Making fun 2D celebrity and other character illustrations for “Minimise Me”, an avatar/emoticon generator for Windows Live Messanger based on a traditional Smiley. www.minimise-me.com

I really wanted to get a grip on front projection texture mapping for lightwave, being able to model to a photograph, which is tricky in Lightwave due to the separate modeller, layout programs. Video and details after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Character Development from Sketch to 2D illustration to 3D illustration. To view a larger image please visit: DeviantArt Page Or check out a 360 render after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

Making bridge illustration 3D for Microsoft “People Ready” campaign. Built animated and rendered in Lightwave 3D. Check it out here

The video seem much clearer then alternative video sites, although you are restricted to 90 seconds of footage and it doesn’t seem to many people are pleased with this feature. I find it quite interesting for time-lapse and techniques involving photography concepts but can see a lot of junk filling up flickr.

Thought I’d try my hand at some voice over stuff, worth a shot and is pretty good fun too Air Talent Profile >>

My ideal studio enviroment. Modelled and Rendered in Lightwave 3D. To view a larger image or to buy a print please visit:DeviantArt Page

Finished 3D work for Windows Live characters. Promoting the range of utilities in the Windows Live platform. Modelled animated in Lightwave, rendered in Fprime. The security character was the most interesting to create as it had to have a rotating police light helmet, while not being transparent. This was a great opportunity to create a sub-surface scattering material using Worley Labs G2 plugin.

Nice bit of studio photography work for Intel. Shot with Canon 400d and ef-s 10-22mm to get everything in, using 430EX and two 300w strobes.

Check out my dads fabulous, if a little creepy, metal sculptures. Finished polishing up the site for an exhibition. andrewdumont.co.uk

Light Tunnel from Louis du Mont on Vimeo

Trying out some camera projection techniques using Lightwave 3D and Fprime. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m now up on iStock photo with some more commercial photography and illustration work, as well as a few 3D renders. Bit of fun Link to my images >>

Try your hand at cracking the clues with this new intel game, my role was creating the 3D assets (ie. the safe) created with lightwave, rendered in fprime.http://cracktheclues.intel.com/

Finished putting up a photoblog as I’ve started taking alot of photo and don’t want to swamp this work blog with them. Check it out athttp://www.2create.co.uk/photoblog/

MSN Penalty Shootout game, coming to a banner need you. My role was creating, shading and animating the 3D assets in Lightware 3D.

Joined JPG magazine, the photography mag by photographer, hope to get into print soon so check it out and maybe vote for an image JPG mag

Finished work on Gpad ltd flash site, has quite an interesting interface, check it out Gpad Ltd

Finished working on Walls website, my role was generating the 3D assets and animation for the site. Made use of HDR lighting/reflection. Does seem to pump up the render times a bit :S

A few concepts for hometrack site

Here’s my latest flickr uploads, these are the ones flickr deems the most interesting using flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm. flickr >>