Sketchbook: Dan Sonley

dan.sonley

Hai, so first post. so this went down well with Reddit but what do you guys think? criticize it please. its a borderlands style tank train i designed and then modeled in 3ds max and textured in photoshop. its 16k tris. For my uni assignment it had to be about 10k tris only including 1 wheel so without the back 4 wheels its 10.5k witch fits my assignment.

dan.sonley

i made a character to go with it. witch i finished off today. its 10k tris. its meant to be a self portrait of an alter ego. made in 3ds max, mudbox and photoshop

dan.sonley

still cant use udk properly so the dof is pretty off but its a WIP. just an update really

Deras

which * Witch = a female sorceres :P

anyways, for the UDK part its looking quite cool, though the aposphere is quite jacked up...

for the tank: remember the wires have run in alot of dirt ( and if it is borderlands) alot of bodies aswell... so you might want to make them "uglier", as if you'd think "they've seen some shit"

the character is quite cool, i like the texturing there.

dan.sonley

thanks man. yeah i'm pretty awful at spelling and grammar.

dan.sonley

i like making updates so here it is so far. still wip

dan.sonley

so i finished my environment and i worked out what that weird shadow thing on my last shot was. so here it is... with no funky shadows across the screen. im pretty happy with it. its meant to be in the style of half life but i found that half life doesn't really have a very unique and defining style like some other games but all the same i like the result.

shadacer

I like this, dude. It motivates me to make my own environment.

dan.sonley

thanks

dan.sonley

been sculpting some rocks in zbrush.

dan.sonley

texuteded and in engine

dan.sonley

so ive started work on a robot. its a high poly model and i probably wont do a low poly. im jsut having fun with it and will hopefully be good enough for my portfolio

dan.sonley

all my pictures are rubbish quality. i need to learn how to do this properly :P

dan.sonley

ok so this time it wont be blurry... hopefully lol.

dan.sonley

SUCCESS!!!