What happened with our Inktober 3d rendering explorations.
Every year I attempt to do a daily piece of artwork in October around a Halloweeny Theme. Often the subject comes from cult movies or iconic characters, and I’m always interested in trying something new. This year I figured I’d do a daily rendering instead. What follows are most of the scenes that worked out, as some days it just wouldn’t come together in the time I had… and woof, I wont let those abominations see the light of day.
Working with what I’ve got.
Creating 3D models is time consuming work, so when I can I try to reuse geometry to save time. In this case I took a highly complex park landscape I created for a client and re-rendered it to be spooky. This was my first go at doing the daily Halloween rendering so I just worked on the mood and added some glowing pumpkins in the moonlight. I went on to reuse a lot of my landscape scenes in more subtle ways.
Haunted Architecture!
A sector of our business that is rapidly expanding is our work for architects, conceptualizing 3D spaces for high end proposals. So, as I’m always looking for ways to set our renders apart and craft narratives for our clients, I decided to practice with some haunted/creepy houses and cozy Autumn scenes.
Just for Fun.
I love Halloween! It’s probably my favorite holiday in my favorite season here in Oregon. Last year I used AI to generate illustrations that I then clipped and collaged into short motion videos that I posted on social media as a campaign. I use my concentrated bursts of creativity centered around themes to practice my skills. Last year I got well accustomed to using Adobe Aftereffects to composite Halloween videos. This year I’m stretching my abilities and have again taught myself many new 3D modeling and rendering skills that will benefit my clients.
Movie Throwbacks
My favorite horror themed musical is “Little shop of Horrors”. And “The Ring” was the first Horror movie to scare me since I was a little kid. Tried to capture some of the ambiance of these iconic movies with my renders. You can spend hours fine adjusting fog and adding omni lights to bring out details, but for these fast compositions I have to make fast decisions and this helps me practice my speed. Production art and fine art can coexist with the right balance.
Short -Lookyloo- Videos
Everyone who advertises online long enough realize that people are rarely going to consider your content for more than a couple seconds, even if it’s beautiful. Short digestible pieces of content that can be collated and presented like in this blog post are a good way of leading those who might be interested in what you have to say to look further, and go down the rabbit hole you create for them. I rendered many short videos for this 3D Inktober, and you can see them all here.
