Sketchbook: Coryn Briere

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Hello!

I'll be posting 2D illustrations/studies here as well as low poly prop modelling. I'm an absolute beginner to maya and 3d modelling, so critiques are valuable to me and extremely appreciated. I'll be starting with simple prop scenes and later move to more complicated objects.

You can follow/contact me here, I stream from time to time.

Portfolio: https://www.corynbriere.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpyteStreams
email: corynbriere@gmail.com
Twitch: /MsSpyte

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I'll be constructing a scene similar to this (http://bit.ly/2sSilGV). I've received feedback that the metal is a bit soft and I agree.

Next object — a pot.

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Love the process gif, looking forward to seeing your progress and hopefully catching some streams

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Thanks Gannon! Hope you stream as well

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I finished the pot and a little guide for making textures seamless using smart objects. This can improve workflow when you have multiple textures on one psd.

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Finished pot/box, dagger is WIP - colors and basic forms are there.

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Recently I've been working on castle-themed concepts, the two on the right are very rough and unfinished. If I continued this I'll need to figure out what kind of narrative belongs here and flesh out a dining hall, sanctuary, and garden (if appropriate).

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Did a couple castle thumbnails and worked on the base of the fountain, trying to push the narrative.

This city has persisted despite inhospitable conditions, partially sheltered by the cliffs and sustained by fishing. Merchants that brave the cold arrive by boat, and oft trade for exotic animal parts endemic to this region.

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We were getting mixed messages from the shrine. The money bowl suggested a religious offering and prayer/worship towards some kind of deity. If this were the case, we'd likely see a large statue (or painting) to push that story. The flowers signify remembrance, but didn't tell us to whom or by whom.

Changed money bowl to a sword (artifact), added characters to the cloth, changed scroll to include an inked portrait and 'history' text. Gannon suggested adding a dragon head in place of the swirl, hopefully this is simple enough.

A shrine to an acclaimed war leader who defended the early settlers. His surviving blood line is considered equal to noble houses; descendants continue his legacy by training new fighters and occupying the city's defence council. 

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Placed the shrine in a dojo-like setting, off the ground to protect against the cold. The little alcove might be roped off, with a samurai suit displayed there. Much work to be done.

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Wall progress. 

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Dojo progress.



Door Progress.

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Door looks awesome, can't wait to see it finished ! great line work.

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Cleaned up line-work, colour blockin next.

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Door progress, reworking some old stuff to fit this style.





Reworked tileable wood.

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Testing some wall ideas, I'm unsure whether I want the wall to be a darker average value from the floors, or lighter.

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Experimenting with a few wall types and windows.

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Second pass at wall segments, I'll continue with 2, 4, and 5. 

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Working on a spore plant illustration, I wanted to get the angle, general lighting and forms. Next step is to cleanup the lineart.

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The most basic wall.




Basic lighting, not sure if I want to clean up the lineart, or jump into cleanup and colour, since the forms are mostly there. 

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Two wall identical wall pieces together, needs some polishing, but I like these values/hues tremendously more.

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Wall support progress.

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Support/Window/Door progress. 

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Wood and stone column WIP.

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Column cont.

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I just have to make this cohesive with everything else, polish, and we're ready to package this set.

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I've mostly finished this concept now, I'll be putting together a sample room for my portfolio as well.




Testing out different colour palettes for this illustration. I'll probably go with top-left, since green/yellow can be perceived as 'pestilence'. 

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Thinking about how to pull this together as a room, i'm missing a couple joint pieces and the columns arent really fitting in how i'd like them to.

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A little bit of everything with this update.

Pixel art game —
Enemy wolf run, hit and recover


Enemy Bat - idle and death


Player Run


Player idle after time


Mushroom hop, after player jumps on it for height (interacteable).


Environmental filler concepts. 
Caves (left) - filled with small spirits, primitives
Forest (right) - has all the conventionally appropriate critters


Spora Acanthus - pushing the values further, adding in a viney floor is helping to push perspective. Also in the process of changing thick leaves into a thinner variety. Changed spores and flower, as per Gannon's suggestion.



This looks more messy than the previous post, but here i'm only concerned with overall look and props. 



More finished assets (except bottom left piece and bottom right candles.


Whew.

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Starting to feel more zen. I'm pretty happy with the items added, but the arrangement of benches/tea/chest still needs work.

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Props, project approaching completion!

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Spider-butt needed some detailing, testing out different things. Going with the top-right version.

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I was about to post this unfinished. But someone wise once told me to simplify when short on time, so I took out the unfinished elements and focused on the drama of the rock. Learning learning.

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Mostly working on the 2D platformer, planning on starting another project when dojo is done.

Nearly finalized glow worm (12 frames). This will appear in great numbers in the demo. 



Almost finished Worm Cave Tilemap.



Mechanics and NPC concepts



Jelly Fish Movement Concept



Overly complex after-death ani — enemy dies, spirit leaves corrupted body, corruption attempts retrieval  

Gannon

@Spyte
Really enjoying the work that's in the thread, keep it up!

Eric Chadwick

MsSpytes_New_BF has been banned for intimidation/stalking/trolling. http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#respect

Carry on!

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Key Idle


Key Destroyed (pickup)

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Emote commish, mostly done I think. It's an inside meme on the channel.

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More progress after some feedback and polishing.

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Blocked in a Wine Cask Chest, for the fancy pirate. 

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First pass at some colour. I think I'll end up rendering this further.

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Nigiri quick paint

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Not sure if I like this, might change the props to fit something like a below-deck treasure room.

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Valonia algae, thought they looked a bit like gems. 

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Master Key Idle

Master Key Destroy (pickup)


NPC

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There he goes! In proper slime-like fashion.



Crystal obstacle



It will look like this in game.


Rendering out the wood here for the chest concept art, the wall part is in progress, looks a bit cluttered visually.

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Started sketching a book and wanted to include some kind of window into another world. Woo.

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Plan on adding in some kind of particle + wind.