new stuff -- Bernie Oh! background xperiment

[Mike Rhodes]

been a bit taken with this latest attempt at 3D cartooning. I decided to go with ZBrush as the modeling and texturing part, Carrara as the compostiting and rendering part.

First up is a animation of a mermaid. Been working on the background. Here's an experiment using ZBrush for the model and texture, rendered using just a spot light in Carrara:

http://www.crtoons.com/carrara-stuff/media/tr-seaweed.jpg

I exported the model as a OBJ. When I did the texture, it defaulted to AUV Tiles. I opened the BMP that was created by the export, saved it as a TIFF file and you know what, Carrara had no problem with it. I imported the OBJ using the default settings, except I made it conver the obj as One Object.

Here's a rendered large size of the first frame of my test animation:

http://www.crtoons.com/carrara-stuff/media/tr_dune_05-1.jpg

I really like how "painterly" it kinda looks like.

Here's the link to the 10sec quicktime movie:
Test Render (http://www.crtoons.com/carrara-stuff/media/tr_dune_05-1.mov)

I'll be checking back here tomorrow, after I model the Mermaid -- full name: Bernedette Opal.

Lemme know what you think. Since this latest work by me wouldn't have been posssible without ZBrush, I think it's okay to post here.

later,

mr

[Fux0r]

i like the shadows. specially in the top one, the shaddows make it look really good

[ed_the_atom]

yup....

That is good stuff mike..... :tu: :tu: :tu:
exactly the right atmosphere for the style.

[cameyo]

Wonderful work !! :eek:
Thank You for share.

cameyo

[boozy floozie]

Nice post. I Like the second one very much, lovely composition. :tu:

Out of interest - what version of Carrara do you use? I won version 1 in a competition some years back now but abandoned it due to recurring bugs despite the update patch.

I'd be interested to hear your opinions especially if you are using version 2.

[Mike Rhodes]

Hey boozy Floozy --

thanks for the comments.

I'm using Carrara 2.1 ( the update is on Eovia's website) And compared to 1.x day and night -- 2.1 is very stable and in the process of doing this animation it didn't crash once; was using it for well over 6 hours!

btw, I'm using mac ox X 10.2.4 fwiw.

Oh, forgot to mention that the kelp was created using ZSpheres. membranes are a god-send. It only took me about a half-hour to create it.

merc