[Portfolio] - Simon Fuchs, (Senior Environment Artist, Crysis 2)

IxenonI

Hey guys,

haven´t posted anything in ages so I thought I´d take the opportunity to share my updated folio now that Crysis 2 is released. Feel free to crit away!



http://www.simonfuchs.net/

Here is an Interview with 3dCreative magazine that gives some more background information on the Crysis 2 Environment Art Production.

Cheers,
Simon

j4polaris

I'm speechless... Amazing work Simon. Loved the first Crysis, and can't wait to give the second one a spin once that DX11 patch comes out.

Cooljay

This is exceptionally amazing. All of the enviornments look great.

IchII3D

Nice to see your portfolio Simon, great work!

snakeeaterjns

Crysis 2 environments were very good. Congratulations, not only for crysis, but its entire portfolio that is wonderful.

Pedro Amorim

It's how I feel. lol

Mistry10

Pedro Amorim wrote: »

It's how I feel. lol

+1

p3r4app01

Decent stuff
would like to see other games work, also 2d art, etc

IchII3D

Needs more rubble, car parks and military containers!

d1ver

You are soooo bookmarked, buddy!:)

great work

thatnumpty

been waiting for this, great work.

though I like to see textures and wires

Judd Roy

Wow, really beautiful work man. Inspiring

downarmy

your Airplane was an inspiration for me when you posted it on another forum, i tried to do one like yours and i failed to match your skills.

truly great work.

Envart

Truly stunning portfolio. I love every scene. The destructability stuff looks fantastic too. Four thumbs up!

Razorb

really nice work! i think the game as a whole looks great, good luck with whatever you do from here

gsokol

Solid portfolio. Your crysis 2 stuff looks great. That city hall is very cool, and I dig the props a lot.

I also like the the car...very clean. Your materials/renderings look fantastic.

Good stuff.

D4V1DC

Love It all especially the tech break ability stuff, very awesome!
+2

maze

great work simon, really cool textures and style, thanks for sharing.

Reverenddevil

Good Stuff Simon! I dig the style, look, feel and cleanness..

Slave_zero

Hey simon greetings from a former 4head intern.

I was searching for your portfolio site a while ago to see your work. I'm happy you've posted your stuff.

I agree on the things already said. Everything looks polished and has exceptonal quality. I favor your barriers very much. Both the steel and concrete barriers just look awesome.

As for the warehouse and in general your environment work: You might think of putting some wireframe shots into your folio. It would be interesting to see how geomtry and textures are working together. If not for the complete environments at least for the warehouse as you were exclusively responsible for the modeling. But wires for the environment assests wouldn't hurt either.

EDIT: Also it could be interesting to show the concepts which were provided if you are allowed to show those.

Whats with the awesome scifi-SpecOp-chick you were doing back in 2007? I remember it was really impressive. If its finished and matches you current skill-level why not put it in there.

Congrats on your work on crysis2. Loved the game although I haven't finfished it yet.

yodude87

whoa simon, really neat stuff, pure awesomeness

IxenonI

Thanks for the comments guys

@Slave_Zero
What are u up to these days? I might be able to post some wires for the C2 stuff sometime soon, there are still some legal issues with posting production artwork (same goes for the concepts).
Won´t post any older work since its fairly dated now and I don´t have time to update things atm.

SinisterUrge

Top notch. What did you render the high poly mustang in and what materials did you use assuming it was max and mental ray.

Oniram

amazing work! i really love the environments from the older work section

this is me being REALLY NITPICKY! but the 3rd shot of the ford looks like its in orthographic. just something personal that bugs me. :P

System

Amazing body of work you have there, you must feel proud and quite rightly so :poly124:

sprunghunt

hey that's some pretty stuff.

I have a question:

at crytek do you do the lighting? or is that handled by the level designer? or is it someone else?

snake85027

awesome work, wish you had some texture sheets.

CounterSeal

Badass and beautiful. Good stuff.

Slave_zero

@ simon

I'm currently employed at Funatics in Oberhausen as a sort of allround Artist with focus on doing environment work.

Greetings to Manuel if you see him in the office.

Maybe we should do a germany pc-meeting from time to time. I think it has happened once if I remember.

Anyway. Keep on. You're doing great work.

Joshua Stubbles

Top work man. City hall is one of my favs. Great texturing, modeling and lighting. Consistently good work all around.

nathdevlin

Stunning work. The fine detail devil in me loves the military and concrete barriers. As I played the game I got killed on numerous occassions admiring them.

Congrats to all the Crytek team on such a gorgeous and enjoyable game.

It seems even though the environments in Crysis 2 are packed full of assets you guys still managed to dedicate decent poly and texture budgets to each asset and building. I presume this is due to streaming ? I wish we had that on Motorstorm Apocalypse.

snow

cooooooooool.

love the part where you go round breaking stuff, someday i hope i can put that in my portfolio =]

IxenonI

SinisterUrge wrote: »

Top notch. What did you render the high poly mustang in and what materials did you use assuming it was max and mental ray.

Rendered in Maya, materials were just standard Blinn mtls with a custom cubemap applied. Nothing fancy ^^


The lighting is done by our lighting artist Pierre-Yves Donzallaz

scotthomer

Honestly, some of the best work ive ever seen.
Incredible.

Sean VanGorder

Sick work man. That plane is fap worthy.

IxenonI

Slave_zero wrote: »

@ simon

I'm currently employed at Funatics in Oberhausen as a sort of allround Artist with focus on doing environment work.

Greetings to Manuel if you see him in the office.

Maybe we should do a germany pc-meeting from time to time. I think it has happened once if I remember.

Anyway. Keep on. You're doing great work.

Cool. He probably already read that. Let me know if you happen to be in Frankfurt, we´ll have some drinks with everyone...

snakeeaterjns

Hi Simon. Currently I am working on modeling of a city and its work has served me for reference and inspiration. Have any chance of you talk a little about the process of modeling and texturing of the buildings. Thanks!

bbob

That's not a portfolio, that is porn..

IxenonI

The DX11 Patch for Crysis 2 has been released - I´ve updated all screenshots to use the DX11 features and the highres texture pack. Resolution was increased aswell.

For more screens, check out the website.

http://www.simonfuchs.net

Alberto Rdrgz

*EYEGASM*

yodude87

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

check this you guys... its really astonishing :O

tda

Great 'folio dude, lots of awesome shit. That little breakability tech vid in the crysis section surprised me too, i played through the whole game and never realised some meshes bend under explosive force/gunshots. Very cool tech.

scotthomer

Love this stuff dude, amazing portfolio.

IxenonI

The Editor has been released. Get it here:
http://www.mycrysis.com/news/community/the-crysis-2-editor-is-available-now

pumbaa

Hey Simon, I really enjoyed the part when your folio totally exploded my laptop screen.

I am curious of a few things, but I'll only ask one q, the bolts on that fighter plane, which is epic btw, how did you place them all? Script? Paint geo?

Thanks. Truly wicked work.

IxenonI

Hey pumbaa,

they were placed using the smart duplicate script from ticket01.

Basically it allows you to project them onto the geometry using splines as guides and an underlaying surface as the control surface.

pumbaa

Thanks for the info mate, seems very neat. Would probably use it all the time if it was free

IxenonI

Here is an Interview with 3dCreative that gives some more background information on the Crysis 2 Environment Art Production. Feel free to check it out!

nordahl154

Seriously bro this is magic. You must be a powerful wizard or something.

hamzaaa

Great portfolio! Simple layout and nice high quality pictures and videos. I think it is great that the portfolio is so simple, because there is no distracting information and you can reach everything with a single click. Your CV is structured really well! In my opinion your Portfolio serves its task to simply show your work in its full beauty. Although I think your galleries could be designed a little different. Because your pictures are so big you sometimes have to scroll a lot on a smaller display, which can annoy after some time. Maybe you should create thumbnails and the possibility to show a large version of the picture. Also your text may easily be overlooked because it gets overwhelmed by the huge pictures.

Good to see some other germans around here, I am german too and I also live in the Rhein.Main-Area. wanna help out a newcomer? Add me ICQ: 595566719 or SKYPE: vr_hamza

Liebe Grüße (Greets)
Björn aka hamzaaa

blitz

Sehr geiles zeug Simon!