and be more playful in my work,” he explains. Having always been fascinated with 3D animated films, he downloaded a trial version of Cinema 4D and hasn’t looked back since. In order to learn the ins and outs of 3D art, Design Lad immersed himself in YouTube tutorials and practised repeatedly. He explains: “I didn’t have any knowledge of the…

CAN BüYüKBERBER Visual artist and director canbuyukberber.com “My inspiration comes from observations of nature and physics, applying the natural beauty to scientific schematics” Can Büyükberber’s work blurs the lines between physical and digital, between technical and artistic, science and creativity. Having studied art, design and science he applies his understanding of human perception to a vast array of projects. “My practice consists of experimenting with different media in both digital and physical realms,” he explains. As well as being exhibited at museums, galleries and media art festivals around the world, Büyükberber has also collaborated with musical artists such as Tool, Shigeto and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. A look at Büyükberber’s work reveals his fascination with immersion, geometry and geometric patterns. “Most of my inspiration comes from observations of nature and…

PHIL NOLAN Rock Wall Scan, 2019 Bio After spending five and a half years in school for art, animation and film, I have worked as a freelancer for about 16 years. I also make 3D models that people can buy as 3D prints. Software Reality Capture, 3D-Coat Learn how to Shoot pictures for photogrammetry Use photos to generate a 3D model Retopologise the 3D scan Bake textures to a medium-res model Concept When working on a big project like a game or film, you’ll need a lot of objects. This tutorial is about quickly scanning things you find outside instead of modelling them on your own. In this tutorial we’ll be doing some 3D scanning out in nature using any digital camera, like your smartphone for example, and the Reality…

Phil Nolan Back in the Nineties I decided I wanted to work on comic books, and as I went though art school that morphed into animation, then 3D animation. That’s been my job for 16 years. I love anything about Japan so much of my work relates to that. 3D Sneaker Scan, 2018 Reality Capture One of my favourite tests of Reality Capture, scanning my entire shoe. The first time I scanned an entire object, including the bottom. Restaurant Interior, 2014 LightWave 3D, 3D-Coat This was an art test for a job. I was given the models for just the empty room and bar, everything else I had to do myself, including texturing and lighting. Office Exterior, 2014 LightWave 3D I was given only…

In this tutorial, we’ll cover a variety of topics starting from creating a compelling composition all the way through to shading, lighting and rendering a production-quality image using RenderMan for Maya. We’ll use polygon modelling techniques to create the environment, taking into consideration our camera position to avoid unnecessarily over-detailing our set. After preparing our models for shading, we’ll explore how to use Substance Painter to create high-quality textures, as well as techniques for shading elements without UVs using RenderMan’s texture projection manifold. To add another level of detail and complexity to our scene, we’ll look at a few methods of generating snow in Maya using displacement and Maya’s nParticle system. Adding atmosphere is essential to any environment, and we’ll look at what goes into creating environment fog using a…

MICHAEL TSCHERNJAJEW www.artstation.com/ station02 Bio I am an industrial designer working at New Communication (www .new-communication.de) agency in Kiel. I have been doing freelance work for 14 years, mostly product/ archviz and some concept design as well. Here we will be creating a futuristic 4x4 assault vehicle in Maxon Cinema 4D and bringing it to life with OTOY’s OctaneRender. This tutorial will demonstrate my basic attempt, covering the initial first steps, how to stay motivated within the project, modelling details, referring to real-world examples, finishing the design and post-production. It’s important to start with research; online or offline, anything that can help you is fine, from a Google Image search to Pinterest, portfolio sites, social media, books, magazines and so on. In this case I did not do any drawings…

3 Dami is a non-profit organisation that aims to bring digital art to pre-university students. The organisation runs a free seven-day summer camp for 14-18 year olds, as well as a half-term camp for 14-22 year olds, in which groups of nine students run their own studios and make 3D animated shorts using Blender. Founder Peter Kemp was inspired to create 3Dami during his time as a computing teacher in South London. “We wanted students to actually make something that was theirs, using industry-level tools,” he explains. “Something that wasn’t just a day of inspirational lectures, something that students had to apply for. We settled on a seven-day course and the expectation that students would make all parts of the film from the story, to models, animations, textures, camera work,…

Ziva Dynamics has launched Ziva VFX 1.6, bringing anatomy transfer capabilities to the character creation software. With Anatomy Transfer, artists can take the full anatomy of one character and automatically fit it to the mesh of another, removing the need to start from scratch every time a new character is developed. “Creating hundreds of high-quality characters has never been easier,” said James Jacobs, co-CEO of Ziva Dynamics. “When we were at Weta, we would have given our left arm for technology like this; now, every artist and studio in the world can ‘build it once,’ instead of again and again.” Ziva VFX 1.6 can be purchased in monthly or yearly instalments. For all pricing options visit store.zivadynamics.com.…

Step-by-step tutorial Follow this training to master your RenderMan scenes and create stunning art Three CGAxis premium models Grab these free ornamental plant models for your projects Textures from 3DTotal.com Download a selection of high-quality textures Tutorial files, video files and screenshots Learn the latest techniques and tools from our industry experts Head to bit.ly/3DA-133 to download your files SIGN UP to our newsletter to get the latest news, stories and training from your favourite 3D magazine…

LEWIS KYLE WHITE -------------------------- Creative director of Pixels & Noise pixelsandnoise.tv Lewis Kyle White got his start directing music videos and commercials, before gravitating towards live music visuals. Since then he’s gone on to found multi-disciplinary motion graphics and postproduction studio Pixels & Noise. The first act White really got his creative teeth into was electronic duo 2ManyDJs. “The relationship ended up stretching over a seven-year period,” White tells us. “During that time we made hours and hours of video.” Collaboration has proven vital as White works with some of the biggest touring acts around: “Some days you find yourself sat next to the artist, with them watching as you work.” Though an intimidating prospect, it does mean that White can bounce ideas back and forth with the artist. “I…

MICHELANGELO GIRARDI SHAZAM! Just say the word!, 2019 Bio I grew up in Lake Garda, Italy. I’m a freelance 3D generalist and motion designer now based in the North West of England. I am in love with characters and sci-fi with a good eye for compositing and rendering. Software ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Redshift, Photoshop Learn how to Model a vinyl superhero toy in ZBrush Light and render in Cinema 4D and Redshift Add imperfections when compositing in Photoshop Concept A vinyl toy of the superhero Shazam, from DC Comics. In this tutorial we will take a look at how to make our very own vinyl superhero toy in ZBrush and then render it out in Cinema 4D with Redshift. ZBrush is the industry standard for digital sculpting and it is…

SEFKI IBRAHIM www.artstation.com/sefki_i Bio I am a freelance character artist, specialising in work with digital humans. I have only recently finished a master’s in Computer Animation and am just finding my feet in the industry. In this tutorial, we will explore how to create a photorealistic 3D portrait using Maya, ZBrush, Mari, Mudbox and Wrap 3. For me, this project was an exercise in utilising scan data, aiming to create a photoreal portrait with efficient methods and techniques. First, we will look at using Wrap 3 to morph base topology onto scanned data, and work from this in ZBrush to produce a realistic head sculpt. Then we will look at using Texturing XYZ’s multi-channel maps to efficiently create skin maps that can be applied in Arnold to have fine control…

Scan has equipped its WI4000 Viz with a completely up-to-date specification, including the latest 9th generation Intel processors, so it represents a great example of a modern desktop workstation specification we’d recommend for all general 3D work. Costing around £2,400, the specification we’re testing has been slightly upgraded from the system listed on Scan’s website, with a more powerful eight-core, 5GHz Core i9-9900k CPU that adds an extra £300 to the cost. That £300 gets additional CPU cores and a faster overall clock speed, a worthy extra that we think is worth stretching a budget towards. The last few years have seen more than four cores becoming a standard in even high-street desktop PCs. Intel’s prices accelerate fast beyond eight cores though, so as with the Quadro RTX 4000, the…

Rendering and lighting technology developer Luxion has announced KeyVR, a tool that allows users to quickly create immersive and fully interactive VR experiences with one click from any KeyShot scene. No scripting, coding or specialised model preparation is required. KeyVR is built upon the core framework of the KeyShot application as a native VR solution for full-frame, interactive, virtual experiences. Through this relationship, KeyVR aims to complement KeyShot as a visualisation solution. “VR prototypes have been around for decades, and although VR hardware is finally here, the industry feels very young in terms of software for content creation,” explains Jesper Mosegaard, director of products at Luxion. “I’m looking to change that. With the team at Luxion, I want to push the technology into the mainstream. KeyVR allows product developers to…

The Substance team has unveiled the first Substance Painter update of the year, with a host of new features requested by users. Displacement mapping and tessellation are both available directly through the Substance Painter real-time viewport and in Iray, meaning artists can now sculpt their mesh and textures at an infinitesimal level. Elsewhere there is new projection modes, a radial symmetry tool, layer stack updates, a texture set list, a channels list, dithering override and a host of new content. The Substance Painter update is available now at no extra cost to subscribers.…