[Watch Dogs]Art dump

Strkl

Hi all,

Watch Dogs was just officialy released today, and I thought I could share the work I done at ubisoft on the game ! You can find all of this on my portfolio here http://alexandrestroukoff.blogspot.fr/p/watchdogs.html

I was mainly charged with doing naturals assets & rocks (especially in the pawnee disctrict), and was in charge of the art of a few zones (mainly The construction bridge, and the Junkyard!)

Here are the screen, and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions, thanks for checking out !

Lot of pictures, beware !

Strkl

Daedalus51

Wow, very cool stuff! I like it^^ Didnt think though that Watchdogs would feature this kind of environment so nicely. Good to see

maverickhornet

This is stunning and very inspirational work I must say. Congrats on it releasing, looking forward to playing the game myself.

:-)

Kedyz

BG

genwu

Awesome work! Thank you for the share

Progg

Nice work! Looks awesome.

Shyralon

So awesome, looking forward to play the game!
For some reason I'm totally digging this matcap you used for the rock, any tipps where I can find it/something similar?

josh_lynch

Awesome work! Really like the sculpts and environment shots.

Strkl

Thanks a lot !

@Skyralon : here a list of the one I used (you can find them all in the zbrush website, I'll try to make a .rar with with all of those)

gw_frosty_bronze / gw_grouce / Ok_lunar_eclipse (my favorite )

kernersvillan

Nice work dude! I have my PS4 version ready for me when I get home

slosh

Love the mud texture...nice work!

Tobbo

Nice!

aajohnny

Really great stuff here dude. Played the game a bit last night and this morning, looking forward to playing more! Congrats on the release.

Bruno Afonseca

Love your rocks! Great work dude. Just saw your rock videos, bookmarking all of that!

Syros

Woohoo, Nice, very inspiring. thanks for sharing it, you really Rock \m/

KennyTies

Really great rock sculpts now I really want to play the game.

fatihG_

I love those junkyard sculptures! =]

snoops3d

excellent work!!

NegevPro

Very impressive work, I really love the rocks and foliage! If you don't mind me asking, what kind of technical limits did you have for individual assets? Can't wait to play!

Jeff Parrott

Really nice work! Awesome showing the wires off too!

JordanN

Already making AAA games at 22. Cool.

Mstankow

My problem with the rocks is that they look nothing like the natural rocks you see in Illinois. Illinois rocks tend to be yellowish and have horizontal banding and it is pretty consistent across northern Illinois from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. As a person who lived in Illinois most of my life, it bothers me heavily that these screens do not look like rural Illinois. It is like now that I work in Seattle, Infamous 3 bothered me heavily that it looked nothing like Seattle.

Strkl

Thanks a lot everybody !!

@mstankow you are totally right ! the looks of the rocks is also as it is because of the technical contrainst we had and what we could do, to make the best looking enviros as possible with the pretty hard constraints we had, (there is like 4 rocks models for the whole game, and in the screenshots above,only 2 rocks texture and the rest is the one tileable texture of the terrain ), we also didnt had the possibilty of using things like tesselation/displacement on the terrain unfortunately
But you're totally right, I do find that the look we have is not the kind of lanscape you would find in illinois, but I guess (I hope!) it still work ingame nonetheless ^^

Mstankow

Yeah I know the limitations are hard. But as someone who is familiar enough with the Rock River, Fox River, and Chicago river, it makes me want to rant. There is a lot more I could say about how it looks nothing like Illinois but I wont bore you. You did a good job though with the art. It just doesn't look like Illinois.

kospyyy

nice!!

lamar McHaney

This is great, digging the models.

Justin Meisse

Mstankow wrote: »

Yeah I know the limitations are hard. But as someone who is familiar enough with the Rock River, Fox River, and Chicago river, it makes me want to rant. There is a lot more I could say about how it looks nothing like Illinois but I wont bore you. You did a good job though with the art. It just doesn't look like Illinois.

Welcome to every video game/movie/comic ever - I lived in the area portrayed in Vice City and Fallout 3, they didn't get South Florida or DC/NoVA perfect. Just enjoy the macro and don't focus on the micro.

Trevelyan .

Lovely stuff, congratulations

CDeniz

Loving those rocks. Watching your videos now.

XRevan23

Great Work overall, love the way you did the rocks in zbrush. Can't wait to start playing the game been looking forward to it since e3 2012:thumbup:

Millenia

Justin Meisse wrote: »

Welcome to every video game/movie/comic ever - I lived in the area portrayed in Vice City and Fallout 3, they didn't get South Florida or DC/NoVA perfect. Just enjoy the macro and don't focus on the micro.

Yeah, pretty much the only game I can think of that actually nailed an area is STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, but they spent a lot of time and effort actually photographing and visiting the zone of exclusion.

Either way, the artwork's sweet Must've been a fun project to work on.

chrisavigni

Amazing man! Congrtaz!

Strkl

Thanks a lot all, Yes it was great to work on this, especially with a such talented team ! I Find myself very very lucky to have worked on a game of this caliber for my first job

Rurouni Strife

Ha just for fun, I'm chiming in on the discrepancies between game and real life enviros. Naughty Dog did a fantastic job (it's not 1:1 but it's definitely close) on recreating Boston in Last Of Us.

But yea, awesome work dude! Looking forward to having time to play it.

JamieRIOT

Really nice environment work, great work from all of the team. I have only just started on PC (which has some stuttering issues), so looking forward to playing more and exploring!

Sir Apple

Pretty cool stuff man.

My only issue is your presentations, specifically the Zbrush shots. Its sort of odd to me that you took a picture of the entire zbrush UI and included it in the presentation... it takes away from your work IMO. Also it shows a lot of wasted space that could be used for better res images of the actual sculpts.

Strkl

Thanks

For the screens with the zbrush interface, I already had this conversation with a friend of mine, and my point of view was that, I like to show some of the software interface or wireframe or this kind of stuff sometimes, because without any of this, the portfolio feels a little bit lifeless. I like to see what's behind the curtain, and not only pretty images. But that totally a subjective point ! ^^

NegevPro

I just got to the scrapyard level today and got to admire some of this work in-game. Nothing feels more rewarding than having some giant metal monsters destroy some enemies for you!

Justo

Great work Strkl! Very inspiring, and I totally dig your choice of showing some assets inside the software with UI included. I wish the game had showed these kind of environments in the trailers, I thought the game only took place in the city, nice to see some green too!

Strkl

Thank you NegevPro & Justo ! ^^