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Just for fun, plan to animate it some day. Two guys have been friends for decades. They spend more time together in the pub than anywhere else. I tried to evoke a typical British feeling allround. Crits welcome, especially - as I'm not a brit myself - on how to increase the 'local color' factor.

Modeled in Maya, rendered in Mental Ray, some Mudbox sculpting for displacement maps. Mia shader used for glass, beer, table, wall. Misss_fast used for skin. The hair is Fur. There's an hdri, a couple area lights and a couple spotlights. ]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:39:27 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/718864

This sat on my harddrive for two years, now between jobs I finally had time to finish it. Photoshop. I had reference (I shot myself) of the girl. Let me know what you think, thanks]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:04:14 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/522161

Another production sketch for the same project which I did the city for
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=133&t=478986&page=2&pp=15
and the prince and his nemesis
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=31&t=485782&highlight=prince
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A production painting for a project I'm helping out on. I made a basic mountain in Maya, then sculpted it a bit in Mudbox, then back to Maya to place some simple primitives for houses, and a quick lighting pass. Then into Photoshop, for hours and hours of fun.

It's supposed to be a city grown up on an open space where water crosses an important trading route. It became the capital, so there's the royal castle straddling the source of the city's wealth - the water. I plan to add some large wind-mills for generating power, as it must be quite windy up there. (Although they also have plenty of hydro power of course.)
All c&c welcome.]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:52:17 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/473589

Based somewhat loosely on Frank Zane, I did this for my reel, to show some Mudbox work. Basemesh modeled and posed in Maya, detailed in Mudbox, back to Maya for shading and rendering (Mental Ray), texturing in Photoshop. The back isn't detailed, as I used only one photo as reference.]]> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:46:39 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/452308

I started this years ago, then forgot about it. From a scifi screenplay I wrote, but it probably works better seen as a ghost story. Used mostly Photoshop, but some Maya, for the faces.]]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:41:22 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/444358

I had this idea while I was working on the "Journey Begins" challenge, but I chose to go with a different idea then. Now I felt like finishing it as well. I used some reference photos, taken by myself, I'll post them below. ]]> Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:45:21 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/429354

I did this for an advertising agency in Singapore, it's for a car ad, Ford I think. I used Maya and Mudbox and painted the textures in photoshop. The big image shows the demon before the comp, because after the comp he's a bit obscured, as you can see.
I didn't do the actual comp, that was done by another company in Singapore.

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This was a job for NCSoft's game Tabula Rasa, to be published in Playboy's November issue. It's online here:
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/video-game-babes/
(Please vote if you like!)

I used Maya and Mudbox, Mental Ray for render, then some Photoshop painting. The brief was to take their character Sarah Morrison, a hardened alien-killer, and make her Playboy material. ]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:38:32 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/421356

This was for the "Journey Begins" challenge.
It's supposed to show a couple friends happily and excitedly setting out on a huge adventure. I suppose you could see it as a metaphor for life, seen from a young persons perspective.
All in Photoshop (except I did model a rough version of the road in Maya to confirm the perspective). ]]> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:19:08 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/323310

Fifi was hired at the mansion of the eccentric millionaire archeologist Bruce Jones, not for her cleaning skills and intelligence, but for her looks - although no one had bothered to tell her that... one day she blundered down into the very dusty basement, and wanting to earn her high pay she started dusting things...
I'm toying with the thought to do a follow-up image to this one day, to show what happens next - maybe she goes out on a date with him.
Used Maya Mental Ray with FG, no GI... hdri, 2 red pontlights on the left, 2 spotlights on the right... misss_fast_skin shader on her and the candle, plain Lambert on him and most other stuff... fall-off transparency on the stockings...
Any C&C welcome!
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The King has gotten it into his head that drinking fairy blood will keep him young forever. No one knows if this is true or not, since no one has had enough money to try to cultivate the extremely expensive bait (a magical flower irresistable to fairies) on the large scale necessary before. The King is using up all the money of the kingdom in his obsession...
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This was a job for Syflex, the cloth simulator guys. They wanted a card for Christmas/New Year, and also a character (Sylene) they could potentially use again in the future. (See more of the card here: http://www.syflex.biz/ )
The hair is Photoshop painted in this version.
It was a pretty rush job, specially at the end, but I'm happy with it. I had to learn Syflex from scratch just for this job, and even so I think the cloth-simulations came out great. I loved working with it.
Clothing design and cloth textures: Tami Zori
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Most of us have experienced that certain special someone turning into someone somewhat less than special, I think... for me it was a girlfriend who dumped me, then came back with her new boyfriend and walked off with my stereo... My take on "Attack of the 50 ft woman". Nothing serious, just an image I got as I was jogging one night. At first I thought I might put a small King Kong where the motorbike-dude is, make her blonde, and call it "King Kong's Nightmare", but in the end I thought that was a cheap joke.
Maya, MR rendering, a fair amount of PS painting (clouds, hair and other details). C&C welcome.
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The 2d version (which came first) of this image, illustrating a story I wrote. It took about a week. The 3d version can be seen below
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Anyway this is my entry to Animago 2003 'Still' category, and also I think to this years 3d Festival event, sorry to shove it in your faces again (it started with my 2d version, and then the WIP that's lasted quite a while...) lord knows I'm getting tired of it myself... but it's finally done, and before I submit it I'd just like to have some last feedback - thanks.
(edit: here's a link to the WIP thread if you're interested)
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Original sketch

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illustrating a story I wrote . . . painted in Photoshop with Intuos2 . . . . two other images of mine go with this one to form a kind of series . . . .]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:46:44 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/214131

Finally finished this, two characters from a kind of retro all-female furry world, the hard-boiled private eye cat and the femme fatale mouse, posing right after having blown away the bad guy (what was she... maybe a badger woman?). Just some silly fun.
Groundplane, cars, 1 leg, originally done in Maya.
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This is a really old image reworked. Perhaps I should have let it die a long time ago, but it keeps nagging at me, as if there's something I should do with it but I can't see what. Yeah, it feels like something's missing. I'm open to suggestions.
(Photoshop, no references except for the filigree.)
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The second version of her, redone using my virtual character as a posing dummy for reference. (I wasn't sure if I should put it in 3d or 2d.) The background is reworked too. This should hopefully be one of my Expose entries, crits welcome.
(This time I ticked 'nudity' since she's showing more skin, not really nude but some people might think so...)
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This was done for the Truemax 3d academy in Copenhagen, to be used for promotional purposes (mainly a poster I think).
I used Maya and Mental Ray for the characters, and Photoshop to paint the background and the electricity. It's taken me about a month, although much more if you count the time spent on the lizard and the girl (which were already existing when I got the job). Silly me to not use Zbrush or a displacement map for that lizard skin, but I wanted those very sharp divisions between the scales without getting a super-heavy mesh. (It's actually quite light now.)
WIP thread here:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=282607&page=1&pp=15
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My second view of 'Countess Dracula', this one based on a photo I shot a long time ago (attached below). Photoshop, Intuos 2. All comments welcome.

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My own take on the famous story of the legendary Malaysian hero Hang Tuah. It's very unrealistic I know, more like LOTR than anything that could actually really have happened, but that's the way I like it. ]]> Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:05:55 +0000 http://stahlberg.cgsociety.org/gallery/111575

The first image, the so called "Flag Girl", I'm not sure if she was used
in the end. I didn't do any of the in-game rez stuff, or the animation, or
any other character.



Copyright 2003 Electronic Arts
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I wanted to make something in the style of a book cover from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. I used some reference for the mountain peaks. The house and the rocket started as 3d. All c&c welcome.
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I guess she's kind of a female version of Romeo... it's a character concept, no particular project, I just wanted to try some more complex and layered clothing style. It started as a sketch in my notebook, I scanned it, worked on it, printed it out larger, traced it with a pencil on a lightbox and scanned it again. I'm afraid the environment turned out extremely boring, due to not enough time spent on it... crits welcome (especially if you have any cool ideas about the environment).
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I modelled her outfit in a bit more than a week (most of it SubD), rigging time was basically zero because I could use my existing rig. (I just detach her old body and attach whichever new one, done.)
The lighting is once again Emmanuel Campin's Spherelight.
Let me know what you think.
edit: oops I forgot - this is Maya as usual.

And a silly pose, just to show she's rigged:

Some details:


A wireframe:

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