Sketchbook: Olivier Bogarts

Holi

Hi guys!

Let's start with a piece that I made as quick as possible (2.1 days actually) originally created to support my candidacy for a position that finally slipped through my fingers

I made a quick concept, with Brian Froud in my mind:


and here are the zbrush shots:








tell me what you think!

JaySmitt

If it's stinky, wouldn't the plant be withered and almost dead lol? Try adding some more elements to give the impression that this shoe really does stink. I'm liking the detail a lot though.

Tobii

JaySmitt wrote: »

If it's stinky, wouldn't the plant be withered and almost dead lol? Try adding some more elements to give the impression that this shoe really does stink. I'm liking the detail a lot though.

There is no need to show that it's stinky, it could just be a name...

I noticed that the part of the boot goes down in front of the door, how can the door open then? :O Dunno if thats worth looking in to.

Other then that; Awesome work, nice amount of details and original.. Can't wait to see it finished! :thumbup:

acapulco

You really should lean the top building a bit over as seen in the concept. It looks far too strikt and rectangled.

Holi

JaySmitt: Thanks, I will try to add a marshy feel around it..
Tobii: Thanks, I will take a closer look on the door.
acapulco & Reeke: I agree, it will be also a good occasion to try transpose master

Thanks again for all your feedback!

roosterMAP

its rare to find people wth such creative ideas. im more than impressed. cant wait to see the final product!

Holi

rossterMAP: thx!

Something completely different now;
Im working with a friend, skaven, on a kind of pixeljunk shooter clone. We would like to make a level in a week or two.

Here is a rock!


and the technical parts on youtube:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Mi32eua3E[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM08oV6Rx7U[/ame]

Holi

our test cave in progress:

Holi

okkeyyy...
we still have a lot of work, but right now we are pretty happy with our progress:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8-fHvhMIo[/ame]

my next step is to build this test cave, fully prelighted

Holi

finally, the test cave:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7RkkKJyJAY[/ame]

there is no continuous flow and some materials are not fixed so it will be very usefull to finish this for the technical overview (for exemple, I dunno why the x axis is inverted...)

now I try to go as far as possible on this level design (our deadline is sunday night )

Vrav

Super deadly cool. Good luck!

Holi

vrav; thx! We had some issues with the code part, so maybe we finish it one day...

what's new?
I had a looooong art test (3weeks) with a good end, but I cant show anything (NDA) and I have to wait until they have some new funds to hire me.

So i have a bit more free time to work on personal stuff:

this is not video game art related, but kind of old school RPG with true pen, paper, and miniatures.

I try to make it as simple and fun as possible, but for now, only in french ;]

and finally a quick test for the card based system (im not sure about the lay out)

vatsel

lovin the 3d!!

Holi

thx man!

Back on 3D stuff with a statue

retopo, lod and baking soon

conte

Holi, i like that statue, very dynamic pose!

Holi

Thx conte!

my actual laptop is too crappy to bake anything, so ill wait for my new motherboard with a new sculpt about anatomy.



c&c are always welcome


of course it is a rude wip

Eneyeseekay

That statue is absolutely amazing, it looks like it's alive. I remember seeing it before, but without the moss and erosion. You did a great job on that. That shooter looks like it's coming along nice too.

Holi

Eneyeseekay: thx man

Finishing this dude (started with the last character):

Holi

Finally finished those two piece of rock...
udk screenshots:

Holi

:poly122:

AimBiZ

Sculpts lookin solid. Very nice texture work. Keep it up!

DrunkShaman

Amazing work!!! Thanks for sharing

SHEPEIRO

nice work i think some of the stamp work on your zculpt shows off the res of the stamp a bit (right hand middle of block mainly), maybe a wee bit of extra light detailing here could prevent it

also i think it could be a bit better if the smooth/rough areas were a bit more thought out, look a tad random atm....and maybe some drip marks....mmmm drips

Holi

aww cool, comments!

AimBiz; thx! (im a big fan of your Luthier )
Nitewalkr; thx!
SHEPEREIO; thx, im not sure Ill make any future changes, but i will clearly think about your advices for future works...

I should post a successfull Art Test in a week, just waiting some news ^^

paulsvoboda

I really love your work. I first saw your shoe-house over at GA and thought it awesome. Keep it up.

Holi

paulsvoboda: many thx!

lazy Sunday; website update...
Not so much added, but at least, it looks less like Pior website

http://www.mentalwarp.com/~oli/

Holi

Hi guys!

Holi

Oook..
Since september 2009, I worked with a friend on the visual communication for a small extreme metal festival.
Last week end, it finally took place:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVT6KddDDes[/ame]

the festival itself was a pure blast, the metalheads were awesomely kind, the beer was cheap, and the rock chicks were awesomely kiute...

some amateur pictures here

the t-shirt:

Holi

Hi guys!

Long time no post! (I mean, art related...)

Maybe some of you know that since october I joined the great Fishing Cactus crew here in Belgium...
We are now around 15 plus a few cool kids as interns, working on a lot of differents projects and making epic bbq's...
Sample here, fortunately since 2009 the bbq is 6 times bigger!

Some of the 1st games I worked on are now in e-store:

shift (iphone) (android)
shift2 (iphone)
Trenches : Generals (ipad) (wii)

For those games (and some others) I mainly did assets adaptations plus some concept art, character art, UI, picto, and logo work.

I was afraid to do always the same things, not here!

Now Im mainly working on Creatures4 on a lot of realy exciting stuff that I can't talk about...

That's it for the kind of blog part...



Sketchbook time:
To fill the time traveling in train to the work, I bought a tablet pc (hp tm2t) I do a lot of thing with it. Most of it is unfinished or simply totally unrelated (music?).

Once again, im working on my spare time on the visual communication for the Metal Mean fest (btw, Mean is a belgian town...).




A previous test:


The characters are still made and posed with zbrush.
I should now work on the new t-shirt..


Thats it for now, and of course C&C are still welcome!

StephenVyas

wooo a stargate?!

The colors and way you drew it is really refreshing
My favorite so far on this page

Holi

Thx stefen,
the stargate is a portal from the ankama universe

Holi

http://www.handscandance.com/cgj
Hi guys,

Last year I did a small gamejam with a friend, and I tried to make a game all by myself with construct 2. It was fun and today I had a few houres to bump it up a bit more...

It is heee... it was a "one button roguelike" vaguely inspired by the binding of isaac that I played a lot by this time.

So yeah, as you can see, I focus myself more on gamplay than visuals...
feedbacks are welcome! 
Thanks!

Holi

http://www.handscandance.com/pico

hi guys,
another small construct2 project: multiplayer pixel art drawing tool.
This is extremely basic but I wanted to test the multiplayer feature and thought it was fun enough to be shared.