SplinterCell: Conviction Crowd

hnphan

Since Ubisoft has just released some screenshots of the game SplinterCell: Conviction I can finally show some of the previous work done during the last year as a character artist.

The images are screenshots from Max8 (no rendering, just pure snapshot from the viewport) of in-game characters made using Max, Photoshop and Zbrush 2. I worked on the main character but have decided not to submit anything yet.

These are still work in progress and are subject to change.



The image below shows you a model without diffuse and specular; only normal map.



The image below is screenshot taken from ZBrush 3 (I just had it installed a few days ago) and shows the high-res model.

gavku

Dude these should be posted over in the pimp section...nice work btw.

Ghostscape

Damn nice work I think the game is looking awesome and can't wait for it to come out.

Panupat

wow

fritz

would it be possible to ask your schedule on these? and also what the tex size is?

looks really nice mang.

Tumerboy

Very nice pieces man.

poopinmymouth

Dag ON! that's some nice cloth sculpting. Welcome to Polycount. I'll echo the others and ask what your turn around for the high poly, the textures, and overall was for these guys. The jackets on the first two are my favorites.

Great first post! Haha

mvelasquez

gorgeous work, wow! the way the clothing folds is right on

killingpeople

lovely material work on the clothes, very nice, thanks for posting.

Wells

Really digging that leather jacket; great work all around.

Mongrelman

Uberisimo, love the clothing. The hooded jacket is my favourite of the bunch. Any chance of seeing wireframes?

Ruz

very stylish,love the second one.

Honolulu_Ninja

Dang! Nice folds!

swampbug

Scrumptious work phan! Normal maps really are paying off. I scoop the folds at the bottom of the jeans.

Jesse Moody

God damn these are sexy. I can't wait for this game. I have picked up every Splinter Cell game. So good.

pliang

I can't view those highly regarded images...anyoen can tell me why???

I think its my internet chache.

MoP

Very, very cool! Nice work all round

diZzyWalnut

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That's what I love it !
Realy realy Hot Stuff.
Good Luck in Your work.

Em.

Great natural draping on the cloth, skin looks really nice too...hell, everything looks awesome.

gauss

great work--that demo honestly wouldn't have looked nearly as impressive without such convincing crowd models... doing "normal" and "boring" characters right is no mean feat! while Chaos Theory suffered from the x-treme normal mapping syndrome, Double Agent characters look great and now Conviction is looking even better... Ubisoft has got some very talented people. thanks for posting.

diZzyWalnut

ha , I could not resiste to look for a new screenshots of Spliner Cell Conviction and ....I see that Sam Ficher has excelent look.
HNPHAN - I see Your character in a bleu jacket there ( in a back).

SPLENDID.

spacemonkey

yeah great work on the clothes I love them!

sama.van

hmm I think there are again some problems on light render and plastic effect with that technology (but your not programer ), but work is very interresting, characters have life in eyes...
I'm actually continu to learn on my diffuse, but with this screens I'll maybe try something with normalmap..

Good work, thanks for screens.

Joshua Stubbles

The characters look amazing on their own, but I'm not a fan the art style for this new one. More like a step back, it seems.

conte

top notch work all around, welcum to our pit.

Emil Mujanovic

Really solid work, looking great. I'll just echo the request for some wires and turn around time for the models.

-caseyjones

hnphan

Wow, thanks alot for the warm welcome

We are given a budget of 10k max per character, We've found that 10k with good stripping is better then 7k with triangulated faces during rendering time (Xbox360 is amazing with polygons), additionally we are using a lego system for the crowd so thats why you might see some part swap from other character from other artists.

As for the textures, the pictures I showed are 512x512 for head, 1024x1024 for torso, 512x512 for leg, 512x512 for hands and I think 256x256 for feet but once in the engine, we reduce them to at least 50% and I think in the demo that was shown publicly is actually at 25%.

I would've loved to send more info (wireframe and 360s) but I'm not allowed lol.

oh and we have 10 days to make each character that you've seen

Super

Looks like Solid Snake has learnt some new moves there.

Lovely work btw.

Joshua Stubbles

Woh, stop the press. TEN days? Texturing should take a few days, 2-3 minimum. So at most you have 6-7 days for the high poly??? yeeeeeeeeeesh

You guys are MONSTERS

HonkyPunch

Sounds like their upping production speed just a little, eh?

Fuse

looks like plenty of geo is reused, so it's not a brand new 10k character every 2 weeks ...

very nice work, i like the subtlety of all the pieces.

looks like sam fisher has indeed been inspired by solid snake in this latest iteration...

nealb4me

To be honest I was never really interested in the SplinterCell series but when I saw this demo video the other day I was really impressed with how interesting the characters looked. Now here you are showing them off. Fantabulous.

dom

owwwwwww.. very cool. great drapery

Dentysta

Those models look great. What is the best way to view textures in viewport with such a quality and without differences after exporting into engine ? Standard max dx9 shader? What do you guys use?

jibowski

wow! great!
the clothes are really nice

hnphan

As it was mentioned by Fuse, yes we do reuse/modify assets otherwise it woulve been almost impossible but with Zbrush... who knows...

Dentysta: yes I just use the standard Max DX9 shader and Ben Cloward's skin shader for the faces. Some other guys on my team like to use Max's scanline renderer but I find that to be cheating lol

anyways, hopefully I'll be able to post more stuff as time goes by; the new Sam Fisher also

bounchfx

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we reduce them to at least 50% and I think in the demo that was shown publicly is actually at 25%.



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wait, by this do you mean that the texture sizes will be higher in the actual game or the shots so far have been using higher than it will be? the way you stated the %'s got confusing

acc

He said that the screenshots currently have the textures downscaled to 25% of their normal size. In otherwords, the artists are making big textures but the engine shrinks them down (likely to fit in the console's limited memory).

So the screenshots have small textures, the renders have big textures, and hopefully the final product ends up somewhere in-between.

Ged

waah!!10 days! that doesnt even seem possible! well definitely not for me anyway! lovely models and textures, looks like a good game though I found some of the others a bit frustrating.

motives

lol, yea these guys looks awesome but 2 weeks from concept to finished approved model is bs

nice job none the less. clothing is top notch

Warhawk

Awesome characters you have got there. The game is looking very promising. I played all SC games, and they are great. I really like the art direction in your latest SC, it is different and fresh. I know that you guys put alot of efforts into modeling realistic folds. I am just interested, what is your workflow when doing folds for normal mapping. I have similar task at our game. Making lots of characters in small time span. I am looking forward to see more stuff from you. Keep up with the good work.

hnphan

what acc said, its at 25% of the original texture size.
workflow? well we just look at pictures from 3d.sk and search around on google... its really all about observation and applying what you see. I know some of my collegues are trying to find all sorts of way to do wrinkles, but I personnaly go with the raw approach (pure sculpting), no projection master, no tricks, just pure pushing vertices lol

wizo

Great characters. Im so glad you've shared some of the techniques at the NAD :P (specially the folds processsing). Very impressive work. Cant wait to see the game.

b1ll

hehe. MOntreal Artist. SAY WHAT, ubi, the Good old day!!!

ahahAHAAHAHAAH

Oki.

ben
http://www.benregimbal.com