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NPR and procedural sketching in ICE

andy — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:14:16 +0000

(This article is a follow up to a thread on the XSI mailing list, showing some experiments I did a ways back with NPR using softimage ICE…)

Graffiti Analysis

andy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:19:13 +0000

http://graffitianalysis.com/about/

Grafitti analysis is an interesting project by Evan Roth (and others) where he’s converting graffiti, or more accurately the motions which create graffiti tags, into data, which is then archived into a database and can be displayed as a 3d visualization. There are some interesting applications, but mostly I think it looks cool.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Leonardo Predicted Gulf Spill

andy — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:42:54 +0000

It's right there in his notebooks!

Ok, well no…. It’s just me fiddling around with photoshop to loosen up after a break from graphics.

Testing Mach Studio

andy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:38:38 +0000

Here’s the result of 1/2 hour (probably less) fiddling around with Mach Studio Pro and Photoshop to try to see how fast I could produce an acceptable concept image.

I exported the buildings from Maya which took a few minutes, slapped on some materials, threw in an environment light and a spot light. Rendered a frame (which took 0.13 seconds to render) and took it into photoshop where again I just threw some elements together – a sketch filter blended with the CG, some vignetting and color manipulation. It’s not going to win any awards but that’s not the point… I was able to get this image out from start to finish incredibly fast, and that’s despite my being a novice with MSpro. Very promising…

Doodling with hypersketch and photoshop

andy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:06:24 +0000

Hey, it was drawn with a mouse. Sue me.

XSI toon shader

andy — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:55:25 +0000

Did some more work on a basic realtime toon shader for XSI (and maya, it’s CGFX.) Here’s a sample…

It's Agent Smith(s), toon style.

Functionality is pretty basic at the moment: Ink threshold, 2 levels of paint and a hard spec hilight, overall color control, a single point light source. I still need to introduce diffusion and spec mapping, possibly some reflections and bump/normal. Remember, if you see an agent, run.

Playing with NPR

andy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:48:04 +0000

I’ve been playing around with a little app on my iPhone which creates NPR sketch effects from photos (I gather made by Bruce Gooch, who has done a lot to advance the state of the art in ‘painterly’ and ‘sketchy’ image manipulation.) ToonFX

Two of my Great Pyrenees dogs, Frankie and Hutch.

The app is simple but with a little effort and insight you can get some good results.