Marmoset Tool Bag

	***	So i started using marmoset, pretty cool little tool to preview your low poly in real time, in a game engine. Scuba helmet. I used marmoset to preview my diffuse, normal and specular while working on them. It made it very quick for me to see how each map was affecting the other. I also revisited my entry for the 3dtotal low poly challenge 17. The bug. I was dying to see what it would look like inside of marmoset. After fine tuning the textures a little bit, here is what i have. Not bad huh?
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3D Total 2nd Award!

I got me another shinny trophy at 3dtotal. For the low poly comp, my bug came out 2nd!

Im 24!! lol.

Lately, ive been working on a few things. Mainly research on how to certain things. One is making my portfolio better, helping out a friend with his. And trying to figure out how to do casting better. With that in place, i started doing some research on real time shaders. And tryint to learn how to use these.

Along the way, i found out that max2010 has awesome real time shader abilities, so ive been messing with that and mental mill. Also gave shaderfx a try. I cant wait to actually have something to show.

This link was given to me by chris barker. Pretty cool movie on how to make a zbrush turntable

halloween spirit

In homage to Paul Richards ( cuz he freaking rules!) i did Frankenpumpkin. It was a boring saturday afternoon, and so, i decided to have at it.

3d total award!

I got my 1st award at 3dtotal. :)



The Threedy Top Poster ( for posting more than 100 times! )

http://forums.3dtotal.com/awards.php?do=viewaward&award_id=22

3d total Game art Challenge 31

The game art challenge 31, consisted of making a bug. Here is my take on the matter. This challenge lasted 2 weeks, and i worked on this 23 hours ( every nigth for a whole week)

Project break down!

Modeled inside of softimage 7.1 and zbrush 3.5. I tried using some of the new zbrush zshphere 2 features to sketch out the insect. After wards i took that inside of softimage and cleaned up. Textures were painted inside of zbrush, retouched in photoshop.

Normal maps were not permited in the comp. I used the green channel (Y) to bake into my diffuse textures. I used zbrush's 3.5 ambient occlusion alphas to bake the ambien occlusion. The specualar was completly done in zbrush. All maps are 1024x1024. The diffuse is a 32 bit map, with embedded alpha.

The polycount limit was 1000 tris. In the end my polycount ended up being 995 tris!











Painting in values


Quick concept sheet. Handrawn and painted in photoshop.

This is what i did for the 18th speed sculpting challenge, over at threedy total forums. It was a nice little comp. This thing took me bout 5 hours and 53 minutes. Bout two evenings of work. There you have it, Crimson Viper from Street Figther 4