http://www.maximile.net/blog Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had a few particle-based effects to work on for The Muse. Feathers, confetti, falling flowers and floating and bursting bubbles are all too complicated to make using keyframe-based animation, but can be approximated using particles. Flowers The flowers were easy enough. Textured planes oriented to face the ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=79 I have had to make a few leather bags recently, and adding stitching to them seems like it should be difficult. But by using Photoshop's brush features, it's surprisingly easy. Create a single stitch in a new document. Create a new document (about 500px × 500px) with the background set to ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=78 There’s a War in Wunderland has an unmistakable style. This is down to a few things - the texture work, the simple characters, the animation, the rendering and post-processing and the presentation. I was responsible for a lot of the look and feel of the finished frame, and here’s a ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=77 Café de Beignet takes place in a French pätisserie, and I was charged with making some appropriate-looking pastries to decorate it. Here’s a render of some of them: Cool, no? Here’s a look at how a few of them were made. Danish Pastry The model for this was particularly easy. It looked great ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=76 Here's some lighting tests. The first one shows the bare minimum setup: directional lights for the sun and the bounced light. Here's the same thing but adapted into a more standard three-point setup. Using warmer tones to try to indicate the sun's position. The softer shadows make it less cartoony, but ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=75 The Duck, with his happy handles: He's quite bendy: http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=74 Progress on the duck; more modelled and a start on texturing. http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=73 An early duck screenshot. The early duck catches the bread. http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=72 I made some more models for this film thingy. You can look at some of them. http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=71 I didn’t understand vertex normals until I started learning about 3D programming. But you can’t be a good polygon modeller without them, and they’re very simple. Looking at my previous work, every model I had made before I understood normals was messy and inefficient in comparison to my later ones. ... http://www.maximile.net/blog/?p=70