Procedural facade texturing – Part I This summer, I started working on a professional project in collaboration with my illustrator friend Emilie. She created the character designs, while I translated them into 3D. The project is still in production and should be...
Puppycat Here is another model I use with my students, the main goal here is to learn the basics of Zbrush, Puppycat was a great example for this task. Voici un autre modèle utilisé avec mes étudiants, l’objectif principal ici est d’apprendre les bases de...
Decisive Pumpkin Let’s take a break between work sessions and spend a few minutes discussing 3D sculpting and texture baking.Here’s a model that I’ve asked some of my students to create in Zbrush. This model is interesting because it allows for the use of...
360° HDR Panoramic – Upgrade! A couple of years ago I started to propose some of my 360 HDR files used on my CG projects as lighting and reflection sources. It included a dynamic range of 7 stops and I felt quite limited with my original camera, a GH1. Since...
Time Travellers – WIP 22 This is the last Work In progress article of the project! The past three months allowed me to finalize the project. Just as I was about to finish writing the making-of, I went back to editing the long hair of the female character. I was...
Time Travellers – WIP 21 3 months without any updates! A lot of things have been going on in the artwork. The most important news: I’ve upgraded my machine and I’m now able to fix many performance and rendering issues. More at the end of this article. 3...
Time Travellers – WIP 20 Before sharing the progress on the artwork, let’s talk about optimization on pre-calculated projects. Those of you following my work since Versus: The way to shadows know I’m used to find solutions to avoid crashes at render time,...
Time Travellers – WIP 19 Somehow, Palpatine retur… My brain returned on learning Blender. While I edited a new workshop about Camera and Object tracking in Blender, one thing leading to another, I started to launch some render tests of the models used in the...
Zbrush – Masterclass I’m pleased to invite the French audience to a new MasterClass at Pixup Academy about your first steps in Zbrush! J’ai le plaisir de vous retrouver pour une nouvelle MasterClass chez Pixup Academy concernant l’initiation à...
Time Travellers – WIP 18 Let’s talk about clothes! I remember working on the cloth simulations of Noël en Alsace project a few years ago, all this knowledge is still there and has been updated with new experiments. It was time to replace the sheets placeholder...
