Playing with textures and lighting

Last week I was playing with some textures and lighting and ended up with this.

T Project done

My Curly Hair Tarantula model finished

T Project

I have been playing with Maya Fur, Nhair, Paint Affects trying to figure out what I liked best I ended up using Nhair and using wind to get the hairs on the rump to go in the right direction and set it as my rest position. Next I need to work on lighting and rendering in mental ray.

T in Mudbox

So I spent most of today in Mudbox learning some cool tricks on how to transfer all my detail without the geometry as well as had some fun with the pose tool and this is what I ended up with when I brought it back into Maya to get Hair.

T Project

Getting closer

T project

my progress

Curly Hair Tarantula Project

Due to my recent interest in tarantulas I have decided to do a tarantula project. Here is my progress so far.

Cadillac

Worked on it for about 40 min today to try to finish back of car. Trunk does not look quite right to me so I will have to mess with that.

1959 Cadillac Deville Cabriolet

My next model project 

Here is what  I have so far. I decided to start with the back of the car.

Saleen

Bawls Energy Drink

A piece I did for portfolio I wanted to do a photo fun realistic glass bottle. I used a displacement map for the bump and used a dielectric material plugged into a anisotropic material.

Car Model

So I just needed to change the sample level to 2 and I tweaked a few other things.

My Car

I am still trying to work out some issues with resolution and HDRI lighting.

Car Model

Here is a car that I am currently modeling and will texture and light when finished.

Turn around of heart

Heart

Here is the latest heart. I modeled it in Maya then took it into Zbrush to create a displacement map and create the UVs. I did the texture in Photoshop. Next i went back to Maya and put a sub surface scatter on it and threw my lights in and did a turn table. Last i rendered in mental ray and took it into After Affects for compositing.

Heart

A work in progress heart that I am doing for fun.

My Model of the WB frog from the character modeling class.

A fish model I did a couple of semesters ago for a character modeling class. After the class was over I took him into ZBrush to Paint.