Sketchbook: davidosterlind

davidosterlind

Hey!
Starting a new sketchbook!

I'm a game art student that wants to learn and improve.
The sole reason for setting this up is so I can receive comments and criticism from other artists, I know for a fact this particular forum is full of talented people.

To start things off Im posting some finished work. Future plan is to post WIP projects somewhat continuously.

/ David

allmighty_thunder

do it to it

davidosterlind

A Prop made for a game prototype developed at school.
2227 Polygons. Color w. baked occlusion and normal map is 1024px.

davidosterlind

New Project update!
The fact that I have been playing Skyrim a lot lately might have affected my choice of subject

Practicing high-low poly modelling and normal mapping. I will begin transferring the high poly version to a normal map as soon as the low poly is done, doing everything inside Maya. Not sure about my workflow though..

allmighty_thunder

that low poly can be alot lower poly, like the indent can be a normal map entirely

davidosterlind

Valid point, Realized that, have removed a lot of geometry from the blade. Still think its too high poly though. Its about 4000 tris right now.

davidosterlind

Doing an lowpoly assignment in school with specific requirements: Max 500 tris with a diffuse texture at 128px.

My concept is a main character for a handheld console of sorts. Its an ostrich that shoots Laser from its eyes! He is mad tired of all the other birds flying around, mocking him for his useless wings, so he shoots them down, one by one, while running in a fast paced platform based game.

orthographic concepts


Maya viewport, no lights, unfiltered texture. 500 tris

AlbinLundahl

Good job David!

davidosterlind

Final Delivery presentation!

gillmeister74

haha. ostriches

SSquir33

lulz. umad

davidosterlind

A presentation image for his weeks assignment at school. From concept to beauty render in one week. Rendered in Both Marmoset and Maya Hardware. Crit is welcomed.

oskarreftel

Your rifle looks amazing. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the best result in class.

davidosterlind

Thanx Oscar! And Merry Xmas!

Essynim

your pixel density is a bit skewed, the handle receives much more than the blade, which is the predominant portion of your model. usually with assets with long pieces like this, you can probably swing a 2 X 1 map rather than just a straight square to get a better layout. you are also getting some normal bending issues within the blade, created by having all soft normals over extreme plane change angles, its causing a bit of that wavy artifacting you are getting. you'll get better results in the normal bake usually by cutting those seams and hardening edge normals

davidosterlind

Thank you Essynim! Great feedback, several mental notes there.

stickadtroja

nice rifle! but something is wrong with your ostrich... cant really put my fingeOH MY GOD BOTH HES LEGS ARE BROKEN! THEY BEND THE WRONG WAY! AAAAAHHHH! I FEEL THE OSTRICH PAIN!

davidosterlind

Haha, youre right, of course. Tried to humanize him a bit, making the legs bend as ours do. Admit it does looks a bit painful.

ErikNilsson

Vi har nu en tr

davidosterlind

Modular building done a few weeks back. Depics a house in Malmö.

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Character Assignment to be based on existing concept.

davidosterlind

Loong time since my last entry, time to post! I practiced some human head topology a few weeks ago, managed to google some refs of Mr Bruce Willis. This is how that turned out:

davidosterlind

As a summer project I am doing an Environment inside UDK, Im fairly new to UDK and still leaning the ropes. My intent is to show my progress here. Not entirely sure how the shot will look eventually but i know it will be some kind of rainforest. Up until now I have been working on foliage, terrain materials and a little Frog.
Here he is:



Modeled it from scratch inside Zbrush using Z-spheres, made a lower-poly cage around that and baked the normals inside Maya.

davidosterlind

An early VIP of ferns, some grass and two stones inside UDK.

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Through a tutorial I leaned a way to set up a custom shader for easier color/brightness/contrast change. I can use a material instance to tweak values for more controlled blending and variation. It is used on the ferns above.

davidosterlind

Added the first tree to the scene!


5886 tris

One of the rendered branches that was used for the planes

oskarreftel

Damn, nice! You're evolving, dude!

davidosterlind

Lately I have been working with Mudbox, World Machine and PS to create some cooler looking Terrain for my scene, so far it is very much a work in progress but I really like the workflow.

Malin

It may be work in progress but it's already looking sweet, keep up the good work! Love the moss on the trees! Speaking of which, are you planning on a jungle environment for the trees? They give me a distinctly jungle-y ( it's a real word, I promise ) vibe.

davidosterlind

Thanks! Yeah its supposed to become some sort of jungle with a path through the vegetation leading to something that may not be expected in that kind of environment. Went a little crazy creating a whole landmass, it will probably serve mostly as a backdrop in the end.

Malin

If I had actually read an earlier post in this thread more thoroughly I would already know you were planning a rainforest environment, doh! I strongly suspect that I was overcome by frogvision ( the well-known phenomena where you see only frogs. Ahem. )..

Anyway, it will be very interesting to see the finished environment with the surprise element! Would also love to see you do a rocky environment in the future

davidosterlind

I made a skull in Z-Brush!

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Polypainted and rendered inside Z-brush.
(Grass made of fibermesh)

davidosterlind

Made a lizard-sculpt today, Z-brush

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Something from space, Z-brush, Photoshop and Maya used.

davidosterlind

Practicing Z-brush anatomy in class, please crit!