Blitz Chest

Gun Project

Had alot of ups and downs. Made many mistakes and learnt lots from them

Final Render with 64 x 64 texture =

Spoken through whole process with Tanguy

Rubbish - First Art Test.

Brief:

Working close to industry standard brief produce a Rubbish boxes asset to go into a game engine.

WIP:

Went Through many iterations for this project, had a few topology issues, then had difficulties trying to create a high quality Ambient Occulsion for the first time.

Then had clipping issues with cardboard flaps clipping through the model went baking Ao maps

Maps:

Renders:

Tree Assignment

Brief:

Really Great Brief this one so included all of it:

Successful entertainment design extends beyond props and environments: good design, especially in animation and games, can create and enhance mood and story.

 I want you to create a “character tree” concept – by this I don’t mean a tree with a face that walks around as in Lord of The Rings. Nothing wrong with that of course, but this brief is to create a tree with character: a tree that conveys a sense of place, atmosphere, feeling or mood – magic, fluffy bunnies, unease, danger... your choice.

Good design, no matter how imaginative, is informed by the real world and trees have a recognisable structure and anatomy just as humans and animals do. You should prepare by doing research and studies of tree types, bark, branches/leaves, roots - you can use paper, pencil, photoshop, etc.

Inspiration:

More this way ->

http://www.pinterest.com/maxleah/tree-project/

Textures:

Tree Rendered:

wanted to create a mangove tree, with character and be an in game asset for our Game Slice

Christmas Project

Brief: "is to produce an image featuring Santa Claus that will be used as a CGA Christmas card."

Inspiratation:

I was really inspired by "Low Poly trend", not something in Video Game circles, but 3D stills, for advertising and other media. These designs are very simplistic color and design wise but really on geometric shapes to add interest and create detail. The Low Poly trend, also had a lot of soft lighting and light paper textures. 

I was also interested by 3D type and scene layout; although with the small Christmas cards meant a small canvas i knew i had to keep it small and punchy.

So I started with box model then then used the cut tool to insert all kinds of geometry, the legs and chest went quite well.

The face however didn't go to well and got to out of control

I went through a lot of iterations trying to fix all the issuses and going back and working it again, yet the problem wasd to deep and in-grained 

I started on the Deer that I wanted to go in my scene with Santa, instead of building crazy geometry and extruding this time I box model a simple deer. 

Instead of using the Slice and Cut tools, I inserted edge loops and keep the design faceted and simple

Although still had issues

Final WIP

Due to excessive topology, no edge loops and overlapping. The textures and UV's didn't come out very well. I tried using Mudbox's paint tool to account for the problems, but i could not help me.

unsucessful AO renders:

Final Renders:

I applied a dark grey texture and added in a Sky Light to illuminate and create crisp shadows on the faceted topology.

Overall I was quite happy with the final renders, they do lack a bit of christmas colour, however they do capture my original intentions

Even though i encounter the alot of problems with this chosen design, it did teach me a lot. 

By doing the complete opposite of what I had been taught in Video Game 3D, I learnt about the Cutting and Slicing tools. Why bad geometry is bad, how to avoid bad geometry. 

I will definitely revisit this next year, as still inspired the style and there is still a lot to learn from making mistakes.