Art Bible

With great power comes great responsibility, and for today my responsibility as Art Director was to get started and have a decent draft of the Art Bible for our game. I had started it a few days ago, but I didn't really have any guidelines in mind, so it was rather messy and unorganized. During the weekend I finally found some good references to follow, and I feel it is a lot more solid and organized now, ready to be presented.

Beside that, I've been overlooking the assets our modelers have been producing, and I got a compliment on most of them looking pretty similar in style, and that is just always nice to hear.

For now, there is a concept piece I did, but can still be refined a little bit more before I post it.

Thanks for reading!

Rocks

News: I am now the art director for our game, so I did some rock models to test out texturing style.  They're just really basic assets for set dressing.
Here they have a diffuse, spec, and normal map. Together both rocks are under 600 tris.

I'll post more work as I make it. Thanks for looking!

Art update

Just a quick update to show some of the concept I did last week. I did these two pieces just to give myself a better idea of what the game could possibly look like, and have some sort of visualisation.

Our game takes place in a sunken Venice so I used the Rialto Bridge and Doge's Palace as structural and environmental pieces in this quick concept. 

Thanks for looking!

Studio II

Winter Quarter started just about a week ago, and with it Studio II. The aim for this class is for us as a group of students to go through the development phase of a game and go gold by the end of the term. Yep, that is 12 weeks to make a game.
I already had started brainstorming ideas with a small group of friends, but once classes started and we pitched ideas in class, our idea seemed interesting to a few other students who have now joined us.
In a few words, our idea revolves around controlling an underwater sub, and moving in a side scrolling level made with 3d assets.
As time moves on, I'll keep the blog updated with my contributions (models, textures, concept art, matte painting) to the project, as well as updates on how we are doing.

New Portfolio!

Which means, I have to fix quite a few links.
Anyway, sorry I haven't updated in a while, winter break started sometime ago, and I've been procrastinating a few things. However, today I bring the announcement of a new portfolio site, with a much easier to find address (if you google me, I'm the first one that pops up! yay!), and an overall improved layout.

Here is the link to the website mairosmall.com. I added a page for Judas, the character model I had been working on, you can there directly through this link.

Thanks for checking them out!

Judas Model WIP 4

Another update on Judas. This time I decided to call it finished in Zbrush, so I can go into Photoshop and refine the textures. It will be fun times for sure (I really like texturing).

Here are some renders with closeups.

In this next one, I took of the robes, so you could see some of anatomy detail I worked on in the torso. 

This last one is a close up of the face with the textures taken off. 

Thanks for looking, and I will keep the blog updated as I keep working on it.

Judas Model WIP 3

It's 1:40 am, but this post needed to be made. I was scultping away at Judas in Zbrush, and I suddenly reached a wow moment. One of those moments where you amaze yourself, and realize that maybe, you might just be good at the things you like doing. I was working on the face, trying to get some details down, when I noticed the face started looking kind of human, and that made me very happy. I figured I'd make a post about it, and update on the current status of the model as well.

Still a lot of work to do, but I look forward to doing it. I'm just really excited about how the face is finally starting to come along.
Thanks for reading and looking! [=