Well, I've had my sparkly new 3D software for about a month now and I'm slowly getting used to it little-by-little. It's very powerful stuff. So anyway I was wondering if I could farm it out, maybe make a little of the price tag back in commissioned artwork.
I'm working in Lightwave, which can handle some quite complex stuff including cloth deformation and limited hair / fur effects. However I'm still very new to this stuff, so I doubt I'd be able to manage photorealistic real people. Inhuman monsters are more of a possibility, as is cartoony stuff and simple geometric effects. I've been having fun with volumetric smoke and water particle effects recently, and those are pretty easy and highly attractive.
So, if anyone has a project on the go for which time is not particularly of the essence (I'm still learning here) for which computer rendered artwork seems like a worthy option, I'm open to requests. The major advantages of rendered art is that once the model is made I can repose and rerender it very quickly and simply in any number of different ways, and full colour is just as easy to produce as black and white work. The downsides are that it takes a lot of time to make the models, I'm still new to it, and it's usually pretty obvious that something has been rendered (though I do have a rather good cel-shading algorithm, and there are a number of other effects that can be used to lessen the artificial look too.)
Anyone think this'd be useful for their project?
Ash
Links?
Submitted by Malcolm Craig on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 02:25.
It might be a good idea to offer some links to samples of your work.
Cheers
Malc
Contested Ground Studios
Aren't project donut in the
Submitted by Steve Dempsey on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 12:57.
Aren't project donut in the market for this kind of thing?
Samples and Things
Submitted by Destriarch on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 16:20.
It might be a good idea to offer some links to samples of your work.
Still working on my stuff at the moment, so there's not much to show right now. My main motivation for doing this, more than the cash really, is to get some practice in and develop some samples to show people. Perhaps I should really have introduced it more in the lines of 'Challenge Me' than 'Commissions'. Anyway, I've run off a couple of quick renders of the model I'm working on now and then, and posted them in my deviantart gallery. Here's a couple of early tests.
http://destriarch.deviantart.com/art/Android-WIP-77024269
http://destriarch.deviantart.com/art/Scrap-Prime-Test-2-78572199
NB those are the only two images in my gallery done with the new improved software and techniques I've been teaching myself. There are a few other 3D images in my gallery but they're done on a different package which is nowhere near as good.
Ash
For character work
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 17:32.
You might find something like Daz Studio useful (it's also free).
-Matt
Realms Publishing
Eh?
Submitted by Destriarch on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 17:44.
You might find something like Daz Studio useful (it's also free).
Umm, sorry I don't get your reasoning. I already *have* excellent rendering software, I'm just looking for excuses to use it. Thanks for the link anyway though.
Ash
Project Donut
Submitted by Destriarch on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 18:19.
Aren't project donut in the market for this kind of thing?
I did a spot of digging and found what I think must have been the forum post you mentioned, but they needed the renders before the end of 2007 so I don't think that one's open any more. I might give them a bell anyway though, just to ask. Thanks for the heads-up.
Ash
Urban style
Submitted by JoE PrincE on Thu, 28/02/2008 - 12:21.
If you can do any near future cityscapes I'd be interested Ash.
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JoE
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Prince of Darkness Games
Rock N' Role-Play....
Ok!
Submitted by Destriarch on Thu, 28/02/2008 - 16:36.
If you can do any near future cityscapes I'd be interested Ash.
I'll have a think and a play around, and see what I can come up with. Might take some time though. Let me know if there are any specific elements that really have to be included.
P.S. Piledrivers & Powerbombs is great fun!
Ash