[Portfolio] Paul Presley - 3DArtist
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I finally got around to updating my portfolio. Been like, 4 years since I last did this. This might as well be a Bioshock Infinite Thread since that's majority of what I have hehe. Been fun working with that team
Let me know what you think! Looking for freelance stuff ATM (at least for a few months). Some of this isnt on my web site. I have like waaay to much work but, this is a show and tell, so, why not show you guys
And one I did between projects. Wokring on another Creature creation. will post wip thread soon
I finally got around to updating my portfolio. Been like, 4 years since I last did this. This might as well be a Bioshock Infinite Thread since that's majority of what I have hehe. Been fun working with that team
Let me know what you think! Looking for freelance stuff ATM (at least for a few months). Some of this isnt on my web site. I have like waaay to much work but, this is a show and tell, so, why not show you guys
And one I did between projects. Wokring on another Creature creation. will post wip thread soon
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You need to read the great article by Steve Anichini about Bioshock Infinite's lighting and shader model:
http://solid-angle.blogspot.com/2014/03/bioshock-infinite-lighting.html
The portfolio looks good Paul.
Shame about what happened, etc etc.
Their was a lot of tech involved in spectacularity. Its part the artist, part tech. I loooooooved the metal shader we were using, though, the draw backs were it needed cube probes like everywhere and it didn't accept lighting information very well*
*technically, thats how metal works, but it was hard for the level guys to be placing the cube probes at the right spot for an entire room. This was a common problem for Rapture were everything was made of marble and metal.
@coots7
It is! Did it in 3 days -_- I havent worked that hard in over a year, not even in crunch time haha.
Thanks homies!
I think I like rapture props the most. That was a lot of fun to do. Like, this trash can, it's totally your generic trash can, but, its like, a hint of decoy hehe. Its just a fun style to do
Scott.
I wish I could see some texture sheets. From reading the technical lighting doc on infinite it seems like you guys were using something similar to PBR - no wonder the metal on the game looked so great!
It kind of bugs me seeing a mess of tiny cropped thumbs, always makes it hard to discern what's what. Would rather see larger minimally-cropped thumbs, like 2x or 3x across. Or just a page of art. Like, that AWESOME howitzer gun is hidden behind that tiny thumb.
Also it would help to show flats, wires, and specs (tri count, tex sizes, tex types used).
Resume is great. To the point, no typos, printable PDF or Doc. Though I wish the email link was clickable (mailto: ).
Awesome work!
Great website layout, too. The only thing I could critic is that the images take a moment to load while clicking through the show. That's a little annoying, even if it takes just a few seconds and it's maybe something that's not to good for a portfolio (at least if you're assuming the worst case scenario that the people just have a few seconds to a minute to look at each portfolio, I've heard such stories at university, haha)
Through your work is pretty convincing I guess.
Yeah, Im trying to get that down. I might talk to a friend who works with web stuff. It was annoying to me, so i dropped the size down and it helped. Still bugs me a little. Will go back into it and rework it
@Eric Chadwick
Mega appreciate that man! Gah, but i reaaaaaly like the look of it hahah. I see what you mean though ") Will fiddle with it tonight. I see your point
Im not to sure if I can show texture stuff. Wire frames are okay cause that's already ingame stuff you can see. Ill post some wires with tri counts after this post of a few props
@scotthomer
I loove your work! The Rapture homage was great! Thanks homei
@CalenBrait
Getting on it :P
Thanks guys! Appreciate it
Few things to note:
- Not that you don't know this already, but, we deal with Triangls and Verts, not Polygons. That's were our budget lies (this was new to me when I started out at least!) To that...
- Huge objects that covered a lot of screen space and has a cheap tri count was a big plus!. The Zepplin Pillar piece I did (second to last on the bottom), for example, fell into that. Its huge and really cheap (less then a 1,000 tris). Same thing for the Trolly (last image on the bottom). Its less then 2,000 tris and did a great job filling in for cover and screen space.
-We never tried to leave big openings or gaps in the meshes that you can see through. This just allowed the player to shoot AI without the AI noticing him or seeing him. So, for instance, the Trolly piece, the base goes almost all the way to the bottom touching the floor. In some cases, meshes had to be reworked or something added so that you wouldn't be able to shoot underneath a table or cart for instance. This was very design specified, so we had to get creative in some parts to meet that need.
- We atlas'ed a lot of textures. The buildings that Calen did are prime examples of this. We used a 512*2048 texture map (maybe bigger), and atlased a lot of building parts to it. I did this a lot for the zepplins and Barge pieces. So, the Founders Barge mesh, youll notice its cut up a lot, but thats because I'm reusing a lot of texture space to get better resolution out of it. The goal for that was your on this sucker for a long time, its a set pieces, your gona scrutinize it, make it high Res and afordable.
-Maybe 98% of my textures that I imported are 2048*2048 texture sheets respectively. However, they are mipped down considerably depending on size, location, importance, so forth and so forth. I think thats why we got so many compliments from people playing the game with high texture settings, cause everything started at 2048 for us. I can see this being both a plus and a negative, as we had some crazy memory work trying to get the budget down and things in memory. It definatly was a learning process for us, and tbh, the DLC1 and DLC2 did a much better job at managing texture sizes and how to cut corners.
Some more stuff for the heck of it. In-game short really