Zbrushing Again...

A quiet evening in...
So thought I'd do something productive, and had a play with one of Zbrush's tutorials.
Nothing special model wise, and the texture was done really quick post, in photoshop, but it was good to see what methods/techniques someone else uses to tackle things.

ZBrush is Fun!

Had an overwhelming urge to do some ZBrush'ing...

Thought that making an ear would be a very good test of my sculpting abilities, as its such a complex shape.

Quite pleased with the results!

Shack!

My latest project...
I'm making an old battered shack. Attempting to make a nice little scene.

Heres the progress so far after 1 week of after work, late evening work.

Got most of the modelling done, need to add in some foliage and grass next, then i'll be texturing, and painting in a background!

Barbarian!

I did this work with Pete Spence quite some time ago and I just have not got round to posting it for ages! Finally, I have pulled my finger out!

This was a low-poly character we designed and made, to show an old colleague we worked with, who now has his own little company, what we were capable of. 

He liked it, but he needed someone to start immediately, and sadly we were both tied into a contract already.

More Characters!

Here's some work I did for an unreleased game created whilst I was working at Jagex. Its was a shame we never finished making it because it had some real potential!

I love the design of these characters, which was done by the very talented Pete Spence (http://monotonouschirrup.blogspot.co.uk/)

8Realms

Here's some of the work I did on the game 8Realms. Below are some of the high-poly characters we used during the game as a tutor and guide.
At the bottom is the Jeep I made for use in the trailers.

8Realms Trailers

Hi all,
Here's the  animated shorts myself and Pete Spence (http://monotonouschirrup.blogspot.co.uk/ ) wrote, story-boarded, modeled and directed for Jagex. (The animation was outsourced to The Mill in New York (http://www.themill.com/).


1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EguWCIaKiUY&feature=related

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtkq8SI33iI&feature=relmfu

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5RYyhXhgOA&feature=relmfu

Messing about with Mudbox

Hi all,

Tonight I have been getting started with some sculpting. This was done in Mudbox, which after trying ZBrush, seems infinitely more friendly!

It takes quite a different mindset than modelling, but... its sooo much fun! I must do more.

 

Sony Subway Train

Hi all.
This was a piece of work I did for a trial, for Sonys studio in Cambridge. They gave me a lowpoly model of a subway train, and asked me to make it 'pretty'! I re-modelled it aswell as textureing it. It was all done in Maya and Photoshop. It has just a diffuse, specular and normal map.

I'm pleased to say I passed the test and got the job!!

Hostile Spawn - Monsters!

Hi all.

Here's some of the aliens I made for a small game called Hostile Spawn. This was done quite a few years ago ,but I'm still fond of them!

If you saw how they actually appeared in game though you would laugh... they ended up being shown top-down and about 50 by 50 pixels big! Of course we had plans to use them for marketing and for interfaces etc, but that never materialized. Still that's they way computer game production goes!

Miner Disturbance - Characters from iPhone Game

Hi all.
Here today are some characters I made for a iPhone game called Miner Disturbance. Its actually I pretty cool game, and if you have a iPhone I can recommend it.
Personally I don't have a iPhone, in fact I don't even have a smart phone. No, not because I'm backwards, but because I simply know that It wouldn't last a week in my ownership. I seem to constantly be dropping phones down loo or as happen recently, I put one on top of my cars dashboard, with the cars window open. Then go round a roundabout too fast and watch it fly across the dash and straight out of the window. Ahhh, how I laughed... sometime later, much much later....

Low-Poly Work

Hi all.
Prepare your senses. Its low-poly work! 

Here are some characters from the game 8realms  worked on. There not really particuly amazing, but for some reason I'm rather fond of them... 

  
Here it a low-poly head from a game that never got released, which was going to be a pirate ship fighting and treasure hunting game. This guy was going to be your guide an tutor.  
Sadly after we had put quite some time and effort into this game, our boss realized that sailing is actually very boring.... We found out that all you would do is circle round and round waiting for you cannons to reload so you could click and fire. That's it... I'm sure it is possible to make a decent pirate ship combat game, but we didn't!