Hi Polly

another skulldate

2011-10-26T17:31:00.001-07:00

skull update

2011-10-26T10:41:00.000-07:00

still going pretty standard with the skull. branched off and had some fun with a more demon like skull :)

skull

2011-10-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

started a skull during lunch. bit stylized now. more detail to come hopefully.

liberty ringer

2011-10-17T08:23:00.000-07:00

totally forgot to post this up. Did this hat a while back, never got around to showing it off.

misc update

2011-10-12T11:42:00.000-07:00

just realized half the time I never post updates to things I've started/finished so heres a random post of just art I have sitting in my finished folder crying for attention.

ideas!

2011-09-20T18:41:00.000-07:00

update with proxy objects for weapons and armor

semi-semi-progress

2011-09-19T18:07:00.000-07:00

not a whole lot, been busy lately. Doing some quick ideas on weapons to put on this. Wheel spikes!!!

Should stop worrying about that and cap off the bottom and inside the wheel wells. the rear end needs more love too.

semi-progress

2011-09-15T15:29:00.000-07:00

not a lot of changes, tires are temp. going to finish up the back end first.

Semi

2011-09-12T12:15:00.000-07:00

finished the axes and shield, decided I'd try some hard surface practice. Based off a peterbilt.

axes

2011-08-30T14:05:00.000-07:00

Been busy with moving into the new house and finishing up our current project Kinect Star Wars. So, I've been trying to refine my prop sculpting during lunches.

first attempt. did a paint over of how I wanted the blood to look like on the lowpoly.

second attempt

bmmh redesign

2011-06-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

Doing a redesign of the big mean mother hubbard.

engineer loves big guns

2011-06-22T13:55:00.000-07:00

just playing around with garrys mod.

head update

2011-06-02T11:14:00.001-07:00

update!

char head

2011-06-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

yet another odd turn in work, decided to try and brush up on my character sculpting a bit since I've done soo much env stuff lately.

Not the best, but pretty much as far as I got without using my ref images. I'll load them up and mold this guy into better proportions soon enough.

Tshirt design

2011-05-27T11:33:00.000-07:00

Submitted some different designs for tshirts.

Seal team six!

more tf2

2011-05-05T13:12:00.001-07:00

Small update, but heres the belt updated. Still needs texture tweaks, but i got the animation of the gears and belt to work. The light also has a glow map too. Had some free time during lunch and did a quick first pass on a sword fish dagger!

Tribalmans Teeth Brush

2011-05-02T19:25:00.000-07:00

ok, think I'm pretty much finished with this. Might make some texture tweaks, but I think I'm moving onto the next item on my list. :)

also an update. I set a goal to challenge myself on using the source engine. I wanted to get a model in with multiple models, animated bones and an animated texture. So far I have all of those working perfectly with a base texture. After I polish this more, I'll enable the ability to make the light turn on and off depending when the player is in a lit or unlit area.

club

2011-04-26T18:52:00.001-07:00

the texture isn't final. going to step away from it for a day and then pick it apart and refine more.

Another shotty

2011-04-25T10:56:00.000-07:00

So, I guess I never posted up the final render of the streetsweeper shotty I did a while back. Seems the most common thing I make for tf2 are shotguns. I've got a secret project/collection I'm building now so when its done and I have the go sign, I'll post them up as well.

Spas shotty

2011-04-25T10:44:00.001-07:00

Steam friend modeled and uv'd this model for team fortress and asked for me to texture it. Unluckily the day I began to work on it... we started to crunch at work. Things with the uv's I would have liked to change to make texturing easier, but without much time I decided to keep the original uv's. Maybe when things die down at work I'll give it a personal uv job and retexture it.

Polycount Brawl Contest

2011-03-17T11:07:00.001-07:00

Soo.. another distraction! Me and spetch are teaming up to do goro's lair in the polycount brawl contest.

Lots of cool sculpting to be done!!

and here is just a 20 min sculpt/sketch I did on my lunch break. thinking the rocks at the base will be skulls/bones/watermellons in a more refined version.

post-valentines

2011-02-15T09:49:00.000-08:00

Started to work on an engie backpack for tf2. Decided to put in on the backburner for a bit and get some hp work in. Also, the last scene I was working on has more progress, I just need to get around to getting some good lighting and shots.

new year resolution

2010-12-30T15:56:00.000-08:00

Due to my current project at work, I haven't made a complete environment myself from start to end, so I'm hoping to get those gears going again. Giving UDK a try and hoping this won't take more than a month!!

Just the shell right now. Mats, uvs aren't done on it, but once I can get it fleshed out I'll do a perty paintover for the next stage. :)

Creeper redesign

2010-12-17T14:46:00.001-08:00

If anyone has ever played minecraft then you have probably encountered a creeper. Just thought I'd take a shot at redesigning it in a more realistic view. The in game version is a block green monster with 4 legs. My vision is a slime covered demon.

My version

Original version

manatee

2010-12-17T11:06:00.000-08:00

Sea Cows!!!!

Mini env

2010-11-23T11:59:00.000-08:00

thinking I might try and do a few mini environments with each being from a different location/climate.

Heres just a rocky climate I've been messing with.

and heres an update to it.

tentacles!!!

2010-11-16T09:53:00.000-08:00

Heres the high poly to a tentacle thats in a scene I'm starting. Might add some spikes/teeth or some more scars.

shield final update

2010-11-15T14:08:00.000-08:00

finally finished up the diffuse and bump for this.

Spurs!!

2010-10-29T12:16:00.000-07:00

Never got around to finishing these to submit with my polypack. Hoping that maybe with these they'll complete my set and further the odds of my pack getting put in game!!.

thinking they'll be a misc item, attaching to the bip_foot bones. There is only one other shoe item in game, so hopefully this could be a possible hit for people to customize their character other than their head.

Team fortress again???

2010-10-25T19:06:00.000-07:00

Already have 7 items submitted for tf2, going to add another. It has inspiration from a streetsweeper. Had to take some design freedom from what it looks like in real life to fit the team fortress style.

heres an update. Think I'm calling the mesh done and on to laying out uvs and texturing.

finished wood panels

2010-10-15T14:54:00.001-07:00

well not so finished, but i'll have to come back for polish and to add some alt color. time for a new sculpt!!

wood

2010-10-14T07:50:00.001-07:00

got some free time, just making a tileable wood plank texture from zb.

Panels!!

2010-10-06T15:31:00.000-07:00

did a quick tiled texture in about an hour. Been doing a lot of sculpting lately. All done in photoshop.

shield update

2010-10-04T09:41:00.000-07:00

few more tweaks and back to 3dcoat.

shield

2010-10-03T08:49:00.000-07:00

high poly done. some zb and some 3d coat work and it'll be done.

fx

2010-09-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

just doodling with some fx work.

old Turret

2010-09-10T11:56:00.000-07:00

year or so old, found it on my old work harddrive. Might try and get the time to redo this and bring it up to quality. its based off a turret concept done by austin cline. its actually based on old terminal velocity stuff done by our studio back in the day.

concept

render

stoned pt.2

2010-07-27T14:55:00.000-07:00

another work on stone

stoned!!!

2010-07-26T17:11:00.001-07:00

Working on a private project, exploring different approaches to a stylized look. Progress is based from top being first pass to bottom being the latest approach.

In game pack

2010-07-20T17:37:00.000-07:00

managed to get my pack imported into game. Lots of changes needed now that I got a better view of it. Making changes to some of the shapes and giving it some funk and wear. I decided it might best be an engineer item to go with the trap/teleporter.

pack update

2010-07-14T14:58:00.000-07:00

just an update. finished modeling, onto uv's and baking some AO!!!

wand and pack

2010-07-11T09:57:00.000-07:00

Moved onto the neutrona wand and proton pack. Still playing with the shapes so things aren't final yet.

wand *bottom right* and the original medigun from tf2 *top left*

Proton pack

Finished Trap

2010-07-08T11:01:00.000-07:00

I think I'm calling this done. If anything I might come back to polish some. time to move onto the pack and wand.

2010-07-06T10:52:00.000-07:00

updated the trap. thinking this will be a teleporter replacement.

screen grab

and the animation for it.

new theme

2010-06-30T20:15:00.000-07:00

polypack contest is over, but I'm still in the mood for tf2 style. Been wanting to do something gb related ever since we released ghostbusters last year.

Started doing a variation of the ghost trap... life trap..

wires!!!

2010-06-29T06:59:00.001-07:00

some people have been asking to see the wires, so here they are.

Final Presentation

2010-06-26T09:11:00.000-07:00

Calling it finished, made a presentation page. Valve has total control over what these would actually do if I won, so the descriptions are just for fun.

polypack pt.2

2010-06-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

Everything is done except for a bit of texture polish

and the ingame shot of the big mean mother hubbard

Polypack Contest

2010-06-02T18:15:00.001-07:00

So valve and polycount got together to hold a contribute theme contest. Each contestant has to create a minimum of 3 items for a single class with an overall theme and... fit into the team fortress 2 universe.

I decided on doing a "Bigger is Better" theme for the engineer.

My first weapon is the "Big Mean Mother Hubbard". Its an oversized shotgun/blunderbuss that shoots metal bits instead of normal ammo. Its currently at around 4,700 tris and using a 1024x2 diffuse.

my second item is the "Big Tex" revolver. Its oversized in size and ammo capacity. Untextured at the moment, its the last one to get textured.

The last item is "The Big Bang" mallet. It replaces the engineer wrench.

sword

2010-04-20T12:09:00.000-07:00

decided to zb a sword during lunch. Now that I found a good way to approach weapons in zb I'll actually try to do one from ref or concept.

Door finished

2010-04-19T08:07:00.001-07:00

Somewhat. I've decided to move onto some other stuff. Few areas that show the mirroring.

3/10/10

2010-03-10T12:49:00.001-08:00

working on some high poly stuff, finished most of the front side of a door.

Also finished another high poly brick/stone wall

last art of 09

2009-12-31T11:45:00.000-08:00

been getting cabin fever at home with Anne at work. Decided I'd go in to the office to get motivated and make some stuff. did a quick double sided brick and just re-used it all over the place.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy new years.

warhammer mod

2009-11-20T19:38:00.000-08:00

few of us at TRI are thinking of doing some space hulk/40k stuff to mod with the torchlight engine. just got a chance to finally finish a model. First one I've finished in my free time outside TRI in months!!!

Chainsword.

axe

2009-09-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

2009-05-26T13:06:00.001-07:00

2009-05-19T17:30:00.001-07:00

2009-05-15T08:45:00.001-07:00