Blender

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Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. Here are some of the things that I've made with it.

A Lion
Subsurf modeling + RipSting's fiber script. Texture just a photo.

Terminator face
A proof of concept. Applied camera tracking with Icarus imported to Blender where 3D objects were composed over the original video. And yes that's me in the video :)
[terminator_face.avi~0,3Mb - not very high quality compression, but gives a nice idea of what's possible.]

Image Based Lighting
IBL is recreating the lighting conditions of a realworld place from a hdr image. I wrote a python script which takes the text output of HDR Shop's lightgen plugin and creates the appropriately coloured lamps in Blender.
[lightgen2blender1.1.py - not sure if the script still works as the py-api might have changed considerably since I wrote this.]

Alien1
An alien I made for a movie project that never came a reality. I was quite happy with the organic look of the textures.

Alien2
My first try at box modeling. Some nice vertex-keys and armature rigging. I'm quite happy about how it turned out, finally some real character.
[freak_face_full.avi~0.6Mb - An animation of the alien, postprocessed in VirtualDub for basic brightnes & contrast.]

Photos'n'shops

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Retouching & compositing.

First mission.

A view to a kill.

Caught red-handed.

Movie star from the good old days?

Testing "studio" lighting.

Eva.

A shot of Anna from the public balcony at the 9th floor of the building we live in.

A composition of many of my friend.. and yes without the trailing "s". Photos taken at the end of Ruissalo.

A portrait of Anna.

Panoramas

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Shot with my Minolta DiMAGE F200 (rip), Canon A710 IS, or my mobile phone. Combined mostly with Hugin.

A view showing one side of the Turku University campus area. Shot from the 11th floor of a University residential building (windows wouldn't open so there are some reflections if you can spot them).

Starry sky in Ruissalo's Pikkupukki shore in spring of 2007.

End of Ruissalo island, march 2007. The horizon was left a bit wavy but oh well.. My friend Roni standing on the rocks near the center.

Some flooding at the Turku harbour in January 2007.

A panorama created from pictures taken with my trusty Nokia 6131.

The river flowing through Turku.

A nice summer evening in 2006 on a boat on the shore of river Aura.

A beach in Kalajoki in the summer of 2005.

One day driving home from the university I looked at the sky: completely gray on one side and a magnificent selection of blue shades on the other. After rushing to the public balcony on the 9.th floor of my current residence here's what came out. Well… perhaps the sky wasn't really that brightnes/contrast corrected, but the view was certainly every bit as breathtaking.

A nice feeling in this one, somehow cold yet warm. From a hill near Hirvensalo bridge in Turku.

A view over central Prague from the hill where St. Vitus is.

A panorama from inside my former car. Taken from both front seats and combined for the result that noone is inside (except for the mirror :). Low quality due to the fine optical instrument used as the reflecting surface being a silver christmas ornament.

HDRI

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High dynamic range images can capture much more information than conventional images. These have been created with HDR Shop and converted to normal images with the Reinhard Tone Mapping plugin.

A view over Turku.

My first hdr experiment that actually worked out quite nicely. Here the effect of using a hdr image is clearly shown as the window is not burned out into white while at the same time shapes are visible in the shadows beneath the chest of drawers.

In the sky

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Here are images I've taken from astronomical & other things with a plain digital camera or through my Skylux 700/70mm refractor telescope.

3.5.2007 as seen from the Turku campus area. My first ever halo caught on CCD.

The total eclipse of the Moon 3.3.2007 as seen in Turku.

The moon as seen through my refractor telescope with the DiMAGE F200.

Multiple 15s exposures combined to clearly show the movement of the stars.

Multiple exposures again, but now combined with a shorter exposure of the foreground (buildings).

Drawn

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First of all I have to say that I can't actually draw that well, especially I've never really learned to draw the human form. The drawings here are mostly based on a photographic background, but I don't nescessarily consider it a bad ting, just a workflow I feel comfortable with. Wacom Graphire 2 (serial) and Graphire 4 (usb) have helped a bit :).

Just a drawing loosely based on photos from me and my girlfriend. Some action elements etc.

Some cloth design.

Just some unfinished doodling.

My idea was to make this a full color image but after I got the base laid out the subtle lines conveyed so much feeling that I had to leave it in black and white.