UTMC - Spiffy664

Spiffy664

Well I hope to get a lot of enviros done. Here are my first few thumbs for this contest, my art is often chaotic and illegible early on, so I apologize if some images make no sense what so ever to you, they probably don't to me either

EDIT: so obviously, polycount unreal tournament 3 / 2004 servers?????

WarrenM

Nice! It's important to get the composition down first. I love thumb nailing...

Spiffy664

hamstocks

hey man, really nice preliminary work! glad to see you thoroughly exploring your ideas, something I need to work on

Spiffy664

just startin simple perspective grid is a rough guess...

Delofasht

Very nice mood-centric thumbnails, which direction do you think you'll be headed for the architecture, or have you decided?

I've decided on an industrial/mid tech facility most probably, they were my favorite kind of levels in the old games

Helix

The last blue one is really cool, I like that you're exploring different themes before you settle down for one... I wish I had the patience to do so too

Ziemanskye

http://epicgames.com/community/2012/11/free-art-tool-released-thanks-to-epic-friday/

Epic themselves released a free perspective grid tool, if that helps...

Spiffy664

@warrenM - its freaking awesome to have epic's artists give feedback. I just now went through the images provided by Epic and they are awesome for paint overs, I will probably up res all of them and spend more time figuring out correct perspective grids for efficient painting over.

@Ziemanskye I am aware of the tool, it just wasn't my cup of tea back when I looked at it, mostly because I already have 5 different ways in photoshop to do the same stuff

Another perspective tool for painting in photoshop: the custom shape tool can create 100 line segments radiating from a single point, you just click and drag anywhere (including off canvas) and drag out a perspective grid, I do these a few times for really far away vanishing points when I need a denser grid. So far I do not know of any trick that would let you snap to the original point tho.... its a nice trick for lazily mashing in a grid tho