Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Abstract Wallpaper:

Wallpaper pack: Egg by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Photoshop CS3
30min-1hour

botched 3D CG for background for SciFi themed wallpaper:


and... my attempt to try out blurry illustration:

Botanist by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Corel Painter X
Photoshop CS3
Illust Studio
a few days

Thursday, January 14, 2010

BW illust/doodle


Group shot by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The 3D CG I made and used in this illust:

(I finally figured out how to render the wireframe by doing Effect>>Cel Renderer (Outline, Edge)at Render Setting. I can't believe that it took this long to figure out such thing)

What I did differently this time was to draw more than one character in one BW drawing, and use a different rendering method for 3D CG.

I used to render in Cinema 4D and pasted it or traced it in another software. This time, I rendered using IllustStudio/Comic Studio since I finally found out that exporting Cinema 4D files in Wavefront format produced .obj format files, and that could be incorporated into those 2D CG drawing softwares.


It's been a year since I had Comic Studio Ex 4, and ugh... it took me more than a year to figure out wireframe render.


I used a camera's lens effect to change the shape of 3D CG render to have a movement in illustration.

Cinema 4D R11 studio
Comic Studio Ex 4
IllustStudio 1.1.0 (since I didn't have Comic Studio in another computer)
~ a week

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

2010

began with a lot of photography and sorting out old files.

I sorted out things from 2003-2009 to see its progress:

2003-2009 MEME by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

The last doodle of 2009:

I just used Photoshop to practice a technique I saw in a book earlier on that day. Of course, it didn't turn out the way I wanted but sort of got the idea of how to go about certain graphic.

and the first sunset of 2010:

1-1-2010 by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART

Anyway, here I go with photos I took from 1/1/2010 to this weekend since I didn't update this blog.

Spec. info:
1/1/2010 photos:
Food:
Canon Kiss X3
Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM
Photoshop CS3

rest:
Canon Kiss X3
S18-55 F3.5-5.6 IS
Photoshop CS3

Aquarium photos:
Lumix TZ7
Photoshop CS3

Otoso, sweet rice wine called mirin with herbs.

Ozoni with white miso:

Kuromame (sweetened black beans):

Kazunoko (herring eggs):

gomame (small sardines):

Nishikitamago (sweetened egg):

Kamaboko (fish cake):

Kobumaki (kelp roll) with salmon:

Forgot what this was but chicken thingmy:

Dog:


I eliminated some photos from 1/1 since it had sea cucumbers. I think many people are not used to seeing sea cucumbers as food so if interested, please look at:
http://daydreamingsky.blog94.fc2.com/blog-entry-1387.html#more
for sea cucumbers my family found on the beach to being on a dining table if interested.



Kaiyukan Aquarium shots (more photos are in my Japanese blog):
Dolphin playing with water:






Fish in a staring game w. me:


seals that are too fast to be in a photo:





but bothered to poop:
and play with a diver who is cleaning in middle of poop above:

Sunfish:


Whale shark:





Shot with a different screen mode:

School of sardines:

Jellyfish:

Jellyfish by =Waterdroplet-s on deviantART