Sketchbook: Goat Justice

Goat Justice · Oct 2009

I started this sketchbook thread years ago and completely forgot about it. Recently I've been wanting a place to post WIPS of personal projects or experiments. Turns out I had the perfect place all along.

I'm going try reviving this thread as a posting board for my unfinished stuff. There's a bunch of REALLY old work up front, but hopefully that will just make the new stuff look better.

Comments and Questions are welcome.

--Updated 5/15/2017--

Goat Justice · Oct 2009

An antique 12 shot revolver with numerous engraved designs. The model is based on reference photos of weapons from the early 1800s. I used this project as an opportunity to try out some new techniques for creating hand painted textures.

Software: 3d Studio Max, Photoshop, xNormal
Polycount: 4300 tris
Maps: Diffuse Color, Normal, Specular Level/Color, Specular Power (Gloss)
Texture Resolution: 2048 x 2048

www.cornerofthedreamingmonkey.com

Goat Justice · Oct 2009

A run-down gas station which has become home to a dangerous and reclusive individual. I wanted to create a very efficient but still decent looking texture card for the building itself. I then allowed myself a bit more resolution for the props which required unique non-tiling maps.

Software: Max, Mudbox, Photoshop, xNormal

Taylor Hood · Oct 2009

Hey mate. Love your stuff!
Can you pretty please show a wire shot of the environment?

Goat Justice · Oct 2009

Thanks for the kind words. Here are some wire shots of the station. The geometry for that project is really pretty basic. The texture work was the real challenge. I also did a wireframe of the gun while I was at it.

Taylor Hood · Oct 2009

Very nice mate. I actually wanted to see the sheets and wires because I always am surprised how awesome textures look and when I see the geo it's pretty basic.

I also find the "If you can see this you're in range" hilarious ;P

Also, is the environment a max or maya screenshot? Could try putting it in unreal or an engine like that. Lighting would look awesome.

Goat Justice · Oct 2009

The environment is actually a Max scanline render with a couple of directional lights and a skylight for nice shadows. I am hoping to eventually expand the project into a scene in Unreal complete with ground textures and additional props. Might be fun to see how the building stands up before doing a bunch more work, though. If I have a spare moment this week I'll give it a try.

Ged · Oct 2009

nice work on the enviro and gun

Goat Justice · Jan 2010

This started as a quick high-poly project, but I ended up sticking with it long enough to create two low poly versions as well. The tri counts are loosely based on the weapons in UT3.

Goat Justice · May 2017

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Making a fairly basic prop to get some practice in with the Substance apps. Just baked down the HP in Painter.

Goat Justice · May 2017

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Basic block-in for materials. I've got a replacement for the wood in the works. The brass also needs to be aged and toned down. Basic overall wear and tear as well.

Goat Justice · May 2017

Put together a wood material that works a bit better and started figuring out what I want to do for adding signs of age. Focusing on stained and faded materials first then I'll add dust, dirt and wear at the end. The masks on some layers are not quite right at the moment, but its time to call it a night. Also tweaked the color and roughness of the leather.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/wp/ndf2d8q8rr88.jpg

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Goat Justice · Jun 2017

Finished tweaking the grunge and age layers. Starting to comp together some final renders

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/mg/e8sk7hqnay4o.jpg

Goat Justice · Jun 2017

Thinking of taking on something more organic and natural for my next project. A small vignette with a broken tree and some rocks. I've Got a couple of techniques in mind I want to play around with. Started roughing out a bark substance for the non-unique elements of the tree. Doing this bit first so I can have the height map to potentially use in zBrush later on.

A note for myself: try doing Diffuse/Roughness in a separate substance graph with the normal and height as inputs so it can be exported to painter.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/g3/avacbkx07kc9.jpg

Goat Justice · Aug 2017

Starting to have some time to actually work on things again. Here's a lumpy mess that will eventually be a rock.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/w1/ej6zhkvatvz7.jpg

Goat Justice · Oct 2017

Another WIP. Haven't had a lot of time to work on this one.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/c6/opaphwefv581.jpg

Goat Justice · Jul 2018

WIP of a hard surface prop I've been messing around with. Trying to get back in the habit of posting these

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/as/j6f0dfe80xs1.jpg

Goat Justice · Jul 2018

Nearly there.. just a few need to finalize the handles and add a couple more bolts and rivets. Might look into doing something where that gap in the front of the lid is too....

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/lf/2a06q7t356gc.jpg

Goat Justice · Jul 2018

High-poly is about as detailed as it needs to be (might even be a bit over-detailed). Anything else that comes up will have to get handled with the materials. Hopefully LP and UVS will go quick and i can move on to baking.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/vc/32kh3lbfkymm.jpg

Goat Justice · Aug 2018

Finally got around the building a Low Poly for this. 11K doesn't that low, but for a LOD0 of an object the size of a small car..... it's 16K if I leave the modeled LP bolts in. Next up; UVs and hard edges.