Sketchook: ChrisY

ShootandRun

Hello everyone! I am a Game Art and Animation student attending Champlain College in Burlington VT. This is my first time doing an online Sketchbook and I have yet to scan a lot of my sketches digitally. Here is one that I did manage to find:



More will come as I scan/find them, feel free to critique them,
thanks!

ShootandRun

been meaning to do this, here are some more. The 3D pieces I would like c&c on, they were past projects which kinda got left in the dust. I'd like to make em all better so they might be portfolio worthy. Thanks

Flamethrower:
LP
HP -> LP ->

HP



UV ->


Wall

LP
HP -> uv (texture) ->



Other random sketches I managed to find on the ol computer:

class project


messing around with brushes using only black and white

ShootandRun

Just found some more, sorry for the double post.


Some other projects I did:

Flak 88

(Highpoly modeling)





Harley Davidson Fatboy
High poly and low poly, my first attempted for lowpoly vehicle, I'm pretty sure I went too low poly and I know i definitely didnt spend enought time on the texturing (i was rushed) any tips for the unwrap would be greatly appreciated.

HP


LP


UV

PerfectChaos

Your models look good, I think for the motorcycle since you did a high poly and got normal maps for the low poly you could have modelled in more detail. The low poly is missing some pieces like the part where the wheel connects to the bike. As for unwrapping, what issues are you having? I work in Maya and recently learned a technique where you get your planar\cylindrical\etc uvs, then if there's still some stretching you go in the UV texture editor and select a group of good UVs or edge UV's that you don't want to adjust and select "Polygons" in the top tool bar and then Unfold or Relax (you can then select whether the selected UV's are pinned or unselected UVs are pinned (pinned UV's won't move or change), play around with the options and it can improve results. Check out step 61 and up in this tutorial I found: http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-maya/how-to-uv-a-character-model-in-maya-2009/

There's plenty of help to be found on the internets. Let me know if there are any other things I can help you with, I've just recently got back into 3d but have been finding a lot of helpful tutorials online.

ShootandRun

Thanks Chaos!
I had a lot of trouble with the wheels and their tread texture. Normally I unwrap the cylinders by taking off their top and bottom and laying the walls so its a flat square. This technique however wouldn't work for these wheels because the tread would have a nasty seam going right down the middle of it..
The relax unwrap is really cool, I didn't know about that. I've basically been bringing the .obj files from Maya into Blender and then back into maya.
I was using roadkill but my friends and professors have convinced me that blenders a better program for unwrapping (plus its free!)
Also that tutorial is awesome! I love reading/watching them, if you have any other cool ones I'd love to read them!
Thanks

ShootandRun

I'v never had a business card before, never made one before, but I'm trying to make one for MIGS in a few weeks. I'd love c&c on them.
I've heard less is more so I tried for that.
I've seen the black and green card before and thought it was really cool, but through a number of reading I've read that people like to put notes and whatnot on the card so I thought I should make it a lighter color, am I wrong?



Then for the back of the card


Thanks for your help

Eoq

Hey there dude! Welcome to polycount and it's good to see you post your sketches! About your businesscard, my personal opinion would be to make a card that is nothing like the rest out there (in a good way tho). The reciever will most likely remember your easily that way.

Keep it up dude!

ShootandRun

Went to a Halloween drawing sesh at Game Artisans
(she was a zombie bride, weddings dresses are HARD to draw...who knew?!)



also i decided on this for my card...for now (its not the most memorable but it'll get the job done for MIGS):

ShootandRun

Animations for 3D animation class. My first attempts at animating a biped. We had to do a biped character (that had no spine) jumping, walking, and running.

Had a lot of trouble figuring out how the hand should move in all the animation, seeing how they are being dragged and weight a lot.

Also is there a proper way of showing off animations? I was just using camstudio (its free!) and thought that rotating the character would be the best thing for people to see him in action.

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

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8NCTbkQTY[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG3c2A7Ho5w[/ame]

ShootandRun

Animation assignment, wanted to stay inspired so thought in the spirit of Brotherhood I'd do Altair. Sadly we had a 5k limit and we couldn't use normals because the emphasis on this project is the animation. Still working on weighing it at the moment. Any tips/ideas for weighing the cloth by the legs?

ShootandRun

wip - Science lab / bunker environment

DrunkShaman

nice!

For your animation walk/run cycles I must suggest that you should work on the animation on the Y scale a little more since the monster seems to be shifting sideways while running but not up and down.

If you look at the human walk cycle thoroughly you would know that his head would mildly tilt left and right based on his hand motion, and the human structure would mildly bounce based on the leg movement.

so you have everything in that animation walk cycle but not the mild bouncing.

ShootandRun

Nitewalkr: thanks for the tips, I've done a few more animations and have placed more movement in the hips. I think I'm going to go back to weeble because I had a lot of fun working with him.
These ones I'm pretty sure need more work.
One really big problem I was having was when I was using Motion Flow, I couldn't get the planted keys (IK keys) to work when I strung everything together. (I had the hands IKed to the box) Me and a bunch of my friends tried for hours trying to get it to work. Any tips/tricks?
Also is there a way I can show the video on these forums but make them smaller? like thumbnail size?

Thanks all!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdspjlP3k8g[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKiTNo8f3oQ[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6RWq8ZSDbc[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZVoYyNxCxc[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op6O2GXpas4[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyjWiMXX24[/ame]

ShootandRun

Well to the next project, Face sculpting! wip pics, the face is too dang narrow so working on that. I've never done a face before so I spent a lot of time looking at what other people did and trying to do the same and failing. I also learned that tons of people make faces in very different ways, go figure. Any tips for you pros on how to make proper edge loops would be awesome.

This face was originally supposed to based off Bruce Willis but I think at this point I'm just gonna go for a face that looks human and is the right proportions. I'm not sure if I got a bad picture of him or not, but Bruce has a really big forehead and almost no upper lip. Learn something new every day, eh?

Thanks for the help in advanced all.

Eoq

Hey there dude! Looking at your recent model of a head - I would give you the advice to look for more reference images of Mr. Bruce Willis. Try and look for 3/4 images because I find them to give the most regarding forms etc. I like how your edge flow is, following the muscles etc.

Have you tried out Mudbox or ZBrush to sculpt faces, instead of modeling them?

ShootandRun

Thanks for the advice, I'm lookin for 3/4 view now.
and that'll be the next step, I was under the impression the best thing to do was get a base mesh down and then bring it into zbrush/mudbox, right?

DietCoke

I think your head is pretty damn awesome. As someone who just tried making one myself, I can say that your edge flow APPEARS to be very pro. I made mine out of a sphere, so that tells you what level I'm at! Also your mini-Altair animations are looking good as well. Sorry this isn't helpful, but it's always good to hear that people like your stuff, right?

ShootandRun

Thanks DietCoke, compliments are awesome
Good luck on your face sculpt!

updated face, not so long and narrow. I think i accidentally stretched the reference face in maya, lol to myself. Having trouble with the nose, but nothing a few more tutorials can't fix I hope
just learned about average vertices, making smoothing the face out much easier



Also ship concepts for a group game I'm working on, It'll eventually be 3D.

ShootandRun

Wow, Never thought an ear would be so hard to model. Thank you online tutorials for saving me. This look about right to ppl?

ShootandRun

Face update:



Ship update:
maya model -

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zbrushin it up:
First time in zbrush....cool stuff it is indeed!

ShootandRun

Working on blocking out a satellite dish base. I actually have no idea what might be inside a building that's around one of these giant satellite dishes. I kind of imagine TONS of electronics and then i pictured a lower area, kind of like what you see in movies whenever they show NASA command center

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Oil painting using only black and white

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mini dummp...concept stuff for a game I'm working on


blocking out the scene some more

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working on a highpoly crate

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Working on a monster dude

ShootandRun

Heh kinda forgot about this thread, here's sum stuff!

Not complete sadly ran out of time in class (yay end of semester), but will continue to work on it




a different one which alla prima (like 3.5 hours)


if anyone can guess the locations of either of these paintings (minus ppl I know) you get 1,000,000 life points :P

these are for a game which is viewed from a zoomed out isometric view. Hence the low details

ShootandRun

sword I've been working on, supposed to be based off of Altair sword

ShootandRun

latest sword update

any c&c would be greatly appreciated

allmighty_thunder

you should post wireframes and textures for people to be able to crit better

ShootandRun

no problemo


dang marmo just triangulates everything /\ \/

ShootandRun

Bunch o small random things


(dammit made the fingerpint too faint....also a friend told me batman doesn't have fingerprints, DOH!)



cuz batman is the BOSS!!

ShootandRun

space food package textures are 256x128

fork and knife are 64x64

ShootandRun

spine 64^2

rest of the book 256^2
all the book are in one tga file, each to its own channel

Hammed Al-Tamimi

With the sword, you might want to reduce the number of tris, so it is more efficient. As long as it keeps the silhouette, you don't need a ton of polygons. The whiteboard looks really good! I also like your traditional painting. Is that acrylic or oil?

ShootandRun

thanks for the tips on the sword Hammed
the painting is done in oil, it's still unfinished, glad you like it, I was very surprised with how it turned out

I'm currently working on a tiling floor panel and am having problems when I bake the light, anyone have any ideas/tips?

ShootandRun

old reel tape server



combining these two reference shots, sadly i couldnt find any high resolutions shots of this....if anyone does I would gladly take em ;D

http://www.losethattyre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/computers-and-tape-reels-old4.jpg

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_zvse_images_history_reeltape.jpg

ShootandRun

Flak 88 HP -WIP-

ShootandRun

update on the reel server, the glass reflection is a little intense

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items from Gemini XIII project

ShootandRun

Updated my website : Christopheryoon.com

Also my Demo Reel
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1N31qydvt4"]Chris Yoon Demo Reel 2012 - YouTube[/ame]

Does anyone know how to make the hover and active links which are on the same page two different sets of colors colors. I don't like the white borders around my images on my homepage, however they are white because the "3D Art" "Projects" and "Resume" are links which need to be white. I'd prefer if they were a darker color.I tried making is a footer and assigning that class to objects I want to be different from the a: active to .footer a:link Any help would be awesome! :poly002:

ShootandRun

An environment I've been working on, this is in UDK