Lost and Found website up and running!

laf12.cz

The site is up and running, I still miss some photos and I need Veronika to send me the handwritten images for links. But as the exhibition is already being promoted the site needs to be online and have the information needed.

Ratio of the three planets...

(I feel sick once again, can't stare into 3dsmax for long...)

Final Render - Mercury

In this case I had to divine half of the planet. It's mostly noise with some white scratches on it.

Final Render - Venus

Venus has a beautiful surface but it can be hardly seen through the atmosphere. I decided to show the surface a bit so visitors to our exhibition could view it. (maybe I'll change my mind but for the time being I like it this way)

Final Render Earth

So this is my final render of planet Earth. This should be printed on A1 and cut... More to come hopefully. Next it should be Venus.

LAF12 Website

After weeks of discussing the overall identity of out exhibition Veronika came up with beautiful design. I received few files from which I can work but I doubt that this is the source file. In order to fit the wordfind on my screen I have moved some students' names around. I used the original layout for the site and it gave me something like this

I actually like the look of this but it wouldn't show the whole wordfind on a smaller screen or when the browser window would be 'windowed'. So I need to come with a different solution. I'm messing with left column but I don't like it at all...Under the bubble I would add the relevant information about the exhibition.

More to come, but I really don't have time for this.

Space Project

My life being screwed up pretty much, too much work and too much stress to come. Not any good for an artistic exhibition. Anyway I need to carry out my plans so here's few numbers I'll need. I'd like to present Mercury, Venus and Earth (being the dominant) in a way that it would represent the real Solar System model. I took the average distance from Sun to the planets (I know this does not make sense much but for simplicity sake).

Distance from Sun to ~	Km	AU	planet center at [cm]
Mercury	5.790 * 10^7	0.387098	236
Venus	1.082 * 10^8	0.72333199	342
Earth	1.4959 * 10^8	1	496
(Earth to) Moon	383990	0.00255	14 from Earth

planet	radius [km]	earth	my model [cm]
Mercury	2439.7	0.3829	32.16
Venus	6051.8	0.949	79.71
Earth	6378.1	1	84
Moon	1.738	0.273	22.7

With this I can now render my planets, print them on a big format and attach them to the fabric that will represent the space. I'll link the planets showing the real distances.

Particle Systems

After I managed to come u with planet Earth that actually looks like the planet (as far as I know^^) I tried to model a comet and Sun. I'd like to buy a sheet of black fabric and onto it attach a part of the Sun, Merkur, Venus and Earth. These bodies would be linked with a string and distance would be noted. For that I need to come up with a way how to actually create Sun so I can print it.

I also tried to create a comet, because that could be a linking element for Fujiyama and the Space thing. But to no avail. I managed to create particle system that does what I want, but Motion Blur and Mental Ray don't like each other and rendering rendering one frame takes 30 minutes (WTF). Not sure if I even want to post screenshots.

Anyway I have no idea how to work with particle systems and forces like wind which was really helpful.

Earth Planet Attempt no. 7

Attempt at a good looking planet no.7
In the end I ended up with multilayered spheres with several maps and several lights in the scene. I found out something about 'Fog' and mental ray just did not want to do what I needed. So here comes .... something.

Earth Planet Attempt no.2

After some feedback I got I decided to work on atmosphere. So I started from the beginning. My previous scene crashed so I abandonned it. Here's the result of my today's trying.




Next time. I'll need more detailed textures and higher segmentation....as a close up gives something like this...

Space/Science

I tried for days to figure out a way how to paint or draw something from the universe, but nothing I did looked any good. So I finally decided to run 3ds max and try in there.

Japan

My exhibition should have 4-5 parts. My work is about finding my style or what is in me and to try to find it I would like to start with something I like. It makes it easier for me to express something.

There is
- Magic the Gathering
- Japan (Japanese pop culture)
- music games
- dance games
- space/science

I already have a painting for Magic (updated) and Music Games. My next step is Japan. I tried to think about what it should be on the painting and how it should be presented. I picked Mount Fuji as symbol of Japan and tried to paint it. But I'm more stuck with....erm sakura trees. Any help?