Brenn's Work Thread and Art Dump

Brenn

Hiho Polycount! As a long-time lurker and very occasional poster, I think its time I made my own work thread. I just graduated out of a 3D Games Art course in the UK, so its time I got this show on the road and started getting this work out there, and hopefully get myself up to polycount standards =]

Here's some of the finished work I did for my final year projects -

Girl character for in-game cinematic in UDK




Ape-Tribe Chief character from the UDK cinematic -


Wizard Bust based on Gandalf/Ian McKellan


Rocky Outcrop from the UDK cinematic


Shot from the cinematic - Foliage, particles and Golem aren't mine


And here's some pieces I've been working on more recently -

Celtic Warrior concept




Life Drawing Sketches
(NSFW)

Mudbox face speed-sculpt from Sphere -



Cartoon P.I. character WIP


Hopefully I should get some more work up in the next few days =]
Cheers!

Scott

danpaz3d

I like what you've got so far. A consistent theme and style for the fantasy stuff. Fav for me is that cinematic shot with the child and creature thing. Only critique is I think that rock is wasting a few polys, then again it's for cinematic so it's not that significant. Good work!

Brenn

danpaz3d wrote: »

I like what you've got so far. A consistent theme and style for the fantasy stuff. Fav for me is that cinematic shot with the child and creature thing. Only critique is I think that rock is wasting a few polys, then again it's for cinematic so it's not that significant. Good work!

Cheers =]! Yeh that rock was a qucik auto-generate job, not optimised at all really. I'll post up some of my other rocks from that scene that I actually retopo'd. Thanks for the crit!

Brenn

Some more screengrabs of work from the Cinematic -

Tribal Mask -


Spear -


Rocks from the cinematic scene -


Most of the rocks in those shots from the cinematic were these rock mesh's, with the vertex-paint moss shader -


Another rocky pillar -


For anyone interested, here's the final Cinematic from the group project -

https://vimeo.com/41401684

praetus

It is overall pretty good work but there is some inconsistency with your polygon density. I see that you said earlier that one rock was an auto generate but some of the other things like the strap on the mask and the rocky pillar feel like they could be optimized. Overall though it looks pretty solid.

Brenn

praetus wrote: »

It is overall pretty good work but there is some inconsistency with your polygon density. I see that you said earlier that one rock was an auto generate but some of the other things like the strap on the mask and the rocky pillar feel like they could be optimized. Overall though it looks pretty solid.

Cheers, yeh I agree, I need a lot more practice really on optimising polys in general, most of my stuff tends to be way heavier than what I need.

Texelion

Ha, this last rock looks like a Kebab :



Just kidding XDDDD.

Seriously, Praetus +1, some meshes are REALLY too heavy. Another thing, you don't need to put the "polycount' in your sheets, the tricount is enough. What's also important is the vertices count, as a mesh can look light in tricount, but really heavy with unoptimized vertices ( because hard edges and UV's vertices add a lot of vertices to calculate for the engine for example, it's a "normals" problem ).

Anyway, hope you will improve your skills ^^.

And GG for your graduation.

Brenn

Texelion wrote: »

Ha, this last rock looks like a Kebab :



Just kidding XDDDD.

Seriously, Praetus +1, some meshes are REALLY too heavy. Another thing, you don't need to put the "polycount' in your sheets, the tricount is enough. What's also important is the vertices count, as a mesh can look light in tricount, but really heavy with unoptimized vertices ( because hard edges and UV's vertices add a lot of vertices to calculate for the engine for example, it's a "normals" problem ).

Anyway, hope you will improve your skills ^^.

And GG for your graduation.

Hahaha +1 for the kabab, I could go for one now xD Yeh I really dont like my texture work on that one, just kinda messy and noisy =/ Cheers for the tips and crit! Yeh those vert counts can really sneak up on ya heh.

Edit: Also, thanks! Although technically I haven't 'graduated' yet, the ceremony isn't until November =/ but I know I got a 2-1 overall =]

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@Texelion
haha it does look like a kebab. Now I can't unsee it.

@Brenn
Welcome to polycount. Like you I was a lurker too and posted just a few weeks ago. I'm currently taking up a 3d course in Vancouver, and I'm leaning towards games. How long did it take for you to finish the cinematic, and how long was the course?

Brenn

Quick art dump before bed =] -

Desert-scene sketch -


Random BUFF DUDE speed-sculpt -

paololazatin wrote: »

@Texelion
haha it does look like a kebab. Now I can't unsee it.

@Brenn
Welcome to polycount. Like you I was a lurker too and posted just a few weeks ago. I'm currently taking up a 3d course in Vancouver, and I'm leaning towards games. How long did it take for you to finish the cinematic, and how long was the course?

Course was 3 years, standard Bachelors of Arts Uni course in the UK. Cinematic was a 2-semester group project, but out of 4 of us in the group, I did 2 of the characters (plus rigging for all of them) and one environment scene (Rocks, Grass, Landscape, Post-Process, all the good stuff), plus Storyboards, UDK setup, concept art, all the fun stuff, along with everyone else. It was a varied group, so 2 of us ended up doing a fair amount of work, one guy did bits (the Golem and the particles), and one guy did about 2 or 3 models, when we'd asked him to setup a whole scene =/

so yeh, its about 3 months Full-On work, with 2 months concepting and building the characters. Learnt a lot, but god was it stressful D= plus we only had an animator for about a month, and the sound guys only ever gave us one file, no retakes.. fun times! Don't let any of that put you off though heh, Vancouver sounds awesome and even with all that I'm glad I did it! Good luck on yours =]

Brenn

Evenin' Gents, here's some work i started today, a sculpt based on this guy -



from a scottish pipe'n'drums band Clanadonia - [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UII8CPnJuro"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UII8CPnJuro[/ame]

Quick sketch -


First bit of sculpting -