Luas Art Comp

My entry for the Luas Art Comp 2012.

No Luck this time round I'm afraid. Thousand bucks would have been so sweet! I left it a bit late to take part  as I found out last minute, so I sort of threw this together, sort of missing the whole theme of "connecting the missing link" It was good craic putting it together though..

Twitter Time

Just started using twitter there where I'll be tweeting all things 3D among other things...
@darduffy

Photofly/123D

Website

123d (formerly Photofly) is a great program from Autodesk , that allows you to create 3D models using a series of photographic images from a standard digital camera. Some of the results shown in these 123D tutorial and demo videos below are amazing and it will be a great tool for people wanting to create photo-realistic models for production.

There is also a great WIP thread by a Slovakian digital artist where he shows you his process and progress. I'm going to try and experiment with this too when I get a bit of spare time.

Lockout

I am eventually getting around to upload some of the pre-visualisation work from the film Lockout that came out this year. It was my first gig after completing the Bachelor of Arts in Animation in IADT that I began right after graduation and lasted roughly three months. It was a great experience and I am very grateful for the opportunity given to me and the time I had working with all guys.

I was working mainly on sets and props, where I recived concept art work from the talented Art Director Romek Delimata  and build a 3D representation (modeled, textured and lit) of what he and the directors envisioned as the world for this film. 

I will try to find more in time....

All images and concepts copyright of  ©EuropaCorp

Lockout Thaw Room from Darragh Duffy on Vimeo.

An old edit I made for the laugh using clips from the most recent Batman movie The Dark Knight combined with Danny Elfman's music from Tim Burtons Batman.

Watched Moon recently and really liked the set design and look of the Moon base.

So I tried a bit of set modelling of a space base corridor, below is a WIP for something bigger.

Also I am going to a talk in Galway by the main VFX guy on Moon called "The making of Moon"

Looking forward to this one :))

Made  a few logo designs for my cousin Peter D for his up and coming 

business venture in a personal fitness and therapy studio.

He asked for a hot and cold design so I made a few renders incorporating this,

giving him a few options to choose from. Think he chose the last one.

(3DS Max, Vray, Photoshop)

"Blast Off"

Recently messed around with Painter and got inspired from a few images of the shuttle launch so did a quick sketch. Its a really cool program, specially like the oil painting abilities..