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Daytona Paint Job by Paul

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:03:53 +0000

When someone puts one of my models to good use, I always love seeing the story behind it and the final results. Here are a few images of what Paul has been up to with my Daytona model.

Paul mentioned that his IRL Daytona’s paint is looking really bad. He mentioned that the stickers on the tank [fuel tank] are pulling away and he can see the bare tank beneath them. Also, that he’s got a friend who paints bikes and is willing to teach him how to paint one – exciting stuff!

The paint job was inspired by the green and beige Triumph Bonneville (included in the gallery below as well).

It’s always great to see my 3D models in use in the wild!

17 Tools For Making Awesome Client Presentations

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:24:27 +0000

Yet another great post from our blog-guru rockstar designer +Jessica Moon at digital-telepathy #blog

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17 Tools For Making Awesome Client Presentations | Vandelay Design Blog
Ask five designers how they handle client design presentations and you’ll get five different answers. Some like to do their presentations in person, accompanying their designs with printouts detailing…

Motorcycle Tire Deformation Order

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:22:22 +0000

I recently posted a couple of images showing what I’ve learned about modeling a motorcycle tire that’s subdivided. In this screencast, I’ll show you the best way to

handle the creation of a curved object that doesn’t subdivide well. The trick is to subdivide first and then do your other transformations. Let me know if the video is confusing, helpful, too long, not long enough, etc.

Cinema 4D Motorcycle Chain Rig Walkthrough

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:27:42 +0000

Here’s a video walkthrough of the motorcycle chain rig I recently posted. I’m trying to create more screencasts as I think they have long lasting value, just as a blog post like this one does. The main purpose of this walkthrough is to accompany the download for this rig available at TurboSquid. The video below walks you though the modifications necessary

to use this file in your own project. As always, please leave me some feedback in the form of a comment or critique as it’s very valuable to me.

Panorama of CO2 Chart

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:28:20 +0000

I took this image when visiting the Birch Aquarium at Scripps in SanDiego back in 2007. It's composed of three images shot at 14mm and then stitched together and projected as a fisheye. This image is the first that inspired me to get a fisheye lens. I still have not gotten one, but with my current micro-four-thirds setup, a manual focus fisheye is within reach (price-wise). #blog #scripps #panorama

Panorama of CO2 chart

Papasan Chair Screencast – How the cushion was made

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:37:17 +0000

After one of my commenters requested a tutorial on the creation of this cushion, I started thinking about how to go about doing this.

Unfortunately a lot of folks request tutorials on topics too broad or lengthy for me to cover in a simple one-screencast sitting, but the Papasan request was manageable. My commenter’s request was simple and to the point.

Below is my rushed attempt at that screencast. I’m not one for making excuses, but I had to plan this around my new life of taking care of a newborn. My daughter is about 5 weeks old and my schedule recently is pretty crazy. I basically have to grab the computer when I can and thankfully, I had that opportunity today.

Below is my screencast; I hope it’s helpful!

Here are a couple of stills from the above screencast

Using Flailing Water Hoses to Thwart Pirates

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:20:36 +0000

http://www.gizmag.com/anti-piracy-curtain-water-hoses/22337/

This is a pretty funny, yet eye opening story. It's weird that a company would use the same technology as a summertime children's water toy for defense of a shipping vessel. The other interesting part of this story is that most of the defense system relies on water jets that can fill the enemy vessels with water as they are trying to board. The flailing hoses are mostly a psychological deterrent. #blog

50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast Paced Work Environment

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:27:54 +0000

Here's the latest blog post from the awesome +Jessica Moon at digital-telepathy:

http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/articles/50-photoshop-tricks

My favorite tip is the fill opacity shortcut:
Holding down shift and tapping 1 through 0 will give you fill levels between 10% to 100%. The same applies here where tapping multiple numbers in quick succession of one another will give you specific fill percentages.

Please re-share and +1 if you like the post!
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Freebie: Cinema 4D Motorcycle Chain Rig

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:35:35 +0000

A simple Xpresso motorcycle chain rig for Cinema 4D. This rig was originally created for some of my higher polycount bike models. Its purpose is to provide an easily poseable motorcycle/bicycle/chainsaw style chain that uses Instances to replicate the links.

The length of the chain can be adjusted by adding additional link instances, and the spline that the chain rests on can also be easily manipulated and animated. There is also an animatable value that can be used to make the chain progress.

Featured Model & Interview on TurboSquid

Jamie Hamel-Smith — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:22:57 +0000

Recently, TurboSquid has been featuring their artists on the home page of their site and posting interviews n their blog.

I was lucky enough to be chosen for a feature! My motorcycle model was paired up with another talented artist’s motorcycle rider model, and they were rendered together for a large featured image on Turbosquid’s home page.

The home page feature on TurboSquid is primarily to show off Checkmate models. Checkmate is TurboSquid’s relatively new certification process for modeling standards. They are aiming to create a series of standards that allows buyers to see at a glance, if the model will behave well when importing and if the geometry for that model follows best practices. See more about their Checkmate program at their site (link above).

I was also interviewed (via email) and the interview is posted on TurboSquid’s blog.