Its been a long time.....

Well hello everyone ^_^

Its been a long time since my last post and for good reason! As you all may have noticed in my few posts before I went on this break I said my EPQ was coming to an end, and it was a few weeks ago it was all bound together and sent away to be marked, granted I still don't know what I got I didn't want to post anything else before I sent it off because I would have to re print it out and bind that along with the rest of the work. Well this wouldn't be a issue it would be slightly time consuming and annoying and towards the end of my time on EPQ I was running very very very low on print credit.

Now then
so the EPQ is finally done I am gonna start to use the blog again so more 3D stuff!!! And possibly more off topic stuff! I may also start rearranging the blog change the header, perhaps the colours around e.g but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves now. Well since I posted last I haven't done a great deal of 3D things, been far too busy with other college stuff I got some stuff however to show. During the post break and the last half term I went out and brought the new Bioshock game "Bioshock Infinite  and I am pleased to report its amazing ;)

Still playing it I shall get around to finishing it soon! "My gaming backlog is at least up to 12 games now -_-"  But anyway since I found myself in a Bioshock mood I decided to model something from one of the first games at first I really wanted to do a splicer mask but then decided against it and instead did a EVE Hypo. In Bioshock 1 and 2 you use these powers called plasmids by injecting yourself with a liquid called EVE these are injected through a EVE Hypo needle, for anyone who hasn't played Bioshock heres a reference image of one.

There is the lovely EVE Hypo Needle from Bioshock, just like my work with my Pumpkin model this was another model I created well really studying deeply the references images I could find in order to get the most accurate model possible. In the end the only thing I didn't add to the model was the wrapper around the middle with the apple logo.

Heres the final render I even added a poster from Bioshock just to complement the Hypo the poster I picked was one from the game advertising Plasmids to the public, I also created two versions of the render one with a graffitied poster and one without graffiti once again added to make it seem more lifelike and more true to the game as towards the fall of Rapture "the city the game is set in" loads of things were ruined and graffitied e.g.

Version 1: 

Featuring the "Would you kindly" graffti as seen towards the end of the game, fans will know what it means ;)

Version 2:

And finally just some tech details took about half an hour to render I think, max res 1920x1080 rendering in cycles at 900 samples with a simple two point light setup. The base of the Hypo is made using a mix shader and mixing emission with the glass shader to quite simply get glowing glass ;)

Well thats if for this post ^_^ it sure does feel good to be back! Expect loads of new and cool stuff coming soon!

Till next time

Peace love and crackers <3