Desert Explosion

Recently done in my spare time, 3dsmax 2011 and fumefx 2.1a, rendered with default scanline. Still version 1, i need to tweak some more things to it.

Roman Tomb

This a really old project, which i thought it would be nice to re-render, just to make it better looking and also play around with render passes from mental ray.


I hope you enjoy it.. :)

Roman Tomb from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.

Some fun with and old scene

This is a short scene made by me, in the past. I wanted to make a fun animation with it to test my new workstation, a brand new I7 CPU at 4ghz (overclocked ofc).

Enjoy

3ds max Bench from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.

Basilica stage 2

So, i bring you a new test, same basilica, to show you the progress on this project. Hope you like how it is coming along.

I recommend you to see it straight on Vimeo, the quality is better and you get HD quality as well.

camera test from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.

Big project coming up

So, I've started to work on a big project and this is the first test, a GI test to see how Mental Ray 3.6 performs, with 3dsmax 2009.
For the moment, enjoy the smoothness of the GI solution which took only 40 minute to bake for a 300 frame animation, and rendered with a dual-core E5200 OCed to 3.4 Ghz. Quite fast also, about 35-40 seconds per frame, with a 1024x585 res, Lanczos filter for anti-aliasing.
Composited with blender ofc :).


GI Test from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.


I am planning a lot of big things for this upcoming project, first thing will be to create a website for it, and as soon as that is done, i will post a lot of details about it. Until then, enjoy this test and the many more to come. :)

Candle light

An older test of mine when i tried to reproduce a candle light


Candle light from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.

Reactor and camera animation test in 3dsMax9 SP2

In this scene, i played a bit with reactor and camera animation in 3dsMax 9 SP2. I tried to obtain the effect of someone who gets knocked down by a large object and after that has trouble getting up and at the same time, has trouble realizing what the hell happened. It was made about 5-6 months ago, never got the chance to post about it, and it needs some serious tweaking since the camera lifts up a bit to fast from the ground.



camera animation tests from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.


Enjoy

Blender Fire and Smoke Effects

Blender Fire and Smoke effects from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.


I followed the tutorial posted in blenderart magazine, nr. 16 about fire and after that i used that method to make the smoke, with another particle system. Also, i tweaked the compositing for my own needs, since the tutorial gave a way to uniform look on the flames, so i made them stand out a bit more. About 11-12 seconds of rendering time for each frames, 250 frames long.

Hope you enjoy it.

Update 1:

I played a bit more with the settings, especially the smoke, as someone from VA pointed out.


Blender Fire and Smoke Effects remake from Florin Mocanu on Vimeo.

bunny architectural fun :)

So, today i did a couple of architectural exterior renderings as a test for an architect, as a test to show how i can handle exterior renderings.

Nothing fancy for materials. Simple Vray displacement for the grass, some displacement for the pavement, which is a tileable texture made in about 30 minutes of work in Photoshop.






Afternoon lighting




At the end, i changed the lighting a bit and added some character in the scene :). Meet Rabbit, main character in Big Buck Bunny, making some early morning exercises on the fresh cut grass.
I didn't texture him, i just wanted to export the .blend file in a .obj format. And it exported perfectly. And it rendered with no problem as well. Enjoy the bunny powah :)





In short, the house model is not mine, it belongs to the architect to gave me permission to use it, made in Arhicad. The trees are taken from the Evermotion collection, i just don't have the time to model them for some test renders. And it's not productive also.

Lighting test and some of my plans.

This is a lighting test, and also a water shader test done about 5-6 months ago in 3dsMax 9, rendered with MR. I textured just the water and i tried to get a summer hot day atmosphere, which i think i succeeded, though there are things i would improve now.


I hope you enjoy it.




At the moment, i'm quite busy, but probably in 1-2 weeks i will start to work on a proper demo reel, which i don't have right now. I'm still thinking what i would like to emphasize on, but enviroment modelling, texturing, lighting etc. will be the main theme, since i enjoy doing that a lot.
Architectural renderings are something i enjoy working on, but i'm not planning to emphasize that in my future demo reel.

Have fun in this hot summer day .