New 3D work:

I finally finished the 3D environments I've been working on for years at INSIGHT. They are digital reconstructions of the Mayan site Chichen Itza in the Yucatan.

A little over three years ago I went with the team to capture 3D scans of the ruins as they appear now, white washed, broken crumbling etc.

That scan data provided the base to create these digital reconstructions, that and the help and expertise of numerous archeologists, technicians, artists, and lots of patient effort.

These environments are by far the best 3D work I've ever done, and not coincidentally the most tender loving care and attention to detail I've ever paid to a 3D scene.

The final renders have been printed on the cover of a German visual effects magazine, given a front page spot on the Fry Render site (the renderer I used) as well as featured in the gallery of the xfrog site (aided in the creation of the vegetation)

So below are links to the medium rez renders on my site
www.artofali.com/osario

Sideshow dissolves between the different render passes used:
www.artofali.com/3d

The article on the Fry Render website:
www.randomcontrol.com/image-of-the-moment

and the article on x-frog's site (earlier unfinished versions of the scenes):
www.xfrog.com/2011/06/insight-chichen-itza/

As an extra nerdy side note if you right click on any of the final renders at www.artofali.com/osario , and view image in a new window/tab, and change the version number associated with the image name in the url, you can see the previous versions of each render.