Phil Nolan 3D

New client

philnolan3d — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:33:48 +0000

Last week I started working with a new client, Schubert Communications. They are located fairly close to here so I have met with the president in person, something I don’t often get to do. I’ve already finished my first project with them and am nearly finished my second. Things are going well so far and I should have a nice collection of new footage for my demo reel soon.

Female head WIP

philnolan3d — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:19:28 +0000

I pretty much finished the sculpting on the head I was working on and moved on to textures. After this the next phase will be to get it into LightWave and start working on the hair and more advanced textures like sub-surface scattering.

OnLive Logo

philnolan3d — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:35:03 +0000

I was challenged to recreate the logo for the OnLive game system in 3D. I had a spare hour or so so I thought it would be fun and threw it together. it’s not 100% accurate but I think the real logo is just made in something 2D like Adobe Illustrator and couldn’t easily be done in 3D.

More sculpting

philnolan3d — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:53:10 +0000

It turns out this starting with a skull idea works out pretty well. Here’s an update.

Epic modeling

philnolan3d — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:51:53 +0000

Finished up a project for Epic Studios. I have been asked not to go into detail for now but I’ll post images as soon as I have permission!

Sculpting from a skull

philnolan3d — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:47:01 +0000

This is a new experiment in character modeling. I decided to take a skull model and copy the parts I needed like cheek bone, eye sockets, jaw bone, etc., to a new voxel layer and then start adding flesh from there. I filled in the holes like the nasal cavity and covered over the teeth. I’ve now started pulling out a neck and shoulder area. Right now it looks like it could be some kind of alien creature, but I think this is a good start, showing that using the skull as a base can be a good way to start the base for a head model.

Happy Thanksgiving

philnolan3d — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:07:32 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving to my readers in the US!

Photoshop Touch

philnolan3d — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:17:32 +0000

I picked up Photoshop Touch the other day and I can’t believe how powerful it is. Just about everything I would want to do with photos can be done in there. The only thing that bugged me was not being able to select multiple layers at once.

Here’s a review of it.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/371230/photoshop-touch

After I went through the included tutorials my first experiment was adding this duck to a photo of my taken in Florida last January. Without leaving the app I loaded a pic of me, found a pic of some ducks via Google, selected just one duck and deleted the rest, duplicated the duck layer and flipped it, cloned a portion of the reflection layer to fill in a gap, used a gradient to fade it out, set that reflection layer to Multiply and finally added a little Gaussian blur to both layers.

Brand new website!

philnolan3d — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:33:26 +0000

As you can see I’ve completely redesigned my site. I think this is much better as it puts the artwork first and it’s also much easier to keep everything fresh and current. It still has a few bugs to work out I’m sure and some images still need to be uploaded but I hope you enjoy it all the same!

Orc

philnolan3d — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:52:05 +0000