Hello Mr. Euler

For those of you lazy enough (just like myself) to dig deeper under the hood of their 3d software of choice, there are these guys who care enough to explain those thing that gave us headaches for countless times.

The guys at GuerillaCG, to be more precise. Andrew Silke, came up with this very neat video explaining Euler rotations. You can watch the video here.

Some old update

Until more updates on the Yubari and Dyrrachium projects are available, I thought of sharing with you a piece of work I've done a few months ago. It was to be photorealistic and to match as closely as possible a photographic refference. The model is an old "National" cash register. 

The model took me some time since I also had to figure out a good way of rendering the floral motifs engraved in the surface. In the end I just drew the models in Adobe Illustrator and used them as displacement maps in 3ds max. Rendering was done in V-ray with a HDRI map for the environment and reflections.

3d model:

Reference photograph:

Shameless Self Promotion (well, not quite)

I just wanted to let you people know that I pimped my Animation and Motion Graphics Channel on Vimeo, thanks to the new features of the recently implemented Channels 2.0. Lately I've been adding some great shorts and reels found on Vimeo. Just bookmark it and take a look from time to time for updates. 

Animation and Motion Graphics Channel