Sketchbook: Wdcstudios

wdcstudios · Jan 2014

Howdy,

Just another artist trying to improve and get noticed. Any and all feedback is welcome.

wdcstudios · Jan 2014

Programs Used // 3ds Max / Mental Ray / Photoshop

About // I wanted to do a project which would allow me to focus on my material and lighting skills and less on modeling. The goal of this project was to produce a photo-realistic render with a larger goal of furthering my understanding of materials and lighting. 3ds Max was used for sub-d modeling, Photoshop was used for texture map creation, Mental Ray was used for rendering.

Modeling // 3ds Max

Texturing // Photoshop

Rendering // Mental Ray

Abrvpt · Jan 2014

The food looks really good ! But the knife and chopping board looks too clean. The board needs more visible knife marks, and the blade need some scratches, possibly only in the specular.
Keep going !

wdcstudios · Jan 2014

Abrvpt - Thanks for the feedback. I'll add that to the to do list for this piece. I'm going to take a breather from this for a week or so and work on an environment.

wdcstudios · Feb 2014

I'm working on a room interior, here is what I have so far.

CIB · Feb 2014

awesome lighting. Could I ask what sort of set up your using for that room interior?

The objects closest to the far wall - their shadows appear a bit soft. Maybe they would feel a little more fixed onto the wall with the shadows hardened just a little bit?

wdcstudios · Feb 2014

CIB - Thanks, I'm using Mental Ray as my renderer and I'm only using a sun and sky or day light system with GI and Final Gather turned on, I also have exposure control turned on. I also modeled everything to scale, I believe that helps out. The soft shadows are a combo of the GI and AO map in the material once I do a final render I'll add a tighter AO pass for contact shadows in post, hopefully it works out the way I planned.

Update

wdcstudios · Mar 2014

Update

Two Listen · Mar 2014

Are you planning on doing anything further with the floor? It's turning out nice, but I could totally see it with like, an area rug or a large tile design.

wdcstudios · Mar 2014

Two Listen - Thanks, I plan on adding a large rug and marble floors. But I may go with a patterned hardwood floor, not sure.

wdcstudios · Mar 2014

Update, ended up going with herringbone parquet floor.

wdcstudios · Apr 2014

Update

wdcstudios · Dec 2015

It's been awhile but here's the finished version of the living room scene.

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wdcstudios · Dec 2015

Here is a sci fi corridor I did a while back.

wdcstudios · Dec 2015

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Here is some art test redemption. I wasn't happy with what I finished during the deadline so I put some more time to bring it to a more finished level.

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wdcstudios · Dec 2015

A robot concept.

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wdcstudios · Dec 2015

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A retro delivery robot concept.

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wdcstudios · Jan 2016

Underwater Drone Concept

Programs Used // 3ds Max / Mental Ray / Photoshop / Ddo / Ndo

About // The design brief for the concept is a near future underwater drone which could be outfitted for various tasks. The concept process started with a blockout model to work out joint functions and build a rough silhouette.

During this project I'm also furthered refining my limited UV workflow. The goal of the workflow is to enable high quality renders to be produced during the modeling process with only the use of a box UV unwrap set texture scale across the model. Once the design process has finished traditional methods and tools can be used on the completed model.

Modeling // 3ds Max

Texturing // Ddo, Ndo, Photoshop

Rendering // Mental Ray

wdcstudios · Jan 2016

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Sketchbook: Wdcstudios

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