Archive for February, 2004

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Lotus nymph

February 21, 2004 @ 4:53 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

My new site should have more of my work, better work, and also more varied work. Illustration is one of my main areas of interest, and something I want to diversify into after doing a lot of hardcore graphic design for many years. 2003 presented me with many opportunities to hone my illustration skills including [...]


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The orrery

February 16, 2004 @ 11:42 am by Samir Bharadwaj  

It had to happen one day, and it finally has. After all those images ‘inspired’ by the Elysiun Weekend Challenge, I have finally managed to complete the execution of an idea within the deadline. The topic this week was ‘jewels’, with a stipulation that raytracing be used in the image. For some reason the topic [...]


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Taking stalk

February 13, 2004 @ 11:07 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

The head is done (well… not quite but sort of). The neck must go on. Since I started this model as a sculpting project from a basic geometric form, rather than a proper animatable face-loop structure, there were some things to clean up before moving away from the spherical head. For a neck, the head [...]


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Saving face

February 12, 2004 @ 10:32 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

Having decided previously to maintain the same visual identity as the old site, I decided to start off work on the new splash page. Technically, the splash page is a very minor part of any site, but in practical terms it is a very important step in the web design process. Firstly, it decides what [...]


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I don’t have a head for this sort of thing

February 11, 2004 @ 5:11 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

It seems that I am always attracted by the themes thrown at the Blender community by the weekend challenge over at Elysiun. It also seems that I don’t yet have the speed and familiarity with Blender’s tools required to convert my grandiose ideas for weekend challenges into reality within the stipulated time. But, never look [...]


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The colour of my skin

February 10, 2004 @ 2:39 pm by Samir Bharadwaj  

It has been very long since I last posted here, and even longer since I wrote about the great site re-invention project. But beyond laziness and procrastination, there has been another reason for my indecisiveness in this issue. The crux of the matter has been, how much �re-invention� should this re-invention involve? To answer this [...]


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