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Finished Interdimensional Extinction Render
I made 2 versions one with and one without volumes. I’ve built this in Houdini as well to play around with scattering, but this is version is built in Maya using MASH, Substance texture painting, and rendered using Redshift. I technically used BiFrost as well to make my volume shapes. Looking to finish making a…
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Interdimensional Extinction Update
Finally closing in on a final product. I’m rendering 2 versions, one with and one without volumes. Currently waiting on the one with volumes to render. I wanted to add an atmosphere and some body to the inner ring. I didn’t think I was getting a good return on using object scattering for the inner…
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Volume Test
I’ve been finishing my Interdimensional Extinction renders. The Gauntlet of Gods community render challenge kinda fell apart for me. More on that later. I’ve been running some tests trying to figure out the ins and outs of the Redshift Volume shader. I had a weirdly hard time getting the Volume Scalar Attribute node to work…
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Gauntlet Of Gods 3D Art Challenge
Twice a year Clinton Jones aka “pwnisher” puts on a 3D community art render challenge. I’ve been loosely aware of them for years. But I participated for the first time last year for the Rampage Rally summer challenge. I was really sick for the first couple of weeks of the challenge. I still put something…
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Witch King Start
Aside from getting back into the whole album covers to CG project I also just started making A model of the Witch King Of Angmar from The Lord Of The Rings. I’ve been a long time fan of the films, the literature, and the video games. Though certainly entertaining, the start of this project is…
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Interdimensional Extinction Update
One side project that I started, and just got back to is recreating my favorite album covers in CG. The intention with these at a minimum is to make some art that inspires me and learn new things along the way. The reason I started with this one is that it is simple in a…
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Finally Getting Back to It
Well this took a lot longer than I thought. Excited to be back though! When I look back at my first post on this, the renewed mcrotella.com, and see that it was from October 2024 I’ll admit that I feel a tinge of shame, especially when I see that I was airing my dirty laundry…
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A New Beginning
My first post on another new blog. I felt like I was just really getting rolling on my previous one. But my hosting vendor that I was with suddenly decided to literally quadruple the price on me after 10 years. In any case my old site is burned to the ground, but I’m excited to…
Matthew Cyreal Rotella
Animation and Visual Effects Professional, and 3D Generalist
