Sony PSP 2 renders for UK magazine....

I've produced yet more Sony visualization/mock photos this time of the Playstation Portable MK2 (PSP 2) for UK publication 'Official PSP Guidebook' . Not a lot of direction or visuals were provided so had to come up with the model design on a very short deadline.

Lightwave v9 released

Newtek have released version 9 of Lightwave 3D. The new version has some interesting new features and includes a lot of rewriting of code apparently, including a new BSP/KD algorithm (like Mental Ray). Well the feature list can be veiwed on Newtek's site. I'll be looking at LW9 on my site and comparing it to other apps (indcluding Modo 201) soon. Stay tuned.

Playstation 3 - new press shots?

I was asked by UK gaming magazine 'PSM3' to render some shots of the new Sony Playstation 3 games console. No one had an actual console to photograph yet but the guys at PSM3 were determined to get some unique images their feature and not the same old press shots that had been in circulation for ages. I obliged, building the models, lighting and rendering the images for the feature. Turned out well I think.

Digital Photographer magazine interview...

I was interviewed last month by Digital Photographer magazine (UK) about my commercial photoshop/3D work and about my collaboration with New York photographerLuqman. Its issue 45 and should be on the shelves now(its not the issue shown BTW).

Fashion + Beauty in Miami...

I've been working with a great photographer based in New York, Luqman, and he and I have had our first collaboration published in a US Style magazine. The title is Public Magazine and features a six-image story that's a combination of luqman's photography and my photoshop work. I don't think there was any 3D used on it, but the next one we're working on is heavily 3D'd. Stay tuned...

Latest image...

Here's some content from the site, and some of the latest work I've done recently. This is a 3D render test based on a photograph of a fine artwork by Tetsuo Miyajima - I take no credit for the idea or the composition, but the lighting turned out quite nice on this.

News - simondanaher.com nearing completion...

simondanaher.com is being developed with the help of Nick Hopkin, web supremo and musical genius. Its looking very nice indeed and should be up soon...

simondanaher.com will host a growing selection of tutorials on 3D and 2D computer graphics as well as showcasing my latest work. Current inventory is about 50+ tutorials, um I think... I don't even know to be honest. Its a lot anyway. But I intend to put new tutorials on the site regularly. These will range from small snippits to 30+ step end-to-end tutorials. For those of you that were hoping to get parts two and three of the Maya Texturing tutorial I'd written for Digital Creative Arts magazine (the publisher went bust...) I will be publishing these on simondanaher.com as well as part one. Hurray some good will come of it I'm sure...