[Portfolio] – Paul Tosca (warning!!-big download )

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Hello all,

I got the permission to showcase some of the work i have done in the past year : mostly game characters , professional work, done under fixed timeframes so in some cases if they were personal projects i would have spent a little more time on some aspects ( sculpting , texturing... etc )

The workflow used is pretty much the same :
-concept received from the client or i come up with a concept based on the client specifications
-high poly modeling (zbrush)
-retopo (topogun)
-baking ( normal,occlusion and other passes if needed ) (turtle for maya)
-texturing (zbrush/photoshop)
Usually the textures have diffuse, normal and specular ,sometimes reflectivity;as for the poly budget the low usually comes around 5-10k triangles,for high poly something like 5-10 mil polies are more than enough.
I can't think of other details right now ... so here are some images:












Turntable mov
http://paultosca.com/glad/GladMayaHWnoShadows.mov

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Raya









Turntable movie
http://paultosca.com/raya/Raya.mov

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Light skavvie

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Muro












Turnable mov
http://paultosca.com/muro/Muro_360_mayaHW.mov

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Alien walker













Turntable movies
http://paultosca.com/alienwalker/alien_walker.mov
http://paultosca.com/alienwalker/alien_walker_kneel.mov

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Hulk











Turntable movies
http://paultosca.com/hulk/hulk.mov
http://paultosca.com/hulk/syker.mov

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Terror












Turntable movie
http://paultosca.com/terror/terror.mov

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and some vehicles












Turntable movies
http://paultosca.com/dtmedia/kwm_dingo_2.mov
http://paultosca.com/dtmedia/mil_mi-28.mov
http://paultosca.com/dtmedia/35_mm_twin_cannon_gdf-005.mov
http://paultosca.com/dtmedia/terrier_vehicle.mov


For more images ,larger ones or full versions of the textures of the models please visit www.paultosca.com.

C&C welcomed,
Paul

bounchfx

nice body of work, thanks for sharing!

EbolaV

wow some really cool stuff here :thumbup: i love especially your texture work on your characters, hot man

carlo_c

That was a lot of images to take in! Some awesome stuff, I think your character work looks better than your vehicle work but it's all good

Nice to see your flats too, I always like to see the UV layout hehe

frubes

i used to regularly visit your "varga" making of tutorial. Really like your new work, great stuff

BradMyers82

Wow, you have some beautiful work man. It's a real joy to look at. All saved to my inspiration folder BTW.

r4ptur3

I have always been a huge fan -- Thanks for sharing your new work!

Mark Dygert

Wow... it does have an end...



and...



HOLY SHIT that's some awesome stuff!

D4V1DC

Hey nice work here man the only thing as far as C&C is concerned is that I'd like to see your vehicles have nicks, bangs, scratches or dirt on them otherwise excellent stuff.

Lee3dee

wow! some awesome work here!

Wahlgren

I have to change my underwear now.

AimBiZ

Excellent creations! I really like the texturing on the four legged walker.

whats_true

Solid!

snake85027

killer characters!

NyneDown

Lots of good shit man...and the presentation is killer. Nice work!

monkeyboy_garth

Awesome work...not so hot on the stuff from your very first post but everything else was great!

I wish my wardrobe had more nuts and bolts

lildragn

incredible work! I even had to link it on my site http://www.thecareergamer.com

Autocon

Awesome work, loved it all. I think my fav would be the first female knight. Its a nice change to see a real female warrior who isnt naked and uses her "athletic ability's" to kill her enemy's.

Looks like she is ready to go into battle like any male warrior while still looking like a female.

SnarG

That was a long list of work to look through... but I enjoyed every minute of it; amazing artwork that I will be studying in detail later on. Thanks for posting.

Sidikian

Awe inspiring work man. Just one question though, where's Varga? Consider me a fan.

rasmus

Nice work! Thanks for sharing. Love the turntables too

JasonLavoie

Hey Paul, is there a reason why you pixelate some of the outside edges of your textures (outside edges of your UV shells). Are they acting as base colour swabs?

Really great work man!

MoP

Very cool stuff. A lot of consistent, quality work.

My main critique is that your textures often look quite dodge/burny - the shadows hit black too early, and highlights go to white instead of more saturated colours... as a result you get a consistent style but I think it could look better if you used more colour and subtle hue shifts instead of having a base colour and shading to black and white (which is what it looks like now).

Your ZBrush stuff is nice and chunky though, and the designs are cool.

JasonLavoie: I'm pretty sure that's a result of using Maya's 3D Paint Tool, maybe he blocks in/sketches stuff this way?

paultosca

Thanks for kind words ... i am really glad you like them.
Regarding the vehicles i wish i had more time to work on them ( more dirt.scratches ... etc ) but were done for military sim and under small timeframes ( usually around 2days work for model and texture-only diffuse ) ... for the renders i made a quick spec and that was all.

lildragn wrote: »

incredible work! I even had to link it on my site http://www.thecareergamer.com

many thanks

JasonLavoie wrote: »

Hey Paul, is there a reason why you pixelate some of the outside edges of your textures (outside edges of your UV shells). Are they acting as base colour swabs?

MoP is right , i use maya 3D paint tool to fix the seams and has an option to extend color over edges ( in case of resize :downsample of the texture this could minimize the artifacts along uv borders)

And thanks for the comments MoP ... they are helpful ... its not the first time i am told about the problems you noticed in shading ... will try to work on that on future textures.