Back to old stuffs posting.Even back from 2012, but was never posted here.
First is a engine startup of Finn’s KittyHawk , watch the sound. Visible in HD/Full-screen on Vimeo :

And much quieter, a turn around of that old MezeK model :

Third from KittyHawk/Finn iPad wallpaper serie.
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Here a second one from that KittyHawk/Finn iPad wallpaper serie.
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I sometime make some iPad wallpapers with my images for my own use , you can find some few posted here on this blog… But will try to post some more often.
Here is one from a new serie done with the Kittyhawk/Finn models.
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More to come.
Btw, since i’ve found some of my images posted on some sites without my consent , Please be kind to read the – TERM OF USE – of the images included in this site.

If you like good desktop images/ Wallpapers for iPad, or for Mac, here a good adress :
FIFTYFOOTSHADOWS
Not aviation related, but my favorite photo blog of the moment…

Finn and his Kittyhawk made the first 2011 cover of the Czech professional CG magazine Pixel.
Good start of the year, he was quite happy.

Playing with Finn and his Kittyhawk… Did two more renders

Also worked on the Spook today , Corrected the canopy shape a bit , and added some fuel tanks :

Finished Finn and his plane some time ago, and spend time doing bunch of renders. very pleasant and relaxing just to do renders ones the model is finished… after UVs , texturing, rigging… ect … Blahhh… I’ve spend too much time on this.

Btw , his complete name is Finn O’nezetrigerr ( Irish descent i think…). Was a Flight-Lieutenant of the 112 Sqn, at Gambut , libya in 1942. 112 Sqn was famous for their shark-mouth nose art P-40, Finn added a cigar to it and named his plane « Smokin’ Tiger ». He had a few kills , and a funny way to display them on his plane, dead Adolf Hitler skulls painted on the cockpit side.
Rest of the story unknown for the moment…

So here the images, first one is my fav, GunsFire-HorsePower… the rest are more peaceful, kind of a presentation of the plane and pilot.

Will see if i get more ideas for images later…

Edit : Recalculated a render for the prop with a better motion blur for the first image #161… looks better i hope. But it multiplies the render time 10x :/
Anyway, i had to learn how to do correct motion blur in MR if i want to do an anim of that model.
Old render still visible here :
KittyHawk161-1600x1200old.jpg

…Finn. Done the helmet , flying goggles, shirt, arms and hands…
The above image is at iPad wallpaper size, 1024×1024, grab it here :
Finn89-1024×1024.jpg
Time for some few renders :



Still have to finish his legs, shorts, boots… then i’ll do his plane colours.

Works on Finn textures resumed, he received some face colours…
Meanwhile i did some wallpapers with his now fully bump mapped Kittyhawk model , 1920×1200 :


Click and open images on new window to save it. Will have to do a dedicated wallpaper page some day…
Anyway, here some other image on the Kittyhawk model :

Finished this Weekend. Did the greyscale bump map in Photoshop, then converted it to a normal map with Gimp… Cause the Nvidia normal map Photoshop plugin doesn’t work on MacOS …

Anyway works very well with Gimp. Go figure why Photoshop doesn’t have a normal map filter as standard :/
here a bunch of images :

Update:
Wanted to try normal maps, but in the end i may very well use just the bump maps…
Here the progress on the wing textures: