James Wilcock's Art Portfolio

AI Video Generation

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:24:48 -0700

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Prompt for vampire video

{
    "0": "lightning striking a church, horror ,birds eye view, greg rutkowski, highly detailed",
    "100": "Vampire inside gothic church, horror, greg rutkowski, highly detailed",
    "200": "people with torches chasing vampire outside of gothic church, greg rutkowski, highly detailed",
    "300": "vampire turning into a bat next to people with torches, greg rutkowski, highly detailed"
}

Gameboy Render

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:58:49 -0700

Gameboy cartridge with sitcker stylized for friends album visualization. Your browser doesn't support embedded videos, but don't worry, you can download it and watch it with your favorite video player!

Material Breakdown

Noise texture used to make glitter spots on cartridge.

This noise texture was used to control the materials roughness, the black spots being very shiny resulting in the glitter effect.

Blender node setup of material

Used reference material

AK Moon Render

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:50:48 -0700

Render of a firing PS1 style AK on moon

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Wireframe of ak model

Textured ak

Pyramid Render

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:11:03 -0700

Render of pyramid environment

Render of mars-like desert pyramid.

Material Breakdown

Here I used the ocean modifer to create the dunes

Then I created a color ramp based on the height of the dunes

Sandlines were generated using the wave texture node, which looks very similar to the sandlines I am trying to replicate. This colorramp was then used to control the “waveiness” of the sand lines, which is something I noticed happening in real dunes when looking for reference images.

This wave was then combined with a noise map to add a little more texture for the sand grains. All of that was fed into a normal map which is something the renderer can use to fake more complex models. The normal map tells the renderer what way a given face is pointing in order to make somewhat convincing depth.

This gif made by Pac72 illustrates what normal maps are doing, the left being modeled shapes, and the right being normals maps generated from the models on the left. This shows how you can fake geometry with normal maps. Normal maps are very useful for speeding up the rendering of complex scenes. For example, in Video Games, where many frames need to be rendered every second.

When all is combined with a sand color, this is what we get.

Final node tree

CD Render

Sun, 17 Jul 2022 10:50:48 -0700

Render of a photorealistic CD.

Middle of Nowhere Render

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:50:48 -0700

Render of the house/farm from the cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog

Ground texture was a real life photo taken from the Painted Hills in Oregon.

I turned that picture into a seamless 256x256 texture for use in this scene

Roof texture was made with a noise texture and then stretching and coloring that noise texture with a color ramp to look like a wood grain.

Material Breakdown

House uses the same wood material with different colors and then adds a brick texture over the material.

Then to not have that brick texture at all parts of the house a musgrave texture is used to mask the brick house.

All together

Reference image from the show