Works in Progress

First 3D print ready sculpt.

Dough Boy's "Bopper" rifle WIP 7

WIP 7a

Here's what I have now.  Made the gun overall feel a LOT more stubby, fixing a lot of the proportional issues I saw relative to the character's feel.  I'm definitely getting heavy influence by a couple SMG designs from WWII, though game wise, it's more familiar with Bioshock Infinite's Machine Gun, of course :P

So, I'm fortunate enough that the shapes and geometry I'm doing through subD moodeling is mostly just realy simple control edge placements with simple extrusions of cylinders and squares.  I still feel incredibly raw doing complex shapes/intersections, and this usually happens when I'm well into the attempt and I don't know how to fix it midstream.

In terms of specific examples:

The cooling jacket examples are frequent enough on the internet that I figured out to just grab vertices in a pattern and chamfer them.  It was just when I tried adding thickness to the plane through extrusion that the holes wouldn't be perfectly circle, or the hole isn't a clean cylinder.  Unless it doesn't have to be?

What I have here was not numericaly clinical, I kinda just set all the inner loops of the circles zeroed to a common location per vertex and then scaling it by hand.  It didn't feel precise, though perhaps it's more important it LOOKS the part as oppose to exactly IS (which I think I have now).

Other places, like the receiver and the charge handle housing and ammo housing (both boxes), had unsatisfactory solutions for me.  Right now they're split into three different geos, but I know there's a way to make it all one geo starting from the receiver's base mesh, but I . . . I don't know how to do it.  Tried solving it with Adding Edge Loops but it's still hard for me to "flow" through the challenge, and I get stuck.  And then I just split the geo and get it all "hacked together."  It's overall just learning SubD I guess. I'm still really trying hard to find a comprehensive tutorial online that I can jive with that does teach a good portion of SubD challenges, or maybe I should just buy that tutorial from 3Dmotive.

Teutonian Dough Boy WIP6

Going to be modeling the Dough Boy, a Teutonian basic infantry robot that can transform to higher tier units when need be. Definitely looking for critques. I know there's a lot to learn.
Objective: Model and Texture a current-gen RTS Unit, the Dough Boy, for the game "The Maestros"

Planned Workflow
Concept > High Poly Sculpt (Maya, 3DSMax?, ZBrush) > Retopologize > UV (ZBrush UVMaster, Maya) > Texture

Specific Rules I need to hit:

• Final texturing needs to emulate the Van Gogh mark making style. (This piece is contributing overall to a game project I'm Art Directing on)
• Make better materials. Metal needs to look like metal. Leather like leather, etc. T that effect, I need to spend more time on the Specular Map and actually make a Glow Map (I think that's what it's called?)
• Learn better high-poly modeling techniques. Hard surface high poly mdoeling and Sub D modeling still eludes me. People say to use 3DSmax over my more familiar Maya, but it's really hard to find a good Maya tutorial series on completing a fairly complex hard surface model. Kinda tempted to actually give 3Dmotive money at this point. There's a LOT of free tuts on 3DSmax high poly modeling, though. Perhaps I should just take the time to learn the software.
• Understand what is valuable and what isn't. I'm new to modeling robot characters, but from looking at references from League of Legends or Team Fortress 2, there seems to be a lot of things I can forgo, like accurate joints, to speed up and keep my efficiency high for the model.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121203

Felspar Agaricus project complete

Project thread.

Felspar Agaricus WIP 28

WIP 28


Need critiques. Tomorrow is probably the last day I'm going to work on this.

Is it too dark? I get that the underside is basically pitch black, though I think tomorrow I will punch it closer to a darker shade of purple, unless it kills the effect that it has on the eyes.

Added more stretch marks on the belly, hand painted weave textures where appropriate. I think I solved some my potion issue and made them look decent, though perhaps they are the wrong color.

Felspar Agaricus WIP 24

Felspar Agaricus update

More Felspare thumbnails

Felspar Agaricus Thumbnails 2a

More refined thumbnails based on critiques/suggestions I've gotten.

Gonna push out a couple more if I have the drive, but no guarantee.  Idea feels fairly fleshed out in my head in terms of the general focus of the character, a lot of it seems to be just determining specific details.

==Self-reflection / Critique:==
- I'm still gravitating to the look of 1, though I don't feel like it gives a good enough silhouette as with 2 or 3.
- 4 I'm digging, but it feels too Western-y.
- Definitely want to incoproate Scottish garb for the pants/bottom tunic, etc.

Open to critique.

Making slow progress. Uncofident progress, but progress.

Notes to self and self critique:

- That left arm is still off.
- I am definitely not confident about what hue I need to be slapping on the trees.
- going to have to deal with competing light sources from the wings and the background will become difficult.
- Still unstaisfied with the ground, but I don't think the value in the fore can be changed at alll.
- Pushing the original gold towards the cooler end of the hues was a significant step I made. Slowly gaining confidence on how to control my colors more. It's okay if the gold doesn't look EXPLICITLY yellow-orange.

Studies and WIP

Taking care of this contest. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2992924

SLOWLY pushed out some more thumbnails. Any which one of these working and are good directions?

Mainly concentrating on Swain or Kayle as my focal character. Item will be in there, but since my general plan is to have them use it directly, the whole composition's got to work first.

Blizzard Entertainment Student Art Contest 2013 Character submission sent.

Portfolio updated

Calling it for the night.

Thank God I got this far, especially through the flu episode.