Step by step, Compositing ambivalent logotypes only Swedes understand.

Put waaay to many hours into figuring out how advanced text beveling works in Maya on this piece for a company trip (company logotypes and messages are stripped).
Anyhow, I got a request to create this fun logo to put on a bus.

Came up with somewhat of a "Gypsy meets rock festival" design theme.

Top to bottom
A lighting/specular pass with just the shiny stuff.
Shadows
Clean colors, needed to clean this up a bit so i rendered out a separate pass.
Base lighting.
Final comp.


Hope this puts everyone in mood.
If this doesn't cut it we can always play Gogol Bordello all the way there.

Step by step, Compositing birthday card design

Ok so my moms 60th birthday was coming around the corner, and i couldn't think of anything to buy her beeing last minute and all. Pulled an all nighter and put together this designed birthday card for her.

Some people have already told me it looks too harsh and cold to give to your mom. Just want to point out that we're a family of German ancestry, we're like that.

Started fiddling around in 3D Studio Max because of superior text tools until i landed on something i found fitting design-wise, then exported it over to Maya. Made a ton of shaders and layers. Then exported everything to Images.

After working up a result i was decently happy about, I concluded that the image lacked flare. Lens flare to be specific.

As it is usually frowned upon to use lens flares I hid it by making the general image a tad overexposed.