Game Art

as i have decided he is no longer viable for the mars project, i have decided to reveal my personal project that everyone has already seen. i learnt a lot undertaking this project, and it took me a whole day to model and figure out, i encountered some never-before-seen errors and had several meltdowns trying to unwrap him but it will all be worth it in the end. taking name suggestions. i'll likely leave him be for now and unwrap the rest of him and paint him over third term for a very tri heavy diorama piece

4 quick thumbnails for the 2 point assignment, i think i'm enjoying doing these more as i better know what's expected of me and i can put a lot less effort into the preliminaries to generate ideas, so i have more variance and then also more time on the final. I like the 4th one the most out of these and will refine him between 3D work the following week

modelled droid and the start of my journey to learning substance painter, which i have stubbornly refused to look at tutorials for. for now im using masks and mask builder along with some normal layer alphas to achieve the effect i want, since he's going to have been buried for a long time. i havent used reference for this as searching for rusted robots gave me several crusty toasters and a song by rusted root but i think so far and for such a small asset it's going well and it's good practice.

in the wrong upload order: thumbnails, refined ideas, and a final. i started too detailed on the thumbnails and also too much so on the more refined ideas, and didnt leave myself enough time for the final piece or any room for good idea generation. i have a tendency to panic when it comes to digital since i'm not used to it, but since doing this and moving on to 2 point i've taken a much better approach than i did with this project, and although it didn't go well the countless mistakes made me learn a lot

undoubtedly my worst so far but i'm definitely not used to the medium and i think with a bit more practice i'll get there. the anatomy still isnt quite right, the right side of the face should be narrower due to the perspective. i'm not really happy with this piece but it's a start.

beginning of my factory base for my map quadrant, my group have dispersed into the night so I figured i would make a start based on the general idea we came up with in monday's lesson

my finished model for my factory, I'll be adding some antenna to the top before i unwrap it most likely as i have given up on the idea of doing modular assets wholeheartedly. several areas will be emissive and with the help of ana some minor animations will be implemented in ue4 but for now i'm going to practice substance painter on my droid and then start work on the heavy machinery before dressing it up later with advertisements

my best piece of the year which is not saying a lot i havent done any form of art before coming here so for the most part i've just been going by drawing what i see, since i don't have a great understand of technical aspects yet, but working into this and getting feedback gave me a better result than i expected. still life and environments are still much easier for me to draw since i don't fully get anatomy yet but that will come with more time

i had nothing to do on this fine saturday so i redid my diorama in the vein hope i'll get a first this time now i have a better sense of the brief and both my arms are functional again. looking back over my digital work for the diorama it really wasnt up to scratch either so it's time to amp the silhouette and try a new more cohesive model. this took me about 3 hours to model so i'm getting faster and I can proudly say I redid the entire project from scratch in a single day. to scott, i will likely accost you on monday to ask you what i can improve and pester you to check my topology so sorry about that one. all in all, my general worries of my crippling health making me repeat first year are long dead provided i can ace the digital alongside it.