i'm new. and i made this thing.
Hi everybody! So I've never posted on here but i lurk constantly. CONSTANTLY.
anyways, I'm a student at BYU, just started my (hopefully) last year of school in september, and I'm working on portfolio pieces when i can.
So I still need to change some things on this guy, but I figured I'd post him up. He's (very very roughly) based on a boss from Everquest-- Lord Inquisitor Seru. I guess it's my idea of what he would look like many years after EQ1. Obviously inspired by WoW, too. I'll try to find the sketches I did of him and get them up here, too.
he was really fun to make, i painted everything in 3Dcoat, with a little bit of work in photoshop. modeled in maya.
I can't figure out how to embed vimeo videos on here, but here's a link to a quick turnaround: http://vimeo.com/16625766
right now this is all straight diffuse maps.
oh I almost forgot, check out my blog if you get bored
www.gardenturtle.blogspot.com
anyways, I'm a student at BYU, just started my (hopefully) last year of school in september, and I'm working on portfolio pieces when i can.
So I still need to change some things on this guy, but I figured I'd post him up. He's (very very roughly) based on a boss from Everquest-- Lord Inquisitor Seru. I guess it's my idea of what he would look like many years after EQ1. Obviously inspired by WoW, too. I'll try to find the sketches I did of him and get them up here, too.
he was really fun to make, i painted everything in 3Dcoat, with a little bit of work in photoshop. modeled in maya.
I can't figure out how to embed vimeo videos on here, but here's a link to a quick turnaround: http://vimeo.com/16625766
right now this is all straight diffuse maps.
oh I almost forgot, check out my blog if you get bored
www.gardenturtle.blogspot.com
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I went over your blog and it's full of awesome sauce, no wonder why you got a Blizzard Internship. /praise
your 3d guy looks awesome.
Sincerely, Old Guy
Way to prove me wrong, dude. Awesome workl.
Bigger renders plz.
awesome model
just stalked through your homepage
just saying....
can we see textures?
nm, found textures on your blog
but i know someone won't need any luck finding a job in the future
Spark
I echo shotgun: bigger pictures!
@TeriyakiStyle I agree, the lighting right is basically.... none :P I'm gonna try and make one of those pretty presentation sheets soon.
@snow actually my school tends to be pretty heavily geared towards the technical disciplines (renderman shading being the most prominent), and most of the students place with feature animation/effects studios. However, it's lenient enough that we can choose our own path. Some go fully 2d, ending up as story artists or illustrators, some go completely 3d, and I'm going... wherever it is I'm going :P
@Jame9475 yeah my internship just recently ended. sad times. sad times.
@lefix yeah he's pretty far removed from the seru in EQ1, haha. I probably (definitely) went too far, completely changing his style etc.
here's the texture flats:
and I'll try to get some bigger renders up in a bit
+1
Your stuff looks fantastic. The painting style you used on the model looks like a Paul Bonner 2D painting. Very impressive.
How you've made it to your last year of school and not been black bag kidnapped by a studio is amazing.
Awesome job man!
Really nice job btw.
Did you use 3DCoat projection painting or did you paint straight in the 3D viewport?
Maybe it's just me, but it's not only the lighting on the model, but also the actual diffuse, it's awesomely painted, but comes across a little dull in the colour values - muddy if you will.
So i did a quick simple curve, not to extremes.
And the curve that i created:
You'll notice I moved the white point, and edited the curve slightly.
Just an idea, up to you to use it or not.
Also I've looked at your blog, and the work is seriously awesome.
@creationtwentytwo - I probably painted 90% straight in the viewport, and the other 10% either projection or by just sending my 3dcoat layers straight to photoshop (one of the reasons i really love 3d coat).
@kaptainkernals - AWESOME!! i actually like that a lot, i definitely see the muddiness you're talking about. i'll try it out on the model when i get home, and i'll definitely be using that in the future
@Haiasi - OH HAI!
@mutatedjellyfish - ;D
a couple people asked about my 3dcoat workflow, i'll try to get some pics/video up sometime in the near future, but it's actually really simple-- I just use the normal brush with opacity set to 100%, and the opacity linked to the pen pressure. I turn off the size jitter completely, so it's the same size all the time. I cover the whole model with a dark value (so i don't have to paint in occlusion later), and I use layers/projection as I need to. I approached this guy almost exactly the same way I would when painting a 2d painting, with a few differences.
Wish I lived in CA to have an opportunity to work with blizzard lucky you, congrats to you!
As others have said love the texturing, nice idea kaptainkernals.
thanks, $!nz
just saying...
stalking......
XD
Excellent work!
looks amazing, excited to see more!
There is nothing at all available that demonstrates good stylized painting skills like this online. The school I study at is really bad and I'm desperate for external help =[.
this.
and not on black