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Johan Steen - 3D Portfolio, CG Artist
www.artstorm.net
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3D portfolio of Johan Steen - CG Artist and Filmmaker. Behind the scenes of my research in the art of animation, CG Characters and filmmaking.
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LScripting on the iPad

A geeky reflection… I just got Textastic for my iPad as I needed to do some Python scripting, among other code related things, on the go… Browsing the app docs I noticed that it was possi...

06 mar 12

LScript Package for Sublime Text

My LightWave 3D LScript Package for Sublime Text 2 is now available at GitHub. Sublime Text 2 is since some time my favorite code editor. I use it for everything these days, from Python and Amiga ass...

27 nov 11

Using Celtx Shots for Storyboards on the iPad

I’ve had the opportunity to play around a bit with Celtx latest mobile app, Celtx Shots, which will be available in the App Store today, November 10th. First of all, Celtx is since long an impo...

10 nov 11

Camera Rig Update

Just a quick note, I’ve just released a minor update to my Film Camera Rig for LightWave 3D. In short, I’ve added a new control to release the camera’s focal point into world coordi...

07 nov 11

Film Camera Rig for LightWave 3D

I’ve created a film camera rig for LightWave 3D which I’d like to share with the community. The rig is designed to be simple, easy and straightforward to use. The other day I was setting ...

21 oct 11

Hard surfaces and progress tracking

Quick update. Today I finished the modeling and rigging of all hard surface objects for the previsualization. Happy about that. Up for next week is the two character models I need. I’ve also st...

08 sep 11

Film Production Tracker

A very common reason why film productions like mine fails is the lack of organization combined with a miscalculation of the huge scope making an animated film actually is. To fight that ending of my ...

02 sep 11

To log, or not to log, that is no more a question

I decided a long time ago to not write about my own film project, or at least keep it to a minimum, until my proof of concept was ready. I’ve changed my mind. I’ve been working on my own ...

31 aug 11

TreeSketch 2 for iPad to LightWave 3D

The other day I downloaded the TreeSketch 2.0 app for iPad and I’ve just spent some time getting to know it. I’ve used my fair share of tree generating apps over the years. Vue, Onyx and ...

28 aug 11

Filmmaking file structure

Project management for filmmaking. Not as sexy as blowing up that building in a huge explosion using particles, fluids, dynamics and shatter simulations, eh? Nonetheless, it still needs to be done. I...

24 aug 11

ZBrush retopology and adaptive skin holes

I ran into a weird problem today when I was creating a new topology for a character in ZBrush. I had roughly blocked out a sculpt, the image to the right, from a ZSphere armature to get the proportio...

19 aug 11

Cloud based rendering for LightWave 3D

I’ll see if I can further streamline my cloud based rendering setup for LightWave 3D using Screamernet on cheap Amazon EC2 instances. Current mission is to try to bring local folders into the m...

10 aug 11

Smoking guy with a hat

Here is a collection of images from a character sculpting session I had tonight. All images are screengrabs of the ZBrush canvas with some post processing done in Photoshop. A slighly more detailed v...

10 aug 11

The ZBrush sculpting experiment is over!

After having doodled for about 24 hours, my project “I Am Johan’s Sculpted Doodles” have reached the end of the line. Experiment over! Alright. 24 hours of sculpting done. Time to m...

03 aug 11

Sculpt in the night

Here’s a quick and rough ZBrush sketch I made late, very late, last night just before hitting the sack. It’s not at all intended to be related to my ongoing doodle project, instead I had ...

27 jul 11

Lucky Thirteen

Well, a little bit more flooding it is then. And also to not risk falling back into a long period of radio silence. Session number 13 done! This was another hour of doodling where I had pure fun and ...

21 jul 11

Storyboard & Shotplan templates for iPad

Here we go, four templates for filmmaking to be used with Penultimate on the iPad. I’ve probably tried most handwriting apps for the iPad that I’ve come across, and so far has Penultimate...

18 jul 11

Flooding with number 10

No, I am not going to flood my own journal with these doodles. But I had some real fun with this one, I even broke my own rule and gave it a few more minutes than I’m allowed to. I could have c...

13 jul 11

Getting Things Done

Or GTD as it’s popularly referred to. But first things first… Haha, I found this guy again not that long ago, collecting dust in a forgotten folder. My god what time flies, and yikes, wha...

12 jul 11

How to sculpt your dragon

… in 60 minutes. The 8th session of my summer experiment. I realized I had been sculpting primarily human heads so far during these sessions. Nothing wrong with that per se as I can use every o...

07 jul 11

Sculpting Session #04

The fourth session of my summer experiment. My doodling rules are: 60 minutes // from scratch // no references // no shirts // no shoes I’ll post a session to my Journal from this experiment no...

28 jun 11

I Am Johan’s Sculpted Doodles

I’ve a personal experiment this summer where I’ll try to make time for a quick doodle in ZBrush every day over the coming weeks. And record a timelapse video of the session. Check out my ...

26 jun 11

Almost there…

As the title says, almost there… Oh, and did I mention… I simply adore the iPad version of Celtx. It has made my life so much easier. Actually a lot of apps has made my life easier in the...

17 mar 11

Turntable Viewer goes Open Source

I open sourced my flash based Turntable Viewer a couple of weeks ago, right after I had open sourced my LightWave plugins. I’ve simply been to busy to get around posting it to my journal as wel...

28 feb 11

pmG messiah “Dare To Share” $10 Challenge

This viral campaign by pmG is pretty wild! I like it! I haven’t upgraded my messiah license for a couple of versions, as I have quite a lot of applications to maintain and costs can add up, but...

07 feb 11

Site maintenance in February

I’m doing some maintenance work on the site in the coming weeks when time permits. Primarily to merge this journal with a film production site of mine to consolidate my film site with my person...

03 feb 11

All my LScripts are open sourced

Today I uploaded the source codes for all versions of all my released LScript plugins for LightWave 3D to Google Code. I’ve been wanting to do that for some time so others can study and learn f...

24 jan 11

Space Marine Concept Art

Here we go again, a very long time has passed without me setting aside time for entries. Shame on me! Anyway, I’ve just delivered my last project for the week, so I decided to take few days and...

29 sep 10

Transfer By UV Released

A short post, quick heads up. I just released Transfer By UV, a variation of the recently released Conform By UV Lee Perry-Smith and I put together. We had already talked about getting more data push...

29 mar 10

Conform By UV Video Tutorial

Lee Perry-Smith (Infinite Realities) has made a really nice mini video tutorial running for around 25 minutes demonstrating the usage of Conform By UV. Lee talks about the different modes, showing ho...

22 mar 10

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