3D CG+Illust & a bunch of photos

Again, I failed to update this blog regularly as I should since photos keep on piling up.


Anyway, here's the latest illustration using 3D CG:

Wallpaper: Night flower by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


1920x1200 pixel available for download (personal usage only).


I did it just for fun since satsuki-lo requested it two weeks ago.

This was a bit of hard 3D CG due to moire produced with dark lighting in Cinema 4D. No matter how much I tried- it still sucked. This was a third try- so if you count all of my renders- this took me ~7 hours of rendering.

Oi.


Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio (2 days of modeling on and off, 2 hours and 47 minutes of rendering)

Anyway, here are bunch of photos I took over the weekend:



Lumix TZ-7 (Sat):






















I don't think I'm good at taking photos in aquarium.

Temple and a game in city taken with cellphone two weekends ago :



It's a coin game to catch a stuffed toy of Sentokun- a mascot for Nara Prefecture. I was amused by this since Sentokun is modeled after deer and Buddha. Weird combination, I must say.


KissX3+Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM (Sun):




Salad in a restaurant:

Car:




Yeah... I liked to play with overexposed images.

I fixed this little with Photoshop (only this one) to give slightly aged look:

Sky Building in Osaka:

Playing with Bokeh in the car (while stopping for a streetlight):




The clip of a next illust I'm working on:


Somehow, almost all characters have similar hair styles, but I drew line art since I haven't in a while. Compared to the one on top of this entry, it will be a bright and cheerful illustration with a dash of modern theme. I made most of the 3D CG models for the past week. Now, I will have to arrange it so it fits with this line art and start coloring while rendering. Hopefully, it goes well.

Doodle: Dragon and a guy with apron

Alchemy

Photoshop CS3

2 nights

Up close:

Yeah... this was a doodle I did for the past two nights. I first created the face of a dragon using Alchemy and painted over it in Photoshop. I meant to paint a coat for a guy and ended up with bistro apron guy.

Since... I like bistro apron. I think they make people hotter *cough *cough.

Nah... but... they indeed make them seem a slightly different. Longer legs? More professional looking?

But... this tends to look like a skirt than apron. Ugh.

This was an instant drink I had recently called Amazake.　A traditional Japanese drink.

I was a bit high on sugar from drinking this that I made the ad looking thing above- with bad typography and sense of taste... I took the photo with DSLR and fixed and edit in Photoshop along with typography and etc. It's a bit off season since fans are symbols of summer....

Oi vey...

Doodle: Concept Art Practice 8

concept art practice 8 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Photoshop CS3
1-2 hrs.

Thanks a million to Jama and battlefist for tips and brushes!



This is a quick practice, sort of speed painting, for concept art. I think if I don't concentrate... all of my paintings turn into waterscapes. My old bad habit. I want to explore more paintings with Photoshop like this in future.


I know now how laziness and short height gets in the way of imagining landscapes.

1. Used vanishing point this time- properly, two point perspective thingmy- which I didn't do it properly in the past often

2. Must draw these kind of landscapes from angle- high up or aerial view to make the place seem vast. I often drew from the perspective of a ground level and that... made things look flat. Oi.

Doodle with Alchemy

Ever since I found about Alchemy from Jama's comment in his page, I became obsessed with the program.

To Jama:

Congrats on receiving DD!

I was a bit amazed how gallery mod responded fast to a suggestion (a day after my suggestion, he received DD). He would have gotten it sooner or later though since he's a great concept artists with a wonderful sense and skills. Really friendly and helpful to others as well.

Anyway, my attempt of last night:

Insect like thing:

Some sort of pattern:

And a bunny... no some sort of rodent:

Alchemy

Switched to Photoshop and used PS brushes that Jama kindly gave me other day:

Ta-dah!

Okay... I will try to do better next time I use this same method for the concept art.

All of this took a few min~30 min. So... quick doodles.

3D CG+Illustration: Modern Room

modern room by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Aimed for interior design look.

Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio (Global Illumination)
SAI
~ 6 nights


I was originally planning to start drawing manga after this illustration, but the script and the background image is still not ready. So... I will do concept art on Photoshop after this since I got brushes from Jamshed Jurabaev last night. Thank you so much!!


I found out last night, but he works as a designer in Tajikistan under href="http://www.ustodesign.tj/">Ustodesign. He's very kind and helpful to other artists so I kind of became a fan recently... well.... I became a fan once I spotter his concept art a month or two ago.

His work:

The path by *jamajurabaev on deviantART


His technique I'm planning to use for the next concept art is the use of

Alchemy

It's an open share software (is that how people call free softwares?) and is usable in Linux, Windows, and Mac. I tested it out last night and both worked fine in Mac though tended to be a bit slow compared to Vista. I don't know how to use Volume thing but supposedly, it creates images with sound through microphone or something.


He used this for character concept art and painted more in Photoshop as seen here:

Characters 3 by *jamajurabaev on deviantART


My attempt with the software:

1st Round:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

2nd Round:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Third:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Fourth:

送信者 Waterdroplet's Blog

Positive side:
- Usable in both Mac and PC unlike inkscape which claimed that it was usable but couldn't in Mac OSX
- light and easy to learn
- in both Japanese and English

Downside:
There's no undo option- so must erase the canvas completely in order to get rid of a mistake


I think it's a good program to have besidesApophysis.

Apophysis 2.09 attempt (mistakenly rendered with a light shade):





The following are practices I did with Cinema 4D, trying to test how to manipulate 3D CG model so it will have asymmetrical organic object kinda look+duplication method so I could create chains:

Practice using metaball (right) and atom (center)


Ball and chain thingmy:


Chain

Trying to manipulate 3D CG into asymmetric shapes by pulling, smear, smoothening, and etc. using a brush tool (originally a sphere):

and transparency test (used gradation +turbulence):

All of them took a few min. to create. I think the last one was the most interesting so I might use this technique for the next 3D CG.

Photography

I went to Nara during this weekend... after 15 years? I was in elementary school last time I visited there.



I was trying to take a photo of sudden rain storm... and couldn't get the effect from having non-DSLR camera that day.

Decided that it will be fun to try out 鹿せんべい (Shikasenbei)- a snack for deers- which my friend mentioned that it tasted "gross" (since it's only for deers) while taking out my camera and 150 yen...

And... the next second after I bought it, GAAAAH!

Deers were all over, nibbling away on my clothes (to urge me to give the snack to them), stepping on my foot, and

took away the last batch before I could even try it out myself. Dang.

My friend was chased by four does, while I was calling out, "Hey, somebody's popular!"

I was chased by only two deers.

A little deer was also present... probably a few months old by looks of it.

with its mom- awwwww

and further down the street toward Todai-ji Temple, deers seemed to rule the streets (also its poop)

Buck

Doe

Deers were worshipped as messengers from god in this area. With tourists and all, they are pretty much all over this area- still wild so even though they seem tamed- so be careful how you approach them.

Deers seem to be pretty related to goats and sheep as can be seen by the shape of their pupils.

Curious deer

sideways
walks like kings/queens

I think this fellah wanted to say,

"I'm the King of the World!"

since world seems to revolve around him

some fellah is head-over-heels with his doe

and the main temple of Todai-ji Temple. It's where a huge Buddha statue is present

Lumix TZ7

Illustration

imagination by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Comic Studio Ex 4.0
SAI
Photoshop CS3
Cinema 4D R11 studio
Lumix TZ7
~ 6 nights (actually worked in 4 nights)