roughness

rebuilding all the characters from the ground up.
now is Ardente's turn and a good time as any to fiddle with the skin material some more.
1st iteration shown here was good enough albeit very glossy.
2nd iteration with a modified roughness in the specular node.
3rd pic is the octane graph.
quitez happy with the hair.

gimble lock

set some dynamic materials for the dolls skins
a basic ui
working on some camera controls and loosing myself trying to understand quaternions just for the fun of learning something new :)

your next stop

clutter

my, i hadnt realized how long the process of adding clutter would be. i've always tried to have some details in the scenes i did to flesh out the mood (or jus go bare as with the black collection) - but here, as i'm building Al's office/home, i realize thats its more than mood - its Al's place, it should tell about her.
The bedroom/kitchen corner above still lack personality - and the noir-sci-fi touch, and while i'm filling the room, i'm not posing the actors...
Posting this draft and then later a more complete one so you can play spot the difference !

some time later:

notice the pet bowl ? i think Aletheia will have a cat companion...

censorship

the patreon page is currently disabled.
sorting things out with the powers that be.
thank you for you patience.

as of 15th june, still no news from patreon staff...

archives 2013-2017

I've gathered all my old stuff and .rar'd it for cloud storage. most of it is available somewhere on the net and, as archives go, its older, less proficient stuff. Anyways, if you want to have a look-see, its 1.5go and can be downloaded here.

Wrestling with light

For a year now i've been working on 2 monitors that give me quite different outputs, one being much brighter and vibrant, the other more tonaly neutral.  Its a boon and a curse, allowing me to check what an image might look like on your side, with different screens - while at the same time confusing me about what my /real/ image is.
Legibility is the word here: if the image is readable in its details, i'm fine with it.
Here is an example from Resolve:

the scene is supposed to be /in the dark/ but how much can you make of the Ella character. So i came up with a much brighter version:

Which will be readable on most monitors.

I really like playing with light, and i'm still learning how to control it. I hope you enjoy the results and forgive my blunders.

Milliways (draft)

Resolve P.I.

Aletheia's PI agency has a name:

fighting with light again trying to make some nice rays in the mist. the image above is a low res test of the effect. More & better soon.

Logos Lab & Doc

the lab is taking shape:

as well as the staff:

Logos research

will be the setting for Alethia's 1st set

Aly's desk

still playing with Aleteia's desk & some volumetric lighting which still needs tweaking.

reworked volume:

Finding Aletheia

Binge (re)watching Fringe which made me want to quote it for Aleteia's character. Details, its all in the details.

and why stop here ? a bit of Firefly for the whiskey: