Stephan Messier - 3D/2D Artist

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Hey, I'm a game artist and I make real-time characters and assets.  

I cover 3d sculpting and modeling, retopology, UV unwrapping, texturing, and engine material support.  I don't rig or animate characters.  I can design characters/assets conceptually, or iterate on concepts in place/provided.

You can check out my portfolio site at www.smessierobjects.com, and my artstation profile at https://www.artstation.com/artist/smessier.  

Project pricing per character asset starts at $1000.  For a high quality character needing 40+ hours of work, costs will increase.  

Contact me at smessierobjects@gmail.com, and let me know what kind of character you need, how many characters are needed, technical specs like shader/UV set count, any concept art/design specs available, and the project timeframe.  

Thank you for checking out my work.  

- Stephan

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Personal Gears of War fanart WIP.

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I call him, "Notte'a'Locuste".

Check out his design page here.

He's still a work in progress, but I wanted to get him to a presentable state.

4096x2 (body, costume) diffuse, normal, gloss, specular, and emissive maps. Yes it's overkill: totally next gen.

Rendered in Marmoset, textured with Ddo, polypainting, and hand painting.

I want to get him into an environment, and give him a gun. I'm open to suggestions.

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Head study WIP (old).

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(Edit) Cleaning up my threads for load times and pruning old links.

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Some new characters for Space Bear Dev Studios on their game Galaxy Heist. You can check out the site at www.spacebeardev.com.

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Just finished up my first demo reel. Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rR7ceEYqI

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Have been finishing up a UAV drone I designed for Wobbly Rocket's game, Echo Delta, a scifi tactical squad shooter that has a realistic Arma feel to it. This UAV drone is a series of assets being built for the game, and follows the Soldier bot's design logic. You can see this and more at their site, www.wobblyrocket.com. They're working on an alpha build for presentation early in the new year.

Racking up work for the next few months, aiming for more projects a bit down the line.

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Hey everyone, has been a crazy couple of months, and February is looking no different. I'm headed out to GDC early in March. If anyone is going let's try to meet up! It'll be my first year, so if anyone has advice on the best things to do or things to focus on, please let me know.

Here's a stylized character for a new 3rd person action game I'm working with a client on. They're still getting their site set up, so I'll have more to share from them once they're ready. But for now, here's some marmoset 2 renders.

Looking to plan work for the next few months.

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Revisiting an older character study in my spare time. Purely testing out normal bakes and shaders. He has almost unchanged DDO skin textures, and was quickly zremeshed and UVed in Zbrush, so there are definitely some changes that need to be made, but I want to get him to a full quality bust within the next few weeks. Maybe people have some ideas on where I could take this guy?

Looking to schedule up more work for the coming months. I'll be heading out to GDC next week so things are ramping up to be very busy, but let's start getting the conversations rolling this weekend.

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Check out more of my newest stuff at http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=149347

2 new characters for PVP: Heritage, their site should be online within the week.

Rendered in Marmoset 2 and their textures are optimized for UE4. The Mage is separated into 2 4K maps and the Steampunker is in a single 4K map, with his holster/future weapons in their own separate space. Both are around 10-15K polys. Will have a greater breakdown of both characters on my site within a week.

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I completely spaced to reference Alex Vasilev, the modeler who built the staircase and a ton more content for PVP: Heritage. He's cranking out excellent props and environment assets, and you should definitely check out his work at http://www.alex3d.pro. He's awesome.

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(Edit) Old vid link prunage.

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Updated my header post.  Also released new fan art of Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road.  You can check her out on artstation or on my website.  I also have a few marmoset previews of older characters on my artstation profile.  

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Did some sword modeling/texturing practice a few weeks ago.  Currently looking to plan out gigs for the next month or so.  Shoot me an email if you have any questions.

You can check out a real time preview at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/81Wzm.

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Finished up a character I really enjoyed working on.  Produced from a concept for Caracal Games (www.downwardgame.com).  You can see more at https://www.artstation.com/artwork/RX2lm.

Always open for work.  If you don't need a full character I can tackle props or just texture work.  Shoot me an email with your project specs.