Uncharted 3 work (textures)
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Hey all, I just updated my blog with the work I did on Uncharted 3. I still have to add screenshots for a few other sections I worked on too. Anyway I thought I would share. Here is the link! Spoilers for those that haven't played UC3 to completion however.
http://jeremyhuxley.blogspot.com/
Here are some examples:
-cheers
-Jeremy Huxley
http://jeremyhuxley.blogspot.com/
Here are some examples:
-cheers
-Jeremy Huxley
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Some weird indoor lighting in some of those shots, especially the last, looks really flat. Not your fault just pointing it out
The first shot with the rock and intricate details is absolutely stunning.
Still waiting on my U3 copy, can't wait to play it.
I'm playing through Uncharted 3 now and I've been resting my jaw on the floor constantly throughout.
If you are allowed it would be great to see some flats, what would be even more awesome is to see some breakdowns and workflows!
Awesome Jeremy !
How many of these are unique vs tiled textures?
So, for most of the scrolled details and patterns in the panels, etc. are you using Zbrush as your base application to create the textures like those rooz3d videos?
-Jeremy
You're awesome for doing this and fabulous work on the game. Congratulations and thank you once again.
Added to the list, btw
http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryReferenceGameArt
Awesome. Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, must be pretty amazing to work with Behrooz.
You should be awesome and share some pipeline tips
the "shaded" atmosphere in these screenshots make the textures shine. really lov'n that bridge decoration
Shotgun, Each level is paired off with one modeller and one texture artist, for Sandlantis and Yemen I had a modeller that would do the environment mehses, and then I would work on the textures and shaders, we are responsible for all of the normals in the environments. Texture/shader artists do some modelling ourselves in maya so that we can use them for our zbrush tools. We create our textures on the 2.5D canvas and of course Photoshop is part of the workflow. We also do the UV work, so it is a hybrid role.
Nice work man!
Loved that last level, so detailed. The bath house really stood out too. I had started making a turkish/persian bath house for my portfolio, and when I saw this I felt like giving up! How long would it take you to make something like that? Do you get good reference photos for everything or do you still have to search for images?
And as joshflighter said, sounds like the texture artists do more work than the modellers!
truly amazing and inspiring work.
Check these videos, loads of info on texturing environments from on of the tech guys at Naughty Dog - http://www.gamertalk.tv/?p=501
P.S. That link that martinszeme posted is excellent, that is my lead technical artist explaining how we work. Teagan started as an environment modeller, but is basically a boy wonder.
but what happened to the art direction of uncharted?
Where did all the colors go? This is as blorange as it gets..
How is a blue fog in a yellow env even possible? I mean fog get's it's color from the light .. and that is clearly orange..
Nice texture work dude, this stuff is phenominal. also, nice work on getting material definitions reading well with the shader work, the whole other side of texture art. super solid. I was wondering if you have any resources for creating all those ornate shapes and details in your trims? was it just free handed or do you guys use a library of masks and stuff?
Bright - dark, saturated - unsaturated etc.
Doesn't matter, probably wasn't his decision anyway
^ My head anytime I see something this amazing.
Great work! [p.s. you have my dream job!]
Question: Those rocks in the first shot and in some of the other ones...do you blend/mix three different rock textures or something? I try to look for tiling but it's a lil hard to see it on the rock meshes sometimes considering it's all just that same rock but the only answer I could give myself is if there is more than one rock texture being mixed in there somehow.