Sketchbook: Taylor Brown

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I posted this on the 3D art showcase but I thought I'd throw it here as well.

I'm a novice in the realm of art. In June 2018 I'll be starting up at Think Tank, so in preparation I took a week off work with two goals. One, produce my first environment scene from start to finish. Two, use and experiment with as many studio standard pieces of software as I could. 

I only had a vague idea of what I wanted to do concept wise, it just came about naturally. I probably put about 100 hours into this but there were a lot of firsts and a lot of technical headaches along the way. In the end, I'm proud I accomplished my original goals.  Let me know what y'all think!



Learned how to make terrains in zbrush, made a basic procedural wood in substance designer, terrain painted in substance painter, modelled the gallows in maya


Added in a zbrush base mesh for the hanged man. Looking at reference for that position wasnt very fun.


Learned how to make my own procedural rock generator in Houdini, I really want to learn more!

My balloon animal cacti are in, also decided I wanted to add a church/mission in the background

First time modeling a building as well as taking a low poly object into zbrush to add detailing. Had a ton of fun painting these in substance.


Had a lot of headaches learning to use MASH to get those little rocks all over the place. Then they were just floating. I also had never touched lighting before so it was looking rough. Took me FOREVER to figure out how to have stingray materials in maya accept more than one light source.



After feeling a little unhappy with the image above, I went back determined to work on lighting. While I was at it I fixed some geometry and tweaked shaders. I have a lot to learn when it comes to lighting but I'm a bit happier with this result.

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I decided to make some knives based off concepts by Daniella Zeman.


Popped this out last night and threw some texture on before work, still WIP

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Calling it done

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felt a little aimless tonight but ended up having some fun with this invader zim dude imagined as a sack doll

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/b1GXG

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I wanted to learn about UDIMs and my daughter's slipper had a lot of fun materials to try out. Still learning proper UV layout.

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Decided to try my hand at the new ArtStation challenge:

https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/40/submissions/29993

My day job is rough right now so progress is going to come in dribs and drabs. Really excited to see if I can get the vision in my head to the screen.

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progress on the wild west challenge so far

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wip prop for the scene - https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/40/submissions/29993

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https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/40/submissions/29993

Finally finished all the models and UV'ing (ugh) for my scene, time for the fun stuff!

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Hey y'all! Here's my completed scene for the current artstation challenge. It was a ton of fun and I learned SO MUCH. A few months ago I was just playing with primitives, and now I am making things I'm actually proud of.  This community has helped me focus and push myself and it feels great! 

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Edit: Dont know why the lighting is all messed up on the thumbnail, check out my artstation for better pics and a much smaller marmoset viewer version.

Feel free to leave a comment or critique either here or on the submission page, it's deeply appreciated.
https://www.artstation.com/contests/wild-west/challenges/40/submissions/29993

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I'm calling my Sky Burial scene finished, I made some tweaks and optimizations that can be found on the Artstation submission page. My first semester with Think Tank online starts in a couple weeks but I am restless and need a new project to hold me over. I stumbled upon a concept by Mateusz Mizak and it really grabbed me. It's definitely out of my comfort zone but that's probably a good thing. I'm aiming to get this in Unreal because I've been so hesitant / lazy to get into it. 

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Tonight's blockout (it was a slow start )

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Alright, made some progress tonight! 

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Got some more detailing in and finished up the terrain.

Also got the textures done for the terrain. It isn't exactly what I wanted but I gotta get moving before Think Tank starts!

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Tonight wasnt super productive (what is it with toddlers and not going to sleep?) but it's getting there.

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Mainly been working on details when I can

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These tiles are killin me but it's lookin cool atleast

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First weeks assignment at Think Tank - An elephant and two other animals of our choice:

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Heres a render dump from the last week. All the characters were from goofing around waiting for assignments to unlock. The environment scene was last weeks assignment.