Sketchbook: Shiv

Shiv

This post is going to be a bit of a dump, should have made it a while ago but I get sidetracked easily and it just didnt happen. (**Lazy**)

I am a first year student at tees studying games art, I think I would like to pursue a job making enviroments.
I enjoy creating models from other peoples concepts.

This post is going to be a bit of a catchup dump.

*Intro to asset creation*
Strict tutorial models :






We where then given 10 pictures of props and asked to choose 3 to model.




*intro to animation*
Pose sheet from walk cycles *handed in*


And my final mix cycle *handed in*
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Ma-aTNFws[/ame]

Sorry about the long post, hopefully they will be shorter from now on :x
I need to get started on texturing, I dont have access to photoshop on my desktop so its a bit of a pain

Shiv

Working on my enviroment for game level design.
A dream world in which the player is tasked with saving a girl and finding the face of the assassin who killed someone and gave a poor girl concussion(inside the concussed girls head)


And one of the encounters in the world which are used to solve puzzles.

Shiv

Spent a couple of days constructing a house.
Based on http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/MO0202/
Had to be all 1 element within 2k triangles.



Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated

Shiv

Working on getting rid of the seams at the moment, 298 tri chair.


And an update to the road cone -

Shiv

For Uni


Phone booth texture has just been startedm trying to block in colours and such. The others are hopefully nearly done... apart from the church wall generally sucking.
The barrel needs some cleanup.
Diffuse only

For hobby

Shiv

Shiv

Finished the knife and dumped it into udk, better get back to school work now :x

Shiv

summer hols, time for more personal stuff
Just finished up a 360 controller.

I fixed the smoothing issues on the right analogue stick, had forgotten to give it a smoothing group. Its not perfect but I would like to move on before it bogs me down.
I am still learning my way around materials in udk.... and in general i guess. Need to do some research on using the material editor so i can bend it to my will
I got a few issues on normal and ambo generation in xnormal. I think thats because the high poly was a mess of holes and objects, I also didnt bother to explode it which i think i should have, will try for next time.
I also built it wrong, for the nice curves of the main case I created the top and bottom seperatly as planes and then bent into shape. This seemed logical at the time but upon completion i feel blocking a box into shape then adding the fine detail like the seam would have worked much better for overall shape and fixed many dirty holes on the mesh.
Max says its 2002 triangles, udk says its 1998 no idea why, maybe verts I broke get merged on export?

Shiv

Summer holidays over, I didnt get as much done as hoped. But some stuff was created, woo!
First up, a picture of my 360 controller finished and in UDK, So much broken on it. It feels like I have come a long way from it even if its just lots of little things.


Then I created a bucket for an environment being created with a friend. Its kind of stalled now and I have uni work to get working on. (Wakfu environment)

And the blockout.

Also had some fun working with texture maps in udk. Learnt a lot, including the start of creating a grid like effect trying to emulate the sprite gridding. But I can control which texture goes where from a tiny colour control texture. I couldnt figure out how to get nice squares in udk with vertex painting. Didnt look deep into it at the time tho.


A really quick and dirty revolver model. I am going to go over the texture and spec again at some point as it kinda looks crap to be honest. Especially the specular.


A pretty quick Salloon door, Worked on getting spec right and learning projection stuff for normal map and ambo generation in 3ds max.


And now I have 3 projects on the go for uni so maybe there will be more frequency in my updates :x

Shiv

Working from an idea through thumbnails to my current concept for the character art part of the course.



Mole rat riot police!

Shiv

His vehicle, should have stepped away from it for a bit but hand in is looming so hurried a bit, so its missing
Front springs
Front bumper
Window wipers
Wing mirror
Mud guards.

got to get around to putting them on soon.

Thanks

Shiv

Today I did a ton of blocking out for my environment for uni. Dipped my toes in vertex painting and had another wrestle with normal and ambo creation with projection in 3ds max.
I apologise for the ugly pictures, but they are my test runs




Oh yeah, and block out of the mole rat concept

Shiv

Block out complete and a texture test in udk

Shiv

Bit of a bulk update.
Been working on all 3 of my projects, we have been given a bit of an extension for environment so going to slow working on that down for a bit and get my character caught up.

Also, fixed shadows and such on my udk meshes so they look a bit nicer now, nicer contrast and the shadows are actually in the right place now!


Head sculpt


Body ready for sculpting in zbrush (hopefully, it will probably need a fair few tweaks)


Progress on my vehicle model, colour coded for ease of use.


Piece 2 for my environment

Shiv

Some progress on uni projects
Mole rat face is coming along, added the front teeth and eyes and unwrapped them, just need to add the bottom teeth and texture them + spec map.
Vehicle low is modelled, just needs to go through clean up then unwraps, normal maps and fin.
Environment has a bit longer till hand in, I am being a bit slow on it atm, need to fix that.

Blaisoid

nice works, i see you're aiming learn a wide range of game art stuff.
your modular wall with window seems to have a pretty bold seam on texture, window itself could use more edge definition. also those cracks on glass parts look weird, i think you should make them flat on the normal map.

Shiv

Thanks a lot Blaisoid, we kind of have to learn a lot for uni, 3 projects on the go at once
I have fixed the glass and the tiling in my environment, just havent been able to give it much time recently as its the last hand in, will post that over the coming weeks.

Sorry about the loooonnnggg gap between updates, I have been working hard on my character and mechanical submissions, hand ins on monday. Just one more thing to do and I am all set to hand it in. I learnt so much looking through the threads on here during construction, here is the construction of my character and final pictures, will sort out vehicle in a little bit.

Motorov

Shiv wrote: »

What do you want to say that inscription on the blade? :poly122:

Shiv

I should say something along the line of "sharp" cant remember exactly, what does it say? :x

Shiv

Havent updated in toooo long, my bad working on environment project for uni.
Currently working on environment. Hand ins on the 4th and my laptop died over christmas week while at home so attacking it like mad.

Bit of a link dump sorry.

Where I was at 22nd Dec just before heading home with my "trusty" laptop.


Working through it and getting it ready for heading home I realised there might be a much easier for me to manage assets so a lot of them got re-built/split apart and re-unwrapped so I could experiment with masking + vertex painting together so windows dont suddenly turn into other windows, here is a bit of a thought process behind that.

The unwrap at the bottom was just a super quick theory test. They are tidier/better now (i think XD)

Getting my wall vertex painting to work, there are 3 brick textures in there, i just stupidly have 2 white ones. Going to fix that tommorow.


Where I was at last night.


Where I am at tonight.
The sun is masked off by the 2 moving sets of clouds on the material, I havent removed clouds from the original picture but it doesnt seem to matter too much.


Thanks for looking, bed time for me... need to stop going to bed as everyone else wakes up.

And i broke the foliage again... woo

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Shiv

New dump of stuff, not going to promise to keep it updated because i am lame.

Shiv

Hopefully fixed after a round of crits, got to move on.

For some reason as well, the specular is not behaving correctly on the lower piece, No idea why