Tattoo Drawing 12/18/2016

Tattoo Drawing 12/17/2016

Tattoo Drawing 12/16/2016

Tattoo Drawing 11/18/2016

Tattoo Design 13/11/2016

Making a 2D game: Victory is Mine

This is a game made for the global game jam 2015 at my local venue, AIE Canberra. Basically we have 48 hours to make a game, then we present to the other groups. It was a fun event, i wish that more game jams would happen during the year itself.

Victory is mine is the title of this game i worked on with my team, it's a play on the word 'MINE' because it takes place in a Mining environment. The idea is that it's two player with an area for each player to progress to the right hand side of the screen. Opponents trip switches which activate traps and obstacles on the opposite player's area. Unity engine was being used, in 2D top down format. The traps are health damaging, causing one player to own victory, as stated by the title. Unfortunately we didn't finish the game in time, but we had catchy background music which was our saving grace.

Assets made by me include a series of mining tracks, industrial pipes and leaking toxic barrels which will be displayed below. These were made in Autodesk Maya first, then rendered with neutral top-down lighting so that they can be placed in any rotation. Then i painted over them in photoshop to give them the stylized look. I then saved them as png's so that they can have the alpha channel (while still keeping the .psd files so i can play with them later).

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....

Chain Link Fence Alpha Map

Using Targa or .tga files, i made a Transparent Alpha Map of a chain link fence. This was featured in a post earlier but i removed it, it can be seen in other posts along with the background assets for a tank game i'm doing the art lead for. I place my Robotic Bee inside a closure to see what the alpha looks like:

The Alpha seems to be working in Maya. Despite Having back-face culling turned on, the .tga file texture of the fence remains double sided

So i have my method of achieving this tilable texture. I would make a simple perfectly square shaped plane in Maya, this would be the low poly to where the high poly details will be baked onto. After exporting the plane as my low poly obj file with "LP" in the name meaning Low-Poly, i would then add divisions then export that one as another .obj file. I would add "MeshEdit" to the name which means i'm going to put the mesh in Zbrush and edit it, it is my own naming convention, we all have our own ways of naming and doing things. I would import the MeshEdit file into Zbrush and keep subdividing the surface (without smoothing) until i hit the million mark in active points. This is where i apply the surface noise maker. In the image below you can see I have used a tile-able texture of a chain link fence i found on the internet and have it projected from directly above, the texture gets projected depending on what angle you are previewing the object your adding the surface detail to. It is highlighted in the image on how to do this correctly:

My instructions are in red text

After i'm happy with the surface noise maker in Zbrush, i apply it to the mesh, then export is as a .obj file with "HP" in the name of the file meaning "High Poly". The low and high polys are then draged into Xnormal for baking, where i achieve my Normal and Ambient Occlusion maps. I will use the Ambient Occlusion for the basis of my Diffuse and Spec Maps which i'll hand paint in Photoshop.

Using the ambient occlusion i have achieved from Xnormal, i make selections in Photoshop, modify the border sizes of those selections and hit delete so i can achieve the gaps between the chain links

I keep these selections active when i paint colors and details onto the chain links, i need to keep the gaps uninterrupted. The gaps will be black in the spec map so that there are no light reflections in the gaps. The Diffuse map will have the alpha channel place into, it will be in the .tga format. Here we have an alpha, it took multiple attempts.

RoboBee or Robotic Steampunk Bee: An old project from a year ago restored like an old car

I got a bit bored during my time at school and just foraged through my memory sticks then ran into this Robotic Bee which i totally forgot about, so being bored i decided to pick up from where i gave up. To me it's not a success, the poly count is far to high for being involved in large swarms and there was never any colored concept art done for it. However better than nothing, i decided to have a go texturing it then rigging it so at least it can do something. I spent hours on it, after all it's worth doing. Some say do not be afraid to start again regardless of a project remaining unfinished, some say continue until it's done, or work on multiple projects so if i get bored of one, work on the other. Many ways of dealing with projects leads to a grey area on what is the best approach or pipeline workflow, but i decided to have a crack at restoring projects like restoring a vintage car. So here we have a Bee that started as a tutorial in class on how to model and texture basics which was to look like your average bee, became a clean metallic robot, finally deciding on a rusted post apocalyptic look that's been rigged and fully colored and textured.

Thanks for viewing.

The original Design, as i mentioned lack of color

Work in Progress

Side Progress

Here we have the high poly model, i added more detail after that which you'll see on the final product.

Now for the final look.

I used an alpha in Zbrush to get this detail on the eyes, it was a tile-able microphone texture

My Bee has iron guts. Yeah

Trubbish and Garbodor remind me of cookie dough

I remember first seeing these two Pokemon, m&ms embbedded into their doughy bodies. i think they're quite funny looking pokemon in an adorbale way.

So i drew this in my spare time:

Human Male Character

Concept Art

African Male Civilian in Suit

Caucasian Male in Suit

High Poly of African Male

High Poly of Caucasian Male

Tribal Temple Concepting Continued

Some Color Schemes to choose from, ended up deciding with the greenish one

Tribal Jars and Containers