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Gonna slowly add some stuff to this thread...

November 2013
Award designed for the Smithsonian


Some Koons projects becoming public so I'll show the pre-vis below
Pink Ballerina, marble (left). Ode to Love, stainless steel (right)



October 2013
We just completed some unique collaborations with Lady Gaga.

The below image is a frankenstein combination of 3D scanning plus plenty of digital sculpting.
For sculpting we combined our efforts with outside help from the fantastic artist Scott Eaton.


I used Multilight to match the photographic conditions of a photoshoot we held.
Clay renders were blended with photographs and digital painting to produce the album cover (left).
The clay renders were also used as previsualization for the gigantic figure sculpture (right), which is CNC-milled foam.


May 2013
Rendering for a client. Project is a firefly that was xray scanned, scaled up, 3D printed, and embedded with LEDs to become a hanging lamp.


Inspired by this thread in which Eric Lagman describes his generic studio shot setup, I recreated the setup and this is the test render. It seems to be a nice solution; I hadn't considered the half-bowl backdrop before.


Old demo of liquid-in-glass method


Feb 2013
Rendered a friend's espresso cup concept


Previously WIP flower

nice images, I love the cofee cup image and wondering how did you do the foam, is it modelled???
best
V

Thank you novena

The coffee is a combo of plane + spheres + photoshop



Photo of espresso used as bump/color map for the plane in the cup, brown AGS spheres to add more bubbles. Photoshop for smearing and touchups.

That works well. Nicely done.

B

thanks hatts for showing the wire... nice work
best
V

Updated main post

Beautiful!

Just perfect. I really like how the light plays with all the small intricacies of the model. Shows that modelling goes a long way towards realism with Maxwell.

You are becoming a Master

Thanks Tom and Mihai; means alot coming from you both!

Some Koons stuff being added to the top of this page

"How do you wake up Lady Gaga when she's sleeping?"



"Poke'her Face"

Some long-term Koons projects added

Hats off! Really nice job.

Edited 11/22/13

hatts wrote: November 2013
Award designed for the Smithsonian

I have one of these in my Fortress of Solitude. If I use the third crystal from the left, it's like a speed-dial, for setting up an intergalactic video chat session with my deceased dad.