Incredible Hulk in 3D

Started playing around with the newest release of Silo, & besides a few perplexing bugs (saving files to an unopenable extension?) it's a great modeler. Lightweight, with most of the commands working the way you'd like them to, plus the ability to retopologize your mess of a mesh puts Silo at the top of my list when all I want to do is sketch out some ideas in 3D. This weekend I started a layout for a quick little short with the Incredible Hulk and this was my first rough pass at a cartoony proportioned Hulk. So much more to do in terms of fixing muscle masses and getting edgeflows correct, but it was lots of fun.

still rocking the slots...

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So I left a job working on slot machines, and what's one of my first projects at the new job? That's right, making a slot machine: I just can't quit you, gambling world... :)

Seriously though, it was a real quick & dirty assignment that turned out to be a lot of fun. the slot is just something from iStockPhoto.com, and I went in and added highlights, glows, some meter text, and the reel spinners after the fact. I'm learning a new 3D program in my spare time, Maxon's Cinema4D, and this was my first chance to use it at the new job. Surprisingly, the 3D text was accomplished not in C4D but in After Effects, through the use of Maltaanon's ingenious little CE Shape Extruder script.

I love After Effects a little more each day.