Not my idea, but a Client wants a X-factor style award sequence, and when I say 'style' I mean parody of, started around the 2nd of December

Short Award Sequence


Full Intro Sequence:


And here are some stills from the final:














And some Work in progress shots below:

























With the help of some NASA Blue Marble images, I\'m creating the Earth

















Some older stills:

I've been thinking about things, and have decided to focus more on Motion Graphics and general 3D

I think i'll finish him one day, when the tools are available to me, I\'m waiting on Zbrush 3 which I need to do the high level detailing, and the game I designed this for UT2007, still isn't out

:-D

and I don't have a computer that could even run it if it was.

I've been playing with the technique of capturing normal maps with a lamp and a camera, using just 4 photos:









Underwater effect by adding a specular highlight. And a chrome effect by adding an environment map, all displayed in realtime, now that's fun!

And all from assembling 4 photographs

;-)

(Well and a very simple base mesh of a bowl shape)