albino igil – 2D Design & 3D Visualisation, Modelling & Animation – Derby, UK

This was a quickie produced for D-Link – Sid wearing a Santa hat, which gave us the opportunity to play with the fur technology in LightWave…aaah…fluffy

Whether you’ve come across this blog by accident (you were looking for ancient Tuvan instruments weren’t you? You’ll be wanting the door next door marked ‘Musical Igils’), whether you’ve happened across it looking for 3D visualisation or graphic design services or, heaven forbid, you’ve actually subscribed to our RSS feed (you know who you are <cough> Martyn <cough>) then we wish you a very merry and peaceful Christmas and rambunctious New Year!! And in true traditional festive style, papa igil is here to wave you off into next year with his seasonal burned marshmallow-on-a-stick, a symbol of some import and weight to the whole of the igil population, a reminder of harder times in our past of huddling around camp fires to keep the cold winter nights at bay, of camraderie, good family moments, and most importantly, of what happens when you sit too close to the fire.

Well – it’s good to carry on something we started last Christmas – a fun project for the sheer hell of it! This year we’ve decided to expose a little more of the albino igil’s life – huddled round camp fires, sharing stories of the year gone by and getting  more than excited by the new fresh year almost here Oh, and papooses will be a major fashion accessory next year, mark our words

For the technically savvy here – if this weren’t an actual photograph capturing igils in their natural habitat, then we would have made it completely in 3D using Lightwave 8.5′s internal particle systems to generate the snow, flames and smoke, with the Sasquatch plug-in to generate the cosy fur All trees are from the amazing XFrog library, adulterated by ourselves of course as nothing ever comes out of the box doing what you want, and it can all be animated…every last bit of it

It’s a pun. It’s a very bad pun. In fact, it”s no pun at all.

(slap)

Okay, this image was our Christmas card for our first year in business just gone, and it’s the first time we managed to photograph several igils performing their rare Christmas Tree formation.