[Portfolio] - Manuel Virks, (Senior Environment Artist, Crysis 2)
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Finally updated my Page 
www.mvirks.com
If you have questions about anything, feel free to ask!
Also please have a look at my Indi Project "Nuns N' Guns"!
Cheers,
Manuel
www.mvirks.com
If you have questions about anything, feel free to ask!
Also please have a look at my Indi Project "Nuns N' Guns"!
Cheers,
Manuel
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Already subscribed for news on FB Nuns'N'Guns. Waiting to see more awesome art
this is just AWESOME!
haahah just saw the nuns n guns! hilarious!
I never realised you made that rubble heap as well, it seemed to be the plague during Crysis 2, if an area looks bad... add more rubble! Hehehe.
anyway i would love to know some stuff on how you approached the roof construction. And about the front of the building. Is that modular? Especially the arc windows. The part that goes into the construction (so the negativ extruded part) and the frame to the arc (which looks very high detailed) how is it put together? is the arc a seperate piece that was justed place ontop of the wall Element? Thanks if you could explain it a bit.
Was playing through Crysis 2 in DX 11 just these days and man the architecture is just fantastic. I wish the new thief would use CE3...the ligning and shadows and stuff really suite architecture.
BTW: Airborn looks really cool
Always loved your style, those textures are jaw dropping good.
Do you mind sharing your work flow? how long did this project take?
IMAGE AT BOTTOM OF MESSAGE
@ Bart, Ged, Money, HP, theonebutcher, artquest, Joshflighter, Thegodzero, Bonebrew, OddEyes, scotthomer, P442, seth: thx!
I'll try. The visibility calculation of cryengine doesn't work correctly in wireframe mode and without it you will see a wireframe mess.
Thx, back in the days I was a leveldesigner on a HL Mod. Somehow a lot of guys left, so I had to learn texturing, env modeling, char modeling, everything
I love both! Actually I switched to Character Art at the end of Crysis 2. At the moment i'm Senior Character Artist at Crytek.
I know, I died multiple times trying to show it to some friends.
Thx, actually I didn't like the owl that much when I finished. Over time I somehow started to like it
Thx! You're right, this is eactly what happened. My rubble replaced a really bad looking version and after that the rubble density grew quite a bit
I'll try to visualize that somehow
I sculpted a few pieces and then placed them in max. Lowpoly is a tiling model.
I think I had 6 weeks for the whole library (exterior, interior, back exterior).
Therefore I reused many textures + modules from Grand Central Station.
Hard work! No actually I'm quite lazy
Danke!
But when it comes to xbox or ps3 development there are more important things like shader counts, texture lookups etc...
Also I like to have 100% control
I don't think cryengine 3 supports gradient maps, but you could use tinting, thats built in. I know it's not the same thing.
Either way, textures are looking amazing. I wish I could texture like that, but for whatever reason, it's harder to find good learning material for it than say, modeling for example.
I thought the vram use would be a bigger issue... because that is pretty restricted on consoles.
Problem with gradient maps, every shader veriation is a new shader and we are fairly limited on shaders.
Example:
1 shader gradientmap with specular in alpha
1 shader gradientmap with specular in extra texture
1 shader gradientmap with specular and gloss in extra texture
1 shader gradientmap with blendshader and specular in alpha
so on..
Same for modeling,
in some cases it's better to use modules, soemtimes it's better to merge multiple objects to save drawcalls..
in other cases you run out of mesh memory and modules are the way to go..
Unfortunately there is never a perfect solution
@neox: that's how I roll
@Bart: modeled with special shader
@switz: thx
Orgoth: Two tileable zbrush sculpts ( rocks sculpted in zbrush, placed in max)
One tileable lowpoly model for the big rocks and a blend shader fading in the samll rocks where I want them.
Alpha test border to hide the seams between debris and ground.
yeah i figured that would be the easiest way to make sure it works. But if that stuff is really highpoly, wont that just demolish your system? Even when instancing objects at that tricount my computer chugs and chugs.