Today's 3DCG practice

before I fell asleep for staying up until 3 am last night:





Basically, a practice with lighting and trying to make a word to look 3D.

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You can learn a lot from cows since after all- they can jump over the moon.

3DCG+manga/anime character

3DCG: Scatter 2 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


LOL!!!! For the first time- I managed to combine both 3DCG and manga/anime drawing----yaaaaaah!


Yeah because of it- there are probably mistakes... Oh well. It's 1:50 am right now. Everything looks nice at this hour~

Okay... I'm still not good at coloring hair and there's a bit too much blue here- but this is where I passed out after working for two nights and a few hours in order to combine both my own 3DCG and manga/anime character into illustration for the first time- so yeah... there are mistakes here and there probably. I'll do better next time.


This time, I tried to incorporate my original -veryX2 simple/basic 3DCG into the usual illustration instead of fractals. I created the background first and the character later- just like scatter([link]). Since it was still complicated for me, I drew the rough draft first on paper+pencil, scanned and produced the character and 3D CG based on it. In the end, I used the same original brush as [link] . Everything but the character and yellow triangles was produced in Cinema 4D- which I'm still trying to get the hang of it.

The line rendering for Cinema 4D was produced based on the tutorial by Pdgfx. Thank you.
Tools used:
A4 paper+pencil+eraser
Scanner
Adobe Reader+Acrobat (since the graphic was originally scanned in pdf format)
Cinema 4D R11 (studio) (3DCG models, 600dpi)
Comic Studio Ex 4.0 (line art, 1200 dpi, monochrome)
Photoshop CS2 (coloring, editing, 600dpi, 8bit/channel)
Texture for the sky: photo I took from airplane in Aug 2008


Time it took:
2 nights+a few hours
Modeling+rendering time for 3DCG:
2 hours

I did 3DCG practice last night:


I think my next illustration would have 3DCG, manga/anime character, and fractals if there's time.


p.s.
Practice:


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I think I prefer mischievous characters more.

Update

Talk about someone obsessed with fractals and Photoshop brushes...





scatter by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Today's three day weekend~ yaaaaah! No work!!!

update

Fractal: Burst by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Since there were no clubs for DA users in Japan, I created one:

http://japaneseclub.deviantart.com/

and its chatroom available for members and watchers:
http://chat.deviantart.com/chat/JapaneseClubchatroom

The communication would be mainly in Japanese, I believe.

Muhahaha

I just upgraded my Mac OS 10.4 to OS 10.5 and installed Windows Vista!!!


Now, I can work on both Mac and Windows system!! Yay!!


However, I'm taking a bit of time- actually 4 days- trying to back up, upgrade, and erase old files since I mistakenly set the compute so windows get more memory than my Mac >.< oi!!


I just submitted a form to a certain gallery :)

My work will be displayed in March in a small hospital in Japan for a month. I really need to start my drawing for it lol

Latest artworks and brush

Hisen- colored by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Hisen- plain background by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART


Fractal 1 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

and finally,


fractal brush set 1 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

It seems as though brush is more popular than any deviation I ever submitted in DA- lol

Submitted my manga to the magazine

I submitted my manga to a pro-level manga magazine publisher in the US. Manga is in English and is done as an individual work. Hopefully, the result is good. If not- I'll keep on trying.

The result of the name (group project) I submitted to Japanese pro-level manga magazine in Sept. will come out within a few weeks.

3DCG Wall paper

3DCG: Wallpaper by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

3DCG animation practice

Yeah... Call it the major disaster for my first 3DCG animation attempt:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-827.html

Site's in Japanese- but you can watch it without any lang. problem- probably. It didn't work when I posted the video directly here.

I used texture from Princess of Shadows's stock for the second animation.