I have recently re-written my path-tracer from scratch, following the architecture laid out by pbrt much closer. This has allowed for some significant improvements including the majority of the program being built off of a handful of abstract base classes.

Acceleration structures are now a huge part of this re-design. Previously, render times would scale linearly to the amount of triangles in a scene. Now, each polygon-mesh is assigned an axis-aligned bounding box and evaluated through a KD-Tree acceleration structure. The image above previously would have taken many, many hours in the old renderer (Upwards of 20+ hours) and now only takes 8 minutes on an i7 CPU.

I have been re-writing my path-tracer from scratch. My previous iteration worked well for simple scenes, but did not scale well to more complex lighting or geometry.

My new version is still in the early stages, it much more closely follows the design pattern established by 'pbrt'. The goal is to rewrite my path-tracer to create an environment in which I can explore and try out different BxDFs and light-transport algorithms.

Right now I am focused on improving area-light sampling and implementing more robust acceleration structures!

I wanted to expand on my technical knowledge of lighting/shading, resulting in me beginning to write a C++ path-tracer. I also wrote a Python tool to convert Maya scenes into a custom file format for my renderer to parse.

More info here

Been a while since I have done any sculpture! I had a free afternoon this weekend so decided to open Zbrush and doodle for a few hours! 

Recently completed this personal project I had been working on and off for the past few months! Had a lot of fun with the shading and lighting especially.

My latest showreel is now online! I've worked super hard the past few years and I hope this reel portrays that: 

Link: https://vimeo.com/169020932