Author Archives: Piero

Some Skecthes

I was thinking to buy a tablet for home since a while now. I already used the Intuos 4 lot of times at work, really good tablet but just never got real advantage of it as I always used it as mouse replacement. Also, it was the medium size and if you ask me I [...]

Look up

Not much time lately. I’ve started a new image in Softimage that I’ll post soon. Anyway I was checking some old pictures I took a few time ago and I found the following one. Nothing exciting, but then I played a bit with it and I thought that rotated could be more interesting. Also I [...]

Ok, let’s make it simple

Hard to pass a night without touching SI, even though it’s just to throw out some basic stuff. So, after messing around with Power Extrude I’ve had to add a floor. And then a light. And eventually I wanted to see a different material from the default one. So, here it is.

A Silent Night & a Getty Villa

There’s no particular connection between the two pictures below. They were just hanging on my desk for a while, then I decided to post them here. It’s been a nice Christmas and lately I’ve got a very relaxing day at the Getty Villa. Well, probably they both recall me good moments, that’s a connection after [...]

SI: little steps forward

Another little test playing with Softimage and Final Gather. Not hard to admit: playing with this lighting stuff in Mental Ray is *so* different! My feeling is that at the beginning one is gonna spend a bit more time to figure out how to get the proper parameters that play well with the scene (still [...]

This image is a bit Soft

So, what’s the deal? Well, I’m trying to overcome the first obstacles as I’m thinking I want seriously study Softimage (formerly known as XSI.) Really, this is a great package. Of course I still use Blender and C4D with their and my limitations. In fact I prefer C4D when it comes to drop quick mograph [...]

First 2012 picture

Actually is not the first of 2012 as I took this picture on the 31th. But all in all is the first picture that I’m posting on my refreshed blog

Reboot, first new post

In the past few months I’ve got a bunch of hacking attack on my website, as well as on my blog. It’s been tough as my domain appeared as malware on Google. On top of that both Firefox and Chrome displayed a malware page that warned the user about some possible risks proceeding to my [...]