Final Hero Assets

Here are the final shots for my character and vehicle assets:

Rigging WIP

Still working on my character rig made to fit the UDK skeleton

I'm not exempt from making my character dance

Texturing

Trying to texture this guy in 3Dcoat...

Testing in UDK (gotta fix my AO and normals!)

Retopo WIP

Currently working on retopoing my character

WIP

Still have to fix the sandals and bow stuff more. Not entirely satisfied with the face yet.

WIP

I don't even know what to name these anymore but at least the face is slightly....better.

His nose and mouth are too small though....

Character WIP

Working on this guy's face still
I think the lips are too small but at least they resemble....lips a bit more.
Should probably smooth him out a bit more but wow! Lips are difficult

Character Blockout

Character blockouts before bringing it into ZBrush

Character Redesign

He has been reborn in a more fitting (but still cute) outfit!

UV Layout

  UV Layout, here we go

I think I might be missing some pieces...but int he mean-time...I've got this

Re-do and work in class

I ended up restarting the car since I had been using pretty awful top views of it. Found a much better top view (blueprints, yeehaw! Big thanks to Matt) and the other was getting...pretty messy. Wish I had gotten a big farther, meh.

Modeling START

Here are my beginning attempts at modeling THIS:

Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada

Still looking for a top view. Why......

Ah, it's a start!

Plopped it into UDK and um that's kind of small, isn't it? Must make it bigger...

Portfolio Update

Added more beauty shots and contact sheets for props and building kits to my portfolio.

Here's a few of them:

Some props and building sheets under the cut:

Aztec Dino World WIP

Some beauty shots we had to submit to see our progress on set-dressing

Too much red. Wagon and bones are competing with each other. Need more set-dressing on the right.

Textures too busy. Too much red still.

Stretchy textures in back (terrain why). Again too busy-- kinda bright.

Alleyway Pitch

I had initially thought about using Hashima Island as the main setting for the ally pitch. 

It's an abandoned island shaped like a battleship, formerly used to mine coal. I first stumbled upon Hashima island probably around two years ago via this article on Vice. Some people hop on over and sneak on to the (at the time off-limits) island. The images stayed with me and popped back into my head at the time the project was brought up.

I continued to look into abandoned places and stumbled upon a book on the Ruins of Detroit. Inspired, I began mashing up different architectural forms from both Detroit and Hashima. I stumbled upon some Hong Kong alleys as well and well, this was the result:

The general concept for this is as follows: This alleyway is one populated by the mole people of urban legends: people who have taken shelter in underground, abandoned facilities and created their own little society of sorts. The culture that developed has taken to using the rail tracks provided in order to thrive in a different form of entertainment: mine cart racing.  

The whole mole people thing is pretty interesting since it's not set in any sort of post-apocalyptic world. They're just homeless people forced to move farther underground. Many of them have made tunnels, subways, etc. into their place of living before and during our current time period.

If given the chance, I'd like to give Jennifer Toth’s “The Mole People: Life in The Tunnels Beneath New York City” a try.