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Two-Tone Tree
Summer is turning into autumn at alarming speed in my neck of the wood. As I was strolling through the city the other day, trying to imbibe the feeling, I couldn’t help notice how most of the trees were not assuming their autumn shades in a uniform way. Rather, it seemed the chlorophyle was first ...
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“European Loft” hits the Warehouse
After a lot of cleaning and tweaking, I have now put my second full scene up for sale in the warehouse. “European Loft”, like “Chicago Loft“, is based on existing architecture; in this case on a conversion of a burlesque theatre by Piero Lissoni. And like “Chicago Loft”, it is a minimalist space, with a ...
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Bits of bread
When working on the Northern light images, I started experimenting with a new workflow to create food assets, in particular bread and other baked products. After having found a relatively laborious but clean and effective approach, I decided to build a small library of baked, carb-heavy assets. I didn’t go very far, and I will ...
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The Museum is closed
There are a few reasons why I have been absent from the blog in the past few weeks. One was a totally undeserved holiday. Another was that I’ve been busy working on the Museum competition organised by Ronen Bekerman. The challenge was to produce a photorealistic take on Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in ...
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CG Awards shortlist!
Wonderful news today. Like last year, one of my images has made it onto the Archviz Stills shortlist for the 2012 3DWorld CG Awards. Together with images by Blackhaus; Notos and Alfa Smyrna, the jury picked an image from my Chicago Loft series. Have a look and if you think it is deserved, your vote ...
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Northern light
Not much text today but many images. My latest personal project is a hybrid creation, inspired both by the architecture of João Tiago Aguiar and the photography of Janne Peters – Portugal meets Germany, if you like. As usual, you can see the series on Flickr and get the models (some of them at ...
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Free Mat Test Scene
As promised, here is the material testing scene I used for my recent Materialism tutorial. It is a very simple scene but it may be worth downloading nonetheless as the archive includes a very high-res, 90MB HDR map. I thought about downsampling it but the high resolution is actually necessary to generate the sharp, realistic ...
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Materialism (1)
As promised, I wanted to follow up on my Eames series with a few pointers about the materials created for the chairs. This is the first in a series of mini how-to tuts about materials. The Eames chairs are a good place to start. They all use materials that are meant to show some age, ...
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Eames Photoshoot
Here is a short series of images I’d been keeping under wraps. My original idea was to create small tutorials focused on the various materials used in the scene and to release these together with the images. However, since Australian online decoration magazine EST has done me the honour of publishing a feature on these, ...
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Dubious hommage
I am mostly of a placid composition and not easily annoyed. But there are a few things that can make me twitch. One of these is theft.
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New Canaan
These days, I only seem to produce unfinished personal pieces. This one is based on Hodgson House, a private home by Philip Johnson.
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Teaser
I’ve neglected the blog lately, I know. But I will be preparing some updates in the coming days.
