Sketchbook: Rick Hoppmann (tinyworlds)

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Hi! I'm a 3D Environment & Prop artist with a love for cute stuff and foliage!

Here's some of my recent 3D sketches and studies. Feedback is very much welcome!

This was a quick lil sketch after not having done 3D for some time Inspired by the Radlad character from Ooblets. Approached the idea of a humanized radish in my own way.

For a game design class we were asked to research a topic out of our comfort zone. We chose the topic of the wood mouse. They love to eat different kinds of nuts and seeds - leaving those characteristic holes in hazelnuts

Last but not least here is a study of melissa/ bee balm. This was my first time trying out the foliage workflow by Patrick Gladys. I feel like the end result turned out too noisy, but overall I learned a bunch from this!

Here is a look at the lowpoly. I put a lot of upward facing parts as the player will be mainly looking at it from above

And here's a look at the highpoly stems in Blender.

Thank you for looking!

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Here's a couple of assets I made for a small gamejam on the weekend! I did all the 3D work & art direction. The leaf texture is by https://www.artstation.com/seawtch and the button icons by https://imotionarts.com/portfolio

Was super fun to just work on something cute and stupid again! Also I was positively surprised how well the gradient style of  textures mixes with the assets with strong outlines. Might experiment more with that in the future.

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Hi all! I made this little buddy (inspired by the game Ooblets) & made a little tutorial to go along with it!

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_zY3iv1PIw It's a very fun & quick workflow. Saves a lot of time in the UV mapping + texturing stage.

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Hi all! I took part in a little gamejam this weekend! We made a cute game about being a doggo and chewing on stuff.

I did the art direction, 3D environment art and level building + the UI.

I also recorded a timelapse (with voiceover) showing my process:

https://youtu.be/kkVhGDDzmuM

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Thanks for sharing your workflow. I have been using this method for a couple of month  but your sense of color is gorgeous. Thanks Again ^_^

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Thank you, glad you found it useful It's such a fun workflow isn't it.

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Made a little material to get back into Substance Designer!

You accidentally broke your old family heirloom. So you fixed it up using Kintsugi - highlighting the flaws instead of hiding them

Made this for a little Discord art challenge. In motion here: https://twitter.com/tinyruin/status/1232004336286388225?s=20

There's still some things that could be improved, e.g. adding Subsurface Scattering to better relate to real world porcelain. And maybe adding a Clear Coat layer to simulate the glazing. Also could add some lilies or similar to break it up. But overall I'm happy for a quick piece to get familiar with the software again

EDIT: Forgot to add a ref, as some peeps might not now Kintsugi!

Sadly i realized after the fact that my cracks don't make 100% sense. They would need to connect up to form full cracked pieces. Will keep that in mind for next time

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Been some weeks since I've done any 3D modeling. So I wanted to make something simple to get back to it Made this quick little cabin inspired by a photo of an Icelandic rescue cabin. They were put in place to provide people refuge in harsh weather conditions. Plus they are super beautiful with their striking colors

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Made a honeycomb material for #Mayterials! Quite happy how this turned out c:

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100% Substance Designer study of  Protoreaster nodosus/ "Chocolate Chip Sea Star". Didn't realize how wild alive starfish looked until today.

Here's one of my reference pics for comparison (photo by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:S.nostra).

And a look at the graph

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For today here's a strawberry, 100% in Substance Designer It's simply the material on a flat plane.

Here's the node graph (sorry a bit messy this time )

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Got busy with uni, but had time to fit in a few more Substance Designer practice pieces!

Here have some cake

Re-used the strawberry graph I made before & blended it with some dough and pudding (like a German strawberry cake).

Also, I made this glyph generator within Designer!

I used it for a quick experiment together with 2 shape mappers to make a temple floor/mosaic.