http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/ withego's gallery of images en-us 120 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/682538

This exterior is part of a video tutorial that hopefully soon, will be hosted on the Gnomonology website.
It will show how to use the new Mental Ray Importons and Irradiance Particles rendering techniques.
The 3D model comes from the Evermotion collections, exported from Max in obj. format via the new FBX exporter.
It was partially remodeled by me to optimize it for MR & Maya software.
Maya Poly, Nurbs. Physical Sky/Sun, Mia Photographic Exposure, MR Portal Light.
I used only Mental Ray Mia X materials, except for the organic materials for which I used the SSS Fast Skin shader.
Autodesk Maya 2008 Sp1, Mental Ray, ZBrush for the creation of the 32 Bit displacement maps & Photoshop.

Ciao...!

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:33:06 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/680096



This interior is part of a video tutorial that hopefully soon, will be hosted on the Gnomonology website.
It will show how to use the new Mental Ray Importons and Irradiance Particles rendering techniques.
The 3D model comes from the Evermotion collections, exported from Max in obj. format via the new FBX exporter.
It was partially remodeled by me to optimize it for MR & Maya software.
Maya Poly, Nurbs. Physical Sky/Sun, Mia Photographic Exposure, MR Portal Light.
I used only Mental Ray Mia X materials, except for the organic materials for which I used the SSS Fast Skin shader.
Autodesk Maya 2008 Sp1, Mental Ray & Photoshop.

Ciao...!

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com
]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:45:16 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/668795

I hopefully will post soon a few new images, with the cutout png images of the monks replaced by 3d human monk models, along with a small tutorial on Dhammakaya meditation.
For now I post this images created few months ago for the Wat Dhammakay Temple, a very special place which promotes world peace through Dhammakaya meditation.








Please take a look at this links:

http://www.dhammakaya.or.th/
http://www.dmc.tv/

Credits to Wat Dhammakay 3D team for the original 3D model.
Maya 2008sp1 MR Mia X materials.
Physical Sky/Sun & Portal Light.
For the cutout Monk images, I used the Png. format
to avoid any fringe problem (white border pixels).
Ciao.

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:23 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/609399

My contribution to the Christmas Lighting Challenge,
by Jeremy Birn.
Maya 2008 with MR Physical Sky/Sun & Mia X Materials.
2 MR Portal Light, one behind the window, and one behind the door for the warm interior ambience.
The Physical Sky enviroment is connected to both Portal lights using the enviroment slot.
A Mib Blackbody with a temperature of 6500 K is connected to the Light colour slot of the window Portal Light.
A Mib Blackbody with a temperature of 3200 K is connected to the door Portal Light colour slot.
The Light emitting from the wall lamps, the Christmas Tree lights and the Fireplace, is achieved through the additional parameter of the Mia X Material, to which I connected Mib Light Surface shaders.
Finally I rendered an additional AO render pass, and another slight additional lights fog pass with software maya renderer,
and composited all in PS.

Ciao,

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:14:34 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/607467

Credits to Jeff Patton for the 3D model.
This image was created for a MR Exterior lighting
& rendering study, on the Italian Treddi website.
3D model was provided by Jeff Patton.
Maya 2008 with MR Physical Sky/Sun.
Mia X Materials & Mia Photographic Exposure.
The 3D trees come from XFrog & Evermotion.
Ciao...!
Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:16:21 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/601706

Maya 2008 & Mental Ray lighting and material study.
Maya Poly, Nurbs. Physical Sky/Sun.
Maya 2008 MR Mia X materials.
Mia_Physical Sky connected to the enviroment slot of both Portal Lights, with Mib Blackbody 4500 connected to the
colour slot of Portals.

Ciau.

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:08:56 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/597956

The Bedroom of my condo in Bkk, Thailand.
Or at least how should look when finished,
hopefully next month!
Maya Poly, Nurbs. Physical Sky/Sun.
Maya 2008 MR Mia X materials.
Ciau.

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:20:12 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/595939

I created this image a few months ago with Maya 2008 MR Physical Sky/Sun & Mia X Materials, to demonstrate 2 different approach of using the Portal Light in MR.
The 3D model of the Loft comes from the Evermotion collections, and was almost completely remodeled by me to optimize it for MR & Maya software.

Cheers...!

Alex Sandri
http://www.samui3d.com ]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:39:13 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/511725

Based on Archmodel 3D template by Evermotion.
Maya 8.0 Poly & Nurbs Surfaces modeling.
Mental Ray Physical Sky/Sun with haze clouds, Global illumination and Secondary Bounces Final Gather.
Mental Ray Architectural Mia materials.
Maya Fluids, Light Fog and deformers for the pool ripples.
XFrog Tropical Trees & Plants with Misss Fast Skin materials for the 3D vegetation, Winnie, Shark and Bone.
Ctrl Fur and Ctrl Displacement to control fur and displacements.
Ctrl Buffers to output Ctrl Occlusion Pass, Shadow and ZDepht Passes.
Software: Autodesk Maya 8.0 & Mental Ray
http://www.samui3d.com
Cheers...!
Alex Sandri
Sunset:


]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:53:59 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/477554

Maya 8.0 Poly & Nurbs Surfaces modeling.
Mental Ray Physical Sky/Sun, Global illumination
and Secondary Bounces Final Gather.
Mental Ray Architectural Mia Round Corners materials.
XFrog Tropical Trees & Plants with Misss Fast Skin materials
for the 3D vegetation.
Software: Autodesk Maya 8.0 & Mental Ray
Hardware: Athlon 2.8 2.5 Giga of Ram
Please visit my New 3D Maya & Mental Ray Flash website at:
http://www.samui3d.com
Cheers...!
Alex Sandri
]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:51:05 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/475053

Based on Archmodel 3D template by Evermotion.
Maya 8.0 Poly & Nurbs Surfaces modeling.
Mental Ray Physical Sky/Sun, Global illumination and Secondary Bounces Final Gather.
Mental Ray Architectural Mia Round Corners materials.
XFrog Tropical Trees & Plants with Misss Fast Skin materials for the 3D vegetation.
Ctrl Fur and Ctrl Displacement to control fur and displacements.
Ctrl Buffers to output Ctrl Occlusion Pass, Shadow and ZDepht Passes.
For Shadow and ZDepht passes, I used the P_shadow and P_Zdepht shaders by Ledin Pavel aka Puppet.
Except for the Rpc 2D plant applied in post on the low right corner of the images, everything is strictly 3D.
Original Maya file size: 185 MB.
Software: Autodesk Maya 8.0 & Mental Ray
Hardware: Athlon 2.8 2.5 Giga of Ram
Please visit my New 3D Maya & Mental Ray Flash website at: http://www.samui3d.com
Cheers...!
Alex Sandri ]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:30:21 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/475052

Based on Archmodel 3D template by Evermotion.
Maya 8.0 Poly & Nurbs Surfaces modeling.
Mental Ray Physical Sky/Sun, Global illumination and Secondary Bounces Final Gather.
Mental Ray Architectural Mia Round Corners materials.
XFrog Tropical Trees & Plants with Misss Fast Skin materials for the 3D vegetation.
Ctrl Fur and Ctrl Displacement to control fur and displacements.
Ctrl Buffers to output Ctrl Occlusion Pass, Shadow and ZDepht Passes.
For Shadow and ZDepht passes, I used the P_shadow and P_Zdepht shaders by Ledin Pavel aka Puppet.
Except for the Rpc 2D plant applied in post on the low right corner of the images, everything is strictly 3D.
Original Maya file size: 185 MB.
Software: Autodesk Maya 8.0 & Mental Ray
Hardware: Athlon 2.8 2.5 Giga of Ram
Please visit my New 3D Maya & Mental Ray Flash website at: http://www.samui3d.com
Cheers...!
Alex Sandri


]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:27:52 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/405373

This is an update of the previous mediterranean exterior, using only Mental Ray shaders and Ctrl shaders by
Francesca Luce!
Extensive use of Ctrl Shading material.
Misss Fast Skin for the Paint Effects vegetation.
Ctrl Fur and Ctrl Displacement to control fur and displacement on the ground and shores.
Ctrl Buffers to output Ctrl Occlusion Pass, Shadow and ZDepht Passes.
For Shadow and ZDepht passes, I used the P_shadow and P_Zdepht shaders by Ledin Pavel aka Puppet.
To output an alpha mask, I used P_colour_plus_alpha.
Mi_car_paint for the bicycle, L-glass for the windows and water of the pond.
Maya7 Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Hdri Image Based Lighting, Global illumination and Secondary
Bounces Final Gather!
Original idea by slipknot66 (Giorgio Adolfo Krenkel).
Modeling, texturing and rendering by Alex Sandri.]]> Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:15:38 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/355865

Original idea by slipknot66 (Giorgio Adolfo Krenkel)!
Modeling, texturing and rendering by Alex Sandri!]]> Wed, 10 May 2006 09:41:19 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/335263

Just a VRay style Mental ray for Maya rendering test!
Maya Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Image Based Lighting and Final Gather!
Ambient Occlusion and final output to EXR format!
Any comments are welcome!
Ciao...!]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:58:49 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/329318

Just a VRay style Mental ray for Maya rendering test!
Maya Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Image Based Lighting and Final Gather!
Ambient Occlusion and final output to EXR format!
Any comments are welcome!
Ciao...!
]]> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:54 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/335262

Maya Mental Ray test rendering with the famous classroom file downloaded from evermotion website!]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:55:44 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/476272

Maya Mental Ray rendering with the famous Howard B. room!
Credits to Howard B. for the original idea and the 3D modeling.
Texturing and rendering by Alex Sandri ]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:32:25 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/335269

Just a VRay style Mental ray for Maya rendering test!
Maya Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Image Based Lighting and Final Gather!
Ambient Occlusion and final output to EXR format!]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:16:05 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/335284

Just a VRay style Mental ray for Maya rendering test!
Maya Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Image Based Lighting and Final Gather!
Ambient Occlusion and final output to EXR format!]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:42:53 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/224095

Maya Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Hdri Image Based Lighting and Final Gather! Mental Ray for Maya, Ambient Occlusion Dirtmap and DOF Test!
Final Gather settings:
Final Gather Rays: 1000
Min. Radius: 0.1
Max. Radius: 1
Filter: Lanczos
Filter Width:4
Filter Height:4
]]> Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:56:03 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/241374

Maya 6,5 Nurbs and Poly Modeling, Mental Ray Area Lights, Image Based Lighting, Secondary Bounces Final Gather and Sub Surface Scattering test !
Ambient Occlusion, and Maya Fluids!
]]> Wed, 18 May 2005 15:09:17 +0000 http://withego.cgsociety.org/gallery/682902

An old project, in which I tried to create my "Dream Pickup", & that I re publish now just to diversify the portfolio.]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:16:08 +0000