Today my scene Rosso has been on Forum Spotlight in Ronen Bekerman Arch-Vis Forum. I must say that he made a great mosaic collage of my images as a poster. Thank you Ronen for this nice work.
is the link :
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/rosso-by-alfa-smyrna-pixela/#lf_comment=5616328

 

 

 

 

This is a rather different scene for me with darker colors and materials as I usually work on bright scenes and I love to work with white. It was very fun to work with darker colors and materials as they help create a nice balance between dark and light and a nice feeling of contrast. Creating different light rigs is always very enjoyable as if the scene comes alive and you see how it looks like under different lighting conditions. I especially like the renders with the morning dawn, the renders with thefurniture peices in shallow DOF. I also want to mention that I like to work with wood materials very much. It  is a nice challenge for me to try render different types of wood. Another part I enjoyed making was creating the bookshelf full of books. Each book is placed manually and it was fun to see my bookcase getting full of books.

Today I was working on my web site design and now I have these new buttons for sharing my website on social media.  I haven’t ever been an active person in social networking part except some little activity  on Twitter,  following CG artist friends  and CG companies or CG portals. But I accept that social networking has become one of the major communication tools nowadays.  Some find it distracting, some say they can’t make without it and there has been long discussions around. But the fact is that they  are inside our lives.

My counters show 0 hits at the moment, but I think these buttons look dynamic  and fun on my site :)

This is a personal scene of a house I saw some time ago on the net. I forgot whose the architect is or name of the house. I thought I saved the image but somehow it is lost when switching between computers and hard disks.
So I made it as I remember.
Texturing was most fun during the project. I tried to create different, unique textures for each wood element. I enjoyed painting different textures in Photoshop.

Something happy happened today and I found that my I appear on the front page of the official Autodesk Area Site as a featured Artist. This is great honor for me to to be featured on the main page of  the developers of 3DSMax and to share the front page with  great talents and great innovations in CG World.

 

Unfortunately there is a restriction on the quantity of images to be displayed in portfolio so I had to remove some older works for the news ones to appear.

The purpose of the rendering project is  to display the different colors and layout combinations of the sofa in an built-in interior environment. The apples are from Bertrand and the Artichoke Lamp is from model+model and the plants is from Evermotion.

By the way, I am so happy that I have my new workstation :D
Intel i7 2600 3.40 GHz
16 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce GTX 580
Without it, I wouldn’t be able to make this project so fast.

 

 

My renders has been featured on the official online help documentation of 3DSMax Design 2012 at Autodesk Site.

If you are using 3ds Max 2012 Design, now you can see my works when you click the Tutorials link on the Help Menu of your  interface, this link will take you to the online help files introduction page, where you can see one of my renders.

Here is the official 3dsMax 2012 Online Help page where you can see my works:
http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmaxdesign-tutorials-2012-enu

You can also see more of my scenes at the “Where To Find Tutorials” and “Showcase” sections under Contents.

 

Autodesk 3DSMax 2012 Online Help Introduction

Autodesk 3DSMax 2012 Online Help Tutorials

 

 

 

I feel happy to see my scene Archipelago has been published on the curent issue of the Ceiga Magazine,  under the Natural World Title. Ceiga Magazine is a montly online magazine that displays works from digital artists. The current issue is the 4th issue of the magazine which focuses on works of CG Artists from all over the world. Every month you can see a different collection of works. If you want to see Archipelago featured, you must browse to the 4th issue of the magazine. It is underthe “Natural World Section”. You can view other impressive works from many different artists as well. Here is the link: http://www.ceiga.co.uk/mag.htm

 

Recently modeled and textured this Lamino chair which I think has a very characteristic and stylish design with wood =)
It has 2 versions, leather and sheep fur.  I am planning to render these chairs inside a building when I have some free time.

 

 

Again another studio setup from me. This time  this “white on white” !

I created this studio setup, trying to have a better understanding of the behaivor of Vraylights. It is amazing Apple keyboard, and the model is a courtesy of Ronen Bekerman forums – “Free Friday”   =)