Archive for the ‘Featured Medium’ Category
Website was hacked.
Hi everyone, I wanted to share that a few weeks ago this site was hacked and everything was deleted. I wanted to make it clear that this site has never collected any information from anyone, so nothing was taken. If you had trouble accessing the site recently, I apologize. It has been restored from backup and everything has been updated and new security features implemented to ensure this doesn't happen again. I'm replacing some old plugins, such as the contact form, with new ones so if anything appears strange or broken, I apologize, I'm ...
Scanning with Reality Capture
Reality Capture gave me a temporary license of their software in order to make Some tutorials. This is the first one with more coming
Smudgie
I was hired by a band called Kid Gulliver to make a 3D character of their mascot. I was only given a very simple line drawing to use as reference so aside from a few details I pretty much had free reign over what to do with him. The character was sculpted and textured in 3D-Coat, then rigged and 3 animations made in LightWave
Potato Planet UFO
Here's a shot of the UFO that I made for the game Potato Planet. This is just a still from their YouTube video. I'm hoping to get a better image from
Mitsubishi project
I recently finished up a big job with Alkemy X (formerly Shooters) making a commercial for Mitsubishi heating and cooling systems. What they call an "eakon" in Japan, almost every home there has one of these. I thought this was going to be a quick little project at the start but it turned out to last a couple of months. There are 2 versions of this TV commercial but my part is the same in both. The model of the unit in the beginning and the house model at the end. The house model is what really took so much time. They weren't really sure ...
Latest updates, new blog, new model
First some good news, my contest entry did make it to the top 10 videos! As a reminder the deal was that the judges picked the top 10 entries out of 143 of them, then the winner was chosen at random from those 10. The bad news is that I wasn't chosen. Oh well, Still I was picked as one of the top videos! Next bit of news, since I didn't win the trip to Japan I will continue saving my money but in order to kick things up a notch I had an idea. I'm sure you've seen the models that I've created and sold on Shapeways.com. My idea is to ...
Beer Stein
Here is my latest 3D scan. This stein that belongs to my dad has been around for as long as I can remember. Beer Stein (3D scan) by philnolan3d on
Kneeling Woman
[Updated with photos] Click to enlarge My latest sculpture is now available for purchase as a physical printed object from Shapeways.com. The Sculpture is about 8 inches tall. This height was required to meet the minimum thickness for the "vines". http://www.shapeways.com/model/822510/kneeling-woman.html I have also added a turntable render to YouTube here. And to Sketchfab.com for viewing below. Sketchfab has listed it as one of the Staff
Final iced tea
Here is the final iced tea render used for the tutorial that will be in 3D World issue #164. The tutorial, which includes text, screenshots, and video, is already finished and sent in, I'm just waiting for final approval. (Click to
