jonathantopf.com http://www.jonathantopf.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:06:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mayaseed http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/01/20/mayaseed/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/01/20/mayaseed/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:02:58 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1803

My pet distraction recently has been writing a Maya plugin called Mayaseed. Right now its a fairly simple translater to convert maya scenes into .appleseed scenes that the Appleseed renderer can play with. Appleseed is an open source renderer written by a good friend François Beaune and a brand new Alpha version should be available to download today with my exporter bundled in with it. Heres a little image made using the first, of many, versions of Mayaseed.

jt

]]> http://www.jonathantopf.com/2012/01/20/mayaseed/feed/ 0 rendering… http://www.jonathantopf.com/2011/12/16/rendering/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2011/12/16/rendering/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:14:02 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1798

I’ve been doing some lighting and rendering today…

jt

]]> http://www.jonathantopf.com/2011/12/16/rendering/feed/ 1 Bed time http://www.jonathantopf.com/2011/10/10/bed-time/ http://www.jonathantopf.com/2011/10/10/bed-time/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:02:09 +0000 jonathan Topf http://www.jonathantopf.com/?p=1781

Part two of the ongoing experiment into comics, not entirely sure about the colouring, I tried a bunch of different styles and i think this worked best, admittedly it was a bit of an afterthought.

(looking at it the colours are doing some weird banding, I need to look into how to get rid of that, maybe I need to trick the compression with some noise or something)

jt

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Just a little bit of a play from tonight

j

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A big experement for me, always wanted to do a comic, not sure is this is a success yet though, probaby a bit rough…

jt

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Just a quick sketch for fun, must do more

j

 

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just a quick sketch from the train station, nothing fancy, one of these days I’ll figure out some more exciting colour combinations…

jt

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Heres a little experiment I made on the train, just to keep myself sane whilst I work on my grad film.

j

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Weirdly this is starting to look like a film… j

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Today I started animating! ( +  some help from James Van Der Merwe) very exciting, this is the scene I’m working on. Hopefully i will put up some moving tests soon, for now just a still of the forced perspective scene I’m working on.

j

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