From offline renders to real-time worlds.
3D work from the artist behind tridiART: renders from 3ds Max, environments, renders and videos made in Unreal Engine, 3D scenes for film and TV, and simulations.
- Roles
- 3D Artist3D Environment ArtistVFX ArtistAI ArtistLead ArtistHead of 3DCreative Director
- Tools
- 3ds MaxUnreal EngineNaiadSubstance PainterAfter Effects
Aleppo
Anka UAV
Backgammon
Baghdad
Basilica
Byzantine Chapel
Cairo
Coastal Castle
Corner Building
Edirne Palace
Corvin Castle
Conquest Room
From the Sky
Cannon Fire at Night
Gülhane
Gülhane Tram
Hagia Sophia
Horseman
Pearl Kiosk
Island City
Old Palace
Ottoman Ships
Strait
Tiny House
Tolna Castle
Topkapı Aerial
Yıldız Chalet Pavilion
Fetih 1453
The Byzantine palace of the feature film Fetih 1453: the emperor's throne room and the corridor that leads to it. The actors were shot on green screen; the palace around them was built in 3D and composited into every shot.
The throne room.
Carved wooden stalls, a mosaic floor, frescoes and gold leaf: the finished set, before the actors step in.
From green screen to palace.
Drag the line. On the left, the plate as it was shot; on the right, the finished shot with the palace built around the actors.
From clay to gold.
21 steps of the throne room: the grey blockout, the carved wood, the frescoes, then the gold. Point at the band to stop it, click a step to look closer.
Seven jobs, one artist.
The breakdown closes on the list of jobs the shots took. Every line on it was done by the same person: a one-man crew from the first camera track to the final comp.
- 01Match movingSolving the real camera, so the 3D palace moves with every shot.
- 02KeyingPulling the actors off the green screen.
- 03RotoscopingHand-drawn mattes wherever a key alone falls short.
- 043D modelingThe throne room and the corridor, from blockout to the last carving.
- 05TexturingCarved wood, marble, mosaic, frescoes and gold.
- 06RenderingLighting the CG set to match the light of the plates.
- 07CompositingActors, set and light put together into the final frame.
Magnificent Century
Establishing shots for the TV series Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl): Ottoman Istanbul with its palaces and its fleet, and the cities of the age from Baghdad to Tolna. Every shot is a full CG environment.
establishing shots, from the Golden Horn to the walls of Tolna. Click a shot to play it with sound.
Naiad Water Simulation
A rowboat pulling across open water. The wake, the ocean surface and the foam are three separate fluid passes, simulated in Naiad and rendered with Krakatoa and V-Ray in 3ds Max.
Hours of simulation, hundreds of gigabytes.
In 2013 a shot like this meant tens of millions of particles per pass, minutes per frame and a disk full of cache files. These are the numbers from the simulation sheets.
| Pass | Particles | Voxel size | Per frame | Total time | Disk per frame | Total disk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main simulation | ~16 million | 0.03 | ~2:30 min | ~14 h | ~420 MB | ~126 GB |
| Ocean deform | ~16 million | 0.03 | ~50 s | ~4 h | ~420 MB | ~126 GB |
| Foam simulation | 3.5K–4 million | 0.03 | ~25 s | ~2 h | 1–150 MB | ~24 GB |