Halo 4 Art mini-dump
Here's an interior environment I made for the map COMPLEX for Halo 4 multiplayer.
(Renders are WIP Renders as we ended up gutting some things for final release). After finishing up this space I got moved on to doing a bunch of the animated environment assets in Campaign and Spartan OPS. Am slowly going to get around to posting the renders and anims of all those as soon as the latest episodes clear.
(Renders are WIP Renders as we ended up gutting some things for final release). After finishing up this space I got moved on to doing a bunch of the animated environment assets in Campaign and Spartan OPS. Am slowly going to get around to posting the renders and anims of all those as soon as the latest episodes clear.
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How long did it take to make it?
@threesidedpolygon - Awesome. I've been trying to get that moment vid capped so I can show the transformations. Anytime I see someone on youtube get to that point they stop for like 3 seconds and then just keep blazing on, and I'm like NO! Stop! I need a valid vid link damnit! GO BACK!
Top notch work as always Shon! Makes me wish I had an XBox, I can't wait to see those pieces in motion.
I just recently joined these forums, but I've been working with the Halo Editing Kit for Halo Custom Edition for 6 years. I know Halo 1's engine is old, but I have a great appreciation for Halo's artwork.
Terrain and Forerunner modeling have been my specialty for all those years. I just wanted to say thank you for the art work that you and your team have created. Halo 4's environments, especially the sky boxes, are absolutely incredible.
There is one thing that has always been distracting me with the forerunner architecture in Halo 4. It just seems like the metals are way too clean for something that has been around for 100,000 years. I know forerunner metals are strong and durable, but I think they could use some darker shades of metallic's, dirt around the edges, and scuffing on the surfaces. What I mean by scuffing is that the architecture should look like it took abuse for those 100,000 years.
Maybe the forerunner architecture on Requiem is different from all the Halo's and the Ark?
Don't get me wrong, the forerunner models and textures are refreshing in the sense that they bring a new style to Halo. But it's only the 'clean' and 'brand new' looks that seem out of place to me.
Also, do you guys do all of the level design and asset population within 3ds max? Or do you use a secondary tool (kind of like Halo Custom Editions Sapien) to populate the level with assets?
Thanks,
PopeAK49
Here, on the walls and floor are bevels at the edges of geo pieces. At first I thought maybe it was some kind of "edge bevel" shader work happening, as the bevels seem to follow the edges of the mesh. I thought perhaps maybe it could be a bevel in the texture sheet and the mesh it UVd to "flow" this line on the mesh. The problem with this though, assuming its all the same UV channel, there would be no way to easily match the grid pattern of the textures if the UVs were broken between the big flat surfaces and the bevel lines near the edges. The only other way I could imagine it working is if the grid pattern is a detail texture on a different UV channel. and the bevels are just normal details with a flat colored diffuse. Not really something that will kill me if I don't know, but it is something I would like to know how it works because it seems to add some nice details without using beveled geo and seemingly giving a pretty good bang for the buck visually.
@commador - yes, just a detail map on a second uv channel
For starters: This was a switch I did for the Spartan Ops map Refuge. It started out as a static wall piece that I gutted and reworked. Messed around a lot to get the forms to sort of work together but mostly had a lot of fun with it.
Reworked Model and Texture, Rigged and Animated.
Other Artists on the map: BJ Christian, Dan Phillips, Alex Haworth, Adrian Bedoya, Rae Chen
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Took care of the full production on these next few. Model Texture Rig and Animation, and got to tag team with concept artist Shae Shatz on the design of them (check his stuff out! http://shaeshatz.blogspot.com/)
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This was the first draft of the aperture for the level but its movement caused pathing issues and would let the player kill themselves, so was scrapped for something that could double as a blocking volume for the portal below. The designers liked the first one tho so they repurposed it for a ceiling piece right above the floor one.
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@danjohncox All the doors except for Door 3 were modeled from a base concept. Movement is funny with forerunner stuff since it doesn't operate mechanically so turns out the models line work dictated a lot of its movement. We found that moving in a direction against the grain of the main lines tended to look off. Mostly I would model what was approved from concept and then start breaking apart and reworking what I needed in order to create some nice transformations. there were technical and spatial constraints that dictated some of the animations, but for the most part it was organic and got to have a lot of fun experimenting.
Door 3 was pretty weird as it originally started out as a static wall and the designers needed an exit at the end of one of the missions, so they quickly asked to convert what was already there to reveal a new hallway at the end.
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These animations are just crazy.