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Brandon Volpe's Demo Reel for the end of 2009. Mainly 3D animation, Visual Effects, and Compositing work. also check out www.BrandonVolpe.com for more of my art.]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:48:40 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/795891

This is a commerical I did for Speedshape in Michigan. It was done in 3ds max with some maya and I used Vray to render it all, then I composited it in nuke and After Effects.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:39:53 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/739977

A car I put together in 3ds max and vray as the render engine. I'm working on short commercial with the same model.
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www.brandonvolpe.com]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:21:51 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/701222

To make a long story short this was made with the actual 3D CAD data geometry straight from Pontiac. The model I acquired from a mentor of mine. It was done in maya with mental ray. My own texture nodes were applied and rendered in 2k size format. It was a lot of fun and I'm giving a shout out to Detroit.
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www.BrandonVolpe.com]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:54:38 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/683205

A phone commercial I did.]]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:31 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/673467

My compositing and 3D animation reel done in 2008. Take a look at my website for more www.BrandonVolpe.com]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:44:14 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/673449

Branding my work]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:43:16 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/673462

Done with photoshop and with traditional gauche paint on board. Took about 2 weeks and was fun getting the rock roughfness to come out of the painting.]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:05:01 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/670426

Making this was 5% motivation and 105% perspiration. It was a project I did part for fun and part learning. The original photo refrence I used to project the image into maya. Then I created the 3D geometry to that perspective camera after locking it. I had to change the camera to a different focus to get it right, but then I worked on the clay shingles. I then wanted to throw the modifed photoshop texture on it and with every project theres always problems, the 3D and image were slightly off. So I decided since i was going to do all the trees in 2D I would just finish it in photoshop. So there was a lot of retouching. The truck is 3D rendered in mental ray. If you look close the driver is on his cell phone. trees are all Xfrog, and there is a man hole but it got coved up bythe boarder. Any Comments are welcome.]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:29:24 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/675775

A fun rendition project for trying reverse enginering for Maya 3D and mixed with 2D Photoshop. The Storm version only took about 2 hours, as I had messed around with another file, so I knew what needed to be done to get the lightning and rain on top of the rest. Note: look at the original sunny version.

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Here is one of my favorite architectual renderings.
I had the idea and I acomplished it by going to the stadium and watching the games and using photos that my dad took of the stadium when he worked as an electician when the ball park was built, (Happy Father's Day Dad). I also used a wallet size schedule seating chart to make it as close as possible to the actual dimentions. I used AutoCAD to model this and the old VIZ Render to render it. I also have more camera angles and a cool 180 degree animation. If your wondering what I used to texture it, I used PaintShop Pro because I did not have Photoshop or Maya yet. Ohh and it took about 4 to 5 weeks. Refrence photos are availible by request.]]> Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:14:45 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/645225

After the Detroit Auto Show I looked in one of my sample bags and found this car. Months went on and I put the picture on the back of my door. My brother said that would be a cool car to draw, and then after I took an Illustrator class this was my final project. The bkgd lightning was done in Photoshop. It was done before the car idea came to me. I also got a big poster of it made and put on my wall with some of my other renderings like the Detroit Tiger stadium, shown in my portfolio.]]> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:55:21 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/673426

Made in Maya 8.0 & Photoshop CS3. I used Nurbs to model the pop can and then just instanced it for 2 more, but before that I created a texture reference object for the cylindrical image then with a couple ambient and spot lights rendered it in mental ray. Just a simple project done for school fun. In Michigan we call soda, pop.]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:23 +0000 http://brandv.cgsociety.org/gallery/645233

A digital Matte painting done with photoshop with many layers. To remember what happened Sept 11 th 2001. This is also the background for another car rendering project that I'm almost done with to put on my youtube portfolio, which sould be updated soon, search: BrandonVolpe all one word]]> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:17:57 +0000