[Portfolio] Lincoln Hughes - Environment Artist

lincolnhughes

Just finished my website, and thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback on the design/layout, as im going to be looking for work pretty quick. Thanks guys
www.lincoln-hughes.com

Latest Post - Finally got these approved for public viewing today It's some level art that I did for Watchdogs. Keep in mind that all lighting and modeling / texturing was done by Ubisoft.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib4M7D99q6A"]Watch_Dogs level art demo - Lincoln Hughes - YouTube[/ame]

EarthQuake

This looks great, nice simple to use website, a great range of work and styles.

Perfectblue

Lincolhughes, I am in love with your Alien Eggs. I am curious what sculpting program did you use, and did you begin with a base mesh?

JamesArk

Everything, including the website, is beautiful. :thumbup:

lincolnhughes

Thanks guys!

Mudbox was used for the egg sculpt

riznof

Fantastic work! Seriously.

Two comments I have on the site is the ability to download a Word or PDF version of your resume. A picture based resume is inconvenient to pass around the office, besides forwarding a link to your site through email of course.

Second I think you have the font tracking on your resume to high. It was difficult to read.

lincolnhughes

Font tracking? Whats that?

lincolnhughes

and good call on the downloadable version of the resume, thanks

riznof

The spaces between your letters is called tracking. Just a typography term for letter-spacing

lincolnhughes

So are you saying that the spaces between the letters on my resume are too big or too small?

SouthpawSid

no crits from me. Solid site and the content is stellar! Thanks for sharing!

riznof

I thought it was hard to read because the spaces were to far apart.

You'll have no problem landing a job though!

laurentwauquier

Impressive work !
Love your 2D section !
And I'll have to agree with everyone on the alien eggs!

lincolnhughes

Thanks guys,

riznof, ya I'll take a look into tightening them up a bit, thanks man

m4dcow

Maybe add a few construction shots and texture flats, mainly cuz I wanna see them :P

Alberto Rdrgz

Dood, Lincoln, great stuff! im putting this in my artists' portfolios collection.

ayoub44

look amazing , LOVE IT !!

StefanH

super good but some wires or flats would be nice

MeintevdS

No complaints from this side. Solid work and with stuff like that under your belt I'd say finding a job shouldn't be to hard for you

Good luck dude!

lincolnhughes

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Perfectblue on Today 10:08 AM

"Lincolhughes, I am in love with your Alien Eggs. I am curious what sculpting program did you use, and did you begin with a base mesh?"

It's in mudbox, and I started with a sphere and went from there. I eventually brought it into max and used the plugin "polygon cruncher" to make a way lighter mesh (which I optimized further by hand).

DDuckworth

You have some really great stuff here, but like Stefan said, flats and wire's would be nice, I would think they would be absolutely necessary, but with a resume full of shipped titles I doubt you'll have much trouble

PixelMasher

nice folio man. cant wait till our space marine shit gets more exposure/release to beef it up even more having your 2d section in there really shows how well rounded of an artist you are.

Anyone looking to hire, I would highly recommend Linc having worked with him both at big sandwich and here at Relic, he is one of the best artists I have worked with. He really thinks about the environments he creates as a whole to make a kick ass final result. also really good at taking areas from alpha quality to extremely polished.

I dont think you will be looking for work very long man

bounchfx

the only issue I have whatsoever is the way your resume is presented. The text is far too big and it just feels cumbersome and hard to read.

really nice looking work!

Purplepaint

Since everything I was going to suggest has been said, great work! Inspiring!

JDinges

dope.

lincolnhughes

Thanks guys And thanks for the recommendation dicksel-masher

Jeff Parrott

Great stuff man! Love the site and the work.

Darkmaster

Awesome portfolio with a great resume! Clean layout, and easy to navigate I don't have any complaints. Keep up the good work!

Kessler

its cool and all but I would have liked to see more alligators.

lincolnhughes

k. Starting a new alligator painting. Thanks for the feedback Kessler. lol you crazy fuck

Shogun3d

Nice work Lincoln, Portfolio loads smooth and very easy to check out your work. Had a pleasure looking!

lincolnhughes

finally got around to updating the resume section of my site. font tracking should be fixed now, and there's a downloadable section for either a pdf or .doc file in the "resume section". Also added some textures to the medieval castle / battlestar ariel page in "3d", and put a couple brief descriptions under some of the pics detailing my contribution to certain images. I started getting some wired shots and placing them in some of the 3d sections, but thought it made it look cluttered. Is it really all that necessary? Whenever I've looked at a portfolio, I find the only time I really wanna see wires is when I'm looking at a junior artists' portfolio, or a character. Maybe that's just me though
www.lincoln-hughes.com

Let me know if anything else needs to be changed

chrisradsby

Amazing work so far, love the presentation and the content. Great work!

PixelMasher

Yea I don't tend to care about wireframes when I see someone has been working in the industry for a while. I dont have any on my site either and never had a problem. nice work man, with the final tweaks it looks fantastic.

lincolnhughes

Just updated the site with some more Space Marine work:

http://www.lincoln-hughes.com/Pages/space_marine.html

lincolnhughes

Hey guys,

Finally had some time to update my website with some of my art from the old republic. Enjoy
http://www.lincoln-hughes.com/Pages/the_old_republic.html

Jessica Dinh

Mouthwatering *_* Are you allowed to show texture work? If not, extreme sadness T_T

Also, your website is gorgeous - in love with the design/layout.

sltrOlsson

That^

Also, how is the rocks blended? Or are they a huge texture all together?

Hayden Zammit

Awesome work. Your 3D stuff is just as sweet as 2d stuff.

lincolnhughes

thanks alot guys! There was no texture blending, it's all like 5 textures that match up at the seams, mixed with cut geo along the cracks of the textures.

PixelMasher

yea....i saw this guy making those caves, no vertex blending at all.....lining up each texture so it was completlely seamless up the entire wall, while making each piece completley modular and seamless with the other different sized chunks.....woulda made me wanna blow my brains out hahah. but the results speak for themselves and those caves are all over the place in the game nice work buddy.

shinobix

Ah the caves... Those were fun times. Stuff looks good Linc!

wester

You're a beast! Great 3d and 2d skills!

shinobix

Finally got your website to load... Was having ID10T issues on my end here. Looks awesome Linc! Really nice layout, cuts through the flashy bs of most websites and gets ya right to the goods! Great job!

lincolnhughes

shinobix wrote: »

Ah the caves... Those were fun times. Stuff looks good Linc!

haha ya.... 3 months of working on caves....

shinobix

Dude, 3 months of caves... We've got a guy here for the entire project has been working on nothing but Rocks, Cliff Facades, and more rocks... He's been here for over a year. Could be worse Mind you, his rocks look damn sexy... But I'd be putting a bullet through my skullcap if I were in the same situation.

ZacD

lincolnhughes wrote: »

thanks alot guys! There was no texture blending, it's all like 5 textures that match up at the seams, mixed with cut geo along the cracks of the textures.

Okay that fucking insanely awesome, I'd love to see the sheets and wires of part of the blending (even really low rez), but I know that's probably not possible. Could you at least color code it to show where textures end and where another starts? Its always neat to see tricks people pull to get something to look current gen, but can run on old pcs (nVidia 7800 or better).

lincolnhughes

Here are the textures for the walls. The image is 1/2 res, but you get the gist.

cdavidson

heh ive played through all of ur screenshots u posted of ur swtor work.

marq4porsche

That is some seriously beautiful work.

Jessica Dinh

Wow, SERIOUSLY awesome textures, thank you soooo much for sharing!!