Mike Arnold Render Test

Unlock lcoked maya nodes

import maya.cmds as mc


######### unlock all nodes
allNodes = mc.ls()
for node in allNodes:
    mc.lockNode(node, l=False)

How to tile a mesh in Zbrush

Mike Wazowski Project

Eye stage 1 complete - going to work into the eye texture more (irs green highlights and splotches to add) eye colour needs to be made larger in scale

 

The main eye shader is a Hybrid Sub surface Scattering shader with a mia x material for the specular for the eye white.

The Iris colour is a procedural colour ramp with noise and the lens has a basic mia x glass shader.

Howard on Holiday

Fan Art: 'How to Train Your Dragon' Blacksmith Shop WIP

During a training period at work I started to learn a bit of Zbrush and a chance to practice my texturing as I haven't done any for a while. The concept is from the 'How to Train Your Dragon' art book which I've losely based my model on. This is currently work in progress and some area's are unfinished but wanted to see what the final image might feel like once it's complete.  

NOTE TO SELF: Normal Map Issue Fix

- When rendering in Maya Mental ray turn off Filter type or it will play havoc when rendering normal maps

Easy Wireframe Render Maya Mental Ray

Simple Toon shader setup - Requested by Xeno_Blade

For Xeno_Blade - Simple Toon shader setup - Maya/Maya Software Render Using Lambert materials, set the colour to black, and set the desired colour you wanted using the Incandescence slot. You can use a texture colour swatch if you want and just use one shader, moving the UV's to the area of texture you want

Howard Von Winkel

Howard Pose 1

First pose position for Howard Need to turn his head a little more towards the camera and sort his eyes out a little but he's a bit more alive now :D

Howard - Shaders continued...

Hat, hair, skin and shirt I'm pretty happy with now.

Pumpkin Squash

Happy Halloween

Pumpkin Squash from Ben Moseley on Vimeo.

This short was created as a one week lunch-crunch challenge, by myself, for myself for no reason other than FUN.
I failed by one day. However, it took me around 10 hours so I'm still happy with it as a speedy spare time project.

I modelled, textured, created shaders, lighting and rendered it all in Maya and Mental Ray.

The style of the pumpkins was based on a 2d concept by the very talented artist Jotaká
http://instagram.com/p/fwsfOHm7d6/#

Check out my Blog for more work /

http://benmoseleyart.blogspot.co.uk

Halloween speed project started - 4/6 Pumpkin (4.5hrs)

1hr 30....shaders and lighting test

Based on @jotakaillustration concept

TrenchCoatGuy - Wires

Trench Coat Guy - WIP - Faces

Trench Coat Guy - WIP

Trench Coat Guy - WIP

Howard - Skin WIP