[Character] Dungeon Hunter PSN art dump - image heavy

HntrLuc

Hey everyone

I worked on Dungeon Hunter PSN for Gameloft back in 2009-2010. It's a little overdue but I'm finally making an art dump.

Huge thanks to Ben "B1ll" Regimbal for help along the way with these! He worked freelance with me on the project and really kicked my ass along the way with critiques and paintovers! He also did concept sketches for many of the characters.

Credit to Simon "Ithoual" Lallement for the original goblin model and texture as well. I think he also helped concept some of the characters.

Some of the artwork is a little subpar/underpolished. Towards the end of the project I'd often have deadlines as little as a day or two for an entire character. I've left many in for the sake of the collection though :P

HntrLuc

Funky Bunnies

my god...

weisheng

holy crap dude, utterly amazing o_o!

Nizza_waaarg

so goood, really inspiring art dump mang. Saving right to the desktop ^_^

Renaud Galand

Sooo good to see this kind of stuff back on Polycount. Awesome job!

Vorge

Great work man.

Dylan Brady

bugo

So cool!

AimBiZ

Tight deadlines or not, stuff is still looking great. You're superb at painting textures. Very inspirational.

Aga22

whatyatalkingabout! this is awesome!

ScudzAlmighty

that's a freakin nice dump HntrLuc

Avanthera

Pretty stuff! Especially the troll and archer/pale fella!
Here's looking forward to your timely Darksiders dump!

LoTekK

If you can't find me, that's because I'm in the corner making sweet love to that art...

Beautiful texture work and geo!

cholden

What the..!? SICK!

Texelion

I'm always impressed when I see extra cool stuff with a so low tricount.

urgaffel

Dropbox doesn't work here so I had to copy/paste every image url to a new window to make the images load. But it was totally worth it. Sweet sweet art!

achillesian

NOICE

Torch

These turned out great man, I love the first few characters too. You mentioned your deadlines were pretty tight - did you sculpt a high poly first and bake the AO to a low poly or just build the low poly mesh and texture it straight away?

Dan!

very nice..very very nice!

g2000

Amazing work! :poly142:

butt_sahib

un-fuking-believable

beautiful!!!!!!!

d1ver

Wow, that's some awesome art, man! Thanks for doing this!

erroldynamic

Jeez Looweez that is some beautiful work!

low odor

inspiring ..thanks for sharing!

Guedin

really great work here ! Love your style

aobond

amazing!
and 1 day for that kind of character 0_o

chaosblade

really great stuff! what do you use to texture- just photoshop?

Psyk0

Hmmm that's some tasty polygons and pixels goodness!

shadowking

I've always thought of Gameloft as being sub-par to average, but this is just..........wow.
You've just changed my opinion in one fell swoop, good job sir.

HandSandwich

Wait.

You're telling me there's a game out there with art from HntrLuc, B1ll, AND Ithoual?!?

*RUNS DIRECTLY TO WHEREVER THE HELL THIS GAME CAN BE FOUND*

Havoc89

Very cool.

mr_ace

amazing textures dude. are these painted B&W then coloured?

KyleJensen

Awesome work! I love the textures.

Azkur

nice work man

OtrickP

*slow clap*

That's how it's done.

D4V1DC

Wow, love the art-dump I especially love the goblins as well that image Instantly hooked me in.
Amazing work, I love the Hand Painted stuff.
So nostalgic, I wants MOAR! *runs to check out game*

Kot_Leopold

Killer low-poly work! Really a treat to look at - gotta love those textures

HntrLuc

Wow thanks everyone! I really appreciate all the nice comments!
It was my favorite gameloft project for sure. It was a ton of fun to work on! Something about painting on a 512 texture just feels right :P

I should probably also clarify that only a few of the characters had super strict deadlines, I think most took around 3-5 days. There was a fair amount of reusing for meshes, so that sped things up. The textures were painted in 3D for the most part using a single layer or frequently collapsing down so that helped speed up the process as well.

I've made a couple quick edits to the images, expanding the skeletons out into their own page each, and upsizing one of the textures that was accidentally a 256.

Funky Bunnies - haha thanks man! I'm a fan, you've been posting tons of awesome ladies lately!
weishseng - thanks! love your lowpoly stuff as well!
itismario - thanks!
Nizza_waaarg - thanks dude!
Renaud Galand - Thanks, I appreciate it!
vorge - thanks
Dylan Brady - haha thanks man
bugo - thanks!
AimBiZ - Thanks man
Aga22 - lol thanks
ScudzAlmighty - Thanks man!
shrew81 - thanks man! yeah hopefully shortly after release we'll get the ok to post!
amile duan - thanks
LoTekK - oh my. haha, thanks man
cholden - thanks dude, I've been loving nexuiz btw!
Texelion - Thanks man!
achilesian - thanks!
Torch - thanks man, deadlines weren't too bad, for the most I had no deadlines and finished characters within 3-5 days. Just a few characters towards the end starting popping up with tight deadlines. Anyway to answer your question, these characters were just good old fashioned diffuse.
Dan! - thanks dude!
g2000 - thanks man!
butt-sahib - haha thanks man
d1ver -thanks!
Rion411 - thanks man!
low odor - thanks
Guedin - thanks man! awesome work so far on your frog and girl model btw!
aobond - thanks! well one day for some of the messier ones :P
chaosblade - thanks, mostly bodypaint with some photoshop for these.
Psyk0 - Thanks! p.s. i put my first characters ingame following your jedi knight tutorials! hahaha
shadowking - thanks man :P
HandSandwhich - haha thanks, I even hear its not too bad as a cheapish coop diablo/gauntlet type game.
Havoc89 - thanks!
mc_ace - thanks man! nope these were painted in full color
KyleJensen - thanks dude!
Azkur -thanks
OtrickP - thanks!
$!nz - thanks man!
Kot_Leopold - Thanks!

Psyk0

Haha, no kidding?! glad i could help in my own way!

papagersi

it's awesome!! nice and clean hand painting !!!

Gannon

Awesome stuff! I'm so pumped to start work; You've really set the bar.

xvampire

nice work sir, Im kinda miss handpainting style

Danglebob

super rad!

ceebee

I scrolled and saved these images so fast. And then I went and stared at them for about 45 minutes. Awesome work duder, I know how it is to work with tight deadlines so mad props on still keeping the quality bar up there.

b1ll

goodjob man! Working with you was a blast, You are getting to good, ^_^

now on to some new art ?

Har Har

OrganizedChaos

Hey Hunter, this is some nice stuff! I'm glad you get the chance to share it now. What've you been up to these days?

Havoc89

I've worked on Dungeon Hunter 3, so its very nice to see these pieces. Though DH3 is mobile platform, so we had to use potentially less then half the restrictions which kinda sucks. But thanks again for posting these up, really enjoyed checking these out.

daphz

daaaaaaaamn guuuuuuuuurl! This stuff is super nice, really clean tetxure work; and I love the color pallet on everything! Did you paint it mostly in 3dcoat or similar software or was it mostly working on the flats?

POFFINGTON

these are awesome! Can't wait to see me some Vigil stuffs :P

HntrLuc

Psyk0 - Yeah! those were good times, thorough tutorial if i remember too :P
papagersi - Thanks man I appreciate it!
Gannon - Thanks man! Starting at Gameloft? Hope you enjoy it!
xvampire - haha thanks man
Screwonhed - thanks!
ceebee - haha thanks man. killer work on that dota 2 sculpt you've been working on btw!
b1ll - thanks man! new art? pfft as long as i dont have to finish it...
OrganizedChaos - Thanks! I recently moved back to Arizona and I'm working freelance. Congrats on the spot at Retro btw!
Havoc89 - Thanks man, glad you enjoyed checking them out. Yeah, we had really easy going specs for these models so it was pretty fun to work on!
daphz - hahaha thanks dude! It was probably like 90-95% bodypaint, and then photoshop for the rest. Btw, like i said to ceebee, great work on your dota sculpt!
poffington - thanks dude! :P Hopefully just another month or so now

I wanted to add a closeup of the troll, so here's a little mini bump for that :P