Demonic Jungle Temple Video

Here I've uploaded my video of the jungle temple level I worked on along with Tim Went (http://teejaedubart.blogspot.com.au/), I've added a background tribal-like theme to cut the silence as the level never had any sound added. The video starts with a well presented camera flythrough then followed by a test build showing you how the first person camera interacts within the environment and some closer looks at the background objects. It consists of mainly prefabs and was built with a strict scale and geometry code. The assets i worked on are in a previous post. Hope you enjoy it.

Human Male Character Video

This is another video on my youtube, it's the male character I've been working on, fully textured and animated.

Tank Game Assets Video

Here's a video version of the Tank Game Presentation of the assets I made, it's on my youtube account. I've also provided a link to Matthew Mile's sound cloud account, credits for the music. 

Human Male Character : Earlier Stages

This was particularly an abandoned segment during the project which i was going to process earlier, but some screen shots of modelling the base meshes where found in my PC so i might as well post them here, it will give some insight of my pipeline workflow which i hope to detail in a future post. This was progress of modelling the African Male Head and a screenshot of both the Caucasian and African heads together in Maya as base meshes before being sent into Zbrush.

Human Male character : Concept to Final

This was posted earlier this year, however a glitch happened and some images that i uploaded went missing and posts had to be updated to be fixed. luckily it only took one night. This concept presentation was one of the images that went missing and i thought i might just re-post it. The original post just got cleaned up, features just separate renders of both the African and Caucasian males and the original concept art of all the ideas generated before settling with the business suit.

The character went as planned, it was a simple concept, i couldn't think of a back story for these characters

Story-wise, this character was somewhat not applicable being just a background feature for renders and game environments, but i would note down possible scenarios that they can be featured in (such as an office interior render, a sandbox type game that takes place in an urban environment), or i could say "there once was a man who walked to work with his briefcase, the end". Stepping away from the sarcasm, this was a fun project, however skinning the mesh to the rig was probably a hair grabbing experience which i hope to get better at. Here are a couple of screenshots of the high poly models....

Human Male Character: Added customization

Earlier this year my class had an assignment to model a character, textured them, rig them and animate. It was fun and challenging. However i didn't present the character completely so a few pics have been added, some cat t-shirts and different colored trousers. He's been place into unity and has a walking, running and idling cycle which i'll show in another post. 

I thought i'd make some extra diffuse maps to customize the character a bit more, a couple of motivating cat t-shirts, and some funky business wear for the less serious worker.

This was meant to be a joke, but i thought i may as well present it, he can be placed in a variety of environments, applied into architectural renders of future developments, he can be the guy that rings the alarm when a thief protagonist of a game robs a bank or maybe the big bosses entourage. 

Tank Game: Background Assets Presentation

Finally all the assets are presented with a full texture render and a wire frame low poly mesh display. Mentioned earlier the main tank has it's textured applied, but here you can see the object in it's un-textured form, just with all the other objects as well. Most of them turned out as expected, I think i should've spent more time on the diffuse map of the enemy tank by adding the same scratch marks, but at the same time it looks clean and majestic, kinda like with a typical game story where the bad guys work for a majestic company with a big boss of some sort, they have all the tricks of the trade while you're the protagonist covered in dents, scratches and bruises etc. Background vehicles were added to the scene, just to fill the background as the name states but are also target practice at the starting stage of the game, i kept them low detailed since they're not the primary focus. Damaged forms were added, this way it can be indicated that they have been destroyed, at one point with the test build of the game when things were destroyed the only indication was a fire particle that appears on the object, but it would retain the same appearance and stop animating. The rest of the assets where not completely planned, but were for the sole purpose of filling the background, however the sand bags were a last minute addition because when turrets (made by someone else) were placed in the scene it didn't make sense not having barricades. Time was minimally spent on those sand bags as they were pretty simple to make, the texture was generated by a tile-able texture of canvas applied in Zbrush using the surface noise deform-er. Most enjoyable was the junk pile, while the objects were everyday and somewhat mundane boxes with little to no color, there was a level of abstract to it which i enjoyed, also the fact that i'm making a 3D model of an unattractive object which feels somewhat pleasurable (because we all want to model superheroes and fast cars). It is indeed not a rubbish thing to do (no pun intended) but making objects which most people wouldn't do seems to be a fun thing for me. This was quite some fun, i knew nothing of tanks when i made these, but learnt a fair bit on their anatomies,  and add to that a variety of real life objects such as fences and plants, i made an alpha map, i made a vehicle, i made rubble. I shall conclude with the presenting.

The main star of the game, i hope to do more renders and snapshots of this and have it featured as a masterpiece.

The textures took so much room in this presentation slide, so i've added a standalone render combined with wireframe below for a closer look.....

And here's the junk pile at a closer glance, possibly the background piece i enjoyed modelling the most

So i hope you enjoyed looking at my 3D models, i hope to continue modelling things and improving my quality of art. I hope to make tile-able texture packs of varying game genres, and to also model objects for not just games, but also simulation purposes as well. Thanks for viewing.