3 Dimensions

Commentary on Phil Nolan's work as a 3D artist

Saturday, June 27, 2009

A short tutorial

I made a short LightWave tutorial. It's something simple, but may confuse new users. Making sharp corners that blend to a smooth curve using sub-patches. The audio is a little loud, so watch your volume.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irq4Z6C7MdA

posted by Phil Nolan # 6:28 PM 0 Comments

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Blog update

I updated this blog template. It should be easier to read now.

posted by Phil Nolan # 9:30 AM 0 Comments

1984

FXGuide posted an image I did in one of their articles.

http://www.fxguide.com/article534.html

posted by Phil Nolan # 7:16 AM 0 Comments

Monday, May 18, 2009

Old man rendered

The old man has been rendered in LightWave with hair. Still a work in progress.

Here is a 360 turn around on YouTube, click the HD button for best quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y0mg4jwUtI

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Sunday, May 03, 2009

More Old Guy

Finally was able to get back to this guy. Retopologized and baked the normal map, down to about 108,000 quads (1,610 subdivided x3), that's down from about 22.5 million triangles. Currently working on painting color maps.

posted by Phil Nolan # 1:33 AM 0 Comments

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Old Man

Current work in progress. Just a little side project I worked on for a few hours.

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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Quick LW tutorial... In HD!

The question of how to model this came up and while several answers were given, this is how I would do it.

Modeling a coiled phone cord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI9OqnSWj2Y (Click the HD button!)

posted by Phil Nolan # 3:40 AM 0 Comments

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Nintendo DSi

I had to laugh today when I just received an email about the Nintendo DSi. Not quite the same as my DS2.

http://www.nintendodsi.com/

posted by Phil Nolan # 5:31 AM 0 Comments