Sketchbook: animru

animru

Hiya! I'm starting this sketchbook as a place to put my wips and to get critique and advice. All comments welcome

Just a bit about myself: I've been working in the animation industry as a lighting/shading artist for the past year and a bit, but recently started playing around with real time workflows in my personal projects.

Here's my portfolio so you can see some of my previous work: https://www.artstation.com/animru

Cheers!  

animru

I'm starting a new piece based off this concept https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EDQ44

Hoping to learn a bit about modular assets in building this.

animru

Created a small ref sheet and decided to take my main references from gothic architecture. I've got a lot more images collected but these are just what i'm thinking about for now. 



Never done any modular assets before, so I just spent the evening noodling around in Maya trying to figure out what works. Tried to create a small kit to make the building highlighted in yellow on my ref. Everything is just blocked at the moment. 

I'll start blocking out the whole environment next and moving things into Unreal.

Cheers!

animru

Spent this evening working on the blockout for the whole scene. Things ended up...big. I think I'll work on fully finishing one of the buildings and then re-evaluate if I want to create the whole environment or scale down to something more manageable. 

animru

Started work on a window. Just blocked it out in Maya and brought it to Zbrush for a bit of sculpting

animru

Another window

animru

Working on the textures for this one now

animru

Making some progress in Unreal now. I'm still fairly new to it, so figuring a lot of things out as I go. Will likely change that brick texture but for now I want to move onto some other pieces and do a first pass on a few more assets before I start iterating.

animru

Worked on another window. But I only realised after that it needs a wall that has a hole in it, as it's a very inset window. Might be an issue as that means there's a lot of space either side of it if I want to place another window of the same kind next to it. I'll have to think of something else. Hopefully I can salvage it

animru

Things may have got a bit...out of hand...

Rethought my approach and wanted to block out the modular kit and make a building from it. I'll see how this goes

animru

Quick block out of a roof tile in designer

animru

Looking a bit too stylised at the moment

lukazguzman

Pretty nice stuff. Looking forward to see how you put everything together  

animru

Looking a bit too stylised at the moment

animru

Bit of progress on this clock tower. Ornate stuff is really tricky. 

animru

working on some pieces for the column now

animru

Almost finished with this piece, don't want to obsess over it, so just going to try to finish it and move on to something else.

animru

Need to do some work on the spire now

animru

brought it into zbrush, did some subdividing, dynameshing and some sculpting. Won't go too crazy as I'll leave a lot of detail for substance

animru

Threw it into Unreal to quickly think about the framing and lighting. Very rough, will do some more reference gathering. Thinking about making it a rainy scene but not too sure how difficult that is to do, along with maybe raindrops on the camera lens. Will experiment later, but for now going to go back working on the high poly. I want to get to the texturing stage as fast as I can.

animru

Got all the UVs and baking done, phew. Threw it into substance painter and threw on a smart material I created just to get a base on everything. There's a lot of repeated elements which is why it seems to be missing some things here. Will reassemble it in unreal with blueprints for the final thing (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieGNMntRV4E).

animru

Got all the meshes into unreal, and spent some time assembling the blueprint. Had a little play with the lighting but I'm not satisfied with it yet. I've got to make some tiling textures for the black meshes and then add the spire. 

animru

Added in the spire. Still tweaking some of the materials at the moment. I think I'll add some decals to break up areas like the columns and some of the more noticeable tiling parts of the spire. Haven't used decals before so this will be a good learning opportunity.