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First off to explain what it is. It's a waterblock that is mounted to the cpu to keep it cool. It's one part of a water cooling setup. The base is made of copper. This one is an Apogee GT made by a company called Swiftech. Modeled and rendered in lightwave.]]> Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:22:30 +0000 http://rpg2006.cgsociety.org/gallery/555992

An R & D exercise. I wanted to create a 3D piece for a mock AD. One of the challenges making this piece, was finding a way to make convincing droplets for the wetlook. In the end I used a combination of bumps and modeled droplets. Created with Lightwave and Photoshop.]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:27:23 +0000 http://rpg2006.cgsociety.org/gallery/555995

Initially a drop-in for a Kingfisher Publication we worked on, I decided to take the model a bit further. I painted displacement maps for it, and generally tarted it up. A good learning exercise.]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:34:33 +0000 http://rpg2006.cgsociety.org/gallery/348228

One of four shark images I created. Modeled, and rendered in Lightwave. Photoshop for textures and post work.

Not really much more to say on that.]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:11:11 +0000 http://rpg2006.cgsociety.org/gallery/348222

A first for me. Been modeling dinos for some time, but never their skeletons. Biggest challenge is finding decent reference. There's a lot, but often what you are trying to model is obscured or varies greatly from one ref to another.

The other challenge for my intermediate rigging skills was rigging. In the end I used weight maps for the individual bones, and it came together quite nicely.]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:51:16 +0000