BMG OMAHA

So for this project I decided to try and recreate a concept from Mykhalio Moskal for his S&W illustration. I figured with the complexity of the shapes and the way he rendered the metal, it would prove a good learning experience for understanding complex simple shapes and challenge me to try to interpret an 2d plain into 3d!


Here's the final renders with materials, I feel pretty good for the final with the time I had and the experience level that I'm at. I think I may come back to it later down the road and redo some shapes, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Object based story telling using assets

So for the final turn in for our first project in Fusion 360 I took the final high poly from last turn in and tweaked it a bit. Growing up, my pops was a big hunter and my first knife was his old buck knife. Being, like 7 or something, I never actually used it for its intent and definitely abused the hell outta it. I think its main purpose was as mold line cleaner for models as well as a nifty screw driver. So using that I thought of a little girl finding her Dad's old knife and maybe givin it the same run around.

Here's the final for the low poly, I was able to keep it under 3000 polys which is what the assignment called for!



I then took the concept of the buck knife and applied it to the Spyder Co. knife that we originally did. I modified the look by taking out the divots on the exposed side of the handle and changed the clip to being a solid shape because I felt that it would fit more with the overall feel.



So I decided to make sure it looked like it had been in and out of pockets/backpacks/adventure pouches. Maybe she used it to dig in the garden, scratch her name in a tree, or even practice throwing it at a stump. I also liked the idea of her scratching her pet name given to her by her father into the brass, kinda a transfer of ownership.



And here's a final shot! I enjoyed working on this small tutorial project, it was nice to help get aback into the swing of things after the break.

Fusion 360 Knife, first pass

Here's the first pass of a Knife made in Fusion 360, I followed a tutorial from a former FIEA artist which helped me learn the basics of the program fairly quickly. I've never worked in a CAD similar program, but it was fun to use such precise measurements for an object. Especially since the factory specs were available!



Here's the wire frame created inside of Fusion 360



Here's a nicer render from the programs native renderer



Last but not least, the final model ported into Zbrush for any finer details I might want to add later

Final illustration

For the final illustration I decided to go back to traditional hand drawn style, I felt like with all the digital work I had done, I wanted to see the progression of my traditional work!

environment final

So here is the final shots for the environment piece that I worked on with Marchand Venter!

We ended up cutting scope quite a bit due to time, but I feel like we stayed true to the concept 

I ended up diving into substance designer to create the wall textures and the mud

We ended up taking a stylized approach, using larger shapes highlighted with flat color 

I ended up lighting the scene, and getting to understand how atmosphere and mood play into an image 

skysphere

Skysphere for the retrovainia project!

final illustration pass 1

Rocks

Here are some rocks I made and ported to UE4



rocks by themselves

The Thing

John Carpenter was the Director of The Thing. He's directed such iconic movies as Escape from New York, They Live, and Halloween to name a few. His use of blue and pink/orange lighting to illuminate scenes and show drama is incredible. In the end, Child's is most likely the surviving organism, due to him not being around during the final climax and accepting MacReady's drink offer so readily. Though if he was, he would have attacked him outright, unless he was waiting for him to sleep/die to assimilate him. Who can say?

lighting 2

For this assignment, I decided to repaint my old piece with color to show how the temperatures would work.

tiling textures

 

For this assignment I made a tiling texture from Zbrush to substance painter!