Concrete on Crack

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Jeff Thomann

Concrete on Crack

© 2013 Jeff Thomann, (aka Mastermesh)

This digital photo collection of bricks is available for purchase now at Turbosquid. This collection is great for pulling textures from for your various 3d projects.

Brick Collection

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Jeff Thomann

Bricks 1-2-2011 Collection:

This digital photo collection of bricks is available for purchase now at Turbosquid. This collection is great for pulling textures from for your various 3d projects.

Old Electric Meter Box

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

The above link is an old electric meter box that I found in downtown Boonville, Missouri. The aged and weathered look of the paint on it caught my eye as did the contrast of the color of it vs the color of the nearby gutter shown in the image.

Outdoor Metallic Freezer Pattern

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

The above images are photos I shot of the texture on the side of an outdoor freezer. It is one of the old walk in freezers that are typically stored outside of the building for cafeterias, school lunch programs, restaurants, etc. Some parts of this image might make an interesting bump map or texture map in a 3d modelling software.

Worn Dumpster Texture

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

The above link is to a photo of an old side panel on a dumpster that I shot a year or two ago. The rust patterns are interesting and might work nicely as a texture map or bump map in a 3d modelling software if cropped to meet your need. Alpha may need to be adjusted so that its not so dark though.

Bent Stop Sign

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

This is an old stop sign that I found in downtown Boonville, Missouri. This old bent sign sitting at this location seems to tell a story. I like the composition here and the contrast between the bricks, the sky, and the red of the sign vs the pole texture. There is a lot going on texture wise.

Old Stop Sign

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

This is a photo of an old STOP sign that I shot in Boonville a couple of years ago. I really like the old weathered look that it helps to give the town.

Backside of an old dumpster

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

This is the backside of a dumpster that has been worn down over time. It looks like the patterns on where the paint has been removed has happened due to rubbing against the collection truck as it is emptied. I find the swirly patterns to be rather interesting.

Rusted Metal Texture vs Plastic

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

This is a photo of some rusted metal. Notice how it contrasts the plastic texture.

Metallic Walkway Grid Floor Pattern

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

Above is a link to a photo I took a while back of a floor grid pattern that is typical of industrial construction factory type locations, stairwells, etc.

Rusted and Whethered Metal

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

The above link is to a photo that I shot of some rusted metal that has some patterns on it where the rain has worn it down over the years.

Rusted Metal

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jeff Thomann

Above is a link to this image of rusted and peeling metal on Turbosquid. Since I’m not able to do much the next few days in the ways of physical activity, it’s back to trying to upload stuff to Turbosquid as my hobby for now.

11/21/2011 morning speed model – aircraft

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Jeff Thomann

Speed Model 11/21/2011 – Time took from about 5:00 AM – 6:23 or so. Recorded video around 6:25 AM. I’ll go back and finish it later. Trying to do a speed challenge like this daily til I get better at 3d modelling, and have some stuff to put on Turbosquid besides my texture photos. If camstudio didn’t take so much ram/cpu usage, I’d actually try recording the modelling process as I work… Did a 10 minute completely blind contour drawing before this. Not sure if I’ll scan it and upload, but might later. Learned to do that reading the Drawing on the Right side of the brain. I think it’s a nice way to enter ‘r-mode’ before taking on something like this speed modeling stuff, etc.

New goals…

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Jeff Thomann

I’ve been procrastinating on things a bit, but no more! I’ve decided that I want to start getting up at 4 AM instead of 5. Up til now I’ve been trying to get up at 5, but usually ended up going back to bed til 6 sometimes, or more often got up and just wasted time online on forums, etc. Going forwards, I want to change that… I have no idea if I’ll be able to do this or not but think if I can I’ll see some major improvement in my art, in my attitude, etc.

Goal is to do more art, do it in a way that suits me and gets things accomplished, and make time to live life a little too more than in the past. No more wasting time…

so… tentative schedule is…
Up at 4 AM. Do 3 pages of Morning Pages for The Artist’s Way/Journaling/diary type stuff… Then eat breakfast (probably a bowl of cereal, maybe fruit on occassion) In theory, that’ll take up til about 4:30 ish… maybe 4:40 or 4:20 sometimes?

4:30 AM – 5:00ish (maybe earlier depending on the above) do a 10-30 minute drawing… probably with ball point pen since it’s a speedy thing, but maybe other stuff like charcoal or color pencils sometimes?… maybe even graphite even though I hate the shine graphite produces. Number one reason I hate acrylic too unless lots of matte medium is used – also why I love oil paint and have decided on encaustic as painting medium of choice…

5:00 AM – 6:30ish = Work on 3d Modelling. I’ll probably do speed modeling for now… then go back and redo the fine details as needed later on. Maybe do a whole week of work without going back in to finish it up til the weekends?… I’ve been on Turbosquid for a very long time, so am at the level in there where you can get the keywords for free, so those keywords will be my subjects for these 3d models since that’s stuff that is known to sell, etc. I’ve been trying to copy/paste the keyword lists in to an open office file every morning, and will continue to do so and then will pick the subjects that interest me… I may sometimes stray from that and use my own ideas or keywords/topics, but there’s lots of ideas in there, so I think I’m going to focus on that a bit.

6:30 – Take a Shower, Make Lunch, Get ready for work, etc.

7:00ish – Head to work…

At work, walk with my Aunt on my morning and afternoon breaks (assuming I’m not on hold with blasted insurance companies when she takes a break)

11:00ish (my time for lunch varies) Eat Lunch and Read a page or two out of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain or The Artist’s way… Maybe other books on kindle, etc. Possibly do a 5 minute doodle session at lunch, but probably not as there’s not really much time since I only have half an hour lunch.

After work – Start up the Encaustic heating up as soon as I get home… Maybe draw for a few minutes while it’s heating up and the wax is melting. Paint after it’s hot with the encaustic til Tekla gets home.

When Tekla gets home, we’ll head to the Arc to workout. This is something I’ve neglected doing way too long, and is really why my sugar’s not under better control at the moment, even if it’s not too hugely bad yet.

After that we’ll have supper, and enjoy the rest of whatever is left of the night spending time with one another and enjoying our time together.

Go to bed around 10 or so since that’ll give me 6 hours of sleep. If I can get myself off of caffeine, I think 6 hours of sleep is enough… Going to be hard to do, especially at work since it’s free there and they have a huge thing there that keeps 3 pots going all day every day… they usually have one pot of decaf, one of regular, and one double strong – I usually try to mix half decaf with regular but half of the time the decaf is gone… need to drink water more, coffee less… very difficult to do, but I think if I can and can excercise more, this crazy schedule might work…

98 Cloud Photos

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jeff Thomann

I uploaded 98 photos of clouds in a zip file to Turbosquid that you can find at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/578229?referral=mastermesh

Here’s a small small slideshow preview of the images in the zip file.

Jeff’s Turbosquid Shops

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

Jeff’s Turbosquid Shops are at http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Artists/mastermesh?referral=mastermesh

(118) 512×512 pixel seamless rock texture pics

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

I uploaded (118) 512 x 512 pixel seamless textures of various rocks and rock groupings to Tubosquid. These images were extracted from photos of rocks that I shot with a digital camera, and were made seamless in Gimp. They are 512 pixels wide and high so that the image size is a power of 2, a prerequisite for some 3d render engines and game engines.

Here’s a small summary image that shows what part of the bundle looks like:

36 512×512 pixel seamless brick textures that have 24 bit depth.

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

I have uploaded 36 512×512 pixel seamless brick textures that have 24 bit depth to Turbosquid. These images are available at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/566147?referral=mastermesh. The photos these were taken from are some photos I took of a church a few years ago. I had never made them seamless til today. Hopefully someone will have uses for these photos. Here’s a small summary image that shows what the bundle looks like: seamless white brick textures sample

Kris 3d model

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

I’ve creaed a 3d model of Kris in Lightwave that I have uploaded to turbosquid. You can find this at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/566126?referral=mastermesh

Here is what this object looks like
Kris Kris model

Find out more about Kris weapons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris

3d Handheld Battle Axe

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

I uploaded a 3d handheld battle axe that I created in Lightwave today to Turbosquid. It can be found at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/566053?referral=mastermesh

Here’s what this object looks like:

Katana Sword 3d Model

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

I’ve uploaded a new 3d Katana created in Lightwave to Tubosquid. It can be found at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/566018?referral=mastermesh. Here’s what it looks like:
Katana polygonal view of Katana

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Posted on October 26, 2010 by Jeff Thomann

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/565252?referral=mastermesh

Today, I uploaded a zip file contains (42) seamless 256×256 pixel texture maps of asphalt and (27) seamless 512×512 pixel texture maps of asphalt at Turbosquid. It can be found at http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/565252?referral=mastermesh

These images are cropped from a few photos I’ve taken of asphalt from a while back. I have decided that going forwards, I am going to try to do zip file collections of seamless texture maps because it’s not too difficult to crop the images or make them seamless. In the past I uploaded raw photos that were not cropped or edited. I have decided that these sort of photos might be a bit more useful if cropped and seamless so that my loyal customers and the product’s end users won’t have to work as hard to make the images usable in their game engines and other 3d applications.

The pixel widths are 256×256 and 512×512 pixels so that the image ratio is a power of two, something that many 3d applications and game engines need to render the images proportionally correct.