New project?

I thought this would be a good item for my portfolio. It already includes my garbage can and is a small environment. I could also work on low-rez models and make the textures do most of the work. Thoughts??

yes, I am working...

It's been close to a month and I haven't pumped out as much work as I would like to have. Rest assured however I am working and learning. Here is some more Wurlitzer with Marty Murphy-recommended transparency map for the speaker holes. They look ok but they break up when I get close. A higher resolution would work, but is it needed? I will atleast make the holes smaller. I have also learned how to use the High Pass Filter in Photoshop to remove luminous info that ruins the tiling seen on the top of the keyboard. Check out the side by side comparison. I also messed with the accidental keys trying to get a soft wearing feel. I think it looks pretty good.































Then there's Global Illumination of the Garbage Can. I don't have anything too sexy to show except some tweaking. The last image took almost 30 min. to render and it's really slowing my exploration of Mental Ray down.



































What am I learning?? Some great tutorials from Midway to start, plus these fine books. I can be such a lazy reader that it's actually my new years resolution to get through these plus some others.