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A Celtic book cover.

Here you have what client asked me to do:

"We would like a noble tall woman with long blond hair that waves in the wind, dressed white and noble but not overcrowded (maybe with a cloak like "la_donna_di_avalon" which is also waving in the wind), possibly she holds her arms so that her palms are laid to one another in front of her. She should stand on a boat/barque which is crossing the cover from the right so that she shows her profile, (perspective like the German Avalon covers). The boat/barque should have some Celtic ornaments and burning torches on the sides. The background should be the foggy shore of a lake/river with silhouettes of trees. The whole colour setting should be blue and green (and yellow for the torch light),it should have the atmosphere of a foggy and misty morning, but nevertheless powerful."

I think I reached the goal...but I've been lucky in finding good reference photos
]]> Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:56:44 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/677814

Another historical book cover.
As usual I create background by picking photo pieces
and assembling them like in a matte painting.
Props are made in Softimage XSI, modelled by Gabriele Sina.
I worked on 3D lighting and shading.
This is a low budget work so has been created quickly
but anyway I tried to obtain a balanced and nice image.
In the close up below you can notice that somewhere details
are not too much refined but in a general view this is not so important.

Here you have some used photo.


Close up


]]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:33:34 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/658769

This is an illustration created for printed advertising.
Model by Gabriele Sina and Jacopo Grisanti.
Lighting, shading and retouching by Silvia Fusetti.
]]> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:29 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/484319

Another male subject for this work. Why clients doesn’t ask me to make a nice woman!?
I made a part of this book cover in 3d graphic ( xsi for the helmet and poser for the basic reference face ) but the most part of work was made in photoshop. I shot some reference photos for skin textures and hairs ( thanks to Lorenzo for posing ).
There’s a lot of painting in this work. The beard is totally painted too.
About the helmet : modelled by Gabriele Sina, I did texturing, lighting, shading.

Here you have some work steps,
some reference photos,
and some details:

www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/barbarian_warrior_making.jpg
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/barbarian_warrior_photo_ref.jpg


]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:26:35 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/405828

The task was to create a book cover with golden frame
decoration becoming a dragon and make title.
I had to design all parts and propose some alternative.
This image has been really hard to do. I had 10 days to make layouts and finish all the work.
I like the final result, i hope you'll like it too!

- Final red dragon (flipped)


-Golden dragon (final model - bump + gold material)


-Dragon ambient occlusion + drawing reference
http://www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/dragon_dirtmap_drawing.jpg

-alternatives version layouts


-Back side model + front side model of golden frame + final layout


-title final model + wip + wireframe (model by Gabriele Sina)
http://www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/title_wip_wire.jpg

-book cover green dragon - Medium resolution
http://www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/DELTORA_green_dragon.jpg

-high resolution details of cover (green version)



]]> Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:05:48 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/603333

Italian book cover illustration of the first book from "Legends of Earthsea" saga.
I've used some photo I shot in Sardinia two years ago.
Here you have a w.i.p.
http://www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/making_earthsea.JPG

]]> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:31:57 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/529777

This is a part of a work ordered by a graphic studio that had to create an Italian television printed advertising.
They gave me the photo of the posed zebra and my task was to create a 3d armour over her.
The 3d model is made by Gabriele Sina.
For this armour 4-5 working days (camera matching, modelling, lighting, shading, texturing, image final retouching)

Here you have:


camera matching and starting photo,
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/zebra_armour_model_and_phot.jpg

full resolution 3d armour,
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/zebra_armour_hi_res.jpg

Medium resolution 3d armour

]]> Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:14:53 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/394210

A four hands 3d / 2d work with a low budget.
3d model by Gabriele Sina.
( Basic human and horse models made with poser )
I made lighting, shading, texturing and the final part with photoshop. I used some photos for textures.
Total duration of work and rendering: 45 hours in 8 days
]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:10:38 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/529318

This is a part of a work ordered by a graphic studio that had to create an Italian television printed advertising. They gave me a photo of a posed guy and my task was to create a 3d armour over him.
The 3d model is made by Gabriele Sina
For this armour 4-5 working days (camera matching, modelling, lighting, shading, texturing, image final retouching)

Here you have:

- full resolution 3d armour
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/devil_armour_hi_res.jpg

- camera matching and starting photo
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/devil_armour_photo.jpg

- some detail


]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:34:24 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/410292

LINK TO THE MOVIE with sound effects and music:
http://www.aivlis-home.com/MOVIES/CG/cineworld.mov

I worked on this little movie together with two guys when I was employed as 3d generalist in Animo s.r.l. few years ago .
This work had to be simple but emotional.
City lights on planet should remind crop circles.
I made lighting, texturing and compositing, spending a lot of attention on colors, the sun ,the eclipse effect , the sky, the planet and the evanescible look of planet ring. It was made for cinema projection. Original frame size is 1828 x 1555 with pixel aspect 2:1

Here you have some low res. still frame



]]> Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:15:45 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/394488

Another book cover. basic model in 3d.
Details and final mood in photoshop.
3 days of work, not full time.

Bye!]]> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:52:30 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/401329

A 3D reproduction of this greek historical object
from tomb V at Mycenae ( Sixteenth century BC )
Model by Gabriele Sina.
Textures, shading, lighting by myself.
I posted both images because I haven't a preferred version.

This is the model reference:


Bye bye
]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:12:31 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/490339

“The Singing Sword” Italian version book cover from the Jack Whyte Excalibur saga.
This is the third book ( the entire saga is composed by eight books ).
One day of work for the sword ( made in xsi ) and one for the rest ( photoshop ).
I spent hours to find good photographic references.

Here you have some work steps,
the photo of printed book to see how title is placed,
and some photographic references used at
www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/The_Singing_Sword_photos.jpg

Cheers





]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:18:07 +0000 http://aivlis.cgsociety.org/gallery/399151

An historical novel book cover. I used some low resolution amatorial photographic references for starting
the composition. All the rest is painted with photoshop.
Black on bottom was left for title.
3 days of work.
I hope you like it!

This is the link to the wip image:

http://www.aivlis-home.com/cgtalk/the_honor_of_Rome_wip2.jpg

This picture shows how i used photo's pieces to build composition.

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