Summer Portfolio Work Update (Still WIP)

Hey guys! Just wanted to throw together a quick update of the Bar scene that I have been working on. I have been feeling really well recently with Clouds Below kicking off tremendously with a bunch of views, downloads, donations and mentions on different websites. Even PCGamer! Crazy! 
Anyways so here are some screenshots of what I have been doing with the scene lately. (These are all rendered with lower settings that the previous update.)

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Summer Portfolio Work (WIP)

I have way too much to do during the summer for it to be a relaxing break from this succesful year at univeristy. But every once in a while I have some small fragments of free time to work on my own projects and this is one of them; Old Bar (working title) 

Main view (ignore the empty walls in the background)
The work I did for Clouds Below consisted of more open areas, so I wanted to create something smaller and […]

BGP Art – Creating the Level

Last week was fairly uneventful since I spent most of the time just finishing up most of the assets without any problems or hiccups. 
This week though was a lot more eventful since I started to “dress the set” or “pimp the level”! So I have been taking or white boxed level, designed by Adam Wrange and started to move away from prototype stage by placing our assets in the level, playing with the lighting and trying to create a […]

BGP Art – Trees and LODs

Not a lot has changed since last week, regarding my work responsibilites. I have mostly been starting on new assets and finishing others. 
Among these, we now have all 6 completed trees + 1 dead tree.
 

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BGP Art – First Official Week of Exploring Wind

And so it begins! Time to dust off the ol’ blog and start typin’! 
For BGP I’ll be working as an environmental artist and help with the level design for the game Exploring Wind, so I have mostly been researching our art style, deciding on a workflow and starting work on assets for the game but not really implementing them since the levels are not done yet. 
Our game will take place in an environment similar to the Zhangjiajie National Park […]

Getting Hired and Building (Japanese) Bridges

So a lot has happened recently and my plate is getting full quickly. Probably one of the biggest changes since last time is that I got hired! 

Thanks to one of their programmers, Oliver Bolt, for recommending me to the guys over at Angry Engineers Entertainment who are currently working on the Steam Greenlight game; Centration. 
I will be working one their levels; creating level assets, designing rooms, lighting, etc. Hence I’ve become an Environmental Artist! Which envolves everything […]

Another Luger Update

Our new design and 3D courses have started now, which meant that I couldn’t spend too much time on my mad mod plan. I have also joined forces with Oscar Mohlin and entered a contest organized by Polycount.com and Allegorithmic where artist are tasked with creating a “Throne Room” and a matching throne using PBR and Substance Designer and Painter. Our WIP blog can be found here!

Since I joined this contest I decided to use Allegorithmic’s apps to create […]

Starting on My First Mod Pack – A Quick Post

Ok, so I have had plans for starting my modding “career” with GTA V when it launches later this January and I have already started to do some minor research on what I want to do. Well, I guess I’ll have to wait a bit longer since the game got pushed back to March 24 (instead of January 27).
I would have wanted to get the game before starting to design the models and what not, to get an understanding of […]

Motion Capture – A Quick Uncharted 3 Animation Analysis

I have chosen to do some research and write about one of my favourites; Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011) and how they used motion capture for some of the animations.
Finding information about the setup was pretty tricky since a lot of the information found was not full explained which lead me on a wild goose chase trying to find out the correct and full story. While some say that Naughty Dog used an in-house studio, others say that they used […]

Assignment 3 – Character Modeling – Tah-dah!

So, this has been a hell of a week and I have finally finished Ehta.
Well, I say “finished” but there is so much more I want to do and improve that I’m almost a bit embarrassed, but due to the time limit I have to send in the model and just accept the fact that I cannot do anything more.
My computer has been acting up constantly with the drivers for the GPU crashing and blue screening me back to the […]

Assignment 3 – Character Modeling – Finishing the Model

Class Recap
I was unfortunately not able to attend this week’s seminar when the class went through 3D scanning. But I did some of the work later and I also read a recommended article on the game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter whilst I previously played some of the game. So I can give you some of my thoughts on 3D scanning anyways! 
Articale I will be referring to: http://www.theastronauts.com/2014/03/visual-revolution-vanishing-ethan-carter/ 

I started to play The Vanishing of Ethan Carter a few days […]

Assignment 3 – Character Modeling – Starting the Model

Class Recap
Unfortunately, this post will lack pictures since my computer has been blue screening quite heavily and I cannot retrieve my old sketches. Once I get the computer to behave, I will update the post with the sketches!
This week we examined our own abilities in organic drawing and understanding of (not just) the human body by bringing drawings to class and have other classmates examine the drawings and then give feedback on what could be improved.
Just as I have […]