WIP Wednesday #2

Sweet! I've made just about as much progress as I hoped for. 2 if not all the projects will be done by next Wednesday. The drums are even set up with a bunch of set driven keys to make adjusting the cymbal legs a piece of cake. My goal after texturing is to do one realistic render and one stylized render.

So, with Space Cats, I'm roughing out some values in photoshop, which I'm going to retrace with the pen tool. I'm really excited to get this in Unity to have some parallax movement happening along with a star particle system I made that'll help sell this background. A little story shinfo: Luke Catwalker is on a mission to stop Darth Dog and his evil empire by destroying the Death Ball (If you're getting heated, I'm purposely making this a parody). It is Luke's mission to also protect Princess PurrrrLeia (Purrrncess Leia??) and C3CAT as he battles against Mouse Fighters and Fish Wings.

Finally, back to Bill. This was mostly an exercise to quickly get the face down in ZBrush with just starting from a dynamesh ball. I thought it might be cool to caricature-ize him a bit (pull out those square head features of his) and make him a little bobble head! Maybe, we'll see.

WIP Wedenesdays

So, I decided to start a WIP Wednesday for a few reasons, but mainly self motivation at documentation of my process. I have 5 projects in motion at the moment, but there's only 3 I can show at the moment.

My goal is to bring what I show you every week to completion by the third week of showing it at the latest.

Here's some drum kit modeling that I'm going to bring to a full high quality render and detailed game object:

Groundwork on an illustration for the title screen of a mini-game I coded in Unity:

Game Art 1 Final

My first scene in UDK! "The Escape"
I'm very proud of this (for now), I modelled, posed, lit, textured, and near everything except for UDK's default smoke particles on the torches.
The idea for this scene was inspired by Polycount's Escape competition.

Process:

Initial concepts & shot idea

Pig redesigned into boar

High Poly ZBrush Models

Imported polypainted models into UDK after Retopology with NEX Tools

From then on I adjusted my composition, lit the scene into a night scene, and painted specular maps for the final shot at the top. And I had a ton of fun.

Demo Reel Winter 2013

Here is my mid-semester demo reel, largely filled with works from late Fall 2012 and some finished this Winter. My Reel Breakdown and Resume are attached below the video.

Click to view:      Resume      |       Demo Reel Breakdown      |

Works in Progress

It's been a while since I've uploaded any WIPs, so I figured it'd be good to document some of these at least from middle to end. So, here's the "middle" of three of my current projects.

Spider Queen, Traditional Sculpt, Sculpey

3D Lighting Project

Personal Macklemore Caricature

I'm also spending time learning ZBrush right now, which I'm very excited about to throw out future projects with. As well as a game I'm working on called "Ouroboros," look it up on facebook, most of the work is being kept in secret for now.

Bazooka Joe Bubblegum Gun

Here's a gun design I did for my Game Art 1 class, it's really enjoyable to finally be in a class directly focused on games. Couldn't get to a scanner to post my sketches yet, but I'll have the process work ready when I have my 3D model completed for this.

Post Apocalyptic Santa

To fill up the void that school going on break has left me with, I tried out this little character competition. I jumped in a week late into the two week competition, so I experimented a lot in what I'd do to speed up production.

Personally, I'm not satisfied with this as a final piece, but when considering my time frame during the hectic holidays, I think this made me more prepared for emergency freelance jobs. I hope everyone had a great and safe time during the holidays!