The art blog of Henning Sanden

Midnight sketch 2

2012-01-28T16:06:00.001-08:00

Midnight sketch

2012-01-23T10:17:00.000-08:00

2 hours in Photoshop. Mirror used.

Design 2 - DONE

2012-01-13T05:55:00.000-08:00

Next up - Sleep.

4550 - DONE.

2011-12-15T06:12:00.001-08:00

Haunter lighting test

2011-12-08T04:37:00.000-08:00

Zbrush Tips: Video tutorials

2011-12-03T04:18:00.000-08:00

Zbrush Tip: Make polygroups using UV mapping from Henning Sanden on Vimeo.

Lunch doodle - Monday Nov. 7th

2011-11-07T04:35:00.001-08:00

Lunch doodles

2011-11-04T05:43:00.000-07:00

King of carrots

Happy hippo

Gay vampire

Dino WIP

2011-11-04T00:36:00.000-07:00

A screengrab from Mudbox. Definitely a lot more work left.

Goblin - Test render

2011-11-01T13:11:00.000-07:00

Getting there. Still a lot of tweaks left though.

First week of maya

2011-10-15T05:29:00.001-07:00

- Done.

Maya Environment

2011-10-11T23:34:00.001-07:00

After two days of Maya, this is what I've come up with. I'll put a lot more love into it this week for sure.

Robot Graveyard

2011-10-08T03:37:00.001-07:00

Zbrush doodle

2011-09-28T13:03:00.000-07:00

3D

2011-09-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

Some sketches, WIPs and such.

My old forgotten blog

2011-09-11T03:10:00.000-07:00

I realized earlier today that I'd completely forgotten this blog, and that it hasn't been updated in a year.

A lot has changed since then. Below you can find some of my work over the last year.

2010-08-12T08:32:00.001-07:00

Almost finished with this fella now.

2010-07-23T19:26:00.000-07:00

Would you look at that. I have a blog! Awesome. Now, to fill it up with stuff. You like stuff, dont you? I know you do.

2010-02-14T04:15:00.000-08:00

2010-02-14T04:13:00.000-08:00

Piggy

2010-01-11T04:38:00.000-08:00

2009-12-21T08:37:00.000-08:00

2009-12-21T08:03:00.000-08:00

2009-10-07T13:19:00.000-07:00

2009-10-06T13:19:00.000-07:00

2009-10-01T13:53:00.000-07:00

2009-08-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

A great way to comp ambient occlusion passes

2009-08-19T13:10:00.000-07:00

First off, I'd like to thank my friend Kim who helped me a lot.

I always thought that the best way to add an ambient occlusion pass in 3d was to simply set it to multiply in for instance Photoshop or After Effects. This seems to work fairly well. However, there is a downside to it. The result can sometimes look dirty and lifeless. When you use multiply, it only use the luminance value of the layer meaning that getting colour into it is impossible.

Then I came over a better technique. If you use the ambient occlusion layer as a mask for a curve or levels layer, you have much finer control over the AO amount. Oh, just by the way, this can also be used while creating cavity maps and so on.

The tricky part here is to make the AO layer a layer mask. Well, it's not really tricky. It's rather simple. However, as with everything else, you need to know how to do it :)

First, you start with two layers. A beauty render and a AO pass.

Then you add an adjustment layer which can alter brightness, contrast and such, here a Levels.

Now we have to add the AO pass as a layer mask for the Levels layer. The way to do this is to select the AO layer, copy it, alt + click on the layer mask on the Levels layer, and paste it. Then you have to invert the layer mask, by simply selecting it and pressing Ctrl+ I. If you don't invert it, you would colour correct everything but the tight spots. You should now have a fully working layer mask.

You can now get some interesting results by adjusting the different channels. Here, I played with the green channel. This is not a mind blowing technique, but it's a nice enhancement to the work flow, and many small changes can be very significant in the long run.

Super awesome cake!

2009-08-16T09:14:00.001-07:00

2009-08-14T05:20:00.000-07:00

2009-08-12T03:04:00.000-07:00

2009-08-05T14:02:00.000-07:00

2009-08-05T13:58:00.000-07:00

2009-06-21T10:03:00.000-07:00

2009-05-10T03:19:00.000-07:00

modo- zbrush- fusion- after effects

2009-05-06T12:46:00.000-07:00

Just doodling around in modo. Will try to do a nice render in Max.

2009-04-12T16:19:00.000-07:00

Wolverine WIP

2009-04-12T10:28:00.000-07:00

Sketchy.

2009-04-11T04:16:00.000-07:00

First time trying to do a caricature.

2009-04-08T10:06:00.000-07:00

2009-04-05T12:11:00.000-07:00

screenshot

2009-04-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

another testcomp

2009-04-04T09:04:00.000-07:00

Testrender

2009-04-04T03:58:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUfKMOnPQHg

2009-03-29T21:40:00.001-07:00

the joker wip

2009-03-27T17:05:00.000-07:00

Preview render

WIP

2009-03-26T13:40:00.001-07:00

Power of Zbrush

2009-03-26T09:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1RgY8SuYHE
Speedpainting

Clint... Again

2009-03-22T09:56:00.000-07:00

I tried a new approach to painting. My goal was to capture Clint Eastwood in a dark and grungy manner. It's not polished and shiny, but more sketchy than usual. Not sure about the outcome, though.

/Henning

3d "monster" WIP

2009-03-19T12:06:00.000-07:00

A happy 3d creature this time. Still very early in the process. I will update the blog as I proceed on him.

/Henning

2009-03-15T09:29:00.000-07:00

Finito. Sort of.

3d sketch

2009-03-12T13:22:00.000-07:00

15 minutes or so in Zbrush. Base mesh from Modo.

2009-03-11T13:10:00.000-07:00

Sweeny Todd WIP

2009-03-08T12:14:00.000-07:00

Worked on him for perhaps 1,5-2 hours. Still very much a WIP.

Clint

2009-03-07T15:02:00.000-08:00

Sketch of the bad ass Clint Eastwood. 1,5 hours or so.

Zbrush doodles

2009-03-05T12:53:00.000-08:00

...His name is Jack.

Texture exercise

2009-03-05T11:45:00.000-08:00

Just a sketch to practise on texturing. Drawn in Photoshop and Corel Painter.

Yay. Even more drawings.

2009-02-26T12:28:00.000-08:00

Doodles and such.

2009-02-26T12:15:00.000-08:00

Introduction

2009-02-26T12:09:00.000-08:00

I will start my blog with a short introduction of myself.
My name is Henning and I live in the rainy city of Bergen, Norway. I am 17 years old (1991) and I draw. I draw a lot. This is why I created this blog, as a kind of portfolio where I can upload sketches, 3d models and finished products. Also, I like monkeys.

So, I think this will suffice as an introduction. I will start uploading some of my work shortly.