I own a lot of shoes. It's definitely a buying compulsion.

In order to normalise my behaviour I thought it good to buy copious amounts of trainers and justify it as a business related activity, thereby both feeding my addiction whilst keeping it tax deductable.

These are currently my footwear-of-choice due to their somewhat waterproof nature suiting how the grass which we park on outside Islington Mill has turned into a large pool of muddy sludge recently...

While my feet are keeping dry, you can enhance your retail visualisations with my work.

Available via Turbosquid right this instant!

Puma Tennis Shoes

I've been working on modelling trainers recently, producing good quality renders but keeping the poly count low. The intention is to use these in photoreal 3D retail visualisations - stills, but with the possibility of fast rendering animation also (realistically not achievable by many high poly models/scenes).

There's some way to go to finish these off, they're gonna need lacing for starters, but they're not looking so bad for a model made from 250 polys*. (in a Hypernurbs, obviously)

*Technical Glossary

250 Polys = fuck all

Update #1

Added the tongue and laces - laces are relatively high poly, as they are geometry... I may optimize this aspect at a later date.

Update #2

Finished and ready to launch... Added the rear logo, created a couple of simple alternative colourways and created the right hand trainer.

It's coming round to that time again when a whole load of everybody's time and money gets wasted on some irrelevant poop that moves the world forward zilch and changes absolutely nada.

Sadly these days The Olympics doesn't feature combat-to-the-death. Not on the sports field anyway: And this brings me to London 2012...

To mark this media meat-market over-hyped pissaroo, which will certainly be lots of very, very fit people playing silly games, while lots of very, very fat people watch them on big TVs, consuming alcohol and junk food, abound with drugs scandals, rioting, bribery, and some sensationalised minor political issues like 'abc country aren't attending because one of them went to xyz country one time and saw someone kicking a cat', I have created this 3D model of the rings in the name of international pride to cash in.

It is available via TurboSquid:

Olympic Rings

Enjoy! Sport! Olympics! Globalisation! Starbucks! Armageddon! Takedown Notice!

Peace :)

Cash registers, they're sooooo dull, sooooooo bland, soooooooo lame. Keeping on the retail visualisation tip, this latest stock 3D model is a pure work of fiction. No till-maker would ever be cool enough to pull this shit off.

All of the items shown are included along with Cinema 4D textures, etc. to produce the exact renders seen. No photoshop filters have been harmed in the making of these stills (obviously, or there'd be at least 10 lens flares on there because that is all photoshop does).

Available now via Turbosquid:

Cash Register / POS Terminal

I've just released these low poly (but still nice rendering thanks to hypernurbs), 3D models suitable for retail visualisations - inspired by work with my freelance placements where a more contemporary mannequin was required, but not really available at a realistically affordable cost.

They are available to purchase through Turbosquid:

Male Mannequin

Female Mannequin

I've been going on and on and on and on about this for so long that I've completely bored myself to death with it, so I can only offer a brief summary here for fear of alienating myself and having to do some serious self mutilation.

Our render farm blade servers produce nice 3D imagery, but the main by-product from the process is heat - LOTS of heat. This heat is a big problem for server rooms as it makes computers very sad, poorly, and buildup can be a fire risk... Bummer :(

So, in the 'real world', (which features 'serious companies', 'careers', and the UK-wide 'pretending to be a bigger company than you are' mentality.... oh, and also 'crippling amounts of debt and falseness' I have written about before), you'd normally fit a ton of air conditioning to throw the heat outdoors - completely pointless and unethical. But pleasing to shallow IT managers and profit-centric corporations.

The fourth floor toilet features a shower, it also features holes to the outdoors which make it very, very cold. We had heat, it had inverse-heat... Logic dictated that we pipe the heat into the area of negative heat, thereby bringing a small corner of the world into social, temperate, and spiritual equilibrium.

I can only take credit for the server ownership and the idea, the real work was carried out by Glen (pictured). Now the toilet seat is constantly warmed giving you that uneasy thought that someone was recently, intimately, in proximity to it with their anal zone.