In case you missed it, I’ve been uploading some of my best photos from the last 3 years on my new Instagram page. You can check them out here: https://www.instagram.com/jtmilnednb/
2018 VFX & 3D Animation Showreels
Just completed two short film productions in my 3rd and final year at Media Design School, can’t wait to share them!! In the meantime I’ve put together a couple of showreels with some of my latest projects.
2017 Showreels!!!!
Finally finished putting together my 2017 3D Animation & VFX reels 🙂
General Reel – My best work so far:
Breakdown Reel: “behind the scenes” of some of my projects in 2017.
3D Model + Render Passes and Composite
My first 3D model made in MODO, playing around with the curve extrude tool and learning the basics 🙂
Shading, lighting and rendering in Maya with V-Ray.
Render passes composited in NUKE.
Final Composite:
Lighting Pass:
Reflection Pass:
Specular Highlight Pass:
Beauty Pass: (Used for reference while compositing)
Photography + 3D Lighting and Rendering Practice!!
Some photos from in and around the Auckland Sky Tower, check them out on Flickr!!
Lighting, shading and V-Ray Physical Camera practice in Maya:
Render optimization testing:
V-Ray default settings:
Turn down max subdivs to 8:
Final optimized render, optimized light subdivs.
I will soon be posting a compositing breakdown of my first MODO 3D model 🙂
Likeness study: Ewan Mcgregor
Finally finished my little study break project!!
Sculpted in Zbrush, re-topologised in Maya, rendered with V-ray.
Likeness study – Ewan McGregor (WIP)
My latest sculpt so far, check it out on ArtStation!!