@unknownuser said:

There's plenty of people in Europe who are religious without believing Satan is real. They consider him a mere concept, a ficticious personification of all things evil. (And I think Rome does too, at least officially.)

Really? That's interesting. How long before Rome reclassifies God as a 'ficticious personification of all things good' I wonder.

I do find it utterly baffling that people who, in every other aspect of their lives appear to be normal, intelligent, well-adjusted rational individuals (often, frighteningly, in positions of influence and responsibilty) can still subscribe to all this nonsense.

Ho hum.

A.

@unknownuser said:

... as it would've mine when I was your age.

This is from one of the comments following the article: "It seems 62% of Americans still believe in 'The devil'.

That ain't true, is it? Can't be!

Afraid to say I've heard a similar statistic.

Kinda goes hand-in-hand with belief in God I suppose...

Truly worrying.

igor: The blocks stop just below the top edge of the frame. There is a metal grid here from which they are suspended. White fabric is stretched across the top of this, and back-lit.

A.

Its a focal-point feature within a boutique-fashion event.

A.

Rendering from latest project. SU/Max/PS.

A.

As usual - very rough SU model, and a couple of hours painting in PS.

Comments always welcomed.

A.

Thanks Alex. Yes, it is looking a bit over-saturated in parts. I'll work on that.
This was a SU model. I roughly (and I mean roughly!) applied some basic textures in 3dsMax, and lit them from a single source - just to establish the basic shadow areas. Then into PS, where most of the textures were re-painted, layered etc - only tiny bits of the Max render are still visible. Would almost have been easier to go straight from SU to Photoshop, but the Max renders gave a good guide for the texture wrapping around the cylindrical shapes.

Will keep working on this and post progress...

A.

Thankyou Tina.
This one is just for me.

Andy.

A lot of work left to do on this, but progress so far...

SU models. And a load of painting in PhotoShop.....

A.

Just when I think I've got my act together, you go and post this Tina!!

Beautiful work. It's not about the software - this is artistry, pure and simple.

Inspiring. Thankyou!!

Andyc

Fly though animation from latest project:

Andy.

Been far too long Alex.

Great work as always. Enjoyed your recent stuff on mattepainting.org too.

Hope you get that job you're after

Andy.

Really nice, clean visuals. The section views work especially well.

Like your style

A.

Actually Dylan, I'd probably use the top (b+w) photo of the statue, as this seems to have been shot from a lower view-point, so would be better suited to showing the statue on top of the pillar, as viewed from ground-level. Also, it's a lot easier to blend a 3D model into a black and white photo - as you only need to match the tonal range, not the colours.

Andy.

Perhaps apply some gaussian blur to the branch and the plants at the bottom left - to fake a depth-of-field effect, and de-emphasise the branch...? Regardless, really nice work.

A.

Thanks guys.

Elysium: links to the images below:

Full details of the Google Lunar Xprize at http://www.googlelunarxprize.org

Andy

Thought it was time to show what I've been up to.

I was fortunate to be approached by the Xprize Foundation, to produce visualisations of the entries in the Google Lunar Xprize. You can see the results here:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams (click on the team logos to see the visuals).

And one visual was picked up by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/business/22space.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=lunar++google&st=nyt&oref=slogin

All vehicles were modelled in SU, before rendering in 3dsMax.

So, a project for Google, using Google software... Perhaps Google would be interested in using this as a case-study ?

Andy.

A quick test animation from an on-going project. Bit different from my usual stuff! Models created in SketchUp, animated and renedered in 3dsMax.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sipCO0WWR-Y

Andy

Hi Eric: I can understand the logic of splitting off the political content. However, the result seems to have been a sudden explosion in the number of political threads. Sure, I don't need to read them, but, for me, they taint the entire forum.

All the best,

Andy.