Google Arts & Culture VR

The virtual tours for the amazing national parks are sooooo cool!!!
Link: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/project/national-park-service

Traditional Clay Sculpt (WIP) 

Take way more efforts than the digital counterpart but feeling the clay in your hands/fingers just purely wonderful!!!  

RealityCapture

Best photogrammetry software as of today!

Link: https://www.capturingreality.com/

Pearl - Narrative VR Short Film in 360

Time to explore the potential of storytelling within a 360 CG world. Fun! :)

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