Matt Paquin

Under Construction

mpaquin — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:27:11 +0000

I was instructed once to never put an “Under Construction” page or image on your website while its under construction. I”m ignoring that advice for the next few weeks. I haven’t given my website any love in about two years. Hopefully the renovation is a speedy one. Until then, you can see a lot of my work at krop.com/mpaquin.

Sclupture02

mpaquin — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:21:51 +0000

Figure Speed 2

mpaquin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:37:26 +0000

Another night at AS220. This time I used Alchemy for the gestures, which I’m looking forward to experimenting with more.

Figure Speed Painting

mpaquin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:27:02 +0000

This summer I’ve been figure drawing at AS220 on Tuesday nights. Last week I tried painting from my laptop with a Wacom tablet. The video and images in this post are from my second attempt. The first try was definitely a learning experience.

I don’t think any of these were longer than fifteen minutes.

Just right-click and download it. Its 28.5mb.

UV Mapping #2

mpaquin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:28:42 +0000

We’re back this week with almost thirty minutes of video. This week I’m mapping the bar in the living room of my Fish House which involves a little remodeling, some beveling, texturing, and of course mapping the UVs. Just right click on the images to download the files if you want them for yourself.

I cut them up into four separate files. They’re all 1280×720 and the resolution is much better, so they should be easier to follow.

3 Speed Painting Videos

mpaquin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:19:06 +0000

A lot of people have asked me how I paint. Hopefully this shows them just enough to keep them happy, but not enough so they have to come back for more:)

Just click on the images to play the videos.

The following painting took about a half hour.

This one was about fifteen minutes.

This one was also in the range of fifteen minutes to a half hour, but not too long. That’s what makes these speed paintings.

UV Mapping #1

mpaquin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:29:14 +0000

This started out as a ten minute video at 24.5MB. I compressed it down to an flv at 15.2MB. Hopefully you can follow along and tell what I’m clicking on. This video is the start to a series on UV mapping in Modo. If you guys want the higher rez version let me know. I can get it up here asap.
Low-Rez
[flashvideo file=http://www.mattpaquin.com/videos/modoUV12.flv /]

Higher-Rez.
[flashvideo file=http://www.mattpaquin.com/videos/modoUV13.flv /]

click the above image to view and download the full resolution quicktime.

Modo tip of the week

mpaquin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:13:06 +0000

I recorded a UV mapping tutorial for Modo today which I will not be releasing. I mention this because I started talking out loud about how I didn’t know how the scene was being lit. You can see the image example below.

You’ll notice how the floor is much more blue and lit than it should be. The are no lights above it, and the only light source in the scene is way down the hallway. I’d been scratching my head for a few weeks as to why the attic portion of the building, which has absolutely no windows was just as lit. I finally figured it out today. Its the Indirect Range in the Global Illumination settings. When I first started texturing the building I set this to a low value and everything magically rendered faster and was better lit. I checked the manual to find out that if the GI rays don’t go far enough the geometry will pick up the color of the environment. So that’s why the floor of the interior was sky blue. After setting the Indirect Range back to zero I got this:

As you can see, everything is as dark as it should be. However, this presents an interesting problem. First of all, my render times more than doubled. Everything looks much better, it just takes longer to make it happen. So I fired up my PowerPC G5 tower and figured out the network rendering process. It shaved off about two seconds. That was kind of disappointing, but I think it might come in handy when the animations start getting rendered.

So that’s my Modo tip of the week. If your interiors seem like they’re getting lit when they shouldn’t be, check the Indirect Range. It might be too small.

Now that the scene is nice and dark I have to figure out how its going to be lit.