Mike's Stuff

This started as a quick Cycles to Eevee conversion practice. But Eevee makes animating so much easier and responsive i got carried away :) First it was a quick window pan.. then i thought i got the whole room to use. One thing led to another,, Procedural animated rain texture bashed together after watching @chiu_hans rain video. Lcd pixel texture by @100drip  

Added an animated window rain effect.. Original cycles  render the rain was done with particles, it looks nice static.. but was difficult to animate and rendering took to long to animate. Procedural texture used here and with eevee took 20 sec per frame and the result is nice enough.

Quick test render of a WiP using DoF in eevee.  The instant results of adjusting DoF is so nice.   Went a bit overboard to obscure the background as the final work inst ready yet. 

Been playing around with Blender 2.8, figuring out what the new commands do where the old commands have moved etc. It is a big change in the user interface but so far its making sense for me. Big thing to remember, it changes almost nighty and is in alpha . And don't save over any 2.7x work using 2.8. I did it once, and the blend file refused to open in 2.79, so be careful. Eevee is like viewing your 3d world in a game engine.. So like unreal, unity etc. It FAST! You can preview changes real time and make creative decision a lot quicker based on the visual feed back you get instantly! Love it! I can see straight away the results i want and the quality is near production ready, for my needs anyway. :) There are some things not working yet: Plane emissions only show a glow, no light. Area lights work fine but show up as a point in volumetric areas. Some issues with transparency. Image with an alpha will show a dark shadow. Even when the alpha is not connected via nodes. ...

There are three otters in the water! Large version can be grabbed from Deviantart All done in blender with touch ups and added glint/glows in photoshop. This was very demanding on my pc! Volumetric clouds over the pool was insane to render. Used a noise generator to "punch holes" through the volume and adjusted until it looked like wisps of steam. Ugh just previewing it was crazy. The rest was ok. Normal water shader didn't look like the game pool scene, too realistic. So played around and adjusted several options until it looked more like the game and was allowing the pool lights to shine through. Added a texture mask using texture painter mode in blender for the water drop effects on the girls adjusted glossy for drops, skin and hair. This has a better look then particle water drops.. as they tended to be more black then shinly/glossy. Yes its realistic but black spots don't look to nice. Final composite was color corrected to a bluish tint, glare n...

Few things missing but nearly done. Test render with some lights.

Just a WIP.. Extracted dressing room in Befroe the Storm. Loved the scene in the game. Quick render in Blender with lights. DL here Another test

Oh wow some leaked concept art on imgur seems shows Chloe and Rachel before the events of Life is Strange game. Its being done by Deck Nine? Please be real!

Victoria and her clique. Full version over at Deviantart

Happy new year all. Have a blast and stay safe. UHD size here

Got both of these up in my play trhough lol Full version over at Deviantart

Another min comic, started off as a single composite but then it got out of hand. Full size version over at Deviantart http://mike-kossi.deviantart.com/art/I-ll-wait-for-you-Life-is-Strange-comic-641647455  

Another comic. Rendered in Blender ( likeing it so far) touched up in Photoshop. Can view and grab over at deviantart http://mike-kossi.deviantart.com/art/After-Chloe-Life-is-Strange-comic-632189625

First time mucking around with Blender, its quite nice but need to learn a lot of key commands! Couldn't help myself with the title :) I really hope the live action is good, but have some reservations like how will they handle the choices Max needs to make? I'm assuming they will stick to a linear story arc. Can only hope its as good a Stranger Things. Full size here

Playing around with some wide screen resolution shots and different fields of view. dl link here *Updated* Some more pics:  More after break or go to the link above.

 Life is Strange mini comic. Enjoy.

Wow a year already.. It seems like yesterday that you were guiding the shy, awkward Max around Arcadia Bay  Some screens here

Added 3 pics with some light effects. 4680 × 2005 -  21:9 Grab them here     

Some more :) 4680 x 2005 All can be grabb ed here  

Some more shots from Ep 2 Size 4680 x 2005 All found here