[portfolio] Karol Miklas - Vehicle Artist

KMiklas

Hello Polycounters!

My name is Karol Miklas, I am a 3D artist from Poland, currently unemployed, working as a freelancer.

I recently created a brand new portfolio website, with a focus on vehicles.

http://karolmiklas.com/

Some pictures of my latest works, more on the website:







Also, I included SketchFab interactive model for every car, just like for this one:
[SKETCHFAB]6hiH0iyDqXqtdD9wbqSbyLLhKmz[/SKETCHFAB]

Comments and critique are very welcome!

Cheers,
Karol

LANKUS MAXIMUS

Some of the nicest vehicles I have ever seen. Nice touch with the Sketchfab add.

It seems that there's some slightly jagged geo on the second 2 vehicles' tyres. Only crits I can give..

Well done dude

edit - nice portfolio, i see that those 2 were intended for mobile? If so. Ignore my crit :P

All the best.

KMiklas

@Lankus Maximus: Thanks!

I just had a very strict limit with those cars: 6k for muscle car and 2.5k for the SUV. They will be used in a mobile game, which is currently in a development.

LANKUS MAXIMUS

I was a few secs too late.

I edited my post after checking your portfolio Good luck with the game release!

Optinium

These are indeed ace. Great work.

KMiklas

Hey, thanks for your kind comments! It means a lot to me.

yodude87

ace stuff as always karol, really awesome. loved the taxi particularly :poly142:

only crit i might have is some extra loops you might have in your geo, but since its personal work, i dont think poly limitation should be a problem.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

NIce!

RavenTheBird

Good car modeling you have they, cool stuff, eye candy

PIraT

Nice website layout, quite simple, but contain everything what you need on your site.
For me, taxi is still the best one ;D

Shrike

these are really nice and the stylized thing you got there is cool. I just hope you didnt want to go for a realistic style and ended up like that.

Website is good, presentation is top tier, nothing to crit there
Now you just need to keep up the work in the same quality and add more

KMiklas

Shrike wrote: »

these are really nice and the stylized thing you got there is cool. I just hope you didnt want to go for a realistic style and ended up like that.

Well, erm... it seems I got a lot to learn yet.

And thanks for comments!

Shrike

They look great from a artistic point of view, but your kind of texturing and lighting (+ low poly with obvious normals) makes them cartoony and stylized (They are great to put in a game like GTA, but not in something like Forza or GT.

Try doing a car with higher polycount (around 50k w/o interior) which has all the detail of a real car, and then take a image based render method with HDRIs to light it so you can play in that league of car games aswell. If you can do those, then you can do that aswell for sure.

KMiklas

Oh, that. I got your point and will definitely try, thanks for advice.

BTW, doesn't Marmoset provide such lighting?

SimonT

nice cars and awesome shader!

Darkmaster

These are sick!!

Shrike

Marmoset provides IBL with HDRIs, but the variation is not too big and you always get a marmoset kind of style which is not really realistic imo, but I dont have a lot of experience with it. Id go for a nice offline render screenshot in a primary renderer.

This is showing the difference in style between those shader renders and classical IBL pretty well as example http://mcmercslr.deviantart.com/art/Ferrari-F70-update-324816048
You need a way glossier material to get those sharp reflections. Your current ones are really diffuse. Fresnel is helping aswell. I cant find a single car render from marmoset, and I dont think its the appropriate to shoot such a image. For the current cars you have its a good choice however and underlines the style. If you dont have any experience in rendering and light setups, then maybe its better to stick with marmoset and just try it with a higher poly mesh and play with materials to get something + - realistic.

KMiklas

@Shrike: Got it. I had been rendering a lot (link) before I dedicated fully to gameart.

Although I never aimed for typical racing games, rather for something less... clean, rather grungy, beaten, or just everyday use, maybe even funky, for example games like GTA, Carmageddon, FlatOut, Rage or just FPS games - it should give you a point what kind of style I'd like to achieve.

Still in some cases it means realistic, but not as clean as usual racing games.

Yeenke

Cool portfolio, man

JostVice

Really liking the style! Keep up the good work mate

OverMarvelous

Love the range of detail! Shit hot bro!