This has been such a great week. We just had the Visuelt 2007 seminars and award shows here in Oslo, with a selection of truly insipiring creative people visiting and giving talks. Me and Cecilie had a great time meeting some of the lecturers, and would especially give out a huge thanks to Steve, Rilla and Genevieve who really made this weekend a lot of fun! Hope we see you again sometime :)
I've spent the past weeks spare time doing a small cartoony character, and it's almost ready for animation. I've decided to take a small pause in that project to get some work done on a couple of programming projects I have waiting. I'm trying to script a procedural tree/organic thingy generator inside 3ds max, using theories I read in this book I got on environment sensitive automata. It's real tricky work with the limited math I know, but I hope I can have some nice images to show soon.
Also, I found a clever way to do 360 degree HDRI panoramas with the minimum of photos - and then using gamma look up tables to condense them into a 16bit image that's easy to edit in Photoshop. This image can then be converted back to HDRI with no loss of detail, which is a great workflow for retouching away stuff and doing colour adjustments. If I find the time I will do a small tutorial on the process, I would really like to hear some input on the way it works.
I uploaded some of my first HDRIs to Turbo Squid. So click your way over there and have a look. Here is one of them, tone mapped for clarity:
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The resolution is about 6000 by 3000 pixels, which makes for a lot of detail. I think I priced them fairly cheap, so please buy one if you think you could use it :) My Turbo Squid account was full after loading up these first two images, as soon as I am given a larger account there will be more panoramas there for you to look at.
Rune
13 May '07 - 15:53 | Permanent link to this entry |
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