Inspiration for you - futuristic police car designs

These futuristic police vehicle designs from the LA Auto Show Design Challenge 2012 just catched my eyes and like to share them with you.

You can view them here e.g. at tospeed:
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/2012-la-auto-show-design-challenge-competitors-announced-ar138000/pictures.html

Free stuff: 8 planet backdrops with CC0 license (2)

Recently I created these with a commercial license of a planet creation program. Image size is 2Kx2K.They are licensed CC0. Feel free to use them in your projects:

Inspiration for you

Today was voting day for the annual CG Awards from 3D World magazine (http://cgawards.3dworldmag.com/ - don't forget to vote for blender 2.6).

The CG animation that really impressed me mostly was the architectual animation "The New World Trade Center":

The New World Trade Center from PIRANHA NYC on Vimeo.

Hallway lightning test

Last weekend I did a simple mesh based lightning test in Octane Render (latest beta with improved lighning system, each render with increased light power):


 

Spotted: my model "Simple 3-part SF door / gate" in use in a real sci-fi movie

Recently I browsed through the "Pandora machine" blog and found out that my lousy untextured sci-fi door found finally a useful place in a real sci-fi movie:

Here are the links to the blog:
http://blog.pandoramachine.com/2012/05/hercules.html
http://blog.pandoramachine.com/2012/05/cg.html
http://blog.pandoramachine.com/2012/05/relief.html
http://blog.pandoramachine.com/2012/05/edit-shoot-and-render.html

I can't wait to see more...

Background graphics renders for Facade

For various displays I created for the Open Game Facade the following three CG graphics. They are licensed CC BY SA (by facade):

Inspiration for you - The Hammer-Head Electric Sports Car

I recentyl browsed through the Octane Render gallery and found the following cool technical animation done with blender and octane I would like to share with you: