Sketchbook: James Braley

JMBraley

I'm new to Polycount and figured I'd make a sketchbook post to start posting my WIPs and finished works.

I'm always open to criticism and looking for ways to improve and new techniques so feel free to leave suggestions!

Thanks!

JMBraley

These are WIPs from a school project for Advanced 3D Modeling. These two pieces will be used to fill up the back of a wooden cart. We were given a limit of 1000 triangles for all of the cargo which included 2 barrels and 4 boxes. Adhering to this limit forced me to make extremely low poly models and rely on normal maps and textures for the bulk of the detail.

JMBraley

Here's a WIP shot of the wooden cart I'm in the process of sculpting with the concept art I'm working off of. Unfortunately when we were given the assignment we were not given a source for the concept art so if anyone recognizes it please let me know. I'd love to be able to post this on Sketchfab/Artstation when I'm finished but I don't want to without crediting the original creator of the concept. (I tried doing a reverse image search and unfortunately nothing came up)

*Update* Just got told that the concept is by Gray Shuko: https://www.artstation.com/Gray_Shuko

JMBraley

Here is where I'm currently sitting with this project. I have to turn it in tomorrow so any suggestions on how to improve it would be fantastic!

JMBraley

Here's a few small hand-painted projects I've been working on for class. I'm a little rusty with the hand-painting but I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

JMBraley

https://www.artstation.com/contests/beneath-the-waves/challenges/38/submissions/25357

After working a little bit almost every day since the challenge began I finally finished my entry into the Prop category of the ArtStation "Beneath the Waves" challenge. I learned so much throughout the course of this challenge and I'm grateful beyond belief for all of the criticism and feedback that I received.

JMBraley

Quick PBR Spellbook that I textured for an assignment for an advanced texturing class I'm taking.

JMBraley

Current progress on my Dragon Tooth Mug for the Sketchfab "GDC Beer Bust" challenge. Unless anyone sees any glaring issues with it I'm going to move onto retopo and texturing soon.

JMBraley

It's been a little while since I've posted any personal projects but here's a chest that I've been working on in my free time. Still got a few tweaks to go on the sculpt before moving on to retopo / texturing.

Concept by : Iliya Golovchak

artstation.com/artwork/PygD4

JMBraley

Finished up the sculpt and posted some renders along with a turntable up on ArtStation. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rRXVD5

JMBraley

Here's how the final version of the fish chest came out. I'll be putting it up on ArtStation first thing Monday and I'll add in the link here once it's up!

Edit:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yboKw9

JMBraley

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/gJ5g2x

Been working on a stylized version of the Herald Shield from Castlevania: SotN for BaconJam.

JMBraley

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mq5a1a

Finished up the textures for the Herald Shield I've been working on for BaconJam2.

4ristocrat

Cool. Very cool. 

JMBraley

I've been participating in 3December this month and here are a few sculpts I've done so far.:

Shield of the Anglers

(Concept by Maeve Broadbin: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Q0YyE )

Overwatch Inspired Cello

(Original Work)

allmighty_thunder

I like the style you have going on its like hand-painted PBR

JMBraley

allmighty_thunder said:

I like the style you have going on its like hand-painted PBR

Thanks! 

JMBraley

Spent the last week of 3December texturing the Shield of the Anglers that I had started back at the start of the month. Here's the results:

Turntable:

Front:

Back:

snorrow

Pretty nice shield! Good job

JMBraley

I updated the sculpt for the Overwatch inspired Cello I had created last year but never posted the updated renders so here they are:

JMBraley

Finished up the sculpt for my entry for The Club's September Cake challenge. I'll definitely be coming back to this to texture it at some point soon but I'm happy I finished the sculpt before the challenge ended.

Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68Bl20

Concept by Lena Kroshilina:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rRzE55

JMBraley

I've been working on some stylized nodes to speed up my Designer workflow over the past few weeks. I put together this material to test them out and see what needed tweaking.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2833Va