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This week we played with Substance Designer. Model and tutorial by Nick Z.

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Edited:

Part 1

This assignment was broken into two parts - one rifle (prop) before Spring Break (Vertical Slice week), and the rest to be turned in before the next class after returning. Here is the first:

Part 2

Here is the second part of the assignment. This is my comfort zone - modeling in Maya. I really enjoyed leisurely knocking this out. I started with two complete designs, A and B, based on actual sniper rifles used in Eastern Europe (Kosovo mainly) during conflict in the 1980's. For the remaining designs, I shuffled the pieces around. Admittedly, I obsessed over the line quality on the toon lines in Maya, but it was worth it. I don't have a favorite; I like them all.

Muzzle flash added for the players...

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3D Concepting - Vehicles

This week we worked up concepts for vehicles that might be in our game. I chose to do different variations of a marketplace vendor cart. There are several pieces that were used in all four.

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Using Maya for Concepting

Using the toon shader in Maya to simulate the the blueprint look as in Sketchup, I modeled a bunch of modular props to move around and explore spaces for our environments in our Capstone game.

Here are four scenes:

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Choices Have Been Made

These were chosen from the 12 designs from last week. Now we take these three and polish. 

I took these back into ZBrush to give more detail. Afterwards, the gray ZBrush render was taken into Photoshop for coloring.

I am really happy with the way these turned out. I gave them the time they desrved, and I think it shows. My favorite is "F."

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Insert Brushes

"They say time is the fire in which we burn."

I pretty much doubled the time I have spent in previous weeks and still feel like I didn't spend enough time on this part. I would have loved to spend more time on polish, but the life of an art lead won't allow it. Based on feedback, I had to go back and remodel 8 of my 12 designs to follow more of the chosen concepts for our capstone. And while modeling insert brushes is fun to say the least, rework ate up a bunch of my time.

Time * Time * Time

So here they are - this week's refinement of concepts:

and the brushes:

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Concepting in ZBrush - Part 2

Expanding the designs to 12, this was a very challenging week.

Here are the wireframes