http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/ kromekat's gallery of images en-us 120 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/806570

This image, or at least one like it has been in my mind for literally years now. Probably inspired by a couple of NASA's space colony concepts of the 70's, definitely by Ben Bova's novel 'Colony', and obviously to an extent by Greg Bear's 'Eon and Clarke's 'Rama' series!

At any rate, after getting the newest version of Cinema 4D, with render instances, and speeded up sub poly displacent, I did a couple of tests with large amounts of trees, and then started to put this idea to the test.

All modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D, apart from the addition of the little girl in Photoshop, as well as post render colour tweaks etc.

Cheers
Adam ]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:17:28 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/773828

This is the final of a portrait of my wife I have been painiting on and off for the last few weeks. I posted a crop of the head earlier this week http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=772569

This was a self-set exercise for me to find out whether I could still 'paint' after so many years using mainly 3D tools. Wacom kindly loaned me a Cintiq 21UX, and I figured it would be a good test for both myself, and of the new product.

This full portrait has taken around 30-35hrs using Photoshop CS3 and the Cintiq, with about 10-12hrs spent on the face and hair. Hopefully I'll speed up though!

I have made some modifications to the face since the last posting as well (thanks for the points raised folks!) - I have been experimenting with having the background a neutral grey tone, which works nicely to set off the figure too, but my favourite is still the full warm look I have here.

Adam ]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:25:06 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/772569

This is a crop of a full body portrait of my wife (which I will also post soon), and my first digital 2d painting.

It was a self-set exercise for me to find out whether I could still 'paint' after so many years using mainly 3D tools. Wacom kindly loaned me a Cintiq 21UX, and I figured it would be a good test for both myself, and of the new product.

The full portrait has taken around 30hrs using Photoshop CS3 and the Cintiq, with about 10hrs spent on the face and hair. Hopefully I'll speed up though!

Adam ]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:44:53 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/762783

Apple NetBook conceptual illustration, commissioned by MacFormat magazine. The real deal is supposed to be coming out very soon, but in this concept, we have only our thoughts on how it might look, and decided to base it on the iPhone styling. The NetBook has a 10" diagonal screen, a bluetooth keyboard with built in trackpad similar to the laptop types.
The NetBook can be positioned horizontally or vertically, and either in the powered dock for desktop use, or free for handheld.

Modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D R11 XL]]> Tue, 12 May 2009 09:38:01 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/543830

Inspired by a print I own, but with and added twist of surrealism.

The mottled wall is an intentional painterly effect, not low GI setting!

Adam]]> Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:24:19 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/513015

An image I recently completed for issue 20 of Imagine FX (out today I think), to accompany a tutorial on it's making. The style of the image is mean't to be in keeping with the work of Chris Moore - another of my favourite clasic sci-fi artists.
Vue Infinte 6 was used for the landscape, and Cinema was used for everything else, with Photoshop used to composite the 2 renders together.

Cheers
Adam ]]> Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:34:52 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/500436

An illustration created for the official Stargate SG-1/Atlantis magazine. This is a re-creation of a set in an episode about a dead, sleeping world - Vagonbrei. Modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D - trees generated and imported from Vue.]]> Sat, 26 May 2007 11:58:56 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/452889

Illustration created as part of a tutorial for Imagine FX magazine, in the style of classic 70' sci-fi art.

Cheers
Adam]]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:47:56 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/392512

Image recently created for a tutorial in the October issue of 3D World.
Created with Cinema 4D, clothilde and HAIR.

Cheers
Adam]]> Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:34:36 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/379363

MacFormat magazine commissioned me to conceptualise a future iMac to accompany a related article. I based the design on current Apple design trends, as well as the previous iMac incarnation (which is my favourite).

Cheers]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:16:17 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/377704

I created this character for a short Star Wars fanfilm entitled 'Pitching Lucas'. The scout and bike were modeled from scratch in Cinema 4D, using photographic reference, as well as a plastic model kit!

This was my first fully modeled and rigged character, and I used Cactus Dan's IK Tools suite for the IK, which made the job a whole lot easier than with MOCCA - much head scratching was done though!

This rigged character was then used within a minute long animated sequence I also created within 'Pitching Lucas' entitled DIPs, and is a parody of the classic 70's biker cop show 'CHiPs'

C4D9/9.5XL - Bodypaint 3D - CDIK

Check out the fully movie at:

http://www.atomfilms.com/af/spotlight/collections/starwars/

Feel free to vote if you like the film!

Cheers ]]> Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:14:43 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/367321

Illustration recently completed for a WPT Poker magazine cover. 'Jonny Bax' is one of a new breed of online poker players - the cyborg enhancements were added to emphasize the technology/advances in online poker playing over traditional.
A photo of Jonny was supplied and mapped to a geomtery head. The head mesh was tweaked to match Jonny's features, and then the cybernetic apparel was modeled and added. Finally, the head mesh was used as a shadow catcher, and the subsequent shadows were overlaid in a Photoshop composite of the original photo.]]> Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:33:49 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/268065

Recently created for Future Publishing/3D World magazine for their (issue 69/October 2005/anime special) cover image, and as part of a tutorial inside, on using Poser, with the final emphasis on using it as a 'plugin' for other apps.
The figure is Daz's Aiko with various morphs and tweaks, the gun was modeled in Cinema, and the whole lot was textured, lit and rendered in Cinema 4D, with some minor postwork in Photoshop.
Chanlum was used in the skin shader to add more softness, and the leather shader was created from various procedural noise layers only.
Cheers
]]> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:31:02 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/172948

The ship (The Cougar) was designed and modeled for a Star Wars fan film (Revelations) - it has the starring role as the hero's heavily armed, smuggling vessel. The oversized engine/gun carriages are designed for fast take off and landing, as well as housing the large laser cannons.
I was asked to provide a walkthrough of it's conception and creation for an Ilex book; Digital Sci-Fi Art recently, so this render was created as the conclusive image.
]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:14:21 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/227354

Done as a little product modeling exercise over the weekend, based on a watch I own. 2 standard lights were used along with an HDRI used only for reflective purposes.
]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:59:35 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/173013

An image I created a couple of years ago back in my Bryce days!. I modeled the figure props in Cinema 4D and painted her textures in Photoshop. The scene was built and rendered in Bryce 4 with post effects in Photoshop. This image was chosen to adorn the cover of 3DWorld magazine in December 2002, and again for China's NewCG magazine cover in February 2003 and as their 2003 calendar/poster.
]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2004 19:38:49 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/268335

This was the first of the 2 images I created for Octobers 3DWorld magazine - the final tutorial related image.
Cheers
Adam
]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:17:28 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/280067

An interpretation of what it's like to be suffering from an illness of indeterminable duration, with only hope (light) to pull you forward.
This was originally created 180º rotated, but I felt that the sensation of the theme was strengthened by taking the viewer out of a comfortable, conventional perspective.
Comments always welcome!
Adam
]]> Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:53:31 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/298473

---oOo---
Wishing you all a very merry Christmas,
and a peaceful New Year!
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This year I decided to send out some promotional Christmas cards, and chose to revisit an experimental image from a couple of years ago to use as the base. Lighting has been improved (new area shadows/AO etc) and baubles, tinsel (Hair Dept Plugin) and 'Polaroids' of some recent illustrations have been added.
Cheers!
Cinema 4D 9.5 / Hair Dept / Photoshop
]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:28:57 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/305262

An image commissioned as part of a tutorial I have just written for 3D World issue 74. The tutorial is about utilising the powerful Clothilde engine (in the Cinema 4D MOCCA 2 module) to easily dress a scene (this one which is included on the coverdisk)) - hope you enjoy it!
]]> Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:02:22 +0000 http://kromekat.cgsociety.org/gallery/305953

Another recent editorial illustration for a magazine article, about the hazards, and common problem faced by employees of a company in the CG industry. from left to right; redundancy, re-negotiating contracts, bad office conditions, overtime, RSI/failing health issues, long hours, embezzlement.
There is also a bonus characature of the mags editor!
A different style for me, but very enjoyable creating something this dense and diagramatic.
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