Tails,Tentacles.........

I tried to remake a tentacle procedural rig from this great web page
http://joleanes.com/technical_stuff/ProceduralAnimation_Experiment_4_Sentinel.php

I used the formula just as the author did. And result turns out great!

Because lacking the knowledge of scripting , So I have to manually copy&paste the expressions on every single bone.
Anyway it works! And please do try this at home ^^

flame

napalm style


windy burning


regular style


sharpen flame

curent result with ICE flame test

strechy limb

Took some time to make a strechy limb of  my own for any future use.
No scripting was used, only expressions to keep things related.

curve force

A curve force combining with  polygon-islands-transformation compound made by guillaume.laforge

Smoke again

This ICE smoke effect is a try out  on paremeters of my smoking compoud.
I think the hardest part for creating such effect is to get familar with thoese parameter you made yourself.

Silky smoke

This effect was accidentally created while I was trying to make flames but turn out to be smoke.
Well you never know until you try and error.

wheels stay on ground!

Simple test I made for keeping the vehicle’s wheel automatically staying on ground and rotate along the traveling distance.

ICE water condensation

A test that I did simulating water condensation with ICE .
I would like try to do a production render to see the outcome as the tutorial did .
But I think I need to wait until my 9 year old computer retired befor doing these tasks

Here is the tutorial I referenced from .
http://caffeineabuse.blogspot.com/2010/01/water-condensation-using-ice.html

Crunching out the maxium amount of pixel

last picture is a close up view to see how resolution performs

This exercise was asked by my supervisor.
It is a practice for bringing out the best quality in a large game environment asset. So here is the work.
The model was taken referenced from the pioneer square’s st.Charles hotel.
http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/01/25/pioneer-squares-st-charles-hotel/

cloth wrinkle

This is a scrabble I did during the free time of work , I have been busy during these period of time,so nothing creativity can be done, but a small amount of testing.

next_gen_modeling practice_2

Another practice I did for next gen Modeling during the leisure time of work. This practice is mainly focused on alpha drawing and ZB cloth sculpting, but you will always find more then you intend to learn, during the process.

head _practice

a quick Z brush head practice with an evil expression

Tutorials and Forum most commonly used for Softimage (XSI)

http://caffeineabuse.blogspot.com/

http://www.redi-vivus.com/

http://www.si-community.com/community/index.php

http://www.xsibase.com/

http://www.miguo.idv.tw//XSI_ebook/XSI_Index.htm

War Craft III fan of art--Dread Lord

Ok, Dread Lord ~~yes ,doesn`t look so dreadful .
A bit like a corp being dried out of from freezer.

App. Used XSI, ZB, Photoshop

ZB first try

This is my first formal doodle on Zbrush~~

because lack of experience on this new tool, some irreversible mistake has been made during the process, such as topology unevenly distribute which caused the creature to have weird palm. Also, wrong type of horn was added to the creature.

anyway~the concept of the beast came from War CraftIII ~~but I guess I messed it up. ><

Since this is a doodle with mistake, so I will just stop working further on this; and keep the way it is . before it gets ruined by my headless thinking~

A scropion finished in late 2006~

This is a fully rigged scropion I did in my spare time.
It was also used for getting my Softimage class 101 certification.

Recently I finally got some time to organize the old stuff~~
so here is a delayed post~

software used~
modeled in XSI

colored in ZB

composite in Photoshop

NO FG
NO GI