The Colors of Star Wars

Every Star Wars movie, according to its colors - by Alvin Chang
Every Star Wars movie begins and ends with the same color palette — yellow and black for the scrolling introduction, and blue and black for the credits. But everything in between is very different...

https://www.vox.com/culture/2015/12/17/10322514/star-wars-colors

Great Cinema Reference Site

I stumbled into a pretty cool cinema resource site, a ton of useful references there- http://cinematechnic.com

Real-Time Facial Performance Capture

Real-Time Facial Performance Capture with a single camera, very impressive tech!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMa2oT1wMIs

Haptography: Digitizing our sense of touch - Katherine Kuchenbecker

A very cool talk on Haptic applications by Katherine Kuchenbecker- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wJ9Aakddng 

Updated Suzon model with ZBrush and Modo render

Suzon (2012), added dirt pass, oxidization, and particular patina look

Suzon (2012), unfinished 

Steve Jobs 3D Sketch

Sculpted in ZBrush | Rendered in Modo

Suzon

Suzon, one of my favorite bronze sculpture originally sculpted/casted by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917, French). I had the chance to visited Standford University Art Museum last year and took many of this mater's materpieces. Suzon is one of them. I did the sculpt in Maya and Mudbox after the trip in 2010 and finally did the render this year. It's a great experience going through the whole process and finally see the render complete!

• Total objects: 8 pieces for the bust
• Softwares
• Maya & Mental Ray
• Mudbox
• Photoshop

HDR photography article

A very informative article about HDR photography and easy to follow for people new to this concept

Suzon- WIP

Finally, found some more useful references. Here are the Suzon Mudbox WIP shots and reference images-

Suzon WIP preview shots in Mudbox

Ref images

2010 San Francisco

Some old Ink drawings / Sketches /Concepts from late 90s and early 2000...

Mental Ray Physical Based Material MIA test

Rendered with MR on one polygon plane with dynamic clothes applied in Maya

Wayne's Vector Displacement Mental Ray shader for Mudbox vector disp maps

& this : http://vimeo.com/10730942

Low res base model and map-driven detailed surface. The could be the part of the future modeling workflow for both Game and Film industry.