Newshttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/en-US2010-07-31T02:12:37ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Cliff Village WIPhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/7/30/cliff-village-wip.htmlAlanise's Side2010-07-30T15:03:09ZConceptsI started a new piece this week in between some work and wanted to post up some work in progress modeling shots. I plan to spend a bit more time on this piece than I usually do on my personal work but still want to have it finished by the 8th. I still have some modeling to do and much texture work but here is the progress I have so far. I think this will be a very nice piece and already have two camera shots I want to do and decided to already turn this into two pieces. One to get a feel for the village as a whole and a more intimate shot to show off the structures. Hope you enjoy and please return to see later progress shots and of course the finished product.

]]>City Where Hearts Mergehttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/7/26/city-where-hearts-merge.htmlAlanise's Side2010-07-26T21:04:18ZConcepts Painting

Many roads converge
And many find their way
To the city where hearts merge
And its location? Maps never do say

I was in a Painting mood this weekend and this is the result. Working on a new 3D piece but this was a nice practice since I do not paint much and a nice break from all the 3D. Hope you enjoy!

]]>Featuredhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/7/7/featured.htmlAlanise's Side2010-07-07T23:27:32ZOutside News toyrocket

I received my issue of 3D Artist Magazine today which has one of my art pieces as one of the featured works. I am so excited. My piece that is in this issue was my interpretation of Tolkien's Esgoroth "Laketown" as Bilbo first gazes on this strange human town built on the surface of the lake.

To know more about the piece and progression thread here is the original blog entry

]]>Godzilla Meets Inflatable Purple Gorillahttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/7/3/godzilla-meets-inflatable-purple-gorilla.htmlAlanise's Side2010-07-03T09:39:42ZrenderingsOkay this is my new fun piece. I could not spend too much time as I am supper busy lately but hope you enjoy!

Inflatable Encounter

I never really understood why car lots insist on large balloon creatures to attract attention and the one that always sticks out in my mind is the purple gorilla's with sunglasses and shorts. Maybe they are to scare off monsters banking on the scarecrow idea. So Godzilla comes to town and encounters the inflatable purple gorilla the car lot's scarecrow so to speak. So how does this scene play out? Quick Firbreath or some Godzilla swings? How should the ridiculous destruction happen? You tell me, and I might just do a scene two with your suggestion.

Programs: 3ds Max, zbrush, vray, photoshop - Basic 3D scene with photoshop paintover

Completion: 3 days.

wire and basic scene layout before photoshop paintover.

]]>Sci-Fi City WIPhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/5/19/sci-fi-city-wip.htmlAlanise's Side2010-05-20T03:13:59ZUPDATE 06.05.2010 Final Piece: Sectera

Here are some screenshots of the city layout. There are holes as I was just modeling what one could see from the camera but still trying to make the city layout make sense.

UPDATE 05.31.2010

I had a chance to work a few more hours on this piece, but back to other projects I must go.

05.19.2010

I started this project a couple a weeks ago, but put it on hold as I got super busy with freelance. Unfortunately, I can not show the stuff I been working on so I will post up the WIP of this Sci-Fi city. I hope to get some more time to work on this piece. Below is model progress so far and this piece was based one of the sketchs I did months ago.

]]>Hobbit- Laketown WIPhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/5/1/hobbit-laketown-wip.htmlAlanise's Side2010-05-01T22:19:45ZTaking the description from the text from the "Hobbit" of Bilbo's first time seeing Esgaroth. The town not on shore but out on the lake constructed entirely of wood and stands upon wooden pillars sunk into the bed of the Long Lake, south of the Lonely Mountain and east of Mirkwood.

Programs: 3ds, Max, photoshop. This piece is a mixture of 3D elements and Over Painting

Final Piece

Okay this Gnomon April them was Esgarth "Laketown" from the Hobbit yes I know I am missing the deadline but I got slammed with freelance work but I still going to finish it anyway because it from the Hobbit. So this is where I am at right now

]]>New Model Available for Purchasehttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/4/28/new-model-available-for-purchase.htmlAlanise's Side2010-04-28T21:18:26ZModel Sells

To Purchase this model Visit http://3docean.net/item/wood-dock-segment-barrels/100468?ref=tml96a

Wood Dock Segment & Barrels

Tillable Dock Segment & Barrels are Low Poly Models with High Quality textures maps, normal and specular maps. Texture maps are varied per side of side of object so rotating, copying and flipping model around will give the look of variation while still using the same texture map.

Features:
- Low Poly Models
- 2k & 3K Textures that are tileable with Variations per model side and can easily be reduced in size for games while still having an high rez original.
- UV Layout

Individual Poly Counts
Barrel = 442 polys
Dock Floor planks = 432 polys
Post = 204 polys
Scene total = 5588 Polys

This file includes:
Max 2010 file
Max 2009 file with VRay Materials
Texture, Normal, and Specular Maps
Bump Maps are included if can’t use normal maps
OBJ ’s Included

]]>FlyHigh WIPhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/4/15/flyhigh-wip.htmlAlanise's Side2010-04-15T21:10:13ZConceptsThis concept is basically a city along the water above the tree tops where its inhabitants can fly so need for stairs and elevators in their architecture. I wanted this piece to be colorful and blur the lines between man made objects and nature from the architecture to the wings on the girl.

I have had this idea for awhile and just now getting around to actually doing it. I enjoyed this concepts as I love thinking of new architecture. Hope you enjoy it.

]]>Updatehttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/4/15/update.htmlAlanise's Side2010-04-15T21:02:17ZrenderingsMy Fireplace of the Elements won forth place in the Gnomon 3D contest which was a surprise as I did not have much time to work on this pieces as some freelance hit me about the same time. So I got five more dvds from Gnomon. I Plan to make a new page with my recommendations of dvds, books and tutorials I have found extremely useful, so look forward to that coming soon.

]]>Classical Water Cityhttp://www.facetedmind.com/news/2010/4/2/classical-water-city.htmlAlanise's Side2010-04-02T22:26:10ZI have had a bunch of people take a liking to my new piece Classical Water City so I decided to show some of the passes I used in creating this piece. This piece took 3 days to complete including all modeling and painting

I started out with a very rough concept in Photoshop added some perspective lines and went straight to max and just box modeled stuff and added some foliage that comes in max as place holders. I then rendered out several passes to use in Photoshop along with just painting to create this piece. Below are the passes I used along with painting on top of those passes to created the final piece.

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