Star Wars - Redemption ( FanMade Project )
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Note : Project's updates won't always be at the top of it, so when an update come, scroll to explore what's new !
"Star Wars - Redemption" is the temporary title I've found for a fan made project inspired mostly by the clone wars TV series and, of course, Star Wars universe. At the beginning it was just about a Jedi in a clone outfit and the more I spend time on it, the more new stuff is added to this base concept. I'll add all things about it here, it's the project's main page. But you may see individual assets on separated projects if you want 
As it's a fan project I don't spend the time I'd want on it, the evolution will be chaotic in terms of regularity ^^ Sorry in advance !
The project may take place between Ep2 & Ep5 or more, I'm not done yet with the story.
I work on it mostly alone and got some good help from :
- Thomas Chaumel, who is the animator behind most of the cool moving characters & objects in Redemption (I do animation as well but…let's say I'm at a smaller level of XP ^^")
- Anthony Daneluzzi for a few yet precise Tech Art parts. He taught me about mask dithering and without that I won't have that much foliage in Lumberia 
- Fantin Gislette, Thibaut Hunckler, Laurent Dessart, Alexandre Cheremtieff for the blueprint part
Des Bisous ! ♥
Note : you can follow the project's evolution on artstation : https://www.artstation.com/vexod14/blog (WIP, step-by-step...etc )
Finished stuff often goes there : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gO4Pm (for wallpapers etc, better head over here than the blog)
And of course, constructive criticism is always appreciated
Disclaimer : https://www.artstation.com/vexod14/blog/GYLq/star-wars-redemption-disclaimer
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Some clones now ^^ No animation for now but their rig/skin were done for posing, still in akeytsu :
Then I've done an early conceptart of Mevenn's Nemesis, if I want to stay logic he can't be a sith as long as we can only have two of them in the clone wars era, but...well okay, the only poor reason I can give is I found it cool ^^ A bounty hunter may do the job too
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That's all for now
That's great.
I know that the series is very cartoony, so probably the walk cycle fits into its style, but to me it looks a little bit too much. I would slightly reduce the 'swing' in it, keeping the light feel of it, but getting a tiny bit more calmer to look at.
For the walk cycle as you and others suggested it to me, I'll try to calm the "swing effect" next time I'll jump into Akeytsu, I guess I'll see more animation's mistakes once I get Mevenn playable into Unreal ( I'm focussing on it, learning how to make a third person controlled character seems a little difficult ^^" )
I'm also working hard on blueprint learning how to use it for making a plyable character with a super friend and teacher, Fantin Gislette, and for now, Meven can move, jump, use her jetpack ( without VFX and sounds but they'll come ^^ ) and grab her saber/gun =D It's sooooo fuuuuun !
Btw I'm still not really thinking about the leveldesign but the atmosphere and the place I want to move on ^^" I only have some sci-fi crates there and away to jump on and that's it ( but I want to slash droids...and move objects with the force and so much more ! )
So here are some screenshots guys, hope you'll find some interesting here and if you have any suggestion for some stuff to add on the ground/wall/anywhere I'll take care of it ( I have an "ideabox" where I write all the cool things I found anytime, so yours will be welcome =D )
Des bisous !
And here are the two concept I made to figure out what assets I may need in order to build the rooms, I'm not done with all yet but it's on its way
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2K PBR Maps done with 3dsMax/3DCoat
What principles are you sticking by in terms of the wear and tear of the textures on a lot of the characters, props, and vehicles?
Btw, thanks all of you for your interest ^^
Nemesis of Mevenn, reworked and ( I guess ) the version I'll make in 3D later
For his little gameplay-story, the guy should be able to use something like the Force but only on metal objects ^^
Des Bisous !
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Your passion for this is really showing in the work! Keep it up!
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Again guys, thanks for your love & support
Every rig, skin, anim of StarWars-Redemption, was made with Akeytsu. It's a new animation software which is just gorgeously simplifying the rigging/skinning & animation processes for almost all kind of projects ( I guess Huge companies won't need it since they may have a super strong pipeline, but for smaller teams it's a must have ! Especially if you love making anims and nothing else
Please note this is still really really WIP, the "Game Design" part is not really here since is only a matter of how the character moves ingame. That's all I wanted at the beginning of the game part of the project ; having my character movable on environments i'd do... ( but, well why should we have stopped here ^^" )
As I said on sketchfab I have to deal with cloth issues on ue4, I'm new to this so I'm sure I've made many mistakes ^^ Anyway, for now you can check what I aim to do at the end ^^
All textured on 3DCoat with StarWars-Redemption's smartmaterials, posing done with Akeytsu as always
Hi guys !
This is a new asset I made for Star Wars - Redemption
I used 3dsmax for High/Low poly, MightyBake for the normalmap bake and 3DCoat for texturing. 2K PBR maps. The model is “scorchable”, which means you’ve got some damn cool motors’n pipes under the hood 
As it’s Mevenn’s bike and globaly Republic’s side bike ( not empire ), I’ve added some new things to it to make it more suitable with other prelogy asset’s logic, and of course the usual art direction’s treatment ^^
Hope you’ll like it !
So I finished up the rework of my old Venator, with new kitbash pieces but also new textures ( more details, smarter UV pack, better colours and some modeling improvements > mostly remove of useless polys ^^" )
Here you've got an overview of how the new detail modify the model deeply ( WIP textures but the mesh is the final one )
Ingame model, the new hangar space allowed also to enlarge the existing one ( we can now add another personal spaceship
Dorsal's Hangar also got revamped, I didn't had build the interior level of the long central row of hangars behind the door ( the one you can't see here =P ), but I may do them all when I have time to waste x)
And finaly all warpaints I've done, the base one is used to do every other I may made later of course, but can also be used to make space battles between the whole new empire just before imperial well known battlecruisers ( remember the last shot with Venators on Ep3
501st Warpaints, the one I used from the beginning
414th, I used the same color sheme as Mevenn's Eta2-Actis, it's a first try, but I really like to have a different warpaint that supports this new clone army as Mevenn is NOT aimed to fight among Obi-wan/Anakin's army, I mean she has her own army ^^ Also in the TV Show the dev team has that idea on separatist ships to better identify each leaders, I think it's also a good thing to do on the republic's side
The Mevenn's lead Destroyer is known as "The Phoenix" cause of multiple resurrections after hard won battles, the warpaints should also show that still burning fire her army gets on battlefield even on desperate situations. I may enhance these warpaints one day, I'm not really satisfied for now but at the same time I think we got a good base to work with, and that's a good point
I'm done with a new Stardestroyer from CIS side
Here are some renders made on marmoset/unreal
I'm working now on some concepts/studies about Geonosis Environment, getting to know how it's built, how this biome works, for next bunch of assets I'll make for the game
And I polished some concepts about Aelya
So here is a "spire" asset used to mostly characterize the mood and the particularly primitive but organized architecture of the planet !
I used a base cylinder in ZBrush then added a circle of window I sculpted before, and used them as insert meshes for faster positioning. All these windows are also useful for detailing the environment separately to the spire so I decided to make them as separated models as well
Then to use simple objects to make a cool ground and environment around you while being still stylized I made these two rocks ( still using ZBrush + 3DCoat ^^ )
I'm not a huge fan of the following one, it looks too clean regarding its shape, the more we grind the more planar rock area should be small, to keep the planet's logic which is partially inspired by the monument valley I think.
In-game Geonosis Spire
And what I made in a few clics, just for fun it's not a definitive level. I wanted to see what's possible with the assets I made, if the direction I took was a worthy one
I reworked the Venator's hangar in order to clean walls and detail the ceiling smarter, the forcefield was also a big issue as it doesn't have a big blue glowing piece around it, and it make it easier to find when you're in space approaching a stardestroyer now.
Nebuleas
And here is what the space looked like before new nebulaes, I should take a better screenshot for the next update ^^" Btw the planet won't be Coruscant but Geonosis
It's mostly WIP stuff but I wanted to share this, I hope you'll like this and if you have any suggestion/CC/idea, feel free to tell me
And yes I plan to do more than just Geonosis areas ( the Arena itself is really appealing to me ^^ but I love any other environments from the prelogy and the old republic, plus I've got some ideas of new planetary landscapes
I had to take back a good pace between my new job and offwork stuff. I still work on Geonosis btw but nothing is really good enough to be shown ( even as WIP =X )
So here is a rework of the face's rig of Mevenn, as we can't handle all expressions due to bad topology on either her eyes / mouth ( not perfect loop/ring ). I had some problems with her face look ( bad anatomy ), so I reworked this part first on ZBrush, and get a new one with good loops, opened mouth and better face anatomy. Then I started to try out an enhanced rig definition ( basically : more joints ! ) after looking what others do ( leading reference was on overwatch's mei facial rig ). On the left is the old one, on right is the new face + first "new" rig test ( I may rework the polycount of course ^^ )
I remade her textures too, still WIP ( too noisy I think, I may keep that noise on roughness layer only and smooth a lot the basecolor map )
Comparison between old ( left ) and new face ( center & right ). With its new & finished rig =D Closing/opening her mouth now just works perfectly
Here are some facial expressions I tried quickly ( like 2 mins for each, just to test some limits and fix bad skinned parts
And the best for the end guys, here are some screenshots of where we are now on the space part ( still WIP about lighting mostly )
Just to clear out some possible mistakes ; I handle all the graphical part of this project, except animations. Meaning : levelbuilding/levelart, rigging/skinning, conceptarts, modeling, sculpts, texturing, shaders ( ue4 ), smartmaterials ( 3DCoat ), vfx, UI assets, Art direction, lighting, and at the moment the technical art too ( but honestly ther's nothing hard there for now ^^" ), and sounds even if there's nothing still at the moment there ( some ambient samples and OST templates )
That said, all Game design/Blueprint/Prototyping of every behaviours and interactions possible in the game, UI mechanics + all animations are huge parts I can't do without my mates Fantin Gislette & Thomas Chaumel. They never post here, but they do a damn fantastic and vital part of the project !
First of all, the splash screen is now 99,99% made on marmoset, meaning that this...
...Can easily be shot these ways :
And yep I've found a nice trick to do the Jetpack VFX, on marmoset it's quite simple, a model ( looks like a drop of water ) deformed by a heightmap ( a noise + gradient so it's progressive ). On unreal the technique is the same but I added a panner to the noise so the smoke/fire can move, I may add some heatdistorsion on a bigger shape and sparks to have a better effect, but I'm quite happy with the level of stylization I get
Some Facial expressions I made with Thomas Chaumel, this will help a lot when polishing animations ^^
Another cool thing that Fantin Gislette added is the possibility to pilot the ARC-170, and it's soooooooooo fun to fly with it =')
Geonosis environment is on its way
Some additional concepts, more focused on Geonosian Arch and dynamic shapes :
Concepts of a new enemy, a flying one ( imagine a head of a vulture droid in terms of scale, add a gun and a personal reactor, that's it