 
I made this picture for a 3d art contest at server 3dstudio.cz.
Theme of the contest was "horror" and what could be more
scary than an Alien? I modeled the scene in 3ds studio max 8, rendered
it with VRay 1.5 and then did some 2d post-production in Paint Shop
Pro 7.
   
This was an attempt to create a photorealistic 3d model. I choose
to model a paper model of Tatra 815 racing truck. I scanned sheets
with unbuilt paper model, built it in 3ds max and then rendered it
with Vray. The result is quite believable - I showed the renderings
on a forum about paper models and they thought that it was a real
model until I told them it wasn't.
 
I created a physical simulation of Tatra truck in reactor plug-in.
In first video you can see a finished video with truck racing through
desert (I used the paper model as I didn't have a model of real truck).
The simulation in the video still had some quirks though. I did some
improvements which resulted in almost perfect simulation. You can
see it as a preview in second video. Notice that it new simulation
takes into account even details like tyre wall deformation.

A video of two space fighters flying through an asteroid field. I
tried to emulate shaky cam effect used in reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
I will add more stuff in next days... |