Posts by capone_adam

  • Old pier - game environment

    Schmung, Never too late to mention geometry issues...thankfully in max 7 you can preserve UV's while editing. I am editing as I go through my texturing and will post a final wireframe and tri count when finished.

    Its going quite slow, just having to keep retweaking things and getting colours to work with each other. I've spent ages trying to do the doors and just had to give up, thankfully I now have a 3 day break. I'll continue on Sunday, let me know any crits you may have. Thanks.

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  • Old pier - game environment

    Captain P, thanks. The idea was to create most of the 'wrecked' aspects within the texture. But your right, I will look at it again and see if theres more I can add with modeling before I start texturing.

    Jynxdaddy Kill me now...but what is a mapper?, is it someone working on a mod? What puts me off mods is that you rarely choose what you can do. Also it is mostly labs and industrial zones and other cliches I wouldn't want to put in a portfolio. My next environment project is going to be cartoony and I doubt anyone is doing a cartoony mod right now? Let me know if there is.

  • Old pier - game environment

    Recently at a couple of interviews it has become apparant that it is my environment work that is getting the attention. So, as much as it hurts, I'm devoting my time to environments for the next few years.

    Here is some WIP on my latest project, a old abandoned building on a british pier. I'm roughly going by reference images but putting my little changes here and there. I'll start texturing tommorrow but feel free at this point to crit my geometry/modeling.

    Thanks

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  • New character

    Thanks all, as you can see I've been trying to get the hair right. I used the vetetian blinds idea (about 4 planes) but I think I've done it wrong as I just don't like it. Is it really bad?...

    eyebrows and tash...great in terms of design but again my technical skills are letting it down. Might drop this project for a while, then just use the untextured head model as a portfolio piece.

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  • New character

    Carnival man wins...

    Since I have no High poly in my portfolio I thought I would make this my first piece of HP work. Still needs alot of tweaking but thought I'd show it while I ask a question...

    eyebrows and tash...how would you go about this with a HP stylized head?, I'm not wanting to use any hair plugins. Is it normal to extrude polys or should they be seperate objects. I have a feeling the answer is seperate objects but the problem I have with that is when showing wires it gets in the way of the underlying topology.

    Thanks for all crits and comments

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  • New character

    I thought there would be one clear winner...better explain the project a bit...

    This character is a sort of project where I'm trying to create a character that would suit a popular game series (FPS) that a company do who I soon have a interview with.

    The sniper guy, the ferris wheel isn't a gimmick. The idea is that you need to shoot out all the carridges as the wheel rotates (from a distance). Its very much what I'm about, fun is more important than realism. I'm really into the fact that games are currently obsessed with realism and so much so it limits what you can do with games. I swear, if Mario brothers was invented yesterday we would have people saying "But why would the koopas keep their shells on if mario can use them as weapons?...lets just put them in tanks".

    We're heading to a stage where if a game character needs health they have to head to a hospital and wait in a waiting room for 3 hours...look at MGS3, you have to treat individual wounds with particular treatments. Arm hit by bullet?...now you have to cut it out with a knife, tie up the wound and put on TCP...

    aaaaaanyway, back on track. If I do sniper I'll pull back the wheel as it DOES look a little too close in the concept, so his arms can bend back. Apart from that I think it will fine...without the wheel it just has no interest both in terms of gameplay and art/animation.

    Ah yes, is it based on my 'carnival' style projects?...I try and base all my characters within the same world. Its a sort of mixture between my own style and the style created by the company.

  • revamped showreel - requires crits

    Thanks Lee3dee, a few people mentioned the issue with the concepts at the start. I've took this on board as well as a few other crits, actually this new version is different in many ways. Much cleaner. It is also down to 20MB and 90 seconds running time. If you wish it can be downloaded in the link above.

    I'm actually doing a dvd version but for the first time, at the moment uncompressed my movie is 3GB. Normally I wouldn't dare, but if the dvd can easily fit it on why not?...what do you think? or should I make it more like 100-300MB?

  • Mad scientist lab

    skull!!

    Do try and at least put your own touchs into this. Thats something that annoys me about tutorials, they always revolve around ordinary subjects which for me make it more of a chore.

    How about making a lab underwater, a sinister lab in a candy store, a lab spectacle in a theme part where things go around by mechanisms, a lab from the 16th century...

    bad examples, anyway...going by your final year project I'm sure you will give it a personal touch.

  • Beast WIP

    About done, but really hit a problem. I'm really needing to move on, but I've adapted this high poly version from the low poly but I just don't have time to go around the mesh changing every single tri into a quad.

    The idea of doing the high poly was to show I can do it, but I feel its pointless showing it if it goes against one of the core rules of high poly work, all quads. So I may ditch the high and work on another project which focuses on high poly (rather than being a adapted low poly version) while I wait for feedback on my showreel.

    Have I really gone about this the wrong way, maybe I should of built the high poly and adapted it into a low?...

    Also, when I texture it I am going to unwrap the low poly, save uvs and put on high poly (if I go ahead with this), can anyone confirm that as a good method?

    Thanks

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  • Beast WIP

    Yeah, the lamp officially died...R.I.P...

    PS a normalmap????...I've been wishing for tht ability!, so you CAN make a normal map in the same way as a bump map? My painting is far better than my modeling.

    Not touched Zbrush yet, its on my 'to do' list. Basically, I really need this modeled and textured next week so can't be spending too much time exploring new methods.

    Anyway, I'm having to stop work on it for 2 days. So please continue crits, I'll pick em up on monday and tweak the model. Unwrap on tuesday...finished on thursday/friday...

    Thanks for all support!