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ZombieWells

Hey all this is my online portfolio! I hope you all enjoy it.





This is my High res version of my ATST. All the modeling was done in 3D Studio Max. The model took about a week to complete.







This is the ATST re-surfaced down to 10,276 Polys, with the normals baked and applied to the model. I did take this model into Z brush to put in some minor details, dings, and battle damage. The idea is that this ATST has been fighting off the rebels even after the death of Darth Vader and the collapse of the empire.



Normal map baked using 3DSMax



Diffuse Map



Wire Frame of low res






This is Gears of War style tank modeled after the centaur. The gun is a litte shorter and the front armor stronger for close range combat.

all modeling was done in 3DSmax. I will be taking the tank into Zbrush as I did the ATST. I will also change the tires and put more plateing on it.




This is a Gears of War style wall peice. I imagen that it would be embeded into a rock face along with some more wires and jazz.

All the modeling was done in 3DSMax. I will also take the wall into Z brush.

Thanks everybody! Comments are welcome!

James Kincaid
Enivorment Artist
Jms_kincaid@yahoo.com

t4paN

That's some great hard surface stuff you've got there! Love the ATST, it really tells the story of how many battles it has seen and stuff. It's a long way from the pearly white Imperial vehicles from Star Wars that look as mint as the Rock's teeth. A bit WH4000-ish in that regard.

whats_true

Pretty stuff. How long did it take you to do that wall?

Autocon

Really great HP work there. As said before the ATST looks fantastic. Love the story and it really shows through your texture work that is has seen a lot of battles. Only thing I would say is that the legs dont seem like they have seen much battle dmg when if I was a rebel fighter that is the main area I would be concentrating my blaster fire on.

Also when showing wire frames show LP with Normals applied and have the cage slightly pushed out from that so you cant see through the model. Makes it hard to see what actually is there when you can see through the model.

nrek

Great stuff man, I really like the war torn ATST. Now you said this is your online portfolio, I was just curious but do you plan on getting an actual web page up sometime with all your work on it?

Paul Pepera

Those high poly models look cool. Though when rendering them, try give the materials some spec/gloss highlight and add an actual light in the scene (not just a skylight), so it'll be easier to see the bevels and forms in your modeling.

bluekangaroo

agree with eraser....work a bit on the presentation/material/lighting more...it really goes a long way in the end

ZombieWells

I will do some trial and error type renders and see what you guys think. Unfortunately I am having to work 10 to 10 all this week. I will do my best to get something done before the weekend; no promises. Thanks for help out

BradMyers82

Nice work. I agree about the presentation of the HP as well. Checkout this tutorial by X-Convict. It's the best and easiest way to get nice HP renders IMO.

ZombieWells

thanks for the tip BradMyer, Ill check out

ZombieWells

What_True - ahh the wall took me about 3 weeks nights and weekends. It was more of a learning process than anything else. I want to see what kind of shapes I could get down using some Kevin Johnstone, (I hope I am spelling that right) tips I read on his ploycount forum.

wester

I love the ATST man. I've wanted to do a star wars model for ages...you may have just talked me into it.

Great tetxures, great normals. The highpoly looks amazing!

I'd love to see a bake of that door though.

renderhjs

now you just need to put it online preferably on a own domain. Just create a simple html file and dump all the images in it.

I like the ATST so far because the textures look good. I am not a fan of skydome renderings as they wash out all the normals and edges and make renderings appear muddy. Maybe check out this thread:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=60887&highlight=material+rendering
for a material rendering tutorial that better shows technical details and imo. is better suited for technical model renderings.

Mcejn

Like everyone else has already said: presentation. I'd especially like to see them all with some proper wireframes going on. Seriously awesome work man.

Steveo53

Very nice detail put into that adst! the texture really does justice for it!!

quyeno

lovely high poly models, nice work dude. My only crit is that the bullet marks look odd to me, knowing that weapons in Star Wars are mainly laser based. But its minor. You should give Marmoset Toolbag a try to render your ATST.

Seaseme

There were still some weapons in Star wars that fired bullets / kinetic missiles.

Awesome work man

ZombieWells

Sorry all, I haven't had time to work on anything do to the job. Though, there is some good news. I have some vacation time coming to me in the middle of the month. I'll try to do some work over this weekend if I don't have to come in to work. thanks all