Hey folks, I'm benignly neglecting this blog currently. The usefulness of this "space" has kind of been supplanted by the ease of posting art on tumbler. You can find my "feed", or whatever the kids call it, at:

http://nezach-hod.tumblr.com/

Here is a short animation of the Precellys 24 I posted a while ago. This has updated materials (using the mental ray Arch and Design uber-shader instead of the hodge-podge of old mr/mia shaders had to cobble together in Max 8 ), lighting (mr Photographic Exposure Control FTW), and is a higher quality render overall, if I do say so myself. This was also test of of some behind the scenes render passes and other theories of visual trickery I put to the test. The parts where the model is still use an image with high quality render settings, but when the camera move kicks in the quality is dropped and a post process (After Effects) vector motion blur kicks in to cover it up. I am happy with the result and the fact that it halved the render time with very little loss of image fidelity.

Done with 3ds Max 2011, After Effects, and Photoshop.

precellys comp01 1 1 from Ndege Diamond on Vimeo.

securpass-beauty01

securpass-beauty01

I haven't posted in a bit so I'll (hopefully) be adding some stuff that I've been doing while neglecting this blog.

First up is some work related imagery. Here are some beauty renders of a model made for training operators of Securpass full body scanners.

This was made in the venerable 3ds Max 8 (not 2008 either) using its implementation of mental ray. The logo and graphic textures were developed from digital images taken on site at one of Chicago's fine correctional institutions.