[Portfolio] Pieter Mans

feanix

Hi! I just set up a new portfolio. It's kinda basic at the moment because I was pretty sure there would be a lot wrong with it. I'd rather do a little and fix stuff early than a lor and have to scrap a lot of work. Crits welcome!

EDIT: A little more info. I'm looking for crits on the website and on the work itself. I've just finished my last semester at uni doing a masters in 3D Games Modelling and I'm gearing up for a jobs search over the summer.

chrisradsby

You really should show off some kind of textures or models etc etc, the scenes are alright but you need some kind of break down Nice work with the waterfall one, I really like it, too bad you didn't stick more closely to the concept, still nice though

feanix

Should I just pick a couple of prominent meshes and do a breakdown for them?

EMC3D

Your waterfall scene has alot of potential but at the moment is slacking. I think you should follow the concept more closely with the entrance and all the moss on the walk way, and the fact the pathway branches out for a small statue.

Espically with the lighting you could put a bright sun with light shafts on in the direction like the concept and have some real good atmospherics going on with the sun rays and what not.

Breakdowns on the waterfall would be great aswell, seeing as most people who look at that video will probably be going " So how did he do that. "

feanix

Right, that waterfall scene looks like it could do with a revisit then!

I've added some breakdown stuff to the Lava Plane page, is this the kinda thing you were after?

PogoP

Love your portfolio Pieter, you have done some very inspiring work. I love your handpainted art style!

feanix

thanks!

cholden

I like your site, and your work. You have a nice way of pulling atmosphereic scenes in real time.

One thing about these two pieces that bug me is they are good distance, cinematic scenes, but not so much game environments where the player would navigate around. A new piece with up-close detail could be a great addition.

feanix

Yeah, I'm definitely planning on doing somethin like that as soon as I get that waterfall scene up to scratch. Thanks for your compliments!

reality4

Maybe you could animate the camera and add some ambient music? I like the waterfall scene a lot, would it be an idea to create a particle system with slowly falling leaves?

feanix

Can't really animate the camera since this scene was designed to be viewed from this angle only. Well, maybe I can add a TINY bit of slow rotation and pan, but thats about it. Falling leaves a definitely more doable. But where would they come from? Leaf clouds?

Anyways, I've finished up some of the more basic fixes. The balcony is now in and there are more LIGHTSHAFTS (pew pew kapow oh god dont ask i dont even).

Doing this has really highlighted a few areas that could use some lovin'. I'm going to redo all the stone architecture in the same style as the balcony and add some wind effects to the vegetation.

Normal Human Sized Screenshot

Elder God 6 Meg Fhtagnshot (Abandon All Hope Ye Who Can Be Bothered to Download)

EMC3D

Looking good! Go for a really bright sun and sky like in the concept, see if it works for you or not.

feanix

It's not bright enough already?! :O

EDIT: Don ze goggles!

feanix

That character rocked! I thought I recognised your name! Loved your work man. I, like everyone else, am I big, big fan of your awesome couch!

EMC3D

awww yea uber brightness win! show us what it looks like with the other angle with that solar sun.

reality4

Okay, maybe not leaves from leaf clouds But glowing dust particles? The scene looks very static except for the waterfall which makes these two parts look independent from each other. If you would have something else moving around in the rest of the scene I guess it would be more coherent.

feanix

I'll see what I can do!

Jungsik

hey man I saw on e of my classmates looking at your website yesterday I was really impressed with the waterfall you had

feanix

Thanks!

Alberto Rdrgz

Yeah dood, your atmospheric work is brilliant. But i agree with the ons that mentioned it, you need some sort of breakdown.

Serp

I like the fact that your text glows. Nice.

feanix

Thanks for the nice comments everyone. I've been hard at work revamping the waterfall scene. Alas I've had some computer issues and the machine is currently in teh shop, as it were. I thought I'd borrow a laptop to post a quick update (click to enlarge)



Apart from the statues to either side of the entrance I;ve re-done every single stone asset. I also added a quick root model (the fact that you can export sections of UDK maps out as OBJs was invaluable here). I've also added some creeping plants as per the concept (following this awesome thread).

Still to do are some more, smaller bits of creeping plants, replace the flanking statues, add the angel statue, do some flag stones for the bridge walkway and do a texture/model for the walls and ceiling in the passage.

I should also point out that lightshafts appear not to be captured when using tiledshot (as I am) but they are still there and unchanged from the last update.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm also redoing my water. Currently it's all been removed until I can come up with something more satisfactory.

feanix

Okay, so work proceeds apace. The water is proving a challenge. It's one thing to get water that looks watery, and another thing to get something aproximating the water in the concept. Here's where I am so far.



I'm also midway through the sculpt for the new statues to flank the door. It just needs to be damaged up a little and then it will be ready for retopo and baking.

LRoy

I really like that contrasty look in your concept art. Maybe try to incorporate that a little more? The water looks great.

feanix

Double post, woops!

feanix

The concept art is by Daniel Conway :P I can't take any credit for it. I'll bring up the contrast in prostprocessing, probably.

And thanks! Glad you like the water!

feanix

Finished importing the monk statue asset into the engine. I'm going to do another texture set for slightly different damage so that both statues don't have EXACTLY the same cracks etc.

feanix

Okay, been a while but I think I have something worth posting here again.

I've spent a couple of month revamping the waterfall scene and I'm calling a halt on it now (it'll never really be done in my eyes, I have to draw the line somewhere).

So with that addressed and my portfolio I've begun addressing the other issue voiced here back when I first posted this thread; not enough technical info. I've added a whole bunch of info that seems like it could be relavant to potential Game Boss Men Guys. I worry that there's either too much or too little or a combination of the two.

What do you think Polycount?

Linkzor

P.S. I have only updated the Waterfall page. I'm not going to add more tech info to the Lava Plain page until I know I'm onto a formular that doesn't fail. So ignore that for now, please.

feanix

I updated the technical sheets for some of the waterfall assets to try make them more informative!

feanix

I added some technical sheets for the Lava Plain scene too, as well as updating that entire page a bit too.