Tinker Code

September 23, 2018

We deserve more performance.

People have forgotten that not long ago Operating Systems (pre – Vista era) were designed to fly on slower 5400 rpm HDD’s and megabyte-order RAM. You may think that performance and speed should be transferable to newer generation software. If an old version was this fast, the next should be at least as fastest if…

General
December 27, 2017

Happy new year!

A year is fading, not before bringing us a lot of wonders, a lot of fantasy and art in the hands of countless magicians around the world. Everyday I feel grateful of being part of the amazing people that makes imagination meet reality. -What do you do? …once in a while a friend ask, and…

ZBrush
October 6, 2017

Amazing Zbrush Summit 2017

Hi If you happen to be around in Los Angeles this weekend, don’t miss the opportunity to attend the ZBrush Summit 2017 or following live! Tons for state of the art presentations from the big players in the 3D Industry will be here.

ZBrush
January 24, 2017

Adobe Industry Certifications

As part of my continuous learning process I have decided to take several industry certifications from Adobe here in the U.S. The knowledge is the only thing that nobody can take from you 🙂 Adobe Certified Visual Design Specialist (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign), Visual Communication (Photoshop), Print and Digital Media Publication (Indesign), and Graphic Design and…

General
October 22, 2016

Installing an older version of OS X

May be you find yourself in a situation where you need to install an older version of OS X, to test a software or to provide support for older versions since not everyone need to move at the speed that OS releases cycles dictates. In Apple case that’s a problem as they don’t make it…

General
July 20, 2016

QuadStrips test 3

Hi Getting there! Still remaining are some technical details but generally things are looking really interesting. Cheers!

3D Coat Development
June 2, 2016

Stroking improvements

To accurately shape a stroke in QuadPaint, the user can create new pinned vertices with double click, in the future more powerful curve controls will be implemented. Today I’ve improved the implementation by allowing the deformation to be independent from stroke density. (unlike previous algorithm) and I’ve solved a bug that prevented to simultaniously deform…

3D Coat Development
May 18, 2016

QuadPaint control keys

This is the current main hot keys and actions to control the strokes of QuadPaint, and by changing the boundary you can control the inner quadrangulation. Right click a vertex allows to smooth and move the stroke. Hovering a vertex and pressing DEL , remove the vertices. Double Click a vertex, will pin it so you basically created…

3D Coat Development
April 24, 2016

QuadPaint: your personal footprint.

Recently I’ve added two preview modes for QuadPaint: Realtime: Where you can see changes continuously, is better suited for experimentation and small to medium patches. Performance: Update is done at the end of every change, ideal for medium to large patches. Off: No preview, use only if the patches have lots of self intersections and vertices count. In…

3D Coat Development
April 7, 2016

QuadPaint preview

Hi Recently I have ironed out QuadPaint and improved lots of things under the hood. So far it is shaping into an awesome and fast retopology sketch tool. Strokes also did allow to add, remove, collapse and split vertices for finer control over the output but is still not exposed to the GUI, I will add…

3D Coat Development
March 31, 2016

Arbitrary contour retopology

Hi Finally I’ve made quite a breakthrough in semiautomatic retopology. What initially started as a prototype tool is evolving into a quite powerful new way to retopologize models in 3DCoat. Giving artists the freedom to experiment in an intuitive way by just drawing patches, arbitrary patches that will be optimally filled with quads. Artist is…

3D Coat Development

3D, 3D contour, 3D-Coat, retopo
February 7, 2016

Spline fitting

Hermite Spline Tangent estimation for curve fitting. Hi all Dataset fitting? it must be trough the Least squares method! I keep banging in my head for few days refusing to dive into it because for anything but the trivial function f(x) = A + Bx it can easily overflow the brain cache and is a…

3D Coat Development
December 24, 2015

Improving contour partitioning

At the heart of several tools that I have developed in the past lays a contour partitioning algorithm. It was robust and could handle arbitrary contour shapes, but recently I got a bug report assigned related to CloseHoles tool, and after a careful debugging I found that the partition was indeed robust, but not “clean”…

3D Coat Development
November 18, 2015

Quad strips

An incredible powerful and yet conceptually simple tool are quad strips. highly requested by our community! Is on the way 🙂 Using strokes artist can easily create, place and modify full strips of quads with incredible flexibility. I’m still improving the tool flow but will have auto welding, size control and real-time or near real-time feedback…

3D Coat Development
November 3, 2015

Simple Stroke test 2

Recently added cut , auto welding, automatic level of detail… important enhancement to this stroking tool. Also adjusted the tension level to make it more intuitive.

3D Coat Development