Had a chance a few weekends back to shoot some "Grunge" at the Knysna Oyster festival.

I realised the other day I haven't uploaded any of my new work. I have a backlog of images and designs I will be updating this site with within the next few days.

Started working at a point of purchase company called Todwil around the beginning of the year. They gave me an option of what I wanted to do here and I chose to go into the technical side of things. Turns out Daja vu has a sense of humor and is hell bent on proving it. Just like all my previous ignorant, uninformed decision made since going into design, this was unknowingly the most challenging route I could choose...fml

Was asked to design a drinks tray for Jack Daniel's. It was a bit of a rush as I only had the afternoon but I liked the end result.

Crystal Towers Bridge

A major influx in construction has been underway in the Century City area near Cape Town. The new Crystal Towers hotel was built directly accros the canal from Canal Walk shopping center. The below CG images were creted to illustrate location and design of the Crystal Towers Bridge which is to connect the hotel to the shopping center.

Stairs.........A model of

Temp business card

A business card I put together for my freelancing work. The details on the card are vague but I would have had to print more if it was any more specific. I use this card to give out details for my photography, graphic design and 3D modeling.

This was a 2 sided print. No special printing was used.

Portfolio updates

This is more of an update on a previous project posted on this site. http://ricqua.blogspot.com/2009/04/forest-lodge.html

The Forest Lodge required two new light fittings for the walkway and public areas. I was given the brief to design and prototype concepts for these areas. The first one I designed was the double headed uplighter which was used on the side of the pillars to light the underside of the walkway roof.

This is a close up render of the double headed uplighter concept done in 3ds max.

These are the photos of the final prototype for the double headed uplighter.

The second light fitting was the can pendant which gets suspended from the underside of the roof to light the walkway. The below images are just renders of the concept. The 3D model was constructed and rendered in Solid Works.

Enlightened mushroom o_O

An A4 sketch of a mining mushroom finding a glowing object. Trying to create a 3D model of this character in a scene. Needed to sketch it to get and idea of proportion.

Gomphus "Mushrooms with attitude"

Lion's Ark - Panorama Level 3D model

3D model - Bedroom Interior & Bathroom

Another 3D model for work.  This is the proposed bedroom interior/architecture of a house under construction in Sea Point.  I have generated other models for this house in the past (see further down page).  

Fun gi's

While on a weekend away I created these three gi's.  Each represents one of the people with us that weekend.  Considering creating a character for everyone when I get a chance :) 

Forest Lodge

A quick three day 3D model of a Lodge in Nyungwe showing the lighting design of the entrance/drop-off area

Photography: Smuts Hall (UCT)

Did a photoshoot of Smuts Hall at UCT.  The company I'm working for did the lighting upgrades and now the light is punching through the windows spilling all the colours of the stained glass windows onto the underside of the roof. 

No longer my banner

Those of you that viewed my blog before now would remember this picture being the banner of the site. Its kinda getting old so it shall now live here with the other posts.

Another mushroom

I don't really know where im going with all these drawings of mushrooms.....Bear with me o_O Got bored during a lecture on "sentence structure" and "what are a paragraphy being". Ended up with a sketching of "mr unhappy". He is unhappy x_x

B&W Photography

Liberty Life - Atrium

3D models I created to show the lighting design concept for the new Liberty Life building.  Took 3 weeks to model and concidering its my 3rd scene ever I would say im getting the hang of things.  Already working on my next model but I dont think I'll be modeling anything this big again in a hurry.

Floating table

Another work related 3D model. This one is for the house I’m busy working on at the base of Lions Head.  The purpose of this 3D model was to compare the two lighting concepts to each other.  Optic fibers in the slab of the table and L.E.D's underneath to enhance the floating effect. 

31-12-2008 Photography

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30-12-2008 Photography

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Church Arch

A 8 mega Canon Power Shots was used and the print was size 8X10.

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Leaf

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