First vs Recent
polycounter lvl 12
Hi Polycount!
I dug up a very old version of the same character I'm working on now, and compared the two. It was quite invigorating to see the drastic improvement from 4 years ago, and I was wondering if anyone else would be willing to show their first models (or at least, the earliest you still have) vs your most recent? I already posted this in 10k on Facebook, but I'd love to see people here do the same thing too. It could potentially be really inspiring to new 3D artists who feel like there is such a huge mountain to climb in the world that is 3D modelling.
Anyways, I guess I will start off!
And here is my first ever Zbrush model... ha. 2011 I think?
Show me what you got, Polycount! Inspire me!
I dug up a very old version of the same character I'm working on now, and compared the two. It was quite invigorating to see the drastic improvement from 4 years ago, and I was wondering if anyone else would be willing to show their first models (or at least, the earliest you still have) vs your most recent? I already posted this in 10k on Facebook, but I'd love to see people here do the same thing too. It could potentially be really inspiring to new 3D artists who feel like there is such a huge mountain to climb in the world that is 3D modelling.
Anyways, I guess I will start off!
And here is my first ever Zbrush model... ha. 2011 I think?
Show me what you got, Polycount! Inspire me!
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Good old days,,,,
I've not seen your (very) beginners work Ysalex, but your latest stuff is f*cking amazing
My advice would be to really push each and every project as far as you can take it and just keep working on it until it is really finished. Too often I see projects where people will get discouraged at a certain part and either not finish or present half-finished work.
~4/5 years ago?
~2 years ago (First model I completely concepted start to finish in 3d)
A few months ago
Current project - still a WIP .... Hopefully will finish this within a month :P
Early 2016. Character for some kind of top down stealth game.
First ever sculpt, early 2015.
Recent sculpt that I did less than a month ago.
Uhhh 08/09 I think. First thing I ever modeled and textured... Yeah I dont know either
Later that year first thing I ever normal mapped... I painted my normal maps by hand because I didnt know what zbrush was until a few months later. Still didnt know jack shit about game engines
And most recent personal things, late 2015
Early 2016
My first homework (create a animal just using primitives) when I started learning CG and my first time using Maya back in October 2013
My first character (pre ZBrush) early 2014
...and the first ZBrush sculpt back in Sommer 2014
...and this is my current work in progress:
and from last year
@beefaroni Hahaha that first image is perfect, you progressed so quickly!
@MrHobo - That entire project from 2015 was baked soooo cleanly. Cool to see your older works and how much improvement your new ones are!
@Melazee + others - Here are some good other inspiration threads.
Artist Work: Past + Present (Heh just found my post on page 4.. July 2014, wow)
http://polycount.com/discussion/101922/artists-work-past-and-present
Getting into the Game Industry: Inspiration of a Different Kind
http://polycount.com/discussion/89972/getting-into-the-game-industry-inspiration-of-a-different-kind
@valuemeal
Your most recent work has come a long way, congrats.
And this is where i'm at now:
First - mid 2013 ( Took me 2 weeks to make )
Yeh I don't know what it's supposed to be.
Recent - now I guess, still wip
Latest WIP.
And my latest finished character made a month and a bit ago:
So never give up! The only way is up :proud:
Gives me hope that I'll get there some day too!
Even though I haven't done this a long time, I dug up my first model for uni...Back in October 2014. I did a whale! however I didn't even know how to get a nice picture of it
Next one is the latest finished character sculpt I did. beginning of 2016
First face sculpt (also like one of the first sculpts ever I think):
And like two month ago:
First environment:
Early 2015:
I had work older than this (2002ish?) but i don't think it exists anymore, perhaps out on the interwebs somewhere. Anyways, this was 2007 and i never posted it anywhere lol
and the latest wip
199somethingish
last year
2012
2016
My first sculpt (with the " i'm a noob " matcap) and my first reatime model, back in 2011
and my two latest pieces
Here's my first human head sculpt back in 2011-2012
And here's one of the most recent one
I think 2003 or 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJo6N1w0YBw
First Characters 2006
most recent 2014
Recent/ish
I believe this was my very first game res character. For all the crudeness, I did get her working rigged and animated in the Half-Life engine.
I think this chap might be my first foray into ZBrush
And this was the most recent game-res model that I'm allowed to show off.
this is around year 2000-2001 , when i was teenager, and curious of 3d ,not knowing if it useful or not
at that time.. Soa Lee already the goddess of 3d, while I was complete noob
just a fanart,
original concept art belong to ta526 http://ta526.tripod.com/ <-I cant believe his website still exist, probably i need to archive it . before something bad happen
this is now, even though I mainly work as game environment artist ( and pretty much comfortable with it ) , I keep learning and producing other things
in the past 7 years I just love every aspect of game art . and so obsessed on making something completely playable ...
Not exactly my first but very close to it, say 10 made before this one.
And now my latest wip for comicon:
More stuff here for starters to look at created today for you guys/gals:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BVKNl
Nice progressions all very encouraging for sure.
This is a "metal" sci-fi wall I made in 2010 while practicing how to texture stuff lol.
And two of my latest finished personal pieces:
My first ever environment, back in 2010:
This year:
Most of 2015
My recent scene, still a WIP, inspired by Rainbow Six Siege.
I'm still working to catch up with most of you however I had to share this horrifying relic from my past. It wasn't my first work but it's so embarrassing to remember how proud I was of this C4D Sonic the Hedgehog. Enjoy the nightmares guys :P
And here's some of my more recent completed work
2013 -
2017 -
and then...
And here is where i am at now April 2017
Amazing to see the extent of progression everyone, very inspirational indeed. Digging around ATM for some content to contribute, will edit this post once I've found what I'm looking for.
Cheers
First ever weapon model, ~2006
Recent, late 2016
Most recent (May and June 2017):
I never imagined it'd take me 3 years to get to this point and I still don't feel like I'm at the point where I'm hireable, time flies quick.
One of my first attempts at a head from 2011
Another one. Posting this actually kills me a little but I guess its good to let it out. This was the moment I realized I needed to study anatomy. Thank you Ryan Kingslien for saving me from this.
Sick nasty knife render with reflections. From like 2009.
Wonderful handpainted chest from before I knew about normal maps
Art contest entry from a couple months ago. Been working in AAA for about 3 years now, so if I can make it I'm pretty sure anyone can
A few very low res props (had to dig these out of photobucket, probably like 2008ish?:
And In the last two years: