Wish I had my very first model still, was doing a tutorial on modelling a car, but had no idea what smoothing groups/meshsmooth/turbosmooth was, and so I didn't have any idea why my whole mesh was faceted. (and I thought I had modelled it wrong and deleted it).
As most have said, seeing progress is awesome
I dawdled around for years, wish I had got my arse in gear sooner, the work you guys are showing is stunning!
Most of my oldest stuff are characters so history is for that.
2006, first rigged character built in c4d.
and first rendered walkcycle, robot became my avatar woo. (I wanted to be an animator for a while)
2008
First fully textured character with normal maps and such (go go crazybump)
Each year I set an art goal that I want to improve on. I've always been pretty terrible/terrified of 2D painting, but I've really been working hard at it this year and painting 2-3 hours a night after work.
This is a benchmark painting done in December 2012 to the best of my (2D) ability.
about 8 months ago v now. Left one took longer lol, they were supposed to be speed sculpts about 30-50 mins each i think. Keep thinking how bad i am now but it's really nice seeing the progress
It's such a strange trip going backwards, makes me want to cringe and also a little proud.
2011:
This time last year, April/May 2012:
And same months this year:
The coolest thing about this year was that I got a couple million views from reddit, Pixologic put me on their twitter and facebook, and cgfeedback gave me a top-row, so it really felt like all the work started paying off.
Old Work
I think around 2005. The majority of this was done when I was still a certification tester, or working on pixel art for mobile games. Before I really specialized, or even knew what I was doing. First normal mapped character ever is the Orc, he's also my first taste of ZBrush - which was for an art test for Piranha Games. I got the job, and kept plugging away:
Mid Range
While at Piranha I learned a TON. Over the few years I was there, I only shipped budget titles...that I'm not SUPER proud of...but I learned a ton. both from co-workers and online competitions. I think these around from around 2008.
Current (2012 - 2013)
Now, after a few different studios and working with a bunch of clients:
Lol glad all my old work is still on deviant, pretty nice to look back and actually see you have improved XD. Good for them "I'm so shit at making characters let's quit moments".
first basemesh:
first head sculpt from above basemesh:
2010
words cant describe
I think this was my comicon piece?
2011
2012:
current 2013:
crazy thread....seeing peoples progression is awesome, especially the 2d guys...gives me a spark of hope for my crappy 2d skills one day in the far future
Dayum, some amazing progress from all of you, keep on posting guys same rules apply = some old pieces and some new to show off your progress and inspire others.
Awesome idea for a thread. I can't help but laugh and cringe at some of the first things I did when i started at uni. The 2D Stuff especially brings me hope.
Hi, I am still a learner and can't see myself anywhere near professional but I would like to share my progress in both 2D and 3D. Maybe it is not much but hey, I only do this in my free time and don't have much of that:)
The coolest thing about this year was that I got a couple million views from reddit, Pixologic put me on their twitter and facebook, and cgfeedback gave me a top-row, so it really felt like all the work started paying off.
Did you start out in 2011? What the heck, great progression man...! And grats on the exposure.
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2005 Art Test
2006 Ultimate Duck Hunting
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2012 Kung Fu Superstar
2012 Offensive Combat
Mid 2005 Ritual Ent low poly
Dominance War 2, ha got dominated
Comicon 2nd Place Yay!
Sometime 2010
2012 Most recent
Here are a couple of more recent ones;
And then September this year as well:
and what I'm working on now for the noob challenge I'm hosting with Cdenis:
I'm starting on the props right now.
Same rules - post some of your very first pieces and some of your new pieces, show us noobies your progress.
Uuugh... my turn
Work from 2003
Pixel sprites from 2003! L33t animati0n sk33l right!?
2012 ->
Start of 2013 ->
Ye old.
Le New. (most recent 2d piece and 3d piece I am allowed to show.)
1999
2012
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Nov-Dec 2011 first textured assets.
Feb 2012'ish
First highpoly model.
nov 2012
Jan 2013
http://imageshack.us/a/img856/5816/75707386.png
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010-2011?
2012
2012-2013
I dawdled around for years, wish I had got my arse in gear sooner, the work you guys are showing is stunning!
Most of my oldest stuff are characters so history is for that.
2006, first rigged character built in c4d.
and first rendered walkcycle, robot became my avatar woo. (I wanted to be an animator for a while)
2008
First fully textured character with normal maps and such (go go crazybump)
2012
character from last years uni assignment.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14662692/Career/Demo_Reel/April_2010/Stefan_Lipsius_Demo_Reel_April_2010.mp4
Jan 2013
[vv]58074062[/vv]
circa 2012 - it took awhile but I'm starting to get the hang of it ;]
how to do a screenshot on a pc
late 2011
open source screen capture
2012 somewhere
photo hosting sites
late 2012 early 2013
how do i print screen
couple days ago
windows screen capture
now:
Drawing: Sometimes in 2005 ?
Most Recent Drawing, a few days ago.
Low Poly Model, sometimes in 2006 ?
Some Mock-Up programming, sometimes in 2007 ?
Early Attempt at Zbrush
Early Hair Attempt
Later Bust
Later Low Poly
Most Recent WIP
I still can't use ZBrush to its full potential.
July 2011. 2 weeks into learning 3d.
February 2013
This is a benchmark painting done in December 2012 to the best of my (2D) ability.
And my latest done last week
2012 - 2013
allsow cool to see that all of you 3D titans also are human hehe very inspiring!
I can't find anything before 2008
...Yesterday...
2D
2002 (after four years of college learning about art and other things...
2012
Can't show anything from this year yet, but here's the best one from last year.
I was 13-16 years old at this time.
Today: 24 Years Old
Here's some of my first ever pieces from 2007:
And here are a couple of my latest works from this year:
2013
2011:
This time last year, April/May 2012:
And same months this year:
The coolest thing about this year was that I got a couple million views from reddit, Pixologic put me on their twitter and facebook, and cgfeedback gave me a top-row, so it really felt like all the work started paying off.
2013:
Old Work
I think around 2005. The majority of this was done when I was still a certification tester, or working on pixel art for mobile games. Before I really specialized, or even knew what I was doing. First normal mapped character ever is the Orc, he's also my first taste of ZBrush - which was for an art test for Piranha Games. I got the job, and kept plugging away:
Mid Range
While at Piranha I learned a TON. Over the few years I was there, I only shipped budget titles...that I'm not SUPER proud of...but I learned a ton. both from co-workers and online competitions. I think these around from around 2008.
Current (2012 - 2013)
Now, after a few different studios and working with a bunch of clients:
....guh.
Gav
My first 3d model, 1992
First 3d scenes, 1993
Recent work
2009
2010
2011
2012
Most recent
2009
first basemesh:
first head sculpt from above basemesh:
2010
words cant describe
I think this was my comicon piece?
2011
2012:
current 2013:
crazy thread....seeing peoples progression is awesome, especially the 2d guys...gives me a spark of hope for my crappy 2d skills one day in the far future
1999-2000: first custom character skins for UT!
2000-2001: Character class custom skins and weapon skins for Weapons Factory UT
2002-3: more custom character stuffs
2005-???: More recent mixed texture work
2010-11: Gears of War 3 Character textures & Creature texture
mid-2012
and now 2013
back then i thought i knew shit
2013 (still work in progress but eh)
2007/8
Literally just started
Now
2010
2011
Early 2012
Late 2012
1997
2000
2006
2007
2009
2012
Last year very cringe-worthy. Took me many hours just to get to that point.
Last month, about an hours worth of zbrush.
last week playing with photosourced texture projection and polypaint.