This was a fever dream that made me wish I was a seasoned ILM supervisor with too much time to spare that doesn't even have to turn their brain on to make this. I learned an insane amount of things including liquid simulations, geo handling, lighting, rendering, compositing and gained a huge respect towards art direction and look development. Unlike other things I have shared so far, this one includes a lot of approaches that I didn't even end up using. I want to enjoy not only the finished look but also the process - I tried everything from temperature maps to procedural surfaces, my own solvers, separate streaks simulations, pouring it out of a bucket, you name it. Huge thanks to my friends at Gnomon for being so patient even though I have said no to hangouts so many times because I was working on a barley man. It's time to let him go now 🌾
🎵 Ezio's Family - Møme Remix
Today I got to make some breakdowns for this thing and I am really excited to share it after 3 months of trial and error ⛅
Made under the mentorship of @davidstripinis and finished with push from Max Dayan and other wonderful artists (karmic support of @d_smizz , feedback from @matt_sasieni and @ethan.clark.art that was so good it almost made me cry, grooming crash course from @itsjoshkarlin and marketing encouragement from @just_a_gremlin247 and @viperjustice )
Houdini 19.5 (please be impressed with my cloud setup, I made it before it was cool), Nuke, rendered in Karma
Concept by Disney, griffyn model from Sketchfab
Music: Go the Distance from The Essential Disney Collection
I tick and untick boxes
Starring: @just_a_gremlin247
3D scanning pipeline TD: @hasanefendi___
Rahul: @somerandomrahul
I worked on this on the side for the last 6 months or so, so naturally I chose a presentation of a 17 y.o. boy who's proud of his car
(...a až vyrostu, budu dělat vesmírný lodě ve filmech Zdeňka Trošky)
Enjoy one of my older projects that never got to see the light of day before! 🏰
Time to be soppy:
Three of my projects are spanning over months on end, and although I am really passionate about them, sometimes it feels very heartbreaking to put so much time and energy into something and still have nothing to show—I am fortunate enough to have friends who share the same level of excitement over sexy node graphs but 1. you can’t show that at a family dinner table and 2. those friends are CG gods that produce one breathtaking banger of a work after another which sometimes doesn’t help. I keep wondering if I’ve not bitten off more than I can chew (eg. I got to direct a very tiny sequence that will hopefully fully cross the finish line of post-production in another 3-4 months but who knows if it will look good (it will totally slap but the process of getting there can be very cancerous from time to time)).
I made this almost exactly a year ago for my AVFX1. Originally, I wanted the soldier to fall in love with one of the ballerinas* and go full nutcracker, but back then I had less than two weeks to make the whole thing while working on bunch of other stuff, as usual. It was before I even opened some of my favorite software I nowadays spend most of my days in like Houdini, Zbrush, Nuke, Unreal Engine or 3dequalizer (that one is not favorite at all and the urge to open it and close it right afterwards like an empty fridge is still very strong). Back then, I kept telling myself to just quickly fix this or that, add a shot or two and re-render. I kept postponing it and feeling bad, and a year went by. A couple of days ago I was sorting my files and I saw it right there, exactly as I left it, my little overexposed castle scene. And it felt so easy to just gently breeze through it, trim it down and put it together over the weekend. It looks exactly as I handed it in - I only took the liberty of changing the aspect ratio to make it phone-friendly.
So after all these months, I finally have one (1) tiny, contained and (most importantly) finished thing 😊
*But he’s a soldier, he should be thinking about war
(tl;dr - once I polish my old Dynamics 2, it's over)
There's this obnoxious Czech musical comedy from 1993 set in 1959 that brings me joy 🎸 (I already posted this once but it hits different now that I get to bother everybody to watch it w me during Christmas time)
Dejdar > Travolta
zleva do práva: já před Kalifornií, já v Kalifornii
I had birthday this year so I made myself a present
includes: a previous self-portrait I made more than half a year ago, my happy place (Buster's pick-up truck) and some punk artifacts from MsTeams
Designing my silly little fake people since like '03
(I added the original concept art and it's probably way more dope since there's a pitchfork in there)
🫶
#characterart #procreate #conceptart #characterconcept #bomberjacket #undercut #butterflies #peacockbutterfly #sketch #drawing #tattoos #illustration #cantspelldiscordantwithoutdisco
(sound on)
Modeled in Maya, textured in Substance, made with crippling self doubt, ❌✝️🍏, rendered in Redshift
#neongenesisevangelion #evangelion #unit01 #nge
I wanted to make a reel like this but I forgot things take time and by the time I finished it's not trendy anymore but guess what I am doing it for the little 4 months younger me that didn't know anything about modeling, texturing or compositing
#maya3d #3dmodeling #redshift #substancepainter #conceptart #cg #3dart #digitalart #anime #animeart
I’ve always found it funny how people manage to stay bored, especially during train rides, and I absolutely adore this idea of people being bored in the far away future in some cheap ass public transport spacecraft that always lands late.
I designed these characters in February by merging cyberpunk and piracy while obsessively listening to anything by @lofi.samurai
finally placing them in an environment sparked tons of joy ngl ✨
#illustration #conceptart #characterdesign #spacetravel #stars #nebula #space #art #digitalpainting #gnomon
_Running on nostalgia_
When I was younger, I thought it would be nice to rewind one’s heart like a videotape and replay all the memories you wanted to see right through your eyes (I made a crappy and very edgy concept art of this when I was thirteen) - I am now revisiting this idea with a slightly different approach. I tried capturing what being stuck in contemplation of one’s past and eternal daydreaming would feel like.
I still think it would be nice to rewind your memories like a videotape 💖
#art #conceptart #aesthetic #nostalgia #digitalpainting #memories
