.:Merry Christmas:.

Usually I do a little Christmas something but this year I have been extremely busy with my newly started VFX Studio - Maybe next year:)

Wanna wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a happy new year - best wishes for 2011

.:Moose in the box:.

.:Audi R8:.

For those of you who have been following my blog, know that eons ago started on my R8 projekt (while the car itself still was new and awesome - now its just... well pretty awesome).
Finally modelling is complete and now I can do some renders - I still need some minor adjustment to the shaders. Done in max 9-2011 rendered in vray - post in Combustion

And heres a still from an upcoming animation

.:Moose Studio:.

Ok folks it's a reality..well at least for me.

"Storytelling without the visuals is like a car without the wheels. Moose Studio tells the visual story. Whether it’s for advertising, architects, design or film/TV we will make it happen.
Delivering beautiful visuals is only half the job, understanding the client and developing a successful strategy for the task at hand, is just as important. We always work in close partnership with the client to do a job well done.

The Moose might seem young but the people inside, controlling the legs, the head and the brute force are some of the best and most talented in the business.
With many years in their respective areas, the Moose has developed a fast and very efficient way of getting things done on time and on price.

No job is too big, no job is too difficult and at 1200lbs. the Moose is hard to stop."

Moose Studio Was started by Myself, Peter Krogtoft and Søren Pors - we all have over 10 years of experience in our respective fields.

More to come until then please visit 

www.Moose-studio.com

.:Plane:.

I had almost 2 days without schelduled work and decided to do a little VFX scene.

I came up with a Airplane about to emergency land.

Everything is done in 3ds max, Vray, Combustion and After Effects

Plane polymodelled in 3ds max - fire in FumeFX

Plane Breakdown from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.

Please mind the sound - only a dummy for now

Click here to view the 720p quicktime version

.:Evermotion Render Challenge:.

Last year I joined the Evermotion Render Challenge on evermotion.org.

I did some few test images, but didn't have the time to complete any of them - so these are only work in progress - thought I might share it

.:A new short:.

Autumn is coming - the sun is fading - and I'm working on a little short whenever I have the time.

Here's some early work in progress. I'll keep you posted with updates.

As usually using 3ds max and Vray - AE &Combustion for compositing

UPDATE 11 August 2010
Added some middle/background elements - the tree is only for mockup I'm working on the final one - using Onyx as the base for the model and adjusting for my need.
For now I'm working with about 10.2 million polygons - the rendertime is about 5 minutes a frame (thank god for proxies) - usually a do the whole scene layout in one scene/setting and for rendering and final touches I divide in foreground, middleground and backgorund

Here's a shaded view from my viewport

UPDATE 9 August 2010
The foregound is coming along - Most of the foliage is done in polymodelling and then exported to VrayProxies for placement I'm using VrayScatter. The materials are 2sided which gives a nice translucency effect.
The Fence is polymodelling with textures from CGTextures retouched in Photoshop. Displacement maps are extracted and painted over from the original diffuse textures.

A little fella which will join the fun - I thought of doing a more complex feather system - but since the bird only will be shown at a distance I just went for a mesh with a simple rig and added a little hair and fur

The first rough animation - just testing the rig - its made fairly simple since the bird only is gonna be doing a small and fast appearance

.:Asteroid:.

ile doing a commercial project last month I did some R'n'd on the subject - heres is a small preview - Eventually the client went for another look, but I thought I might share it.

Done in 3ds max, fumefx, pflow and some compositing

asteroid from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.

Click here to see the video 1280x720 Quicktime mp4

.:FumeFX Smoke:

Some medium to large scale smoke done in FumeFX

Billow from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.

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Click here to see the video 1280x720 Quicktime mp4

.:Cottage:.

A test scene from last year - I wanted to test Max' & Vray's capabilities of rendering millions of polygons with full GI, primary+secondary bounces, animated lights, SSS, Translucency, Glossy reflection...

It went without a hitch.. (there are some flickering on the ground,- my mistake not the software)

Created and rendered in 3ds max 2009 and Vray 1.5 - rendered on a Dell Poweredge with 2x quad core Nehalem Xeon Processors running 2.8 ghz - The scene consists of 19.8 million polygons.

Cottage 01 from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.

Click here to watch - Quicktime MP4 1280x720

.:Steam Octupus:.

Seeing Alex Broeckels amazing digital painting (Cgtalk - Steampunk challenge) made me wanna do a 3d replica.

Theese pics are still very early work in progress

.:Photo:.

Just some different photos from my collection

.:Sonne Breed:.

This is a little something I'm working at when ever I have some time to kill at my job (Sonne is the place I work for)

Picture and sound desing still need some work

SonneBreed from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.

Click here to watch - 1280x720 Quicktime mp4

.:Audi R8:.

A few years ago I started modelling the "new" Audi R8 - time went by and I forgot all about it.

I'm working on it again when ever I have the time - still need alot of work and adjustment.

Here's some wip renders and some screendumbs from the viewport

.:Compilation early 2010:.

Here's some new and old thrown together rough and dirty

All work by me & myself in my sparetime

Enjoy

.:The Attic:.

Well I'm kinda working on a little animation/story taking place in an old attic.

Check out some Work in progress pictures here.

.:CGI Landscapes:.

Its been a long time since if done some large aerial cgi landscapes - here's a few

.:Previews:.

Some old Preview and work in progress renders for some of my older animations

.:A little update:.

Sorry I haven't been updating my blog for a while - been really busy with work.Here's a new Photoshop image I've done - inspired by Scott Hansen - I might do a large print for my bedroom (original resolution is 25 mega px)