pixel/ab/log » cg http://www.pixelab.be/blog pixelab.be blog Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:20:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Populate plugin in action http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/07/01/populate-plugin-in-action/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/07/01/populate-plugin-in-action/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:20:29 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/07/01/populate-plugin-in-action/ Following my last post on populate plugin, it has proved to be really useful for me for this particular job. Thanks Marc !

If you’ve not tried it yet, you should ! And according to his facebook page, Marc Lorenz (the creator of the plugin) seems to be working on exciting [...]]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/07/01/populate-plugin-in-action/feed/ 3 Populate plugin now open to beta http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/05/10/populate-plugin-now-open-to-beta/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/05/10/populate-plugin-now-open-to-beta/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 20:21:26 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/05/10/populate-plugin-now-open-to-beta/ Small post to let you know that populate plugin beta by Marc Lorenz has been released.

I made a quick test and it looks really promising !! Share your creations in the flickr pool

]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2011/05/10/populate-plugin-now-open-to-beta/feed/ 0 Virtual visit of the Vaillant House http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/02/26/virtual-visit-of-the-vaillant-house/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/02/26/virtual-visit-of-the-vaillant-house/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:46:41 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/?p=215 Pixelab rencently did for Luon some CG stills and wireframe animations of key rooms of a contemporary house for a Vaillant marketing campaign.

Virtual visit is here (French or Dutch)

Images rendered with V-Ray and in-between animations with V-Ray toon, enjoy !


]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/02/26/virtual-visit-of-the-vaillant-house/feed/ 4 Two hospital CG animations http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/01/22/two-hospital-cg-animations/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/01/22/two-hospital-cg-animations/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:30:28 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/?p=203 Last year I was invovled in the creation of two videos for two architectural competition for Quick-it. Both were hospitals, both in France.

First time for me to work with 3D animated people, those were AXYZ design people with manually tweaked bip files. We also tried the wind option technique with Onyx trees [...]]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2010/01/22/two-hospital-cg-animations/feed/ 1 Frosted Mirror http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/29/frosted-mirror/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/29/frosted-mirror/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:21:10 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/?p=151 update / 04-nov-2009 added material details

After making a quick test for a frosted mirror material (sort of frosted glass in front of a mirror) I couldn’t resist making a nice studio render with heavy post production :)

Material of frosted mirror consist of a pure mirror behind (inside on [...]]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/29/frosted-mirror/feed/ 9 Masks : Essential tools for your CG workflow 1/2 http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/28/masks1/ http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/28/masks1/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:17:38 +0000 admin http://www.pixelab.be/blog/?p=82

update 1-oct-2009/ thanks to Peter, I’ve learned that Multimatte workd by default with object IDs. The topic has then be corrected/completed

update 27-oct-2009/ added some info on the “Affect channel : All channels” option of a material

When it come to archviz rendering, one of [...]]]> http://www.pixelab.be/blog/2009/09/28/masks1/feed/ 10