Mech Attack

This is a clip of a Mech Warrior under attack on a city street. The sequence is made up of 4 shots, as seen from 3 cameras, including hand-held, stationary and aerial.  Turn up the sound, too.

The modeling & animation was done using 3ds max. Composting, sound and editing done in After Effects & Premiere.

Although a departure from ArchViz work, this project was fun and used some of the animation tools in the newest max version.

Burton

This a clip of my favorite blue elephant, Burton. He's a box model done in 3ds max.

New Website - No Flash

The time had to come - redesigned my site without Flash.  

www.onion3d.com

BTW - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1635595/apple-secret-flash-replacement-plan

CLOSED SOFTWARE SELLER Apple's attack on Adobe Flash might not have been a defense of open standards or a shift to HTML5 but because it is planning to release some closed technology of its own to replace Flash.

Read more: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1635595/apple-secret-flash-replacement-plan#ixzz1JXX98x00
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Wesite Updates - new work

New home page.  http://www.onion3d.com

New clip of a bronze pour cycle..

New Loft interiors

These are new loft interiors. Both done in mental ray.

Resources for 3D artists

These are some great free resources for bitmaps, tutorials, models and more:

Texture maps:

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

http://www.cgtextures.com/ 

Maps, models, tutorials & etc:

http://www.turbosquid.com/

http://vray.info/

http://www.heroturko.org/

http://www.3dlinks.com/

Enjoy !

3D max camera and light rigs - download and use them

http://www.onion3d.com/blog_downloads.html 

Here is a dome light rig, and a camera rig. Unzip the file to get them both. The camera is linked to 2 dummies, for better animation control - cleaner keyframing than a standard target camera.


Enjoy!

Lighting Materials fundamentals

This was done for a user group as a brush-up on the essentials of max standard lights & materials, specifically geared towards the scanline render engine.

Article - One Man Shop part two - AUGI World, January 2011

This article is the second of a series published in AUGI World in January, 2011. It further explores freelancing in today's work climate.. The articles are all pdfs. Tutorials will be done on video.

One Man Shop part two

http://www.onion3d.com/Articles/One%20Man%20Shop%20part%20two.pdf

Article - One Man Shop part one - AUGI World. September 2010

This article was first published in AUGI World in September. It is the first of three articles that tackles freelancing in today's work climate.. The articles are all pdfs. Tutorials will be done on video.

One Man Shop part one

http://www.onion3d.com/Articles/One%20Man%20Shop%20part%20one.pdf

Article - Scanline Rendering - Autodesk Catalog 2010

Scanline rendering and GI rendering

This articles was first published in the Autodesk catalog in August for Siggraph 2010. It touches on ways to use scanline in 3ds max to save time. The articles are all pdfs. Tutorials will be done on video.

Scanline Renderer: Simulating
Global Illumination in 3ds Max

http://www.onion3d.com/Articles/Scanline-AUTODESK.pdf