The showreel

I have finished my Show reel and edited it all together this is the final piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1TYnT--nY&feature=youtu.be

The Intro and the contact details where done in aftereffects.
I used Final cut pro to edit them all together.

Thanks for reading
enjoy :)
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Free time? lets make more models

I have a bit of free time and I have finished my big project which was the Cave city. I have done a few textures for my friends and needed more stuff to fill out my show reel, so I thought I would do some basic modeling of inanimate objects.

I decided to  model a tree as they are quite hard to do and I thought i could challenge my self. I looked at a few tree images online and I went straight in to modeling it. Here are a few screen shots of my tree model;

I added all the leaves and added some grass along the bottom. This was quite fun to do and I was very happy that this was just modeling and I wasn't going to texture them.

I still had some free time so I thought I should model something else so I modeled an amp and bass. Here are a few renders:

I just used a basic colour to colour the bass and the amp, just to give it a bit of life.
They are not great models and I could have done better but at the end of the day it is practice and I do wont to show people what I can do.

Now I can move on and edit them all together
thanks for reading :)
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Lighting

I have done all my modeling and my texturing, the only things left to do it light it and start to render it out. The only light in the cave is the fairy lights and the sun light that comes through the hole at the top of the cave. I wonted to make one side of the cave darker than the other, as only one side is hit by the sunlight. I must be careful thought as too little light can make it too dark to see any detail.
here are a few rendered scenes:

 As you can also see I did as some water to the bottom of the cave it fill the cave out a little more.

I did the fairy lights different colours which look really nice in the reflection of the water. I made fairy lights because if people lived here they would need light to see when the sun goes down.
For the background I had to paint the light raze in to the scene or it wouldn't show where the beam of light would be coming from as well.

All I need to do now is render my scenes out and my cave city is completed.

thanks for reading :)
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