Test Render Cinematic

Blocked in the scene and added lighting. Not in compositing yet, but I figured I'd post the result so far.

Currently everything is WIP apart from a few textures and meshes. However, we figured finding out rendering issues early would save us trouble later in the pipeline. We're rendering directly from Maya 2012 using Vray  2.0 and several procedural shaders.

I've also uploaded it as unlisted to YouTube.

Kind regards,

Pim

Simple Props + Old Work

So I figured I'd make another drop here. Not much to show this week because other projects need to be prioritized for the time being. Made generic props, found old work and here's a sneak peak at what I'm building with my cinematic team. I'm intentionally not showing more because we're secretive like that... also, because reasons.

Quick and ugly render in Mental Ray.

Fancy gif made with gifninja

 I thought I lost this schoolproject in a HDD failure. Thankfully not.

Assigned all the textures apart for those of the grey tree. Couldn't find those.

Part of my team's cinematic project.

Kind regards,

Pim

Rebuilding corrupt meshes

Maya crashing left a few corrupted files which had to be rebuilt. I had spare parts lying around but no complete models. Spent yesterday on fixing those models

I figured it would be boring to look at the same models, so I changed them up and made a new one as well.

 

Remodeled the sink including new water taps, drainage and beer drainer (left).

 Spent the day working on this tap.

 Wireframes.

 Bling bling. (again shader is a throw away)

 Bottom of the tap.

Kind regards,
Pim

ps. I love viewport 2.0

Maya fatal error on startup (day2) [fixed]

Maya crashing on start up seems to be a problem caused by updating my ATI driver. Rolling back has no effect. Disabling the graphics unit or deleting it's drivers allows me to run Maya at a low resolution.

I added a Mel script to copy any errors provided by the script editor. This is what it gave me so far:

"addSelectTypeItem: (kFailure): Unexpected Internal Error"

I'm contemplating a recovery to factory defaults for this laptop.

Kind regards,
Pim

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Edit: Problem seems fixed after removing all Autodesk software and all AMD drivers, plug-ins and programs and then installing everything from scratch again.

Edit2: Maya files made days before the crash all seem corrupt. Gotta go fast.

Maya fatal error on startup (day1)

Uninstalling and installing again does not to work.
Deleting 'documents\prefs' does not work
Removing 'Environment variables' does not work.
Uninstalling all Autodesk applications does not work.

Grr

Counter + Maya wood shader

Modeled this counter a while ago but I felt there was something not right. Went to a pub to figure out what. Divided the bar into 2 meshes and lowered the inside part. Now there is room for a tap, glasses and a sink. This is the result.

Wireframe

 

Played around with a procedural wood shader

 and changed the orientation of the directional lights.

Kind regards,

Pim

ps. specularity is still to high. Wood shader is a throw away right now.

Old stuff + portfolio

I figured I'd made a quick post with some of the stuff I made earlier and a small reference to my portfolio (which hasn't been updated in a small 2 years)

I didn't take any trouble of putting them in chronological order but I'll add some text to clarify.

This is a pencil drawing.

Small shader network in Unreal Development Kit. (UDK)

 Shader network applied in a school project. (UDK)

 Ornament for a world building project. (throw away)

 

  Simple building blocks for a run down cottage.

 Level design project based on Banjo & Kazooie principles.

 Another perspective.

 Yet another perspective.

Glass shaders for Maya Mental Ray. (throw away)

    Couch for a cinematic.

 Quick render of said couch.

Quick render of a sink for aforementioned cinematic.

The cinematic project is currently ongoing so I might upload more of that but for now, that was it.

Kind regards,

Pim

ps: forgot my portfolio (has been updated on April 14th 2013)

Let's start today

Hello,

My name is Pim Hendriks and I am a 4th year Visual Art IGAD program student at the NHTV in Breda, The Netherlands. The school together with it's number of students is quite small, however don't be fooled, the course is brutal and will leave your social life shattered. But that's how most of us like it anyways.

I created this blog to keep track of my progress as an artist, receive feedback if any at all and maybe show off here and there. Above all I created this blog to keep track of my progress as a student; no matter how small.

I will use this format as an art dump so it'll be updated anytime I have something new to show.

Kind regards,
Pim

tl;dr wall of text followed by pictures