In 2007, after working with OpenGL, I began to work with my own Engine. I initially used DirectX 9, but later I found XNA and continued using this API.

 

In 2008, I used what I had developed up to that moment and transformed it into the main platform of my Master Thesis's project. The main goal was (and still is) to produce a real-time engine with some novel graphics techniques, supporting a number of augmented reality technologies.

 

Characteristics:

 

• Augmented Reality technologies like ARTag, ARToolkit Plus and ALVAR.
• Shaders like SSAO, shadow mapping, blur, carpaint, etc.
• The engine's shaders are capable of working with FX Composer, and the new ones can be easily incorporated to the engine.
• The engine’s code is highly structured and is prepared to be improved and/or extended.
• Pickers, manipulators, User Interface, sound, video reproduction, etc.

 

Thank you Benjamin Nitschke for your excellent tutorials, they were really helpful.

 

 

I worked in my first version of this car in 2007. At the beggining I was trying to improve my limited skills in both subjects: modeling and rendering. Later, in 2008 I did this version. It’s still a work in progress, and unfortunatly, for the time being, it’s stopped. First of all I want to keep improving my skill with other projects to finally complete it.

 

I enjoyed a lot doing this car, to me this project was more than a teaching ground, it was an opportunity to know what I was capable of, and to know how much I love this.

 

Characteristics:

 

• The 3D tool used was Softimage XSI.
• The render Engine, of course, was Mental Ray with the use of architectural shaders.
• I utilize more than 1000 pictures of reference.
• The technique used was polygonal subdivision.
• Without subdivision there are 170378 triangles.

 

I want to thank all the cg-cars.com community for the help and the constructive ideas.

 

 

 

 

With the main purpose of continue the learning of not real-time 3D graphics I begin to do organics tutorials. Later I came with the idea of model my own girlfriend. It wasn’t, and still isn’t, an easy task.   I’m still unsure until what level I can work in this project. There are wonderful topics like facial animation that maybe are beyond of my spare time.     With this project I try to:

• Improve my modeling techniques, particularly with organic modeling.
• Improve my rendering techniques, surface scattering, etc.
• Learn more about animation.
• Learn skinning animation.
• Learn how to work with hair systems.

 

I want to thank my girlfriend for be so beautiful and so great person. Loves you.