Careful Graphics

Art of Ian D. Henderson

Graphics Demo 2025

This is a small program written in C, that loads and draws triangle meshes using OpenGL. I have also implemented a shadow mapping shader in GLSL. It runs only on Linux.

You can find the source code in the following download:

demo.zip

Folly 2018

This is a 3D model based on a drawing by Andrea Pozzo from the book Perspective in Architecture and Painting [Pozzo, 1989]. I modelled it using Houdini and Maya; rendered with Blender.

Animation: Caught by a Tentacle 2017

This is a short study in character animation and rigging. A student project; it uses a sound clip from the TV show Jeeves and Wooster [1990]. The characters are based on those from the video game Day of the Tentacle [LucasArts, 1993]. Made in Maya.

Bernard
The characters are modelled with subdivision surfaces.
Rigging Controls
Pink Tentacle
Armature Skinning
The tentacle can bend, squash and stretch.
Several mouth shapes used to animate speech.
The right hand side of the set—an open window. Objects are curved in a cartoon style.
The left side—a doorway with light shining through.
The environment is made mostly from N.U.R.B.S. surfaces.
Chair
Cloth simulation of the curtains.
Chest of Drawers
A vase of flowers that sway in the wind.
Hand painted texture.
Dolly
The flowers are animated with an armature.
Concept Sketches

House on the Green 2016

These are some 3D models I made for a student animation project, using Maya. The models were used in an animated introduction to a (conceptual) TV show about students and social media—set in an acommodation block called the House on the Green.

Student Accomodation Building
Instant Camera
Yak
Thumb’s Up
Bird

Game Prototype: Roller Racer 2015

This is a game demo in which you race a ball shaped vehicle around a track. I modelled the environment in Blender and implemented it in the Blender Game Engine.

Game Title Screen
Flyover Video (H.D.)
Playthrough Video

References

Jeeves and Wooster, 1990 (TV show). Granada Television, U.K.

LucasArts, 1993. Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle (PC game). LucasArts Entertainment Company L.L.C., California.

Pozzo, A., 1989. Perspective in architecture and painting: an unabridged reprint of the English-and-Latin edition of the 1693 Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum. Dover Publications, New York.