Digital Art Masters: Volume 5

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BY ANDREW FINCH

JOB TITLE: Environment Artist

SOFTWARE USED: 3ds Max, Mental Ray, Photoshop

   

INTRODUCTION

I wanted to break free of the restrictions of game creation, which is my day job, and make something small and interesting. I’m interested in lighting and texturing so these were the most enjoyable parts of this project. The whole image took about a week to make in my lunch hours and was created using 3ds Max 2009 and rendered using Mental Ray. Textures and post work were done using Photoshop CS3.

MODELING

The scene was reasonably ...