Sketchbook : Alec3d

Alec3d

Hi, my name is Alec and I'm fourteen years old, I've been into 3d for about a year and a half and about 6 months ago I learnt about game engines, purchased the Unity engine and I have a quite nice understanding of javascript. I mostly model,texture and animated organics but I have done a few guns with hands holding them, usual FPS stuff. My characters are getting better but I'd like to have a chat with this community, get some advice so that when the time comes I'll have quite a nice CV.

Anyway, enough blabbering!

A sculpture made in Blender.



This M16 was modeled by my friend who I introduced 3d to, I did the texture, I modeled the hands and textured those and I animated all of it for reload animations etc.




A male character (It's a WIP, I want to do the whole shebang (normal map etc)





So I'll be updating this every now and then, I hope to hear from you guys!

Alec3d

ahh great it's up!

Alec3d

yay for first post

Alec3d

Speed modeling tonight!
Concepted on paper yesterday, tonight I'm speed modeling an ODST like character from Halo, will be posting updates regularly tonight (australia EST)

Alec3d

OK, my first time (successfully :P ) box modeling since a year and a bit, turned out great! Was only working from one reference image which had a strange pose but it still turned out great, again, crits welcome!

(about an hours work whilst learning how to use silo for the first time)








hope to hear from you guys!

Alec3d

Just added a few little things, the character is a kind of eastern/sci-fi chracter, inspired by the ODST (halo)

e-freak

kind of hard to tell from that perspective, but I assume that the inside of the leggs are too far from each other and the upper arm is strangely deformed.

also: not sure how silo handles this but personally I'd go for edge modelling instead of box modelling (although it seems to work for you so there's no way why one should complain).

Alec3d

strangely deformed?

e-freak

post front/side pictures and i'll try to point it out

Alec3d

still just going over the model.

Alec3d

base model now almost done

Alec3d

Re-did proportions and helmet, turns out I was modeling my own alien that I dreamed up quite a while back called the Tr

Alec3d

Nigh-complete model, Clocking in at 1492 polies this is probably my first conceptual character completed in under 6 hours.



And heres a timeline (Don't forget I was learning silo at the time!)

Modeling - one and a half hours
UV Mapping - 3 hours (my gaaaaawd that was brutal)
Texturing - one and a half hours

Looks good, I'm probably going to use it as a base for a more detailed medium poly w/ normal map model.

Alec3d

Here is a snapshot of the texture (done in photoshop cs)

Alec3d

Imported to Unity3d where a bump map was generated and a specular shader was added - looks absolutely fantastic although some pretty visible seems, any tips?





I'm probably going to add more stuff like thigh guards that got cut, and maybe some extra little equipment pieces and also clean up visible seems and just polish,polish POLISH!

Overall, an awesome modeling weekend... Probably through the week after the model is completely done I might do a gun for him and probably put him in a game (Now if that sounds far fetched, I've done it before!)

Alec3d

The final model inside Unity 3d :



model can be view in 3d here :
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=27161

Alec3d

My first attempt at normal mapping and optimizing.
Here's the body:


Some 2d :

Alec3d

attached the ghost head to it's body, looking good.

Alec3d

A random study :

LlamaJuice

Your character in post 18's hands are too flat. Look at your hand in a relaxed pose, model your characters hands in that pose.

Alec3d

Yeah I'm re-doin the whole model (thats the first version of the concept I'm working on)

Ged

hey alec I can see your just getting started with game art and concept art and noticed your post about the wacom bamboo fun in muzzs thread. It isnt very easy getting used to a graphics tablet if you have never had one before. Some recommendations I have for beginners on a graphics tablet

1. drawing on it wont feel like exactly like drawing with a pen or pencil so start off with something easier...for example try colouring in some drawings for practice

heres some i did just for practicing colour and skin tones and paint brushes etc http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs18/f/2007/152/4/c/Study_Compilation_by_SirCula.jpg so you get the idea, I love stuff by guys like randy green so that keeps me motivated as I colour it in and get used to the tablet http://randygreen.deviantart.com/gallery/

2. if you do want to draw using a tablet a good tip is to start big - it just seems to hard to draw a nice character with clean lines straight out of nowhere. So go BIG, I mean big brushes, big shapes and then you can create layers above these big shapes to refine the design down to a nice detailed concept character or whatever and even hide those initial big shapes once youve got the design sorted.

hope that helps for now. above all have FUN!