Here’s a postcard from a project I’ve been working on that deals with repeated procedural terrain generation.
The University of Texas at Dallas
For the past two and a half months, I have been a graduate student at The University of Texas at Dallas in the Arts and Technology program. I’m very excited by the opportunities here and the research that we’re working on. I view this as an opportunity for my design skills to step up to the next level, and so far I haven’t been disappointed.
3D Studio Max 2011
3D Studio Max 2011 is out now. I am currently downloading it and should be able to start putting it through it’s paces this weekend. Probably the key feature for me this time is the backwards compatible file format—it’s about time that Max added that.
State of the Art
The new equipment has been installed and performing admirably for the past several months: A custom-built quad core workstation with an HP DreamColor LP2480zx monitor. Render times have been up to twenty times faster with this system, saving an immense amount of time and letting me speed up my development cycle. The DreamColor allows for pristine color reproduction, using the billion-color full color space. The contrast ratio and color-reproduction are key to the color-managed workflow I am implementing with this system.
Both 3D Studio Max and Lightwave run like a dream with this setup.
This system upgrade was funded in part by a generous grant with the assistance of the Midland College Business & Economic Development Center.
Here’s the view of my current desktop space.
Drawings, Fall 2009
Two of the drawings from the Fall of 2009, both rendered primarily with colored pencil.
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Prescription Medicine Bottle
Another stock model, this time a medicine bottle. Inspired by all the pill bottles I had left after my recent upper respiratory infection, I think that this one turned out rather well. With the materials I came up with, both Max and Lightwave produce superlative renders, as you can see here.
Crescent Wrench
Wrench Test Render from Isaac Karth on Vimeo.
I’ve finished my latest modeling project and uploaded to TurboSquid. I was able to get the metal texture to match across three rendering engines—not exact but close enough to get the effect I wanted.
3D Stereo on YouTube
YouTube has a new experimental feature for displaying stereo 3d. I hauled out the Bee stereo turntable animation and cleaned it up for the two-channel stereo formatting. If you’d like more information about the stereo process, I used this somewhat-helpful thread as a guide when preparing the file.
Being able to produce the file once and use multiple 3d options is a huge plus, especially when over-compression can so easily destroy red/blue stereo. With this method, it doesn’t matter if you have
red/blue, red/cyan, or red/green. Or maybe you prefer looking at it cross-eyed. It all works, using the same source data.
Gremlins Video is Available on IMDB
Acceding to vast popular demand I have uploaded the widescreen video and Gremlins in the Basement is now available on IMDB.
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