.:Beach bar:.

Working on a 3d version of Tuomas Korpi's painting "Beach bar"

Done in 3ds max, rendered in Vray & post in Nuke - I'm really wanted to do more to this but time is like non-existent for the time being - I am gonna do a evening piece sometime (hopefully)

A wireframe/clay render

.:WWII Heavy Artillery:.

Ok guys - waaaaay to long without updates. 

I don't have much sparetime at the moment but I have a few things I work on now and then.

One of the things is a bad ass soldier with some heavy equipment - here is his main weapon (work in progress)

 

Still working on textures and shaders

Here's a helmet in the works

.: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

.: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

.: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.

.:Previews:.

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

.:The subway:.

A little short I've been working on in my spare time - this is still work in progress

I still need to render a few frames here and there.

Please mind the sound its only a dummy for now

The Subway from Ernst Krogtoft on Vimeo.
1280x720 H264 Quicktime - click here  (right click to save)

My spare time is very sparse for the time being - would've love to put a little more work into the different scenes

.:Nissan 350Z - Black Edition:.

Doing a little animation with my Nissan 350Z

Here's some work in progress pictures

.:Mazda 6:.

Evermotion Model - Working on a "Studio Setup" doing Shader, Texturing, Lighting & Rendering.

added new rims and tires - will be adding a new front/back etc

These are just renders straight from 3ds max, rendered with Vray - I will fine tune the studio setup when modelling is complete