Sketchbook : Generalvivi

Generalvivi

So I just wanted to have some more fun with photoshop and junk so I will start one of these and updated it when I get new stuff done!

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b]Sky series[/b - got inspired to to some sky background images. I will prob make more of these with silhouettes of buildings and machines. Here are the first set!

(just using some generic brushes from different places and some random buildings I created this piece pretty quick)

(using a zune model I made a while back I took its render and my favorite sun image of all time and slapped them together over this sky!quick job and was fun to do!)

CrazyMatt

Lovin the zune pod image jason, may I add it as my wallpaper?

Generalvivi

DOOO ETTTTTT ! matt

Generalvivi

Another fun image! Just rolled with the fun colors on this one.

Title : (by neo_god)

"Throw away your refuse or die!"

Neo_God

I like this last one vivi...it's like "Throw away your refuse or die!"

Generalvivi

I shall name that piece just that

Generalvivi

Did another! woot!

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(This time I went for a black and white look after some debate. I used my old conspiracy building models I made a while back for a 3d skybox. I also reused the awesome sun and blob brush from the trashcan image I did)

Generalvivi

(more fun stuff!)

CrazyMatt

Street bench looks terrific and the color palette is wonderful. Love the choice of colors on this one man!

Generalvivi

New piece i got inspired to do since I'm thinking about changing the splash screen a bit on my portfolio

rebel

these are sweet - i like that city one alot..
would make great desktop wallpapers, you should make some at 1920x12000

Renaud Galand

I really love your style man !

Generalvivi

Finished this piece after some crits from my gf!

ImSlightlyBored

oh man this is awesome stuff!

Generalvivi

me and my gf double teamed this one! just for fun quick scribble stuff

cholden

You have a unique way of presenting environment props in art that I'd wear on a shirt. Keep it up, it's very entertaining.

Generalvivi

I'm glad people like my fun stuff

Your the 2nd person that's said you would wear one of my designs on a shirt. *scratches head* If more people think so I might try something.

Rens

awesome stuff vivi xD

see you changed the bloodsplat into flowers, good move.
i also enjoy the way you present things, your wickedness on a tshirt might not be such a bad idea

more please ^^

Generalvivi

I'm a Level Designer by profession, I just happened to model on the side but! I haven't really ever modeled anything "high poly" technically just yet ... In the past I've been just doing simple low poly models. So ....... HERE GOES!

Tried to make a light switch from a picture today. I have to say, making screws took a lot longer then i thought it would... and I just modeled the head

Reference photo: http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/Random_Layouts_by_vivi/eh021screen.jpg



and the hat from the previous image (was just a simple loft but still!)

qubism

u might like to try out that stuff without using outlines as intensive?!
i think they do make the pics unnessacarly busy...

especially the way u layer it all up. id suggest flatting certain elements before giving them outlines
groups like grunge/splatter. otherwise it adds and adds and adds and adds and ...

Generalvivi

I already posted these images in the what your working on thread a bit back . but i think they should also be in my sketchbook thread. I will be showing off the more finished product later.

Generalvivi

This scene is a semi old one that I decided to dig up to better hone my scene development skills. Blue/white brick texture was made by PhilE from interlopers.net , and roof ac unit was made by bitmap , all other custom models / textures were made by me.

This is still wip and will hopefully be finished soon! I will be working on it back and forth with my current portal map.

Starters!


Dev blocking in for ruff game play ideas



Quick texture test to get a feeling for the scene



Another quick pass for temp lighting








Big change in layout of the interior proved to be a good decision and helped bring out the theme for the building.




Quick template brush stuff



Now start applying it to the exterior of the building




After that quick compile test I continued the look







More to come soon! Still needs a lot of work! Hopefully this is a step in the right direction ^^!

karera

Really neat environments!

For some reason i kinda like the Orange rough blocked out one, kinda reminds me about portal

Joao Sapiro

you have talent

Pedro Amorim

hihihihi| look its my AC Unit!

Generalvivi

A quick texture from cgtextures.com adds a nice path to the middle of my scene.



More details!






I think I might make this a playable walk through scene with small interactions..... might be nice...

Generalvivi

Another update! I'm trying to powerhouse through this ^^ !









here is my layout and the idea is to make this a small interactive slice of a city. Not sure exactly how just yet but the pieces are falling into place slowly !

EricElwell

very nice!

Generalvivi

Did a bit of work on the front area before heading off to bed. Still needs more work! ^^ (and tbh I think this would make a really fun 1 v 1 map or 2 v 2 in css )




added in a small tv to give off some blue light ... sadly you can't really see it in this shot but i'll get a better one next time.

Crumplecakes

some genuinely funky stuff man, awesome texture work too, can't wait to see how it turns out in the end

konstruct

lookin pretty damn cool man-

Generalvivi

Wrapping the first episode of my portal series up here pretty soon so I decided to start playing around with ideas for other mods. Some people were making a hl2 mod called penguin smash a long time ago and just finally got around to putting stuff ingame heh (lazy asses !) so I decided to come up with some quick ideas for gameplay mode/ maps . Here is one of the ones I drew out really quick in photoshop.

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The idea we dubbed " Iceberg Envy" plays out like this (wip)

- Each team has a hut on the side of a river.
- There are good and bad icebergs that have bombs and treasure in them
- The icebergs float down the river every 2 mins or so.
- Get 3 treasure icebergs and your team wins
- Get 3 bomb icebergs and your base blows up!
- There is a switch that controls which hut the icebergs go into.
- The switch is like a capture point. The more people you have near it the faster it moves to your side.
- The switch changes positions after an iceberg reaches a base


Should be fun if we can get to prototype it out one of these days.

Generalvivi

work in progress title screen for my mod. Got here in a couple of hours. Will work more on detailing it tomorrow and then setting up sounds and small scripted events.

Quokimbo

Looking great!

konstruct

damn, I actually really like the orange, even though is orange block. I almost feel you should make an orange paint texture to supplement.

Generalvivi

Yeah, out of all the engines I have used in the past. I enjoy making dev blocks with those orange textures more then anything. They always give off a nice mood regardless of what your doing and if you have a nice blue in the scene it really contrasts the orange ! (sucks sometimes tho because you don't want to leave dev stage :P)


Edit:

So here is my progression for the night! Did more details on the building and added a white flickering light inside which creates some nice effects. I also through in some npcs and worked on the upper floor. I will finish this building tomorrow and then start adding props and such to it. Soon I will prob have to start working on the beauty product sign that hangs on the front of the building. After I figure all of that out I will move onto finishing the rest of the scene and then tweaking lighting and final scripted sequences and sounds. PION!



Bigger version here!
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/Random_Layouts_by_vivi/chells_legend_mainscreen0043.jpg


-vivi

vladino

Simply amazing! I love the level designs!

Slum

Blooooom

StJoris

This is some hot enviro work I must say! Props to you sir

Generalvivi

Some updates! Did a quick model for the sign.



and threw it in game



cubemaps are making it look a bit different but I will definitely play around with it some more. Still not sure what I want to do with that other building in the background, but I started throwing some ideas around. My sound bud sent me a good custom soundscape and things are starting to come together with my small scripted sequences. Once I'm finished ill show you guys all my wip pictures (step by step stuff)!

konstruct

0_o iiintresting. I`d be lying if I said I was curious about what you have cooking here., Nice sign btw-

Sage

kick ass, I really like how this looks.

Generalvivi

A little bit of an update! I decided to scrap the building next door idea and roll with a coastal plant type idea. The big machine piece in the back has moving parts on it. The whole thing is still super work in progress but this helps me get a better idea of what it might be in the end . I also tweaked the sign a bit to have some self illumination (which is also wip, i think the hot spots might be a bit to much atm)

Ged

really great work, hmm is that the beauty sign on that refinery in the distance? thats a bit wierd haha

Generalvivi

I still plan on reworking a bit of the lower half of the building and adding some custom props. Some more vista tweaks will be done also along with some more small scripts. At the moment I have some birds flying in the sky and some people walking on top of the machine doing things.

I will prob leave it close to this for now so I can get back to finishing the real stuff on the map.

pliang

Were those posted on MapCore before ????

Generalvivi

not the aperture stuff, laundry mat stuff yeah . (I posted on both sites at the same time.)

Generalvivi

figured I should update my sketchbook with my recent forum post.*


I decided to put together a small video showing off the process of how I created my menu map for Chell's Legend (portal mod I'm working on). The video shows the process going from dev stages to final art and scripting. I had a lot of fun working on this map and I'm glad I can share the experience with you ^^




[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJN2isCTx8[/ame]

Higher quality video dl here :
http://rapidshare.com/files/151315033/chells_legend_menu.avi.html

you might need an xvid codec to watch this video
http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=1052&ssid=0&did=1

Thanks for watching! Let me know what you guys think ^^!

-vivi

Generalvivi

I got a small site started today for my mods release. Wanted to make sure I had an official place for people to go to and dl it and stuff when the time comes. Heres a Jpg in case you're to lazy to click the link :P

www.chellslegend.com

Generalvivi

So the time is finally here! I can finally launch the official Chell's Legend website! I've been working on it for a bit now and added lots of content and things that I hope everyone will enjoy. First off, you should check out the media section! I've setup a Bios page so that everyone can get to know my voice actors and my sound guy a bit more. You also want to make sure you check out my development section which will have behind the scenes stuff on how I made certain parts of the mod.

Here is a small excerpt from one of the articles "The making of the main characters skin"

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" I wanted to separate my mods Chell from Valve's Portal Chell and also have my character match the voice of my lead voice actress Melissa. I decided to go with a younger, cleaner, and fresher look. "

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To see more from this development article or more stuff on the mod, be sure to head on over to the official site!

www.chellslegend.com

-vivi

konstruct

WOW dude, I went to that site, being like," oh no heres another mod site that`ll probably have a bunch of coming soon sections and empty content, (sorry, the mod community has made me a bit jaded) imagine my surprise- theres all kinds of juicy info on that site, I just got done listening to all the bios, the site itself is crazy quality too. Your web designer has chops!

this looks awesome man,