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A project long time in the making and finally done.
What started as a modeling task to finally get the famous chesterfield couch done just right ended up becoming something much more complicated.
I was trying to achieve the same feeling of excessive, stylish richness that can be associated with 19th century classic interior designs with their very sophisticated craftsmanship and expensive materials.
Modeled, textured (a royal nightmare job btw.), shaded and lit inside of 3ds max 2009 and Maxwell Render. Postwork in Photoshop.
Thanks also to the Pure Team who helped with the imense modeling task for a lot of the accessory pieces.

Regards,

Benjamin
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]]> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:49:09 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/786738

Stillshot from my productshot animation. Modeled in 3ds max 2009, shaded lit and rendered in Maxwell. Minor postwork in Photoshop.
Original design by H.J.Wegner.


Benjamin]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:37:18 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/786736

Stillshot from my productshot animation. Modeled in 3ds max 2009, shaded lit and rendered in Maxwell. minor postwork in Photoshop.

Benjamin]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:35:10 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/786735

Stillshot from my productshot animation. Modeled in 3ds max 2009, shaded lit and rendered in Maxwell. minor postwork in Photoshop.

Benjamin]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:34:14 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/786734

Stillshot from the productshot animation. Modeled in 3ds max 2009, shaded lit and rendered in Maxwell. minor postwork in Photoshop.

Benjamin]]> Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:33:13 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/723314

The passion for Warhammer 40k took over again and resulted in the creation of this Spacemarine of the Spacewolf chapter. I wanted to create a look which fits to the descriptions in the books and creates a sort of impact I imagined a Spacemarine might have. They are sometimes depicted like dumbos or in weird proprotions whereas I imagined them to be more like a tidal wave of destructive rage bringing nothing but despair to the emperor's foes- just like befits a 800 pound armour clad 2 1/2 metre tall chainsword wielding juggernaut... if you know what I mean..
The warriors of the spacewolf chapter are particularly nice and folksy chaps by the way.
Workflow wise this was a bit of the beaten path as I was still sick from my last unwrapping excourse and- more importantly have just recently discovered Mudbox. So I created a basemesh in XSI sculpted in Mudbox and rendered the (raw!) highres meshes with a 3point lighting setup and painted all texturework on top of that in photoshop. The head is the only proper unwrapped/ textured object here. The head and all hair/ fur has been done in XSI and put together in photoshop.
Here are a few crop images from a higher res and a clumsy GIF of the applied process.


]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:15:39 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/667817

Chaoswarrior, servant of Khorne, the god of hate, blodshed and war. His duty is only to kill and by doing so bring pleasure to the god of blood sitting on a brass throne which itself is held aloft by a mountain of skulls and bones standing in a sea of blood collected by his servants.
Modeled and rendered in XSI, unwrapping in 3ds max.
]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:56:06 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/583722

Hi there,

Based on my last character I decided to give him a major overhaul on all fronts and basically created a completely new scene.
What started as a training to learn XSI turned into a full fledged project eventually.
Entirely done in XSI postwork done in Photoshop.
Regards,

Benjamin]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:34:13 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/574067

One of my older images reworked with a new furniture style and accessories. On the contrary to the very bright and pompous initial design, I here went for a much calmer and cleaner style.
Modeled in 3ds max8 and rendered in Maxwell Render 1.6. Touched up in Photoshop CS3.

Regards,

Benjamin]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:01:52 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/573190

Another portfolio piece. This one used a real existing bathroom as a guideline, I reconstructed a few things and changed the lighting to my liking.
It has been modeled in 3ds max8 and rendered in Maxwell Render 1.6.
regards,

Benjamin]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:05:51 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/570986

Imaginary luxury apartment.
Modeled in 3ds max 8, rendered in Maxwell 1.6. Created as one of many showase images for our portfolio
Regards,

Benjamin]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:19:23 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/570984

A study using the new displacement feature of Maxwell 1.6. It allows you to render any kind of displacement map no matter how detailed without any additional RAM consumption at rendertime along with a subpixel precision. There is not bumpmap in the entire image.
]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:04:57 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/570430

Rendering of an existing mansion located in the near of Stockholm. The mansion has been heavily modified to suit the owners demanding expectations including -among many others- a 40m pool in the basement which is visbile through a hardened glassurface in the living rooms floor. Bathroom and kitchen were desgined by Boffi.
Created in 3ds max 9, rendered in Maxwell 1.6
Regards,

Benjamin]]> Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:47:51 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/518933


A fictious penthouse, manufactured to suit the highest demands possible.
This one came into my mind after working for a long time on a real production project which featured many similiar elements. I planned to bring it one step further and created my own version of it.
regards,

Benjamin Brosdau
]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:50:55 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/499523

A kitchen closeup scene based on a Robinson& Cornish design. Modeled in 3ds max 9 rendered in Maxwell 1.5 and postprocessed in Photoshop.

Regards,

Benjamin Brosdau]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 19:08:21 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/462904

A closeup shot of an older scene I created about half a year ago but didn't submit into the gallery.
Modeled in 3ds max 8, rendered with Maxwell 1.1, postprocessed in Photoshop.
Rendertime was around 12h on a Dual Xeon.]]> Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:23:10 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/459407

An Image I created at work for showcase purposes and technical demonstration.
Polymodeled in 3ds max 8, rendered in Maxwell 1.1, postprocessed in Photoshop.
The daylight version:

There is also Multilight animation available here:
http://www.purerender.com/multilight]]> Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:17:58 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/442031

Polymodeled in 3ds max 8 and rendered in Maxwell, this series took me much longer than I intended. Mostly due to long unwanted breaks inbetween and the long render time in the end.
The images reached SP level 24.95. Every Maxwell user should know what that means... It's just insanely high, but was neccessary to clear the noise.
I used Photoshop and Neat Image afterwards to finish it up.

Regards,

Tora_2097








]]> Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:09:52 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/390280

After a long break from Maxwell, ( I wasn't really satisfied with all versions between beta and 1.0) I decided to give MXW 1.1 a shot and these are my results. All modeled in 3ds max and rendered via the mxw plugin (no studio).
Design is not by me, its mostly an image recreation.
]]> Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:33:42 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/233460

These are my tests done with 3ds max 7 and along with the alpha version of next limit`s maxwell render.
Render times ranges from 3-4 hours for the flashlight style images (thanks to my buddy eldo for his research work here ) and 6-9 hours for the daylight images, rendered on a Dual Xeon 3.2GHz with 2 GB of ram HT enabled. postwork in Phtotshop for final adjustments, noise reduction in Neat image software.
thanks for watching.








]]> Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:29:05 +0000 http://tora_2097.cgsociety.org/gallery/291505

Hi there,
This image shows a human skull beeing reconstructed out of CT data. The file has been imported into 3ds max 7 and rendered in Maxwell Render. It is part of a series of studies concerning the manufacturing of artificial skull implants.
This study will be published sometime soon whereas this image is just for presentation purposes.
Below you see a Mental Ray render with the head and one of the implants merged.

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