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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:29 am
So on the art thread I've posted a top-down sketch of an environment I'm making for college. That thread gets far more attention so the image is bound to be buried but I can't be stuffed putting it here too so I'm just going to assume you've seen it or something.
With that in mind, here's the current greybox of the level.
My teacher told me that, despite thinking that it was a good idea at first, using the scenery at the outer edges of the map as an actual part of the level used for platforming would be too ambitious and I wouldn't have time to put all the detail into it. So the island at the centre with the big grey crater will be the only playable area.
That blue smudge towards the left of the crater is a pair of towers, with one being modelled off something I built in Terraria (but only because I thought of it ages ago in high school). Now I'm making it. It's good to have this part of my game design career where what I make is entirely up to me, whereas in the actual industry, I'll be making hyper-realistic, super MLG guns for COD 29 or something. It's not that creativity-driven.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Fri Apr 17, 2015 5:35 am
NEXT GEN CUBE, BEYOND NEXT GEN - CROSS-GEN
So we had this random pipeline today where we modelled these tiles, exported them to Zbrush, then put them through the ringer that is Xnormal and then finally Photoshop with dDo. The guy who came in to show us this described the finished result as 'boner-worthy'.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Fri May 01, 2015 8:39 am
Alright, assignment completed. I can now do roleplay posts and work on finishing Vegas.
This is the flythrough for my game level. I ended up cutting a LOT of content from the original plan (huge, arching ice structures and the like) and settled for a flat, vast scene instead of a small, grand one. The tower changed, mostly in brick texture. This was the most work I've done in UE4 so next time I do a level I should have a pretty good handle on it. I also need to streamline my workflow, and I think improving my drawing skills and not knocking off to play Warframe late at night could really help.
Here is the image I used for the sky. It's important because I made it myself. If you want to use a royalty-free star field and don't want to go look for one, make your own why not just use one from someone you know? For the record I made many of the textures in this level, many of those from scratch. I'm just more proud of the star field.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Wed May 20, 2015 6:29 am
I'm currently working on the character module for this year, which is like the one from last year but this time I know what I'm doing. In the meantime, I've created a Sketchfab account and I'm uploading some of my models there so I can build a portfolio. So far I've only uploaded the volcanic scene at I posted about on the previous page, but instead of viewing it in teeny-weeny-eyestrain-O-vision you can actually turn it around and look at it.
Here is the link to my account: https://sketchfab.com/brendanmicallef
There's an embed tool for BBcode, however it doesn't seem to work here so I can't stick the widget here.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:34 am
WIP shot of my current college assignment, which is basically a repeat of the character module I did last year. This time we have a better workflow and know how to do more things, like not modelling detailed bodies that will be hidden behind clothes and skinning them anyway. I'm looking at you, me.
From thumbnail to concept to model with flat colours, this is Angelina, a character I have planned for the sequel to the Pokemon RP I've been hosting for over three years. The face in the concept image is really creepy because it's flat and looks like Marilyn Manson, but that's got nothing on the modelled face, which looks like it popped right out of the uncanny valley. I'm hoping against hope that with a textured face and eyebrows it will look better, because this is my first time doing a realistic human head; the characters I did last year were based off an anime aesthetic.
Now comes the part where I texture, rig, skin, animate and export the character to game engine.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:34 am
Animating's a good job, mate! It's challenging work, indoors. I'll guarantee you won't go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long as there's two people left in the games industry, someone is gonna want something moving.
"Dad? Dad, I'm a- Ye- Not a 'source film maker', dad, I'm an animator! ...Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's a bloody passtime!"
I'll be honest with ya: my parents do not know much about it.
Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes that contort their models beyond recognition for a cheep laugh. Professionals have standards.
Be on time.
Be efficient.
And have a plan to rig anyone you meet.
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Thu Jun 11, 2015 5:13 am
im sorry but that reminded me of this:
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Subject: Re: Tate's renders -- Now in college Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:24 am