Saturday, July 30, 2011

More Iron Man 2: 3D Models

Might as well post a couple of model images from Iron Man 2 DS. They're not doing a whole lot sitting on my hard drive. As before, did the models and textures:





Copyright: SEGA, MARVEL

Friday, July 29, 2011

Kung Fu Panda 2 DS

Helped out on the Kung Fu Panda 2 DS title. Did a combat 'arena' with a city background, really nothing too special. Made the geo, textures and lighting... so, everything you see in these shots (except for maybe a few textures). I'm not sure if it got into the final game like this, or if it was modified and changed. I was only on the project for a week and a half and working on another game at the same time. If I had more time I would of added more detail, but then again I think I was already pushing the poly limits in certain camera views. The whole scene (and I do mean everything) was around 3500 polys.


Here you can see what the scene looks like in-game and what it looks like at the polygon level with the textures and vertex lighting removed.
*Secret revealed* the far buildings are nothing more than single poly planes with the textures and vertex lighting doing all the work.


Something that might be of interest: there wasn't any hardware fog in the scene. The atmospheric effect was created mainly by vertex lighting.

Copyright: Dreamworks

Monday, June 20, 2011

Katana

Two posts in one day? There must be something wrong with me.
Yet another fast one, done on a lunch break.
Don't you hate it when you're in your underwear and you have to do a sword battle?

Dwarf with revolver


This started out to be a technique study of a classical artist but quickly turned into something else. Went a little steampunk and gave the dwarf a mechanical hand holding a revolver. Smoking a cigar.
Looks classical to me.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Studies



Quick motion studies, I like the loose painterly ones I did on the bottom half of the page. Used the 1936 Flash Gordon serial as reference. The star of the feature, Buster Crabbe, is amazing to watch; he's an action comic book character come to life with his poses and movements.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Back to Basics

I did some quick painting using reference from some sci-fi show, Trek Wars or something. All kidding aside, "Firefly" has some great lighting samples thanks to the show using practical lights in the scene rather than blown out stage lighting.
Spent maybe an hour or so on each of these, I wasn't too focused on likenesses, but they ended up more or less looking like the actors. Why is it when I try to make it look someone it takes me twice as long?


Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Keeping it loose


A little fan art. Based this one off of an image from Bard's Tale II for the Apple II: