BenClark - Game Art Showreel

benclark

This was about 90% done when I got a job, so I figured I would finish it up...

Ben Clark - Showreel 08

Thanks to everyone on these boards for the inspiration and help

zerafian

Only thing your missing is a female with some long flowing hair...or just your ability to do fur or hair. I liked..thought the spec map on the wire frame was a good touch. It made it easy to see the topology.

low odor

Looks great man...the Fire Warrior looks badass

mikezoo

Chopper Pilot is my favorite by far. Great textures and overalll fantastic work.
I curious how you go about textureing your characters. Was it a combination of photo-source and hand painted?

PixelMasher

awesome reel man, really nice presentation. the only thing that i spotted that could be tweaked is the transition from faceted to shaded normal, its really jarring, especially on the pilot, kinda pops in, a quick fade transition could smooth it out. the content is really great man love that spec on the firewarrior.

konstruct

very classy man- really liked watching all of these develop across the year(s)

Mark Dygert

Awesome stuff.
I love the weight that's modeled into all of your characters, you wouldn't believe how rare it is to find someone with proper grasp on gravity

TWilson

Looks great Ben! Nice work on the pilot.

I think you could do without the Sketchbook. The Extra links are busted atm.

Oneil

awesome characters , I like the sculpting/ texture details on each from the 1st and last characters man, Congrats..

Josh_Singh

Gave you props on ZbrushCentral. Just want to say again, Solid work man. In the reference folder for sure.

benclark

thanks folks

zerafian - yup you just nailed the 2 things I am crap at:)

mikezoo -my textures are a mix of painted and photo. I usually paint a base first, then add parts from photo's, then go back and paint over that again. Plus a lot of light bakes and I also use a dirt map trick that Kite posted on CGChat ages ago

Twilson - yeah the sketchbook will be coming down I think. All the anatomy work I have is on A1 paper so I cant scan it in, and all my moleskin sketchbooks never have anything anywhere near finished.

Vig - Thanks man! This is great to hear. My anatomy teacher spent time with me teaching me about creating a sense of weight in my work, so its good to hear that some of it has stuck

Josh - thanks! I'm a huge fan of your stuff, especially the sculpts you've been doing recently

woogity

terriffic stuff, great page layout too, have all the info i wanted to see excetp the actual concept images. terriffic work!


-Woog

OGRE

As Vig said, there is a superb weight to your models, love the proportions all around. Keep it up!