I'll get the ball rolling.
Both of these vids were created mid 2003 for a 3d animation class at Uni. We had to make some city/space scenes for the scouts who were holding their jamoree in Adelaide that year. Not sure if I made the final cut.

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damm you 56K!!!

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This is one of the first scenes I made in max ...

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thats cool, beats my space ships

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woot i got a portfolio!

Yeh, what program is that?

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um 3ds max? why is there no quote function =\

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woot i got a portfolio!

sorry, meant to ask jamie that...

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Wow, Jamie ... it is really your first thing made in 3ds? How did you made so cool looking grass (I don't see grass as good as yours on the internet...) etc.? Damn, that really looks great.

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I shall tell you... a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong time playing around with the hair and fur plugin.

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Raphael. one of the earliest projects i completed. If you saw this things wire frame you would probably throw up.

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awesome! haha

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Feel free to post these vomit enticing wires.

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ok, but I am not responsible for injury or death which may occur as a result of viewing these wires.

I draw your attention to his neck and head there are some superb examples of what not to do there. also around his feet there are some fine examples of crappy wires.

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Haha! It is a bit of a mess isn't it? Still, better than I would have fared back then.

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@Steve Martin- I got to thw website which u have posted 3dprevis.. but there is no option to post ur 3d work there ... where to post??

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That's the website of a company I'm doing some work for so you won't be able to post any work there. Feel free to contact them if you need any previs done though

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This was one of my early images done with trueSpace many years ago. It's all I have left from that time.


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Was this a tutorial? I think I've got something similar somewhere.

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I believe there was a tutorial to achieve the realistic water effects and lighting. I can't remember, it was at least 12 years ago, and the 90's were a bit of a blur. I do remember extruding the log though

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I don't remember the log but the scene looks very familiar.

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I beleive this was my first ever 3d.

Made in Bryce 5.

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Wow. That's interesting. What are you trying to say in this piece?

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It represents the historic struggle of the white middle aged male.

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I see it now. The mountain represents the misconception of the white middle aged male, often seen as all powerful and unmovable while the cage represents a feeling of being trapped by this age old misrepresentation. Wow, it really speaks to me.

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Its people like you that keep me going. You really get "it".

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HAHA! You guys so do not wanna see my first 3D... I think it was a stupid robot... there's a tut online, making it all from spheres and cylinders... HAHA!!!
The good old days, LMAO!!

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Aww, come on man. You saw my crappy bryce render!

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I for one really want to see it. You never know, it may speak to me in a way you wouldn't expect.

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hi!im new here!!this my work in 3D max.interior of bedroom.i guess theres something wrong in my image. i need some comments and advice so that i can improve my work.
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i wish i can do that too......
i need more practice....

That's a pretty good start. However, as this is just a thread to show work and not really somewhere to get help and advice, could you start a new thread in the Help and Advice section?

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He already has.

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yeh, I realised after I posted this

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Hehehe... man this is embarassing to show *blush* but we all had to go through it, so.. please be gentil.. and try not to laugh so hard... bc i know you will... This was back in 2003, done in Maya for a 3D beginners class... enjoy!

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HaHa! Love the animation and the complex environment

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Love the particle dust at the end. Priceless

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I got a kick going back and looking up all of those old files haha! is there such a thing as digital dust? I think I found some.. hahaha

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Looks awesome I bet that environment really added to the render times

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haha, im sure it did... everything there was mega high poly.. I was an idiot with that at first thinking it would help in the quality! hahahaha

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rendering from a while back about 2 yrs or so...trying to find some older ones hehe

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Not bad, you've got some fairly advanced materials and lighing there.

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oh oh I found more!! lol I'm a recovering Lego addict...

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Again, not bad at all. Far from embarassing, what were you thinking posting it here?

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This is an older model I made. MESHSMOOTH!!!! hehe I call this "Rathead"

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Now that's more like it. You've got some wierd looking rats where you live.

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Heres my first attempt at a 3d movie. I think I made this in max 4 back in 2001 or something like that. I did it to teach myself all of the things involved, I did all the sound with midi and a guitar. the voices are me with a pitch shift (pretty lame but I was doing it on my own) I was pretty happy with it at the time.

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That's a pretty ambitious project. How long did it take?

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I can't really remember the exact time it took. but it was quite a while. I had moved back with my parents at the time, so I had extra time on my hands. I remember mum saying "when are you gonna get a bloody job and stop playing on your damn computer"

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And now you "play on your computer" for a living. You showed her

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this is my first max render raytrace......but now im sure i improve alot with help of all the members of the forum....thank you guys and gals!!thanks for the help and support!!

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i wish i can do that too......
i need more practice....

You have certainly improved.

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thanks +varnishedotter.....

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i need more practice....

Indeed. The models aren't too bad but the lighting and textures aren't all that flash. Still better than my early work though.

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yah.....the lighting is bad..lol....but now i improve that and that is because all the members of the forum like you is great and always help me....and all the comments on my work helps me to improve...

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i wish i can do that too......
i need more practice....

Thanks. It's actually quite rewarding to see people on the site improving. Except when they start getting better than me.

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haha, but you know what... eventually the Padawans will be the Jedis of the future... but we cant complain, bc we'll still be the Yodas! MUAHAHAHA!!! hahaha... Pardon my starwars reference, not a HUGE fan, but its always fun to use

BTW! I can tell you've improoved in your renderings terms of composition and design as well AHZ! that's great progress!

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Here's my first ever piece of 3D work:

[Link to xs232.xs.to]

Its a 3D model of my bedroom (although it was made from my head rather than photos so its probably not a perfect representation) Some of the textures are different too (the wallpaper and posters arent true to the real thing but it didnt matter at the time). Its not exactly lifelike but I'm still quite pleased with the result.

The bedsheet was pretty lucky though, I just happened to find a good texture that gave the object a folded effect ><

I personally still see myself as a novice when it comes to this stuff, but I really enjoy messing around with it.


EDIT: Oh, and here is the other piece I did at the same time. The assessment was to create both an interneal and external scene. This building is the entrance to a shopping village near where I live. I'm not particularly happy with the background/floor but the building turned out ok, and I learned how to do reflections for the windows which I thought was cool.

[Link to xs232.xs.to]

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They're both pretty good for first efforts. Well done.

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I know! Great start in 3D! I was a mess @ the beggining, I was trying to look up my first model in Maya, I made a 79 Trans am, black with the golden eagle in the hood, very Smokey and the Bandit type with the honey comb rims... but I cant find it!! GRRR.... hahaha I woud show a wireframe of it so you could see what a cluts i was with polygonal modeling back in the day... not a pretty site.

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Sounds like it was made for this thread!

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Nice job.

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There are some nice textures on that ship.

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Oh my god i know that texture. I haven't seen it since the 90's

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I want to get some of my old work, but it's 300 miles away on my moms computer.

He's some work i have that was done a few years after i started using max. (note: i went by the name john smith on elfwood for a while because i was worried about identity theft... Now i don't care.)

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I like the third one, it's pretty freaky looking. Far to good to be in this thread.

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I figured since it's almost a decade old it would be ok.... oh well..

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It's not when it was done, it's more the fact that it's actually quite good. This thread is more for that embarrasing early stuff that has never been seen by anyone other than yourself.

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Yup. that would be what's on my mom's computer.

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when i started i was 14 years old.
my first model was this ^^
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after 1 week of 3ds maxing, i stopped, because i didnt had the patient to continue =]

im 16 now and started 3ds maxing again!

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You did that in your first week? I think I was still mesmerised by watching a sphere move round the screen after one week.

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Very cool. and be sure to post your intro to the forum:
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Here's a funny one from 1999 during the Y2K scare. This was in a commercial for a survival food company.

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Ah yes, Y2k the biggest flop in history.

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Lol, yeah it was. Funny thing was, at the time the commercial aired, it scared the crap out of people and was eventually pulled after someone complained of having a heart attack from watching it. I wish I still had a copy of it.

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its not 3d, but its still digital arts. anyways heres the monkey fish, jamie you should understand the greatness that is monkey fish

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I've seen this somewhere, have you posted it before? Perhaps on a old version of the site?

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MONKEY FISH!!!!!!!!!! *falls on the floor and laughs until his insides spew up all over the floor*

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i dunno i may have posted it on the old old site. cant remember

haha fond memories of the monkey fish

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That's quite a laugh Jamie.

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Yea it was the original name for the site. When we were throwing around ideas at mad.

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good times good times.

though I do wonder what became of Jim and Josh should stop by more often.

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Josh is rarely online, if ever. Hes one hard man to catch haha

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Yea josh is the kinda guy that is always too busy. As for jim well I think the non reading thing would have caused some problems for him.

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yeah jim never even had an email. oh well on with the topic

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I like the Monkey Fish, hahaha, and Jamies laugh....... FOFLUISUAOF

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I'm gonna use that.

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So am I

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i don't have anything except this miserable try at honda civic

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Man thats one hot civic!

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Looks like it ran over a spike strip.

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yeah it does. i remember working on that for couple of days and was quite excited when i added a simetry and realized that it actually resembles a civic haha and later on i stop working on it as i did on lots of my projects.

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Yeh, I've gt a heap of unfinished projects. I'm sure everyone does.

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here is my early work

[Link to 1.bp.blogspot.com]

[Link to free3dmodelsandtextures.blogspot.com]

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i think i own the whole lot of you when it comes to crappy early 3d... varnishedotter's macchu-picchu cage scene is stunning in comparison....and fusebulb if that gun is your earliest 3d, i'll eat anything (a hat, a printer, a set of earplugs, anything) .... and jamie you have to be kidding me, that lush grass and obelisk-thing is your earliest attempt??
anyways, check these monstrosities out....

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I'm seeing inexperience, I'm not seeing terrible. I guess if we were terrible we probably would have given up.

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I did that for my 3Ds Max class last semester. Right now I'm working on a hobo.

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yeah it could def use some work but soundwave! fuck yeah!

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Autobots inferior. Decepticons superior.

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Some of these pics are really good! When I started 3dsmax, and made my first modell, I didn't even know how to texture an object...Heres my first finished (well you will decide is it finished) modell in max, a yugo45:
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And yeah, I made even the engine of this
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That's a pretty good effort for a first model. I have to say, I'm disapointed with the standard of work in this thread. It's far too good.

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i agree with you completely.
you'll be more pleased with this kind of trash from yours truly.

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It's horrible! I love it!

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WOHOO something familiar, YUGO wheee great model, just great, where are you from if i may ask?

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Thx for these comments, good to hear something like this...
Btw, Altopais, you think that someone from the US wouldn't make yugo for his first model? hehe...I must agree
And You may ask it...I'm from Serbia... But, you said this is familiar to you, how is that possible?

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i just saw your post haha anhow
i'm from Croatia haha pozdrav susjed!

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Ok here´s some work from me. The first two pictures I like but the two cars... baa

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MY goggles!! My anti-eye-cancer Goggles!!!! hahaha J/k

Yeah, the wheels look pretty good. The car could use some refinement though. Keep it up.

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I´ve warned you^^

Some refinement is nice said... But may be a car what I would model now would look different. At least I´ve learned something between now and then For exemple... How to use Turbosmooth

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Sooo, I wasn´t lazy in the meantime and tried it again. That´s what I got so far. It´s not finished yet.

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I´m sorry, Altopais, but I can´t read your Post yet. Time difference. I´ll answer later

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Heres the oldest work that I have it's my first character modeled and rigged but I never got around to finishing the creature because the animation fell threw (bug were my characters arms suddenly flail around through out the whole animation) before deadline but special effects were the majority of the grade so it passed .
I made him about.. 9/08

I made a really bad looking house before this but I dont have the file anymore

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woot.. first time to check this thread.. hehehe

i think mines the best render ever just kidding!!

rendered more or less 4 hours... I call this my unforgettable first render ever..

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"To forgive a woman's lie is a man's duty!!"

Love the scale.

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.. of course its my best render ever..

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"To forgive a woman's lie is a man's duty!!"

I made this back in 2001 in 3ds Max 5. The sad thing is I haven't gotten any better

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Thanks. Too nice. It was completly made with box-modeling. If I make a car again someday I'd probably have to learn how to work with NURBS, and probably not in MAX since I heard MAX isn't all that good at NURBS, so I might try that when I get time to learn Rhino.

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Dunno if I can call that finished

My intention was to make an animation when it was driving thru a parking garage at high speed but I ended up with a 2gig uncompressed .AVI-file that wouldn't open after 3 days of rendering

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Aargh! I hope you've since learnt to render to an image stream.

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Yes. I render to .tga nowadays and composit them.

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I think this is the earliest work I can submit, my first attempt with NURBS....realized too late that triangular faces are not a good idea!! >.<

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No Gods but Yourself!! >.<

Ouch

That's the kind of stuff we like to see in this thread.

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