Some 2D stuff for a change… These are some character studies for a cartoon german WWII pilot, of the same kind as Finn … an ace of course, but a very stressed and nervous one, heavily addicted to Pervitin (methamphetamines, also known as « Göring’s Pill » … Read More >
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New Mezek renders…
Well i still like a lot that Mezek model … So did two new images recently. A bit more Photoshop postwork on these than on the old ones… Maybe will do more. I’m thinking of turning this into a toon Bf109G… Mmmh will see…
Pixel mag
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…
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 :
Smokin’ Tiger
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 , … Read More >
Still texturing…
…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.
Skinned
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 … Read More >
Fuselage Bump done… (And wing update).
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 … Read More >
3 weeks without computer…
That was a long time it didn’t happen to me … Just to say these are not my holidays pictures. Came back last week, finished the UV set up for three 4096×4096 pixels maps, and just started the fuselage map… Here some images.
-17 …
A friend recommended me to get « G-Suit », a book about mid-east air combats. The first combat story is with a very low flying MiG-17… Good book. Here again an iPad drawing. A break from 3d. Well … hope it’s not too bad…
Modeling Finished
This project was on sleep since i started the Spook in Blender. Anyway, must finish that cartoonish P-40 and pilot one day. So here is Finn’s plane modeling and rigging finished. He seems quiet happy with the work. Me too… Kind of like better the … Read More >
Half-Toon Würger
About a month ago i had an idea of another toon fighter, this time a Fw-190A. Did some drawings, and after that couldn’t get it out of my head. So decided to model it before working on the Spook ejection seat. Also spent some time … Read More >