Big fat art dump - Age of Empires 3 (lots of pics)

DH_ · Oct 2005

Hey all, spent the last few days updating my page with tons of content (Age of Empires 3, Counterstrike, Elite Force 2 and WIP stuff)

Heres some choice work from Age 3, All modeled and textured by me. Theres much more on my site along with most the stuff I did while I worked at Ritual Entertainment that I just now got around to uploading.
http://www.horribledeath.com/2d3d.htm

Anyways, that's just a taste theres plenty more on my site.

RazorBladder · Oct 2005

gud stuff DH, glad u finally updated ur site man, I could see cobweb pixels formin.

Keg · Oct 2005

impressive, been enjoying the game. didn't think normal maps were used that heavily.

pogonip · Oct 2005

Man that is hot shit !! Can't believe those are RTS models they are friggen nice bro good work !!!

MoP · Oct 2005

Fantastic work, and it's not covered in blood! Yay!

Illusions · Oct 2005

Freaking awesome...and with normal mapping goodness. In an RTS even! Nice amount of detail in everything, including in the armor of the (spanish)? troop at the top...and in all the mini buildings and ships.

Jeff Parrott · Oct 2005

It's cool to see the very saturated buildings. Characters are great too.

Illusions · Oct 2005

Now that I look closer at it...how did they manage to get a normal map to function properly on things like those boat sails?

DH_ · Oct 2005

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Now that I look closer at it...how did they manage to get a normal map to function properly on things like those boat sails?

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not sure i understand about the boat sails, I just put the normal maps on the mesh, unless I'm missing something.

_Shimmer · Oct 2005

wow great work mate! Cool stuff, really like the good usage of the normalmaps, the other stuff, CS EF2 is great too. Keep up the good work. I always enjoy looking at your art.

ironbearxl · Oct 2005

G I H - G U H - D E E

Neo_God · Oct 2005

The Normal Maps do look nice, especially for being painted normal maps (I'm almsot positive they are painted, and not generated from a high poly model).

Everything looks really great, good job.

Renaud Galand · Oct 2005

omfg, awesome works !! I'm found of your EF2 textures, I can't imagine how you can get such realistic/organic result. Pure beauty !

vahl · Oct 2005

OMG, no blood, no vagina !!!!

awesome work here DH I really love how subtle you went with all those normal maps
and yah stunning stuff for an RTS

BoBo_the_seal · Oct 2005

Great work Jason! Man I miss working with y'all ... and living in Dallas for that matter.

Thos ships kick ass!

- BoBo

ThE_BirD · Oct 2005

Awesome Jason...I think the Frigate is still my favorite looking unit in the game...The wires with the bump are Badass!

Josh_Singh · Oct 2005

So much cool stuff. My favorite piece is the girl with the guns. I think you really nailed her.

skrubbles · Oct 2005

Killer work DH... I specifially love the gunslinger chick and the EF2 final boss. Oh and thanks for putting the wires on your site!

JBoskma · Oct 2005

Kickass work Jason. I love the characters!

shotgun · Oct 2005

darx0rz, you are the best pixel pusher i know buddy
and your msn icon says it all..

Kevin Johnstone · Oct 2005

Very sexy, i love to see optimised textures like these.

r.

gauss · Oct 2005

glad to see these posted up here, DH... Elizabeth Ramsey is particularly cute

CMB · Oct 2005

Nice,nice DH!
You probably don't remember me.
6+ months ago I think I emailed you asking for a tutorial to make something like your megnelda(bad spelling) and what type of wacom to get.
I actualy Tried remaking your magnellda on a realy low polygon model(about 350 tris) and with a 4 year old rts engine.It came out amazingl good.If you wan't(wich you don't

) I'll show it to you on msn.
But anyways...
Fantastic detail!
Came out realy sharp.
I didn't know you could paint normal maps...you gotta' make a tutorial for that too...
Bravo for these and for updating your site.
-CMB

MoP · Oct 2005

This is how in control DH is:

RazorBladder · Oct 2005

OH NOES! NOT DOUBLE 00DH!!
Bastard picture duplicates itself everywhere

*humps DH's nvidia plug-in*

Stick that in ya AoE3 and smoke it

blankslatejoe · Oct 2005

wow.... amazing stuff!!

Lee3dee · Oct 2005

omg another AOE 3 artist, (picks up jaw off the floor again). Artwork is awesome. Thanks for showing

poopinmymouth · Oct 2005

DAg on it Barf I miss you. This work is awesome. Great job on the textures and normals and the finished product works so well with the two together.

Prs-Phil · Oct 2005

wow excellent work, I´m awed.

Daz · Oct 2005

Awesome DH. Did you guys make a high poly for those normal maps, or are they generated from painted greyscales?

Thegodzero · Oct 2005

nice work, but wow those are some big textures for an rts... maybe i'm optimising too much...

PaK · Oct 2005

I love your stuff DH, always inspiring dude. GJ

KRakarth · Oct 2005

beautiful

monster · Oct 2005

Great stuff. I'd love to have your babies.

Toomas · Oct 2005

Looks great but why paint spec for only metal/jewelry?

Joshua Stubbles · Oct 2005

I'd say the normal maps are defineatly hand-painted. I'm surprised it came out looking so damn good though! Defineatly the best work I've seen in a long time. Great stuff, Dark.

MoP · Oct 2005

Yeah, the normal-maps are obviously mostly hand-made, and very well done.
However, the parts I'm wondering about are the sails on the ships - were those normal-maps hand painted too, or did you make some quick mock-up geometry and render down from that? It seems like it'd be a waste of time trying to greyscale->convert a painted map for those parts... DH?

rawkstar · Oct 2005

looks really cool man, i love the variety of the stuff, badass

jzero · Oct 2005

Sweeetnesss. Honestly, I've never seen your 'normal' work, DH, so this is a pleasant surprise. Amazing. As everyone says, these are gorgeous, and the wireframes with normalmaps are particularly enlightening.

/jzero

LordScottish · Oct 2005

Awesome stuff! interesting to see that normalmaps make such a difference even in RTS

DH_ · Oct 2005

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Looks great but why paint spec for only metal/jewelry?

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In my experience normal maps make flesh and cloth look plasticy enough as is, adding spec just helps that, which i wanted to avoid

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However, the parts I'm wondering about are the sails on the ships - were those normal-maps hand painted too, or did you make some quick mock-up geometry and render down from that? It seems like it'd be a waste of time trying to greyscale->convert a painted map for those parts... DH?

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yea the majority of what we did for age3 was hand painted normals, the sails too, which was actually pretty easy. I did some high poly generated characters but they didn't render out so well since max doesn't render normal maps, so until max does render normals, they wont be on my site.

aesir · Oct 2005

Im really impressed with the results of your handpainted normal maps... Wouldnt have thought it would turn out so well without using a high poly model and rendering the normals off of that. I'll definitely have to give that a go.

Anyways, great work, not that I would have expected anything else from ya