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Mundo Compal – Pomar Compal

Madail — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:19:37 +0000

Compal is one of the most known juice producers from Portugal. This time and for a very large promotional campaign along with the PomarCompal website this 3D animated tv spot was made.

The basic idea is that one can win several trips to those four destinations USA; Costa Rica; Kenya; India and Thailand by collecting the promo codes in the bottles.

My role on this spot was vast from the visual design modeling shading animation lighting rendering and final compositing.

Full Credits here

TAP Airlines – Fly Higher TV Ad

Madail — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:17 +0000

This is an older project while i worked at Ingreme. The only part involving CGI is the ending, with the flying plane.
The plane is all 3D. I’ve modeled, textured, camera matched and rendered it. And with a bit of post-production it came out pretty well.

Client: TAP Airlines
Software used: 3dsmax

More Images:

http://www.miguelmadail.com/vids/Tap%20512K_Stream.flv

Shiny Days

Madail — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:05:45 +0000

This photo of my wife Catarina express an happy feeling, associated with the return of sunny, shiny bright days. The color, tones and brightness in the face against the somewhat desaturated blue sky in the back creates the bridge between the cold and hotter days.

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Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:05 22:39:03
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1180 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
Fstop: f/3.2
Lens: 5.859375 mm

Santa Cruz – Formosa Beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:29 +0000

Another panorama taken in the same place as many in this photoblog – Santa Cruz. This one was very hard to do, because of the hard changes in exposure, so trying to maintain a balance between dark and bright areas was critical. Hopefully i will have a better camera in time, with higher specifications to allow me to produce better shots.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 00:29:47
Width: 1704 pixels
Height: 2272 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 5.859375 mm

Santa Cruz Beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:02:21 +0000

Again, Santa Cruz beach at its best. We can see a vast view in this panorama, from Santa Cruz village itself in the right, the big rock, and all the way to the fishing spot at the rocks in the right. People have built some stairs and railways in the rock formations, and when the tide is up, you cant come down to the sand. I’ve taken multiple shots with my camera in a tripod stand, then merged all photos with Autodesk Stitcher and some fine tuning and color correcting in Photoshop.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 12:50:00
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/4.5
Lens: 6 mm

Santa Cruz beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:57:58 +0000

Another panorama taken with multiple photos and merged together later. This time took in a beach in Santa Cruz. It’s a great place for surfers, fishermen and travelers looking for nice photos. It depicts a local man fishing near one huge rock, an icon from these place. Fortunately, the beach was uncrowded, which makes it a whole lot nicer to enjoy the landscape.

Exif Information:

Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 6 mm

Santa Cruz – Dusk

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:32:37 +0000

ther Panorama from Santa Cruz beach, this time at dusk. Lighting in this place is often rather nice, with this kind of contrasty skies. The sea winds blows the clouds into land in the sunset, and its easy to get great looking skies. Some seagulls fly in the rocks in the left, and that’s a warning for bad weather aproaching…

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Color Tests, produced in Photoshop -

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 01:02:38
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1704 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 5.9 mm

Santa Cruz Mirante Restaurant

Madail — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:32:54 +0000

I’ve taken this panorama of the restaurant in Santa Cruz beach. The straight architectural lines merge perfectly in the natural environment, and shooting in B&W helped to define a better contrast between forms.

I can’t say if the food is good or not, not even a cup of coffee i took…but i’m pretty sure that if you look for a nice fresh fish, this will probably be a good place to eat.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 13:43:00
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/60 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 6 mm

Sunset Panorama in Fonte da Telha

Madail — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:10:18 +0000

This is a 180º horizontal panorama, taken in Fonte da Telha, an awesome beach near Lisbon. In the far left side of the image is ”Cabo Espichel” and you can see the typical clouds above Sintra in the right side. I’ve placed the tripod in the edge of the cliffs and taken several shots which i then merged and stitched together to create this unique panorama shot. As i don’t own a panorama lens or camera, using this technique is a great way of making panoramas. The trickiest part in this is to get the lighting and exposure correct for all photos – you have to use manual mode and know about photography! – and make sure that alignment is perfect.
Needless to say, you also need a good dose of post-production skills and patience in order to correct imperfections. In this particular case, making sure the shore line is seamless makes all the difference.

This is also great to use in a CGI environment, with it i can have a background for my scene, a reflection layer for shiny objects, and if i had this in HDR format, i would also be able to use it as a ultra realistic light source.. So let’s put some 3D spaceship (cliché! ) and render!…maybe i’ll post a tutorial on that.

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Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2009:09:20 19:06:01
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1704 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
Fstop: f/2.8
Lens: 5.86 mm