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A bit of a different take on the queen card in Poker.
I wanted to bring the traditional flat image out in relief...like a sculpture, if you will.

As for the final look, I was going for a "Resident Evil-ish" Look.
Hope you like. All crits and comments welcome.
Thanks.
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My entry for the Gnomon Challenge titled " Control Room".

Since the theme is open to interpretation, I decided to do a mind control room instead.

Originally I was going to use a black and white spiral in the background, but thought this image would add more depth as the optical effect is far stronger.

C & C Welcome.]]> Sat, 30 May 2009 10:14:43 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/689854

This image I did as a birthday present for my friend Patricia who is adept fan of Moulin Rouge and the green fairy.

Originally, I had decided to make the green fairy character in the glass passed out just for kicks... but since it was my friend's birthday and all, I thought it would be better to make her the green fairy.

So I used photoshop to composit her face into the picture and I gave her a new hairdo, which is hand painted.

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A rather simple 3D character I made as a proposal for a client who is a dentist.

I modeled the tooth alone out of a NURBS sphere, and then converted it to polys in order to build the mouth and add the arms.

Finally, I added a blendshape for the smile and a simple rig to have him wave hello.]]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:50:47 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/661378

This piece I did to continue my studies on lighting the nude figure. It's a pretty simple set-up of only 2 lights: one key and one fill. Oh and just a touch of bounce light from the environment. Sometimes you really do not need more than just that.

I also took the opportunity to practice painting hair. So the hair was all painted in photoshop over a simple 3D base that I built with NURBS in maya and sculpted quickly to catch the actual lighting in the scene.]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:42:45 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/652102

This was my entry for this past month's gnomon challenge.
It was hard coming up with an idea for this. I doodled for a while and had this planet with roads all around and started from there. Then the idea of making it planet hollywood came to my head and seemed funny so I went with that, and immediately after I decided I'd have the classic image of riding the flying bike by the moon.

As for the actual execution, I did all the modeling in maya, and I used mostly simple shaders. Rendered with mental ray using a simple IBL dome with a ramp texture to provide the lighting, and a couple point lights here and there for bounce lights especially coming from the big red sign.

Finally took it to photoshop for color tweaking and also added manually the motion blur on some of the ships and also enhanced the highlights on the ships.]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:40:10 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/647949

My entry for this particular lighting challenge.
Framing this particular scene was I think even more challenging than the lighting itself, hehe.
The elements were scattered all over so for instance in order to frame the gas station from the right I had to leave out the trailer and the graveyard.

So i duplicated a few things here and there and threw them in the foreground, moved stuff around and played with it until I had something that made a more compelling scene.

As for the lighting, well...this was the first time that I tried to do film noir. I didn't want to go for the typical private-eye kind of film noir since I figured mostly everyone would, so I decided to do a kind of horror film noir.

I used only software render in Maya, and then worked the de-saturation and contrast in photoshop, and manually tweaked little highligts in the rain.

All crits and comments welcome.
Cheers.]]> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:09:57 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/649264

Just a simple 3D environment I did based on a thumbnail sketch I was preparing for the daily sketch forum.

I wanted to have a go at building the rock shapes rough but without looking low-res nor jaggy.
Rendered in mental ray with a ramp texture for IBL, and an ambient light with ray-traced shadows.

Crits and comments welcome.
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This piece was a lot of fun to work on. This time I was going for an old (bit of cliché if you will) comic book cover style.
Something along the lines of "War of the Worlds".

Most of the work was done in maya, and then taken into Photshop to add more fire, sparks, and a little bit of color correction.

Hope you guys like.
Thanks.]]> Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:35:46 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/690194

This was a scene I did as a proposal for a client who wanted some biblical-themed 3D illustrations.

In most of the paintings depicting this scene, the angel is flying but I thought it would be best to place him on the ground as an act of reverence.

Also, I decided to depict the angel without wings and use flying ribbon all around him, which would slightly resemble the shape of the wings.
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My entry for the halloween challenge.
Software Render.]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:22:26 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/541434

Another go at lighting the nude figure. This time I decided to go for backlighting the model with an area light working as a softbox, a little bit of translucency on the curtains...and a couple of negative lights to steal light off from the sides.

Cheers.
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This challenge was a lot of work. I wanted the overall color palette to resemble that nice brown/copperish hue from Batman Begins.

Lighting wise...I used a key/fill setup for the main lighitng, some area lights inside the parking lot, and a couple colored lights here and there.
I used software render for the beauty pass, and mental ray for the occlusion pass, and an additional overall color pass done with a simple IBL globe and Final Gathering.

The textures I did in photoshop and I added some extra dirt after the render was complete.

All crits and comments are welcome. Thank you.

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This challenge was a lot of fun to work on. I hadn't had to do a product comparison before, so it was a nice challenge to make Leet look more attractive just through lighting, instead of making the Brand X bottle obviously yucky so that it would be instantly rejected.

Crits and Comments welcome. Thanks.]]> Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:34:51 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/498746

For this scene, I decided to go with a monochromatic color composition, so I used a desatured palette, both in for the lights and textures, with yellow key-light and dark, red-orange fill, to help enhance the eerie mood.

All comments are welcome. Thank you.]]> Tue, 22 May 2007 01:27:55 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/492566

This is my submission for the underwater lighting challenge.
Again, I looked up reference imagery to find a very moody time of day that would suit this scene, and decided to go with a late afternoon / powerful sunset approach.

All crits and comments are welcome. Thanks.]]> Fri, 04 May 2007 02:30:53 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/492128

This is my submission for the "Candle Light" lighting challenge.
I decided to change the original scene a little bit because almost everyone had done the japanese look, so I thought I'd try something else.

I used a picture my parents had taken in historical costume at a place called "The Venezuela from the day before yesterday".

Lighting-wise, I wanted this piece to be low-key, very much like Caravaggio's old paintings.

All comments are most welcome. Thanks
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This is my submission for the "eye for an eye" lighting challenge.

This was a fun piece to work on. I hadn't experimented much with the mental ray fast skin shader and this gave me a chance to play with it.

I placed the skin's base tone with the make up on the overall part of the shader...and the veins on the epidermis. Then I added the bump and specular maps, and finally I did a little bit of touch-up in photoshop.

All comments are most welcome. Thank you.]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:07:58 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/484925

This is my submission for the "bottle collection" lighting challenge.

I got rid of the big window in the original scene and replaced it with a light panel I've seen in modern bars. I was going for a very vibrant look with a lot of energy. So I used very bright reflections and a mix of warm and cool hues.

All comments are welcome. Thanks.]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:25:37 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/480718

This is my submission for the flying spaghetti monster lighting challenge.

This was a fun piece to work on. I wanted to give the monster a little bit of character, so I went for tri-color pasta instead of plain yellow.

As for the environment, I looked up reference pictures of volcanoes, and I really liked the way the lava glows at night so that's the mood that I was after.

Hope you like it. All comments are welcome. Thank you.]]> Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:46:43 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/479268

This is my submission for the third lighting challenge. I'm still working on getting the hang of the whole fur system..so I decided to go on a different direction with this piece.

I wanted to make a chocolate bunny..then I got a bit carried away and built a whole little world around it, hehe. Anyway, I focused on getting the chocolate look just right...'cuz otherwise it could've ended up looking like....well...you know.

I hope you guys like it. All coments are most welcome.
Thanks!]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:06:54 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/476860

For this challenge, I developed 2 different lighting moods: A bright morning and a warm, cozy evening with interior lighting.

The textures are made with bases from the 3D total textures with some tweaking in photoshop. Lighting is mental ray with some post work in photoshop as well.

For the evening part, making the day for night background was tricky..couldn't quite get the result I wanted...but I'm happy with the lighting.

I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:18:22 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/473384

I'm getting started on the lighting challenges, so here's my try at the first one. The textures are done in photoshop with photo bases, some paint layers, and a few adjustment layers. The lighting was done with mental ray, plus some post work done in photoshop.

I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you very much.]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:32:14 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/426838

This image is entitled "Celestial Gateway".

I did this piece for a client as concept art for a magical gateway up in the sky. The arch would be on a platform held by an enormous golden statue of an angel which would rise well above the clouds.

The client said he wanted something like the old statues of europe...so I tried not to make it completely gold but sort of dark copperish and golden, with a blue fill cast to give a more ambigous look to the metal.

I would appreciate any comments. Thanks. ]]> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:42:30 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/415664

The tite of this image is "Rustic Patio".

This piece is inspired in the earth-based Colombian architecture found in small villages in the country-side.

My goal here was to get the feel of the exotic sun through the lighting. I wanted to acheive that really nice golden hue in the light of a hot, sunny afternoon.

I would appreciate any comments. Thanks.]]> Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:43:32 +0000 http://juansilva.cgsociety.org/gallery/783095

This is a character illustration I did for the Daily Sketch Forum.
I'm working on improving my 2D rendering skills, so constructive criticism is much appreciated.]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:42:41 +0000