Common Art: D-Stage

Modular Environment Planning

 

All modular pieces

window wall before vs after retopo

smaller assets

trim planning/practice

Research: Artist Roadmap

 

Projecting Out Past Graduation

Questions:

1. If you could project out past graduation, what is your overall career goal? 

• Would you like to work in AAA game development. 

• Would you prefer a midsize team? 

• Would you like a smaller team? 

• Would you like to be on an Indy team? 

• Would you like to work for a simulation company?

• Would you like to work in the theme park industry?

Right now I’m leading towards immersive experience and architecture. I want to be able to use my skills to translate
digital objects into real world spaces, objects, etc. I enjoy fabrication a lot and being able to get into a job that has
a pipeline for 3d printing would lean into that well.
 

 After that though, my overall goal is to eventually teach after having some experience in the industry. I would 
preferably be a college professor, but am open to considering other options as well. In order to teach though I actually
need to be good at what I do and have some industry experience.

2. If you could project out into starting your career, what sounds the most appealing to you? 

• Would you like to work as a Character Artist?

• Would you like to work as an Environment Artist?

• Would you like to work as a Hard Surface Artist?

• Would you like to work as a Weapons/Prop Artist?

• Would you like to work as an Vehicle Artist?

• Would you like to work as an Lighter?

Environment and props sound the most appealing to me right now.
I like creating environments that evoke a certain emotion from the viewer or tell a story.
I also enjoy spending a lot of times on props during the sculpting process. If I could have a job that was just spending
a lot of time making props in Zbrush that would be nice, but I feel like that is a thing of the past honestly.

3. What are some of the top companies that you are interested in working for? 

• EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Iron Galaxy, ect.  

Universal, AOA, GO2 Production, and Falcon Creative are a few I have researched. I would love to stick to
companies in the area because I like Orlando and want to be close to my family. If I had to move,
I would go the environment route and look into companies in Texas like Bethesda and iD Software.

3D Art: Cannon Project (Up Resing)

 

BPR Render - ZBrush

Arnold Render - Maya

UVs - Maya

WIP - Maya 

Wireframe - Maya

Common Art: Dorothy Must Die F Stage

First Pass Lighting

I wanted to make the mask feel as though it had glowing eyes. I chose to use warm lighting for that to emulate some of the references I used. I like how the main character is rim lit from certain angles. I also wanted the more dim or distant areas to have an unnerving green light to still pay homage to the feeling of the Emerald City. 

Initial lighting with LD's materials

 Adjusting the lighting in the SunMoonDaySequence Actor was more laborious than I imagined it would be. First I went into the Post-Process Volume and turned off auto-exposure, which created a funhouse effect with all the LD's lights. I decided to delete all LD lights and re-do them from scratch. I wanted the environment to feel more sinister. I focused on creating areas cast in blue shadows. I had to adjust the exposure of the directional light as well as its color. Then I re-did the fog and added a bit of a green cast to it. 

Creating Proxy Matte Grey Material

Creating a proxy glass material involved a bit of research. I had to make sure the IOR was the right value, among other things. It took some iterating to make it look passable, but I still have some work to do with it. 

Proxy Mask Wireframe

Proxy Mask Arnold Render

Camera Matching While Modeling in Maya

Perforce Directory

Reference Board for OZ's Mask / Face

3D Art: Cannon Project (Proxy)

Final Layout In Unreal

Wireframe in Maya

Camera Matching

Reference Board

Common Art: Make it Stick

Final Viktor Stickers