Bullfinch Visuals

Ice racing at Råksjön, Sweden.

Andreas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:26:55 +0000

Today I went to a lake called Råksjön outside of Uppsala. Lots of gearheads gathered on the frozen lake to let the pedal hit the metal! Lots of old Swedish Volvos with spike tires and my friends cool Subaru Impreza STI. I brought the camera as usual and took some shots.

Samples below. Click the link for the full album.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/enzodiac/sets/72157629273463027/

Sci-fi helmet texturing exercise

Andreas — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:10:59 +0000

Not often do I properly texture the things I render. This time I wanted to. Here is a Sci-fi helmet texturing exercise. Enjoy!

Bentley Luxury Concept

Andreas — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:11:48 +0000

Hello there readers!

It has been very quiet on the blog lately. The reason is I have been working hard on my spare time with another concept!

May I present the Bentley Luxury Concept.
The inspiration for this concept comes from wooden boats, old classic cars with wood panels and the luxurious look of the brand Bentley.

I also wanted to throw in a touch of my own roots, which is why I chose a common type of wood used in Swedish furniture design, namely birch wood.

The car is a massive 6+ meters long with a presence unlike no other car going down the road.

Hope you enjoy this concept and looking forward to any comments and critique!

Toyota Supra Concept

Andreas — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:53:28 +0000

What will the next Toyota Supra look like? Here is my answer to that question.

My goal with this concept was to try and keep the DNA of the Supra mk4 but still create something new and fresh. I wanted it to be classy, but at the same time sporty. A possible creation in a not too far away future.

I might create some detail shots as well. Stay tuned!

Vacation 2011, Norway and Orsa bearpark

Andreas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:33:03 +0000

Last week my lovely girlfriend and I had a small vacation which took us to big places! All in all we travelled ~2200km going from Sweden over to Norway and back.
Some destinations include Eidfjord, Geiranger, Trollstigen and Orsa. Very awesome places that everyone should visit at least once
Of course the camera was packed and I saw the perfect opportunity to take some HDR panoramas for a project I am working on during my spare time as well. More on that later!

Here are my pictures from the trip, divided into 2 parts. The First one is Norway and the other one is Orsa bearpark. The Links goes to the picture albums on flickr.

Trollstigen Norway. Link goes to all pictures on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enzodiac/sets/72157627482842538/

Amur tiger at Orsa bearpark in Sweden. Link goes to all pictures on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/enzodiac/sets/72157627354477223/

I hope the pictures make some justice to the grand places they were shot at!

Voyage into the world of panoramas

Andreas — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:22:50 +0000

For the past week or so I have had a voyage into the world of panoramas. I have always collected free spherical panoramas for rendering in 3d and now I thought it was time to try and create some myself.

I have a capable camera (Olympus E-3) with a wide angle normal lens (12-60mm swd) and a tripod to go with. First time i tried panoramas a while back was with a fisheye lens and camera mounted straight on to the tripod. This off course causes parallax problems between the shots. Which explains why I had so much trouble stitching them.

This time around I read up on the subject of shooting panoramas and looked for a proper panorama head for the tripod. The price on professional once ar hefty to say the least. So the obvious thing was to build one myself!
I began to search for DIY (Do It Yourself) projects regarding panorama heads and found loads of them. In different shapes, sizes and material.
I decided to go the woody way and started sketching on a blueprint with measurements taken for my camera.
After a rigorous search for the correct screws, material and tools I started to put the thing together. After 2 evenings of trying it was done!

Here is the result.

After some adjusting for the correct (or close to correct) no-parallax point I could give the rig a try.
This image was shot at 12mm (2x crop factor due to 4/3 sensor), 8 pictures around in two rows. I did shoot a top and down picture but they weren’t used for this particular panorama.
All 16 pictures were taken with 5 exposures each. So all in all 80 pictures.
I stitched this with PTGui flawlessly without having to adjust any control points manually. Very awesome software!

Here is a smaller version of the 15000×6000 pixel panorama.

It worked like a charm as a HDR in 3d rendering. And I used it to create my first planet

All in all a very fun project and I will try to take more panoramas at better places. Stay tuned for more!
Over and out!

Hunting for insects in the garden.

Andreas — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:53:38 +0000

One of my hobbies is photography. Here are some photos that I shot today in the garden!

A taste of the album on flickr. Full link below.

Full album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/enzodiac/sets/72157627146705897/

Rauh-Welt’s Customized Porsches

Andreas — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:08:30 +0000

Even though this might be old news to some it doesn’t make it less cool!

I want to shine some light on Rauh-Welt’s customized Porsches. They are brutal and beautiful in so many ways! Let’s call them brutiful.

Visit http://www.rauh-welt.com/ for some more awesome Porsches.

Eames Lounge chair and ottoman

Andreas — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:00:30 +0000

Here is a quick project I made after the BMW. An Eames Lounge chair and ottoman. This is made to fit architectural visualisations.
Quite fun to do something quick for a change

Retro inspired BMW concept

Andreas — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:48:45 +0000

Here is a retro inspired BMW concept that I have been working on lately.

The idea was to make a modern take on the early formula 1 cars from the 1950s.
I also wanted to adapt this concept to an existing brand, which in this case became BMW.

without further ado, here it is! (click the images for full size)