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

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

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.

Some random old works...

Metropolis Building Maya Mental Ray Rendering Test @ 2005


Rendering tests of the main characters in my 3D short film - Transmigration @ 2000


First NURBS model done in Pratt Institute 3D model course with Maya1.0 back in 1999; I know, it's a "while" ago... :)

An old but still practical Mental Ray misss Fast Skin shader tutorial

This was written a couple of years ago but still works out pretty well by LAMRUG.ORG - http://www.lamrug.org/resources/doc/sss-skin-tutorial.pdf