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Monday, February 22, 2010
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3D Studio Max 2011
Thursday, April 08, 2010
3D Studio Max 2011 is out now. I am currently downloading it and should be able to start putting it through it’s paces this weekend. Probably the key feature for me this time is the backwards compatible file format—it’s about time that Max added that.
State of the Art
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The new equipment has been installed and performing admirably for the past several months: A custom-built quad core workstation with an HP DreamColor LP2480zx monitor. Render times have been up to twenty times faster with this system, saving an immense amount of time and letting me speed up my development cycle. The DreamColor allows for pristine color reproduction, using the billion-color full color space. The contrast ratio and color-reproduction are key to the color-managed workflow I am implementing with this system.
Both 3D Studio Max and Lightwave run like a dream with this setup.
This system upgrade was funded in part by a generous grant with the assistance of the Midland College Business & Economic Development Center.
Here’s the view of my current desktop space.
Drawings, Fall 2009
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Two of the drawings from the Fall of 2009, both rendered primarily with colored pencil.
Prescription Medicine Bottle
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Another stock model, this time a medicine bottle. Inspired by all the pill bottles I had left after my recent upper respiratory infection, I think that this one turned out rather well. With the materials I came up with, both Max and Lightwave produce superlative renders, as you can see here.
Crescent Wrench
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wrench Test Render from Isaac Karth on Vimeo.
I’ve finished my latest modeling project and uploaded to TurboSquid. I was able to get the metal texture to match across three rendering engines—not exact but close enough to get the effect I wanted.
3D Stereo on YouTube
Friday, October 23, 2009
YouTube has a new experimental feature for displaying stereo 3d. I hauled out the Bee stereo turntable animation and cleaned it up for the two-channel stereo formatting. If you’d like more information about the stereo process, I used this somewhat-helpful thread as a guide when preparing the file.
Being able to produce the file once and use multiple 3d options is a huge plus, especially when over-compression can so easily destroy red/blue stereo. With this method, it doesn’t matter if you have
red/blue, red/cyan, or red/green. Or maybe you prefer looking at it cross-eyed. It all works, using the same source data.
Gremlins Video is Available on IMDB
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Acceding to vast popular demand I have uploaded the widescreen video and Gremlins in the Basement is now available on IMDB.
Gremlins in the Basement Official Website
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
I’ve now posted the official website for Gremlins in the Basement.
Processing 1.0
Monday, December 15, 2008
Processing recently reached version 1.0, so I've been playing around with it again.
Water Bottle
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A new model, which took about four hours off and on, including the interruptions and not counting the renders. 1080p renders take a while on this machine.
The Bee
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Bee (HD Version) from Isaac Karth on Vimeo.
The full HD version of The Bee is now online.
Photoshop Logo
Thursday, March 20, 2008
I just finished an entry for the Cut and Paste “See What’s Possible” contest. I hadn’t had the change to do motion graphics lately, so I had a bit of fun playing around with it. Of course, my computer died in the middle of production and I had to put off some other projects, but at least it’s finished now.
