Painting on the surface of the 3D model

Photoshoped image

Finished painting with Mudbox

Painting on the surface of the 3D model with Mudbox painting function.

Useing stencil and projection painting

Experimenting Mudbox

today's practice

Finished pouch modeling

Practice based on the book tutorial

Detail of the sculpting

Today's experiment of Mudbox

Sculpting a detail of whale

added more bumps around its mouse and make the skin more rough.

The whale becomes more an plausible sea creature more than a toy whale figure.

Making Detail

Detail of my work(wall tiles)

Make basic shape with Maya  -->  extract "faces" to objects  --> export objects as .obj

 --> edit with Mudbox --> export  objects as .obj --> import into Maya

Today's experiemnt

Rendered with Mudbox's metal texture.

Another view

Stenciled and "flatten"

All the bumps are delicately controlled by a digital tablet.

Another view

Stenciled surface and smoothed

Stencil is really useful to create relieves on the surface of a 3D model.

I tried to sculpt Greek relief on the surface of the cube. In regular 3D modeling technique this type of modeling takes long time especially only with Maya but it this case (Mudbox with stencil) took only 5 minute to sculpt the surface.

Experimenting the "imprint" tool with a image stump. 

Subdivide the polygon (1.8 million polygon)

My Whale model in Mudbox

3D scanner Practice

Learned how to use 3D scanner

3D Scanner is not good at scan hairy object.

3D Scanner can not scan black object.

Scanning quality is deeply affected by background of the scanning object.

Progress

Work Picture

Render test

"Maya blinn" texture and "V ray dorm light" + "directional light"  rendered by V ray

Workpic02

Work picture

Rendering test

Rendering test with Maya mental Ray with "Surface shader" +  "mib amb occlusion".

Mudbox 2010

August 28,29

Attend CNC router demo with professor Emily Puthoff. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC_wood_router

Independent study

Advanced integrations of 3D technologies into art creation.

Purpose

The goal of this project is to create virtual/physical sculptures that were produced with digital 3D technologies. The importance of the digital fabrications in contemporary art is increasing due to their infinite possibilities and an artistic exploration of “something new” form of art. Also improving availabilities of those technologies accelerating developments and sophistication of this new field very rapidly. This project will be very experimental since the project will explore a totally new genre of sculpture creation.