Quick Update

Just figured I would make a little post about what's going on.

I started up at Bungie again as a Contract 3D Artist doing props for Halo: Reach. I joined up with 9 other guys in a separate building from the main studio. So far everything's been going great, and I really like how this project is looking already.

I really need to update my art section on my site, but I kind of have to wait, or want to wait on that until I can show my stuff from ODST this fall.

Other than that, nothing else has changed much. I have a new art director which is cool, it's nice to meet more of the Bungie team. We also have a new Associate Producer, who is a girl, which is also very nice, ha. Not too many of them around at work :(.

Update

Added a tiny bit more detail, not much. Mostly just wanted to do a better render closer to what Epic Games does for their highpoly stuff. Not sure if I will do anymore on this or not.

Small project

Started on this the other day just to get back into the swing of things. I may or may not do the low poly with textures, not sure yet. Spent probably 7-8 hours on this so far or something. Nothing really complex, but it was fun to do this far.

Sandbag Update

I re-worked the normal on the bags, added more wrinkles/folds, and added a detail bump to the shader. I also did quite a bit of work on the diffuse, adding some darker areas where the folds lie, and also making them look more worn/dirty.

Sand Bags (1st Pass)

One of my roommates requested me to make some sandbags for Unreal for a map he's making. So I made 3 differen't versions and combined them into 1 map, then rotated and adjusted them all to make this wall. I need to add more dirt/grunge on the texture yet, and do a possible spec map, as well as tweak the placement/pose of the bags.

Wagon Wheel

Another quick object I did and threw into Unreal. The textures look somewhat muddy... there 1024's too.. I think partially it's from the DXT compression Unreal does, but also just the fact I could have unwrapped my lowpoly somewhat better.

I brought the highpoly into mudbox for this one and sculpted the wood grain and some other dings and marks.

Edit: I added a detail normal map to the shader, which helps alot. It at least helps to make it look higher rez and not so muddy.

New Version:




Old Version:

Balloon Update

Well, I've been doing more playing around with the Unreal shader nodes, as well as doing more research and learning new techniques in Photoshop. Here is the updated model. I am probably done with this now. It was more of a test object than anything really. Now that I know more about Unreals rendering methods and just how to go about these things in general, I should be able to do something more interesting.