"Knocked Out" piece and short animation finished

My newest piece titled “Knocked Out” is now finished.
This piece depicts a Panzer I of the 4th Panzer Division that has been knocked out during Fall Weiss (The invasion of Poland) in 1939. The crew is trying to get to the farmhouse for shelter before the spare munition ignites, however the driver suffered a leg wound because of metal fragments of the impact slowing down their movement.

3D-Max 2010 was used for the modelling, Z-brush to sculpt the displacement on the ground and in the clothing of the crew and Photoshop for the compositing and matte-painting.

 

For the highres render and WIP images, please browse to it's webpage here

Also: The video for the Student Room dogfight has been finished, you can find it here

Works in progress

At the moment I am working on two private projects of which I can not show any imagery yet. I will post the final results soon however. One is a still piece with my new Panzercrew and my Panzer I, and the other is a short film (~30 seconds) of my BF109 and Spitfire having a dogfight in a students room. I got asked by someone to help him realise the dogfight scenes in his live footage.

Bride of Pinbot model finished

The model I talked about earlier for Dutch Pinball is finished. Meet "the Bride of Pinbot" :

She has various facial expressions for animation purposes and is fully moveable but not rigged with bones or a biped. The model will be use on the custom pinball machines Dot Matrix display that is being re-programmed by Dutch Pinball in various animations.

As usual when working from (old) drawings there is a bit of a gap between what is depicted in the drawing, and what is possible in a 3D sense:) So for this project I used some artistic freedom in the general flow of the model and certain parts that were never properly depicted in the first place.

Here is an unsmoothed wireframe of the model for those interested. Expect more on this project soon!

 

As a bonus, here is the add that will be published in  PinGame Journal. Photo integration done by me, layout and background photo by Dutch Pinball.

1939 Panzer crewmember

This is the finished basic Panzer crewmember model I’ve produced to go with my future pieces. The soldier is wearing the 1939 Panzer uniform with a headset and throat microphone.
He is rigged with a biped and he has some basic facial expressions, his headphones and microphone are rigged too as well as the cables.

I will further refine and update the rig while producing work with him.

Panzercrew update 2

Small update. Worked on the face and hair this weekend. Still messing around with the subsurface shader for the skin.

Left: With cap
Middle: Close-up
Right: without cap

The Machine: Bride of Pinbot

At the moment I’m working on a new model: The Bride of Pinbot. This model will be used for various Dot Matrix Display animations by Dutch Pinball. Dutch Pinball is reprogramming a real pinball machine using a new pinball controller board (P-ROC) to incorporate their own new rule sheet, graphics & sound. More information about this very prestigious project can be found at: www.dutchpinball.com. Check it out!

Panzercrew update

Here is an update on the Panzer crewmember I was working on. Basic clothing, decals and sculpting finished. The more advanced folds with actual displacement will be done each time I pose this model on. Now I am going to focus on the minor details and after that the skin and eyes.