Office interior

Running on an impossibly short deadline (less than a day), this is part of an office interior where the client needed several renders. The furniture comes from Herman Miller, with some tweaking on the meshes and materials.
Rendered in Shade.

Ranch near Cuyuaco, Puebla

With the pine forest some 100m away, this Ranch that predates the Mexican Revolution was a sight to behold.

Amazon Warrior for Miki4, work in progress

Working on an Amazon Warrior outfit for Miki4. Still time for major revisions, but most of the modeling is done. Now for some sculpting in zbrush and 3dcoat.

Tuscan-inspired verandah

The main challenge was to convey the sense of the verandah on the very short space provided. The second challenge was the illumination, as not enough light leaked in between the high walls, the packed space, and the vines. In the end, the compromise of a wide aperture lens and the lighting gave a good result.

Rendered in Shade. BTW, having a linear colour workflow in Shade is a blast.

Entrance to a modern building

Rendered in Shade, done some postworks with the help of multi channel rendeing.

House in Puebla, Mexico. For my return to the wonderful world of blogging, I am posting the back facade of a house in Puebla, Mexico. The design is from my good friend Sergio Gonzalez. Rendered in Shade.

Monster w.i.p., test rendering in Poser

Still with no texture applied to mouth and eyes, and only a "fill-in" texture for the wing membrane...

Monster w.i.p., now texturing

Yup, texturing, in Zbrush.

UVmapping done!

Finally, the UVs are done! And the retopologizing. And the etc etc. Now, texturing and rigging...

Poser 8 is released!

Yay!
And it comes with my robot mecha inside!
Yay!

Pixelwarrior, offical Poser 8 Content Provider!

Yep, you read right. Pixelwarrior (that's me) is providing a robot mecha as part of the content to be included with Poser 8.

I'm extremely proud my mecha got accepted to be included. I have learned a lot from the experience, and hope that all the time and dedication brought into it's creation shows.

So, here is a quickie render, rendered of course in Poser8. Only one distant light, btw.

The link to the official Poser 8 page is here.

Giant Gundam dominates Tokyo!

I just had to post this one, being myself a Gundam fan:

This is what I have so far in creating a scifi mega complex. I want halls, hangars, laboratories... certainly a lot of work!

Shader's Cafe has a new home!

The previous administrator of the forum has passed control of the forum over to me. I hope I am up to the job of providing a home for the Shade community all over the world.

Space Cadet Lin for Terai Yuki, now on sale!

She is supposed to look sort of 70-ish science fiction. Anyway, she is now on sale in Content Paradise, here

Shade9 English released!!

Yay! After a long wait, Shade9 has been released in English!
You can read all about it here: http://shade.e-frontier.co.jp/en/shade9_eng-info/index.html

I have a girlfriend!

And her name is Gisela.
I am so happy :)

Poser clothes free, to celebrate my birthday!

Yay!
This weekend only, this medieval gentleman clothing for the G2 males is free to download in Content Paradise!

http://www.contentparadise.com/us/user/medieval_gentleman_for_the_g2_males_product_45375

BTW, I'm accepting expensive gifts for my birthday :P

G2Simon as a Medieval Knight

I forgot to post this before. Had been working on this character, it is done now. Took me a LOT to finish, the zipped file with all the textures and stuff is just barely below 80mb!
Anyways, I hope you like it

Shade9 English, temptative date announced!

This is big for me. As Shade is one of my everyday tools, the release of an update (finally!) after so much time is heaven sent.
Yay for e-frontier!
You can read all about it here