This is a little tutorial for SiClone, a neat 3DS Max plugin that I’ve been using recently by SiNi Software - https://www.sinisoftware.com/
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Did you ever daydream when you were little? Over the last couple of months I've been whittling away on these images for Getty, exploring the day dreaming of a toddler (our Jack). Working on them between commissions has meant progress has been quite slow and there are more images to produce for the series, but I thought I'd share the progress so far.
Around the corner from where we live there's a little shop that runs a gallery of local artists' work in their window - Walthamstow Village Window Gallery. On Friday their summer exhibition is opening and Toddler with bucket and spade is going to be part of it. It's running until 3 September so there's plenty of time to see it while picking up your sourdough loaf from the shop opposite.
I am selling limited edition prints of Toddler with bucket and spade here.
On Wednesday evening I'm presenting my work and, in particular the making of Space Baby, at the 3DS Max London Users Group. I'll be showing some of my workflow and how I created Jack's space suit with Marvellous Designer.
For more information go to - https://www.meetup.com/3DSLondon/
Come along and say hello over a pint.
If you've not been before you should, there's always interesting stuff being shown (this week being a perfect example) and beer - a winning combination!
I've been looking forward to sharing these photographs ever since I took them. David Eland, a good friend from university has just finished this magnificent job, renovating a 5 storey town house in south London. The largest element of the design was to lower the basement by 1m to create a cavernous lower ground floor that houses kitchen and dining.
I think this is possibly the first house that I've photographed with an original Damien Hirst in it. The Hirst piece hangs above an exquisite steel and oak staircase fabricated by R E Cooke. It turns out that their main business is making specialist buckets for diggers, but they make a pretty awesome staircase.
The kitchen was crafted by Sebastian Cox and you can find out more about David's work on his website Ozkurt & Eland.
Geeky, I know. Extremely!!
I was chatting to someone last night about light fields and it reminded me just how mind blowing they are. Essentially a light field camera captures 4D light information rather than 2D like a traditional camera - rather than recording a flat image it records the light levels in a volume allowing you to do all manor of clever things in post-production.
For anyone interested in exploring the frontier but is short for time check out this video,
For anyone hungry for more intel this podcast from the CG Garage Podcast delves in deep(ish).
This visualisation is of a proposed 8 storey office building, with retail and coffee shop at ground floor. You can compare the final image with the computer model below to see what we did in 3D. I prefer to create as much of the image as possible in the 3D model and keep photoshop work to a minimum. Partly that's just how I like to work, but it has the giant benefit that it increases our ability to adopt client changes as late into the process as possible, and minimise the impact of that one final tweak to the design.
I recently photographed this rather nice extension by Thomas & Spiers Architects in south west London. I believe the budget for the construction was relatively modest, yet they've crafted a really lovely space with a calm quality of light in it. I would happily move in!
For more information about the architects visit their website here.
I've recently discovered 5054 magazine and it's well worth a look. I recommend it. Patrick Myles is in charge of art direction (previously at Blueprint and RIBA Journal) and he's done an excellent job of it. This is not your average motoring magazine.
You can see more on 5054's website and read about it in an interview with Patrick on Creative Review's website.
I've posted this in the past but, hey, it's fun. A little break down of how we merge the real and the unreal.
You can see the final images here.
