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
The Inquirer - Computer hardware news and downloads. Visit the download store today.

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.