Holiday Photography Fun!

Anyone into photography should try this, if not for the holidays and abundance of Christmas trees, but for the sheer awesomeness of it.

It can be done with anything really, but it’s best on Christmas trees because there’s a lot of opportunity for out-of-focus light bokeh.

Here’s an example:
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Notice the heart shaped lights? Those are normal Christmas lights.

Here’s what you need.
A dark card. I used the top of a red heart shaped Hershey Kisses box, but you … Read the rest

Squidipus

So this is what I’ve been working on now. It’s kinda from a tutorial. I didn’t actually follow the tutorial, I just liked the outcome so I got all the references they had and made this, which is a little different from the outcome in the tutorial because I like my version more. I made the model in Zbrush, sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Zbrush, brought it to Max for the shaders and rendering and then composited everything in Nuke. … Read the rest

Mustang / Police Interceptor

So here’s what I’ve been working on for a little over 90 hours for the past month and a half. All reference images for Mustangs that aren’t the stock edition are different than each other so a lot of creativity and guess work was involved. Even more so with the police car version. I did a lot of studying of actual police cars and just tried to incorporate them into the Mustang.… Read the rest