Common Art 5: Perspective Excersise

 The theme of this perspective exercise was "transport", so to keep with the other progressions of the common art exercises I designed a custom Mario Kart Wii Mach Bike for Samus so she can race with the other Nintendo characters.

I used a proxy 3D model to set up an accurate two point perspective in Maya with grids, and set up a camera with the focal length i wanted for both my composition and my perspective reference.

The Mach Bike was modeled after the 1972 Harley Davidson XRTT Road Racer, originally created to keep up with British racing motorcycles.

References

3D Art Week 05: Simple Crate and Barrel Proxy, Low Res, and Hih

Crate inspired by Imperial Crates on Star Wars: the Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels, and Bad Batch animated series

Maya Viewport: UVs and wireframe

Unreal engine: In-engine viewport with primitive lighting build

Reference Images, from the Star Wars animated series

Common Art 4: Lighting Set-Up

 

Original Samus Silhouette by Anupama Narayan

Lighting and Color come from the value sheet from part 3 of this project.

Tech Art: Lighting Demo

 

Responsible for: Environment and Room Lighting

Assets From: Unreal Alchemist's House Asset Pack

First time Lighting in Unreal Engine 5

3D Art Homework 4: Hammer Sculpt

3D Hammer sculpt, created with zBrush

reference image for sculpt:

 

Common Art: Value Blocking

The Goal of this Assignment was to create value blocking based on the original silhouettes chosen to move on from the silhouette step:

Original Ness Silhouette by Paige Thorsen

Original Samus Silhouette by Anapuma Narayan

Original Link Silhouette by Beste Unlu

Final Render with Gradient Overlay

Value Blocking

Line Art

Line Art Plus Values

Final Render

3D Art Homework 03: Head Sculpt

3D Art: Zbrush Head Sculpt

The goal of this project was to familiarize myself with Zbrush's interface and tools to sculpt a head and neck. In the spirit of spooky season, I decided to sculpt Victor van Dort from Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride".

Image for reference:

Hair and Clothes to come in the near future, maybe even some preliminary textures. Pretty proud of this success since the last head i sculpted turned out kind of...

yeah.

 

Common Art 02: Silhouettes

 

Week 2, I focused on the use of strong silhouette to characterize Ness from Earthbound.

    I wanted to make sure the silhouette could stand alone on itself before any character details come into the mix, and this includes both dynamic and stand alone poses that were visually interesting and illustrate the character's personality.

    I turned to the source material itself to gain a better understanding of Ness and his character, since I had no experience with Earthbound outside of Super Smash Bros. So this project turned out to be super fun, but I also discovered I love the style of Earthbound, and I'm hoping to continue the game in my free time! (if I have any free time, haha)

3D Art Homework 2: Minecraft Level

This assignment's goal was to understand how to create and adjust material instances in UE5 and use instanced materials to create a minecraft-like level. Since UE5 has a node based material editing platform, it was surprisingly intuitive for me to get used to.