Life grows atop decay.
Abandoned Asylum
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My friend Russ owns the existing A-frame on the right and wanted to explore the idea of marrying new construction to the existing house. We talked through his ideas over sandwiches and beers, wandered around the site, and brainstormed some possibilities. I came up with this as a possible configuration, allowing the existing structure to remain as a large master/office and connecting via glass corridor to a new wing positioned to take advantage of the incredible view. This was a fun design exercise and gave me a chance to experiment with some new render techniques. -
Playing around with atmosphere and lighting. I think the dusty feel of the barn is successful and I also figured out a new method of object lighting via the headlights of the car. The car is a 1972 BMW 2002 tii, high on my list of future project cars. -
I did this to accompany my new branding and to serve as the cover of the webpage. It gave me an opportunity to play around with some new displacement effects in the muddy gravel which turned out nicely. Fun to work on this one. And yes, those cattle are branded with the new logo. Here at Seven G, we sand the undersides of the drawers. -
I had just watched 30 Days of Night and it occured to me that I hadn't experimented much with snow. The movie is dark and ominous and, let's be honest, sometimes it's nice to explore outside the boundaries of blue sky, happy people graphics. Something bad is waiting for our shadow man. This is just a Photoshop composite (I didn't feel like modeling everything), but I picked up a few handy snow methods that have since been put to use on billable work. Thanks Josh Hartnett.