It's been a while!

Various comings and goings of recent work on Oubliette.

Paper Panzers (kinda)

Couple of older projects getting a much needed revamp before bunging them into DDo. The German Maus and Russian KV-2X (based on the MIG productions 1/35th model kit.)

 

Of course some German and Russian tank crew might be needed!

Oubliette Prototype level/Unity

Screen grab of a small section from the Oubliette project Dungeon level. Unity being the engine of choice for quickie working prototypes. Shame the screen grab is flat and somewhat muddy!?! I need to find a better way of taking screen grabs me-thinks.

City Guard WIP

 

More fun and games with Marvellous Designer 4! Really love this software for getting the 'basic' folds created. Although even as 'polygons' imported into Zbrush the process of tidying up the imported mesh is time consuming and somewhat fiddly with some Maya work required for troublesome areas ( making the cloth double sided being such a problem ) But still saving time overall in the sculpt process.

 

 

Chainmail test using Zbrush/Micromesh feature.

Dwarf Engineer WIP

Playable character for the 'Oubliette' project.

 

In-game mesh nearly completed and ready to rig and skin before handing it over for animation. Just the basics: walk, run, jump and idle for now which is enough to have it working within the Unity demo level.

 

 

And finally!

 

 

Hammer Warrior WIP

Mock-up and cloth simulation(s) completed and now onto the high detailing in Zbrush.

Change in tabard design from plain cloth to padded with metal pin rivets in the fold joins.

Oubliette Pillar

 

Pillar modules in Zbrush for 'Oubliette' project WIP

Dragon Head traditional sculpt

Dragon head WIP.

The roughing out stage is nearly done so now comes all the fun detailing. I'm using a new medium called Monster Clay .... warming it in a home made clay oven which is a wooden box lined with aluminium foil with a 60 watt light bulb inside.

 

Lots of fun using traditional techniques, although the absence of an 'Undo' button can be cause for the use of some colourful expletives at times lol. I can highly recommend Monster Clay as it's not sticky like some mediums and is soft at warm room temperature ( but its not cheap )

Blight Knight WIP

Hrmmm I should have made a comment about this piece. Work for a personal project comprising of a number of Warhammer styled characters which won't have that 'Toy' look to them. Still at the blocking out/design stage but hope to get everything ready for the high detail sculpting once my current contract work gears down over the Christmas break and I can afford to devote more time to it (them).

 

 

Continuing with my clay sculpting direction(s) I decided to produce this character in the real world in clay, it should stand about 12 inches tall which is about 1/6th scale.

 

Character Art Test

 

A recent Art Test I was asked to undertake: I had some fun with this producing the facial expressions by exporting the Zbrush mesh into Maya and rigging/posing it then importing back into Zbrush for tweaking and rendering. (Polypaint used for textures)

Cadian Guardsman

First pass in Zbrush of the Cadian guardsman and completed (almost) Laser rifle/rendered in Marmoset Toolbag2.

Ork Warboss

A quickie bit of Sunday afternoon modelling in Maya for an Ork Warboss in power armour.

I'm going to take this down a more realistic route and not just make a 3D model of a plastic figure and use Vray to render the scenes.

Art Test Work

Duration two weeks: Buildings, Cannons, Galleon, Characters and Environment assets. This was an intense work load but lots of fun to complete.

 

I used Unity to build the prototype: The Galleon has working cannons which fire at the islands buildings and can also be sailed around the map. The sea fort cannons fire back at the Galleon. Very reminiscent of the video game 'Overboard'.

 

 

A few of the presentation slides showing buildings in a forced isometric view (as requested)

 

 

 

 

 

She Woman Cat Type Thing

Roughed out model for a cat girl character for 'Project Lynk'

Not sure about the ears? Although it would allow for some great expressions.

Next: Uvs and straight into Zbrush for some medium level sculpting, this being a mobile/tablet game character and so not requiring every freckle and pore.

New Character Work

A couple of new personal projects feeding my 40K obsessions. Mocking these up in Maya first and avoiding that whole 'toy' feel thus leaning more towards the realistic. Happy with the base polygon count so far and the overall shapes, UV sets also completed which leaves some minor 'tweaks' and then export them over to Zbrush for sculpting and probably more amends.

P.M.C Character Textures WIP

 

WIP progress on textures and I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel with these characters. Think I'll leave them alone for a short while and return to do the final tweaks, the females skin normal map is missing hence the' plastic looking' skin shader. But overall happy with the outcome of these two.

Final Generic Ork completed.

Final tweaks on the Ork character and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag2 which is a very cool and cheap piece of software.

Project Lynk concept paintings

A mad flurry of work for a new project called 'Lynk' It's been a busy week and here's some of the results.

 

 

 

 

Female biker head/helmet

 

It's going to be a hard task making a women dressed in bike leathers look 'sexy' and not like a bag of potatoes. But I accept that challenge as what's the point in doing all 'this' if it's going to be easy.

 

Final In Game mesh and textures, although still not happy with the hair!?!

Military Character Props

 

Generic Military props, not much to say about these 'name on the tin and all that ...'

Although Applying the surface effects like fabric can be a bit hit and miss in Zbrush both methods of mapping either UV or object producing areas of weird coverage on occasions. But still a damn sight quicker and accurate then trying to paint them on by hand with an alpha map.