another tentacle done

as the title says done another tentacle

is that a tentacle in your pocket or are youjust pleased to see me?

started work on the tentacles tonight. i'll be working on them individually then combining the the textures. i'm thinking along the lines of snake or alligator skin for the texture, i was going to do more squid like with suction pads but thought it would be too smooth for a decent normal map and most of the class have probably gone down that road.

hit the floor

heres the texture sheets for the floor tile

we have a floor

still gotta work into it a bit and thinking of making it more of a grey instead of the green i have now

textures

heres my wall texture sheets.

Specular

Normal

Diffuse

just throwing the concept up as i havent done before

time for a lick of paint

after talking to dean i now have a better understanding of how to paint in mudbox. so heres my attempt at creating a tileable texture for the walls will be working on the colours a bit more but at the moment i'm kinda liking the blueish hue. still need to get rid of the seam which is my own fault i left edge bleeding on when extracting the maps.

latest boxout

still loads to do but you can see the normal map for my tileable wall texture. the chest and now a pillar are ready for mudbox.

chesty

heres the chest for my mudbox project, some glaring errors that need sorting but that wont take long.

scene1 blocked out

so heres a few shots of the layout for scene 1, still quite a lot to do gotta mudbox everything and obviously texture. the 1st image is the wires dont pay attention to the terrain as i will baking that into a heightmap to use in udk.

MUDBOX MODULE STARTED

so heres my basic blockout of the scene concepted by mr betton

building 4 almost done

i'm thinking this building will be used more as background filler than anything but i may have in the fore ground as a brothel type building as it just has that vibe to me. i'm going to make both the front and back of the building both look as though they could be the main entrance that way i can rotate the building and have 2 different buildings in 1 model

building 3 done

and the shop is completed 1 more generic building to make then thats all for scene 1 done.

i guess i'll call it the shop

so heres the 3rd building for the 1st scene as always its in need of alot of work but you can see the basic shape and it'll be finished by the end of the week.

were going down the pub

heres the finished mesh of the pub 2 more buildingsto go and the 1st scene only need smaller meshes built

a monster truck?????? really?

unfortunately i couldnt get any pics but sat in the office today and what turns up a damned monster truck all dolled up in motorstorm stickers i'm guessing its for the ad campaign.

damn cool stuff though not everyday you get to say a monster truck turned up to work.

close the bloody windows

update on the main building for scene 1, just need to finish the windows and build the door then its done and its on to a few smaller buildings. hoping to have all base meshes for the 1st scene ready to take in friday morning to show dean and stas.

i'm saying a week for each scene on base meshes but then again the 2nd and 3rd scene the buildings are basically all the same so the 3rd scene might only take a day or so to build the base meshes.

once everything is built i will unwrap everything and export to mudbox scene by scene to create normal maps.

lets go down the pub

heres the main building for the 1st scene, i might still make it a bit bigger as at the moment its only
512x256 on the ground level so thinking maybe 768x512. obviously a lot of work still needed to be done but shouldnt take too long.

and we get some proper stuff built

so heres the 1st building for the 1st scene completed the building will come in around 15k polys but i'll optimize it down to around 8-10k once ive worked out normal maps

big brick little brick?

Started working on base meshes for the 1st scene today. still a lot of work on this at the mo but you can kind of get the idea of where i'm going.

what do people prefer for the corners the big or little bricks? i'm leaning towards the smaller bricks but i dunno.

Where i'm at

So the preproduction document is done, i only managed 3000 odd words and some images but it should be enough to get across the ideas behind my project. I'll be going into college tomorrow for the 1st tutorial of the mudbox module so that i can get an idea of what needs doing and the time frame for it all.
other than that ive been working at evolution getting a shed load of lod work done (tedious but still fun) and as of wednesday i should be getting something a little more interesting to do maybe even some modelling (not holding my breath on that 1 just yet though as i am still learning maya and wouldnt want to let myself or the team here down.

will update tomorrow about the mudbox project and will make regular updates over the course of the mudbox project aswell as my time here at evo.

ohhh random i know but if you have any doubts about 3d tv's for gaming all i can say is you shouldnt cause its awesome.

never thought i would enjoy working for free but...

so today i started at evolution studios doing a 3 month placement working on the latest motorstorm game which from what ive seen looks pretty awesome.

ive got 90min - 2hour commute to the office and the same home but hey i'm working on a multi million selling game so i dont mind leaving at 6:30am to get in for 8:30.

so far ive met the team some of which i have talked to on Andy Gahans 3d-for-games website others it the 1st time ive ever met. everyone seams really cool and everyone is helpful so what more can you ask for. ive been given 2 ports of call for any questions rich and chris who are both cool.

and my 1st task so far has been stripping polys to create LOD meshes, the games getting close to crunch so ive joined right in the thick of things which is ok means i get to learn on the job which i do well (or so i think anyway)

unfortunately i dont think i can show anything ive worked on even though some of it is simply a box with a texture.

but thats me so far

you moody git

more moodboards, this completes all for scene 1

moodboards

got tons of these to get uploaded but heres 3 for now

and were alive again

i promised stas and dean i would start using this blog again so that they could follow my progress easier.

so this week i have been working out the basics for my pre production document. i need to tweak a few things and add some bits but other than that were good to go.

i've uploaded the pdf forpeople to look through if theres anything i have clearly missed or something i should take out then let me know.
http://www.mediafire.com/?k437twyhrzji3c8

thanks guys

killing time

so with the start of the new year and the building of a new website i have decided i will no longer be using blogger.

if you would like to keep an eye on my progress over the next school year then come on over to my website and read the blog there the address is.....

http://www.adamstockton.co.uk/blog/

progression

heres the latest image not happy with the puddle but it works for now

need to bump up the ambient lighting and build a section of street so its no longer on the nasty bsp then maybe add a bit more street furniture (phonebox, really low poly buildings ect...)

ohhh and because i never put the image up before heres the real building. on west 122nd street harlem new york (spent so much time looking at the building on google earth/maps if i got lost in nyc i could still find this place)

now with rain

added some rain effects which ive found quite a nice easy thing to do once you figure out emitters.

the main rain is just a static mesh with a rain texture on it and the texture is set to pan, the waterfall effect on the corners and ac units is a partical sharing the same texture as the rain and then the splashes under the waterfall is a smoke emitter that also has a rain drop emitter that faces upwards.

put the modular pieces into udk alls looking good but i'm having issues with lighting. when i try to rebuild all the swarm window open it runs for about 20 mins then fails so i can only build lighting in preview meaning i dont get the shadows i would want.

i may put everything into ut3 instead where i dont have the swarm thing to worry about and also in source maybe crytek or marmoset. but marmoset will have to wait untill i have put all the unwraps into 1 texture.