Sketchbook:ErikNilsson.

ErikNilsson

Hi ya all!

My name is Erik, im a game art student at The Game Assembly in Sweden. Im a newby here at polycount, but the sketchbook thing sounded cool so here i go


***EDIT***

Wow, really weird looking back, sadly all my old uploads are lost in the great void, so now the start is here, page 9 - http://polycount.com/discussion/91789/sketchbook-eriknilsson/p9

ErikNilsson

Here is a concept pic I did not to long ago.

allmighty_thunder

hey eric welcome, looking forward to your work, that concept looks pretty good, posing is a bit stiff

ErikNilsson

Currently working on a small personal project:







The focus is trying to create a low poly character that I can put in the Unity game engine later on. comments are apprechiated. (:

ErikNilsson

allmighty_thunder wrote: »

hey eric welcome, looking forward to your work, that concept looks pretty good, posing is a bit stiff

Hey man, Thanks! Yeah I really need to work more on dynamic poses, it´s my current area of practise when drawing

ErikNilsson

Currently working on the face, still a long way to go, but its starting to take shape ^^


comments and thoughts are always apprechiated!

Cheese_Shinobi

Sweden ftw!
Got nothing to crit atm, would very much like to see more of your concepts and sketches though!

ErikNilsson

Cheese_Shinobi wrote: »

Sweden ftw!
Got nothing to crit atm, would very much like to see more of your concepts and sketches though!

Hehe Sweden ftw indeed

And thanks! gonna upload some pics later today

ErikNilsson

Here is a few sketches and concepts from me:









me on ConceptArt.org - http://conceptart.org/index.php?artist=Teezec&cat=updated

ErikNilsson

Been working on a Lowpoly project for my school. During the week we where tasked with creating a lowpoly model with a limit at 500 tris and a diffuse map of 128x128.

Alismuffin

Wow! I'm loving your sketch style! Nice

ErikNilsson

Alismuffin wrote: »

Wow! I'm loving your sketch style! Nice

Thanks mate nice to hear!

ErikNilsson

Quick Playblast animation up!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIJvWULNIc"]NeonSamurai_Animation - YouTube[/ame]

Cheese_Shinobi

Wow, really digg that Neon Samurai character, nice concept and lowpoly model!
You could use an Emissive map on him too really make him look Tron-ish!

ErikNilsson

Cheese_Shinobi wrote: »

Wow, really digg that Neon Samurai character, nice concept and lowpoly model!
You could use an Emissive map on him too really make him look Tron-ish!

Hehe thanks man

Oh I wish I could but since this was an assignment from my school we had certain rules to stick to, one of them was that we where not allowed anything other that an 128x128 diffuse map with alpha.

Next model mate, next model.

ErikNilsson

gave him a sword

gillmeister74

you have some really neat concepts and I'm digging your neon samurai's. I don't know if you were aiming for low poly with your character model but you had a little stretching in the face due to how far you were stretching those polys. Good news is the flow looks solid right now, so if you add a flew more edge loops and give each polygon its deserved real estate you'll have a nice looking face there. Keep it up : )

ErikNilsson

gillmeister74 wrote: »

you have some really neat concepts and I'm digging your neon samurai's. I don't know if you were aiming for low poly with your character model but you had a little stretching in the face due to how far you were stretching those polys. Good news is the flow looks solid right now, so if you add a flew more edge loops and give each polygon its deserved real estate you'll have a nice looking face there. Keep it up : )

Thank you for the comment, and yeah I was aiming for low poly. It was actually an assignment in school, so there where rules to stick to. We where not allowed to use more than 500 tris and a 128x128 diffuse map with alpha. Some of the stretching might also be a side effect of the rigg and pose.

Thanks though, next project we will be allowed a bit more tris (about 2000) so hopefully things will be a bit smoother there

ErikNilsson

Mine and my fellow classmates creations: http://www.thegameassembly.com/GA11Lowpoly

ErikNilsson

Quick sketch to keep my skills up. -

ErikNilsson

This week me and my classmates where given the task to create a 3D weapon for a first person shooter. We where allowed 3000 tris to work with. The focus of this assignment was to work with high poly and low poly models, as well as Normal, Diffuse and Specular maps.

So here is my Railgun:

Twoflower

Always fun to see more game artwork from fellow game art students from sweden!
really like your sketches and that neon samurai : )

ErikNilsson

Twoflower wrote: »

Always fun to see more game artwork from fellow game art students from sweden!
really like your sketches and that neon samurai : )

Hey thanks m8!

Btw S

Twoflower

ErikNilsson wrote: »

Hey thanks m8!

Btw S

ErikNilsson

Twoflower wrote: »

Började också plugga i höstas , Har valt inriktning mot 3D. Får ni på TGA också göra något val om vilket område ni är mest intresserade utav? höll på att söka till TGA men missade sista inlämningsdag för att skicka in stuff som man hade gjort, tror de hade någon annan sista ansökningsdag än om man skulle söka till högskolan.

Nej det väljer vi efterhand som vi pluggar, något som man bestämer i tvåan eller senare tror jag.

Ja det stämmer det va lite andra tider där, kom in på Skövde också men eftersom TGA va mitt förstahands val så bestämde jag mig för att tacka nej. Känner en hel del folk so har pluggat på Skövde. Det e en bra skola, aningen mer teori dock. Kom bara ihåg att sitta så mkt du kan på fritiden om du vill bli bra btw, även om vi jobbar skitmkt i skolan så sitter jag med 3D och 2D hemma också, tips är att kolla en massa tutorials på youtube

ErikNilsson

A quick environment concept -

ErikNilsson

Trying to work with color and shapes, another daily environment sketch -

ErikNilsson

Work in progress -

Bummer6

Hey! I'll be applying for TGA this spring, unless you're graduating, I guess I'll see you there. : D

ErikNilsson

Bummer6 wrote: »

Hey! I'll be applying for TGA this spring, unless you're graduating, I guess I'll see you there. : D

Indeed my friend, indeed

Good luck with your application!

Bummer6

ErikNilsson wrote: »

Indeed my friend, indeed

Good luck with your application!

I sent an email to your TGA adress, thought we could have a chat about the school, there are lots of things I'm curious about, and I wanna be well prepared before the interview this spring.

ErikNilsson

So here is the pic im currently working in, its some kind of awesome amazon warrior.

Whats your opinion on the different hairstyles? Is there any favorites? Kinda liking the one with the horns right now.

Twoflower

I digg the horned one aswell but then it kinda feels like some kinda of amazon shaman instead of warrior imo

ErikNilsson

Yeah, maybe warrior isn´t what im looking for. I think Hero works better :P

davidosterlind

Good job Erik! Pose looks dynamic! The red one without the horns is definitely the best. Perhaps you should put something else in the hair, tone it down so its not that bright red and put in some braids or something to make it pop?

ErikNilsson

davidosterlind wrote: »

Good job Erik! Pose looks dynamic! The red one without the horns is definitely the best. Perhaps you should put something else in the hair, tone it down so its not that bright red and put in some braids or something to make it pop?

Heya! Thanks man! Yeah there is still a lot of stuff that needs to be defined and added. When I paint I usually let the design grow/change/evolve while I paint, I usually dont have the final design from the start. This will probably look pretty different when its done

Interesting about the hair, I aimed for something akin to a tropical bird, how do you feel about that idea? Im thinking that the hair should be one of the first thing you notice about the character, how it differs from the environment.

Thanks for the comment

ErikNilsson

So Here is a few things I have been working on recently -



My little robots walk cycle -

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhFnMKV0FM&context=C3717091ADOEgsToPDskLf1lQSBCaYhUddZ-F3JzUJ"]Robot walk cycle. - YouTube[/ame]

An here is a quick warmup pic i did today -

ErikNilsson

A new version of my Amazon, thought it was time to add an update, havent really been working on it since before xmas. Anyway, here u go!

ErikNilsson

A quick concept sketch i drew on paper and then skanned and painted in photoshop.

ErikNilsson

Scanned and painted in photoshop.

ErikNilsson

Warmup Mech

Alismuffin

Nice! The messiness of it works well

scottjrobertson

Loving your environment work, very epic

ErikNilsson

Thanks guys!

ErikNilsson

So I have now started a "daily sketch" thing with some friends. Basically il try to upload a quick pic a day.

Here goes -

mr.AFK

lawd ur quick

ErikNilsson

Day 2. -

ErikNilsson

People currently participating in the "Sketch a day" thingey.

mr.AFK - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92163
ErikNilsson
Huke -
Caspar - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93548
Oskarreftel - http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92096

Caspar

Gillar den h

ErikNilsson

tackar tackar, jo jag tror nog att sm

ErikNilsson

New thread for Sketch A Day!

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1504375#post1504375