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Cinema4D UV Mapping Sometimes I even amaze myself! ;)
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Category Archives: Design
Playing with Fire and Water
I was asked to create something that could be screened onto a coffee mug. This will definitely not work for that purpose, but it’s so much fun going through the process of learning this fabulous software that I just had to share…
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Chip Load Animation Test
Swipe your pointing device left and right over the image.
The animation’s not perfect. This is just a test. Overall, I’m quite pleased with the results.
Cinema4D
You will likely see a bit more 3D work creeping into thedude.com as I learn to master Cinema4D. You may have already noticed the new chocolate masthead. Here’s a screenshot of the awesome program in action. Much more to come!
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You Can Do It Too!
I made this totally original motivational poster for my company last weekend. Model Marina was awesome. She really nailed the part.
Shot with a $95 lens and hand-held FourSquare against a yellow wall in the office. PhotoShop makes it perfect.
Posted in Design, Photography, PhotoShop, Work
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The Chip is the Machine
Practicing with materials and lighting. Fun! I think I may I need to try to render something that could not exist. Hm…
Posted in Computing, Design, Shameless Self-Promotion, Work
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thedude Meets The Man
I’m very lucky to be involved with the design and rendering of the 2012 Burning Man. I can’t show you the rest yet, but soon after this year’s Man burns, I’ll share more.
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Another PGM Rendering
Most of you have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot lately. The main reason for this is that I am so busy at work. When I’m not tending to IT tasks, I use every spare cycle rendering one thing or another. I really love doing this work, but it consumes a lot of time I might otherwise spend blogging. Sorry!
This latest rendering of the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine will be used in a very cool brochure. The image will stretch from the front to the back of an 11 x 17″ brochure. Woo-hoo!
Rendered with the fabulous Thea Reneder.
Posted in Computing, Design, Thearender, Work
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The Lobby With Lighter Colors
I’ve actually started a blog for my neighbors to gather opinions about possible color schemes for our remodel. Here’s another of several examples.
After I rendered this one, I realized that there is a light leak from the right. The small amount of light leaking in from the blue sky accounts for the green tint in the shadow areas of the walls and the blue tint on the dark side of the pillars.
Oops! Still learning.
Posted in Computing, Design, Loft Life, Shameless Self-Promotion
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Pratt & Whitney Engine
Another Thea Render from a freely downloaded SketchUp model. Wow!
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Mo’ Rendering
I’m having so much fun learning SketchUp and Thea Render!
Looking for excuses to create 3D objects, I decided to create a model of the public areas in our building. This could come in very handy, as we are currently working with a designer on updating the 80′s design. This is our building’s lobby with new colors applied.
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The Personal Genome Machine 360 View
Swipe your mouse left and right for a 360 view.
This 3D Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine was rendered using TheaRender from a .3DS file exported from the original SolidWorks file. Raw PNG images batch resized with Irfanview, combined using a custom python script, (Thanks, Josh!) compressed into JPEG format with Photoshop and “animated” with the fabulous jQuery Reel plugin. Piece o’ cake!
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