Monthly Archives: February 2009

Normal Maps in Photoshop?

 

NVidia Photoshop Plugin

NVidia Photoshop Plugin

 

Heck yeah! Turns out, NVidia – the graphics card company, has a developer zone where people from NVidia develop stuff for games and other softwares. One good thing that came out of it was the NVIDIA Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. This plugin enables you to turn your regular pictures into crazy normal maps – just like what CrazyBump would do. You can download the plugin here and some tutorials have been provided here and here. The only problem is that it only works on Windows machines so Mac users kinda have to find another alternative.

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3D Self Portrait

3D Self Portrait

3D Self Portrait

 Me in 3D?! Inconcievable!

This was done for our Intro to Modelling class where we take a self portrait and exaggerate it to have an organic feel to it. I wanted to create a self portrait showing my “other side” hence the sad face. I had to make the eyes bigger to show more expression and my mouth reduced to a frown – something I don’t ussually do and my nose bigger. People who know me knows that I rarely show a sad face and ussually tries to cheer everybody up.

These are the original models:

 

Perspective View

Perspective View

 

This is me in 3D?!

This is me in 3D?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are the exaggerated 3D Models:

 

Sad Me :(

Sad Me :(

Self Portrait Caricature

Self Portrait Caricature

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me in 3D?! INCONCIEVABLE!

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Valve “Orange Box” Interview

I don’t think there’s a game company that has the best and innovative games as ValvE. They have been making games since 1996 starting with Counter Strike, to the Orange Box to the best zombie game, Left 4 Dead. They have certainly have ramped up their standards giving us games that have a storyline and some action that requires brains to accomplish.

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Nintendo DSi: Coming to Stores on 4/5/09!

Nintendo DSi

Nintendo DSi Release Date

It’s official! The Nintendo DSi is going to be released on April 5!!!

The official notice has been posted on the Nintendo website and the official Nintendo DSi website is found here.

The price of the Nintedo DSi starts at 169.99 and the available color releases are Blue and Black. It comes with the Nintendo Camera Software, Nintendo Sound and the Nintendo DSi Shop.

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NURBS Car Model

 

 

 

Car - Side View

Car - Side View

As of the moment, I only have the NURBS Curves. This one took me an hour to figure out. I’m still having troubles lofting the sides but i’m getting the hang of NURBS Modelling!

The car blueprint was TAKEN from the-blueprints.com – a website that gives you an array of vehicles all in side, front, back and all sorts of views.

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