Current Progress

Still chomping away at this bit in class, and it's looking better and better! Added in more natural features like trees, rocks and tall grass, the latter probably unseen in these screenshots, as the environment isn't well populated with them yet. But hopefully with time it will, and it will look far more natural than it is now. As well I've added more assets, namely the large glowing dial to give the area a more mystical temple ruin look to it.

I addition, I'm planning to add a couple towns/villages to the world in separate Unity scenes. the concept art is for the second one, its entrance will be toward the end of the graveyard/temple area. The other one will have a more classic medieval town feeling, while this will be more earthy, the village being merely wooden houses built into the sides of a deep ravine.

Graveyard Update!

I've been really busy over the past month or so since I've last posted. Been working hard at my modeling unwrappping and texturing methods over the time. Over time, the project has become partly a collaborative effort, thrust forward by my teacher. The spur of the moment idea was great though! It's opened up the world to include something strange and out of the ordinary for it! The temple structure you see was modeled by my classmate and good friend Richard Perez. If you wish to see his work, visit his blog at richardvp.

Concepts

Flying car: station wagon


Infestation


Orbital Burger Joint

In Unity!

FINALLY getting things into Unity! Finished up the textures I needed, made some on the fly, and threw it all in!

Spooky Graveyards n' Stuff!

Working on the more prominent assets of the level. Hopefully I can get an alpha done in the next 2 weeks.

Update!

Been working my ass off. There's more than this, will post on Monday when I get to the studio for more images.

3D'd Texture Test!

Sometimes textures look great, looking flat and perpendicular to your face. However, in the 3D realm of games and animation, it could look way different when tiled, lit lowly, and viewed from a different angle other than head-on in Photoshop's window. So far, I'm very pleased with what I have done. I've grown much in putting more and more dimension into my handpainted textures, adding more darks and lights to make it feel like there really is depth to it, starting from the brick walls back in May, to the summertime stone floor tile, to the wood that I've started and finished yesterday. And I hope to grow so much more with this. My next challenge: metal! Hope it turns out well when I get to it!

Texture Updates!

Concepts

STONEWALLED

Semester's over, but I'm still working my ass off. My latest textural endeavour is this nice little quad-tiled stone wall/flooring.

All In All...

...you're just another brick in the wall. -Pink Floyd

Working on the brick texture for my new project, going for a more handpainted/Blizzard style of texturing. Personally, I think it's going along great.

OMG UPDATE!

Been working pretty hard these past few weeks getting the spaceship completed. I still have an array of textures to make, apply them, and put it all into the engine. As well, I had to step up my job hunt, which paid off, as I will now be working come May. Anyway, here are the screenshots straight from the Unity engine:

WIP Updates

Because some of the rendering I showed in a previous post weren't really up to date, I've decided to post the most up-to-date shots of my work.

The atomic generator's tesla coils have their texture complete and applied, now, as well as the support beams that will be used throughout the ship. I'm very satisfied with how the brushed metal came out on the orb at the end of the coil. Looks absolutely brilliant!

As stated before, the computer and mainframe has been completed for quite some time. The large levers and analog gauges are textured and applied, completing the control console. The mainframe is pure image mapping. Tape spools and all slapped onto a cube, but still cleanly done nonetheless.

Some Space-y Stuffs.

So I've been pretty busy with this semester long assignment for my gaming environment design class. I've finally got something into the game engine (we're using Unity) and the little bit that I have somewhat polished was shown to an advisory board meeting of some professionals from Blizzard (art lead for Diablo III), Farsight(environment artist), and Sony Santa Monica(Environment art lead for God of War III), which I was really excited about. I was paired with a character designer who had made an excellent robot character, (seeing as my spaceship was the closest match) so many changes were made to my environment. Originally, I wanted to make everything in Russian, to give a sense of unfamiliarity, and to stir up some old Cold War/Space Race vibes, as well as everything being designed with a retro-futuristic/atompunk flair. So we have this vintage/modern clash going on here, which I think is pretty cool, and will make it much more interesting.



This is the current state of the generator room, sans walls to get a proper rendering. One of the biggest motifs I wanted to flaunt was the use of the Tesla coil. These things scream "mad science" and is a staple in a retro sci-fi theme. Case-in-point: Fallout 3 and Wolfenstein!





Granted, the coil wasn't too big of an implement in my original ray gun model:



The model has been abandoned anyway, as it was originally going to be used as an FPS implement.

Another big thing were the computers.



The computers are made in the old-fashioned UNIVAC style room fillers. Granted, this is a rather old rendering. The rest of the components are fully textured, as well as a mainframe model, which compliments this very nicely.

Imagine Cup

Awhile back in my C++ programming class, we were sucked into entering the Microsoft Imagine Cup (official site here), competing in embedded systems. However, I'm not exactly a coding logic-oriented person, and found little interest in competing in it. I found that there were other fields other than embedded systems, such as, well, game design. I talked to my professor about it and how I was majoring in game art & design. She practically flipped and told me about another team she was mentoring in Huntington Beach, that was in need of an artist (their original guy apparently flaked out or something, I'm not too sure on the details) and I agreed to join. The theme for the year's national competition was something along the lines of educational gaming. The team's subject was a rather grim one: infant mortality. So I was charged with making a simple house interior, with a crib, some toys, and a fridge. Just some of the more important things to focus on, as well as the GUI:

The texturing and GUI was developed with Photoshop and Illustrator, and modeled & rendered with Blender. Many of the other teams were quite impressed with the work, and I was asked to do a splash page by another team, whose project was oceanic pollution:


Despite our hard efforts, however, our team did not make it to round 3. Hopefully, we will get back together for 2011, as we do have much of the artwork and source code completed.

Finished! (almost)

The modeling for the main structure is pretty much done, save for some adjustments, and now I'm going to have to go through the painful process of unwrapping and creating the textures, and moving toward programming the models into the unity game engine.

Progress

Here's the first screencap of my current project in Anim 130. I've finally got used to working with Autodesk Maya and making great progress as you can see. Most of the modelling is done, at least for the outside of the building.

Stoned: The End?

Oh man I hope this is good enough. This little square has been splitting my mind in two for the past two weeks!

Update tomorrow afternoon after critique.

Stone Wall: Update

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Just got into the animation lab, nabbed the last available computer station with a graphics tablet and added this little afterthought: if this temple has been sitting in a dense, humid jungle, wouldn't there be growth on the stone? So I dropped the file into Photoshop and added an extra layer under all the shading & highlights and put in some moss. The professor has yet to see this, so I might update this with the result of his critique and a possible updated version.

UPDATE: Prof's review.
Dimension: check.
Texture: check.
Natural looking: not so much. Some of the brushwork is too patterned and lost some of it's painterly look. Gonna have to look up some links, and go for another back-breaking evening at home adding more detail to this until it's perfected.

STONED.

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Original design in Corel Painter


Redone with Corel & Photoshop

So I took my texture in to work with my professor, and he gave me lots of help with improving my texture and giving it MUCH more depth! I've been working on it all evening to get it done. Was it ever tedious! But I guess this is what you have to go through to make it in the industry. My back is bloody stiff, but the outcome of this justifies it quite well and I'm very satisfied with this.