Author Archives: Bard

V-Ray Ptex Normal Displacement

5 Oct Filed under Technology, V-Ray. No comments.

Disney's Ptex technology means that 3D artists should never have to spend endless hours on UV-map our models for painting/texturing. Autodesk Mudbox 2012 and V-Ray 2.0 for Maya has Ptex built in, so we can already start using this amazing technology. One thing is to … Read More →

V-Ray for Maya Displacement Tutorial

26 Sep Filed under Technology, V-Ray. No comments.

I learned this the hard way, so here's my contribution to the Maya / V-Ray community. So you want to get your Mudbox model displacements into Maya and V-Ray 2.0? Technically this should be quite simple, but if you're using a 32-bit EXR, it's a … Read More →

Bard’s Showreel 2011

15 Feb Filed under Work. No comments.

I have collected the motion graphics work I have done the last 3 years into my first showreel. I'm aiming my career towards this field, and hoping to be doing a lot more of it in the next years. It's an exciting field where you … Read More →

Interviews and reviews

1 Feb Filed under Featured, illustration, Products, Technology, Work. No comments.

We released Jack and Joe for the iPad and iPhone, and now we get to reap the fruits of the media blitz that it created! Well, alright, it wasn't really a blitz. More like a pfffofohhhhhftzzzz...z..zz..whaaateverrr... I guess we had high hopes, but that's a … Read More →

Jack and Joe for the iPad and iPhone

12 Jan Filed under illustration, Products, Work. No comments.

After over 6 months of seriously hard and silly work, we've finally released our interactive children's book for the Apple iPad and iPhone! Wow, it's been so much work you wouldn't believe it! Even if we chained you to a chair for nearly a year … Read More →

Jack and Joe v1.2-Developer preview

9 Jan Filed under illustration, Products, Technology, Work. No comments.

On December 29th, we released the iPad version of "Jack and Joe", our interactive children's book, and now we're working on an update that will let kids color in a page themselves. It's something we had to cut for the first version, but we definitively … Read More →