[Portfolio] – Justin Dinges, Environment Artist

JDinges

Hey guys, since Singularity just shipped today I figured I should finally get my work up and out there. I've got both Xmen Origins: Wolverine and Singularity stuff to show.

www.justindinges.com

Hope you like it.


-Justin


edit: Updated the image viewing script.

bounchfx

Great looking stuff, man. I just wish there was an easier way to browse those images (like a next>next>next) instead of having it pop open a new window every time.

JDinges

Hmm, that's a good point. I'll look into it. Thanks!

cholden

yea, what bounch said. I wanted to look at every image, but didn't want to go back and forth. Anyway, love your work, great portfolio!

P442

really nice work, man

ENODMI

Way cool, thks for sharing with us. Those overhead shots of the Singularity level are great, you don't see that perspective often. Looks like a fun job you have there:)

Thegodzero

Looks great man! Nothing more to add that hasn't been said already.

JDinges

Thanks guys!

I looked into getting a more user friendly viewer script running last night but ran into some problems. Going to try again tonight.

Snefer

Solid stuff you got there Agree with the other though, got a massive amount of images, so you would really benefit from a "next" button

Tom Ellis

Nice stuff man, love the Singularity work, the game looks awesome.

I got a quick question though, I notice on your site it says you're a Senior Env Artist, but you note on the XMen / Singularity stuff that you did level dressing / blocking. I am yet to get my first job in the industry so I have no idea the way studios work internally, but is that commonplace? I always assumed the Seniors would be physically creating a lot of the assets or at least being largely involved with their creation.

I read about outsourcing for props and assets becoming more popular so I guess that could be a factor.

Great work throughout your site though!

Tumerboy

Very nice stuff man. Wolverine was a solid game, I had a blast with it.

JDinges

Good question, it really depends where you work and how they have their pipeline set up.

Raven has Env artists who create assets and those who work purely in the level editor. The guys in the editor oversee the construction of levels and direct the assets being produced. While the asset Env artists make awesome shit.

Hope that helps.

Jesse Moody

Awesome Justin. Glad to see this stuff getting posted up. Guess all of us polycounters that have worked on this awesome title should get our stuff updated.

Great work. Game turned out fantastic and is a blast in multiplayer. You guys did a great job with that.

Gotta agree though that a next button would be amazing to have.

Tom Ellis

JDinges wrote: »

Raven has Env artists who create assets and those who work purely in the level editor. The guys in the editor oversee the construction of levels and direct the assets being produced. While the asset Env artists make awesome shit.

Hope that helps.

Ah I see, thanks for explaining!

Saman

Great stuff!
So are you a level designer or an environment artist? You should show us more renders and wireframes of the assets you've done.

Jesse Moody

I'll chime in for Justin. Hope ya don't mind.

Raven breaks things down a lot more to help with the pipeline.

There are

- Level Designers (usually block levels out, do scripting, events, etc)

- Environment Artists / World Builders (which is what Justin does, Builds enviros around the blockouts from the LDs using assets from the Asset Builders)

- Environment Artists / Asset Builders (take what the world builders need and what the concept artist creates and builds the actual assets for the World Builders to fill environments out with)

- Texture Artists (self explanatory)

Tom Ellis

Cheers Jesse, nice to get a bit of an insight into the workings of a studio on commercial titles.

JDinges

Alright, I've got a much more user friendly slide show viewer now. Should be click and cycle goodness now.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Generalvivi

This site sucks! Why did you waste my time Justin.... WWWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY




i like it

JDinges

You're the best mohawka.

Minos

Kickass work man!

BradMyers82

This is awesome thanks for sharing!

I'll have to second the loading time on the images though. It's painful to say the least. Good thing your work makes it worth the wait, but I would def. fix that if I were you.

cb!

quick question , what gallery script did you end up going with for your site ,I am in the the processof re doing my own site and wanted to know what your using it seems to work well and the images are not being compressed either which is nice

Cojax

Dang look at you Justin! Great stuff mang.

LlamaJuice

Awesome work sir! I'm also wondering what script you ended up going with though. I'm in dire need to revamp my site and I'm liking how yours flows.

SHEPEIRO

very nice

JDinges

Thanks fellas.

I'll look into the load times when I get back from the trip I'm on.

Also, I used a script called lightbox for my gallery viewing, you can find it on Google.

cman2k

bounchfx wrote: »

Great looking stuff, man. I just wish there was an easier way to browse those images (like a next>next>next) instead of having it pop open a new window every time.

Maybe it's just me, but every time I notice the lightbox script in use my hand automatically goes to the arrow keys. Left & Right arrow keys let you scroll through the pics easily. Works 90% of the time unless it has been explicitly disabled.

Froyok

I have finished Singularity a few days ago, and I relay love some parts of the level desing in the game, colors and atmosphere are very good made. Glad to see it's your work (in most case) !

So, beautiful work !