Sketchbook: Ryan Sweeney (rocketvanalpha)

rocketvanalpha · Feb 2020

Working on a bust assignment for my Game Art class. Based off of a concept by Carlos Cruz (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/58ozz) and a piece of artwork by Akin Yucin (https://www.deviantart.com/akinyalcin/art/uruk-hai-680004629).

Created and rendered out in ZBrush. I kind of want to make a base for it, but also tempted to add hair and armor bits to it and poly paint it....

Any thoughts, critiques, or criticisms you have, I would like to get some thoughts, so share them with me please. Thanks.

rocketvanalpha · Mar 2020

The next project, a game ready prop. I used the Maya - ZBrush - Substance - Marmoset/IRay pipeline, with the base mesh as a low poly and the high poly sculpt baked onto it. Admittedly, I should have used cylinders with more subdivisions for the two parts with the symbols on them. I intend to go back and rework the base model.

The original concept is from a Korean artist named Hyung-gun. This is a link to the page where the sword concept came from.

https://m.blog.naver.com/skinnyboy/220541085166

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rocketvanalpha · Mar 2020

Lighting and rendering assignment. We were asked to light a pre-made interior scene, but we could add in our own models. My models in the scene: Gamecube and controllers, bowls, bottles, glasses.

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rocketvanalpha · May 2020

Newest project, a game environment in Unreal engine. I didn't manage to get everything I wanted to get done finished for this, so this is highly modified from my initial plan. Based of a concept from Beautiful Scenes From a Fantasy World, and also by Bioshock Infinite and Howl's Moving Castle, the idea is a house floating above the clouds. I struggle with getting everything into Unreal and the concept of trim sheets.

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rocketvanalpha · Jan 2021

WIP Deset Oasis

rocketvanalpha · Dec 17 2025

That's where it was then

I started remaking that project

Decided to make this part of another project, so started from the ground up. This is the thrid time I've remade this, but getting better with each one.

Sketchbook: Ryan Sweeney (rocketvanalpha)

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