In the Marker Pen years...

In the Marker Pen years...

Concept board

Image for Shell (JWT) circa 2006

Image for Shell (JWT) circa 2006

All scene 3DMax 7, Mental Ray and Photoshop

Art Director: André Norris
Creative: Raul Fernandes

Collages

Collages

Nikon F2A, Kodak High Speed Film and Photoshop.

From my window...

From my window...

Nikon D7000, 55-300mm lens, ISO 600

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of Part III and Final

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of Part III and Final

3Dmax, Mental Ray and Photoshop

Gonna fly? (from my window series)

Gonna fly? (from my window series)

Nikon D7000, 55-300mm lens, ISO800

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of Part II

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of Part II

3DMax, Mental Ray and Photoshop

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of - Part I

Retrobuilding at Dawn - Making of - Part I

3Dmax, Mental Ray and Photoshop

Image for Shell (JWT) circa 2005

Image for Shell (JWT) circa 2005

3D Max, Mental Ray and Photoshop.

Art Director: Alexandre Frerot
Creative: Raul Fernandes

In the time of ink and brushes... circa 1983

In the time of ink and brushes... circa 1983

Near the Winterfell Castle...

Near the Winterfell Castle...

3DMax, Mental Ray and Photoshop

Window shade from Jeff Patton.

From my window

From my window...

Nikon D7000, 55-300mm lens, ISO 160.

Bus at Night (Studio)

Bus at Night (Studio)

3DMax 2013, Hdr Light Map 4.0, Mental Ray and Photoshop CS6

Beauty render, wire and Light map.

Making of Red Bugatti - final - circa2011

Making of Red Bugatti - final  - circa2011

The Lighting Stage:
 For the whole job I used 3D max 2012 SP1

I used TPhotometricLights, light planes, Arch material shaders and Final Gather.

Making of Red Bugatti - part03-04 - circa2011

Making of Red Bugatti - part03-04 - circa2011

I’m not a car engineer or mecanichal engineer, so I try to do my cars as faithfull
to their real world counterparts
but my main goal is to do a nice image with it.
So I don’t model or do a car’s part that won’t show in my final image.
I’m an adverting illustrator, so time is money and the agencies are always wanting
it’s job done for yesterday!
So I don’t bother doing things that won’t show up in the end...
When I think a panel plane is well modeled I apply the shell modifier
and chanfer it’s edges, in order to maintain
it’s boudary design lines.
I took care to make the edge loops and four sides polygons in the mesh
so we have the light reflexes appearing
in a continuous and perfect (almost) way.
Sometimes I have to back some steps to correct some detail that will help me
in the modeling process.