Captsone Project Poster

My game pitch, This Is You and Me, was one of two chosen out of thirty to be developed over the course of two modules.  This is the poster for the game.  : )

Wildstar Desert Environment UPDATE

I wrapped up the various palm trees, made a lil' cactus from the big cactus protrusion by applying the tile I made, and made some spec adjustments to the asset's materials within UDK.

Here they be:

And here are the palm textures:

Still have a little square of space left. If I encounter anything small I need along the project, I'll squeeze it in there. Also I should note that though I'm displaying these at 512 in this thread, the actual maps are 1024 in UDK.  The assets are all player scale or larger and this is a personal project, so I figured it was alright.

Next I'm going to be starting on the terrain/landscape so I can get a real scene blocked in instead of using a default UDK scene.

Like always, comments and critiques are welcomed!

Wildstar Desert Environment (Cory Loftis Concept), UDK

So a friend brought to my attention that I should probably post my WIP project on here as well as Polycount, so here it is.

I came to the realization a while ago that my portfolio was entirely lacking in the environment department. So I went on the hunt and ended up deciding on actualizing one of concepts that Cory Loftis generated for Wildstar:

I'm hoping that I end up doing it justice. : )

Some goals I have for this project:

1) Generate a quality environment for my portfolio.
2) Get better at generating hand-painted tileable textures.
3) Various UDK learnins' (vertex color in engine, texture blending, particle effects, etc.)

There are others, but I feel like those are the primary ones.

I've generated a prioritized asset list for the scene (subject to change):

PRIORITY--1:
Terrain Textures:
Sand
Cracked Clay
Rock (same as monolithic stones)

Plants:
Palm-esque Bulb Tree
Palm Tree (combine or build this in conjunction with Palm Bulb Tree; build Bulb version, remove bulb for regular Palm version)
Red Flowers (primarily on bones)
Viney Red Fire Flowers
Medium Cactus
Large Cactus (huge thorns)

Rocks:
Large Monolithic Rocks
Small Rocks

Bones:
Skull Variant 1
Vertebrae Variant 1
Rib Variant 1 (scale and adjust to create multiple variants)

Other:
Skybox
Rocky Billboard (for background)


PRIORITY--2:
Terrain Textures:
Moss/Lichen

Plants:
Bare, Scraggly Tree
Spindly Cactus

Rocks:
Boulder Variant 1

Bones:
Skull Variant 2
Dorsal Spike


PRIORITY--3:
Terrain Textures:
Dirt
Rocky Dirt

Plants:
Small Yellow Ground Flowers
Small Tube Plants (next to fire flowers)
Small Bulbous Cactus (or modify medium cactus to use for this as well)

Rocks:
Boulder Variant 2

Bones:
Skull Variant 3
Rib Variant 2
Tail Bone

Other:
Wood Rope Bridge


With that asset list made, the first thing I did was block out each of the Priority 1 assets (the little rectangle on the right is player scale, I modified it a bit from the concepts established gargantuan scale):

From there I picked three assets to make first, a "small" asset (the large cactus, a "medium" asset (the bulb palm tree), and a "large" asset (one of the monolithic stones). On top of this I started noodling on the first terrain texture, cracked clay.

Here are the shots of the Large Cactus as of now:

Hi-Poly

Poly Paint

Low Poly Texture Progress

Low Poly in UDK

Textures

Palm Bulb Progress:

Hi Poly

Poly Paint

Low Poly in UDK

Textures so far...

I'm going to use the bottom right corner for the trunk tile. Similar to the set up I used on the cactus map.

Here is where I'm at on the terrain texture that I started

Haven't started on the large monolithic stone yet.

Still trying to work out a plan of attack since I've never tackled a huge rockface like that before.

Anyways, I just wrapped up my thesis artifact, so now I can dedicate more time to this project. : )

Comments and critiques are always welcome.

-Jordan

Italians Bring That Fire...

Quick-ish painting/sketch based off an even rougher drawing I did today at Industry Giants.  Decided I'm going to do a re-design of the entire Mario cast.  Ideally, I'd like to take a few of these characters through to game assets.  So you know...I'll add that to my pile of projects.

Smattering

Here is an eclectic smattering of some of the art I've made over the last month and a half-ish.  I need to get better at posting more frequently.

First up is another sculpt I did for practice:

Then my thesis artifact, concept first, followed by the in Marmoset, game-ready versions:

Here is a critter I painted as a thank you to anyone who took the time to test my thesis. : )

Another critter I'm painting for someone who was with me at Blizz over the summer:

 A friend at school was making the sloth version of Eevee from Pokemon, so I contributed the dragon-type evolution:

Bat duder:

This is the Brief Monster versus the Boxer Monkey...I don't even know:

Quick Pre-Bed Sculpt

Quick sculpt I did before crashing last night.  Desperately needed to do something non-thesis related to stay sane. Concept is by Soren Bendt Pedersen. 2 hours at this point. I'm calling him Fruit-Batman. Don't you just want to hug him? : )

Here is a link to the concept:

http://cghub.com/images/view/132607/

Blizzard Internship

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!  I was lucky enough to get a summer internship at Blizzard!  This is such a tremendous opportunity.  I'm super excited and when I found out yesterday I was smiling like a fool for so long my cheeks started to hurt!

Just so this isn't solely a "braggy" type of post, here is the logo I made for my capstone development team at school:

I'll definitely start updating this blog regularly again!  I had been leaving it alone because it was functioning as my portfolio for the application process, but now that that is over, I have a lot of work to post up...once I finish wrangling it all together and making it presentable.

Portfolio