Vehemence: END GAME edition

As time passed and the critiques flowed in, I decided to shape my concept more towards an "End Game" scenario. I reconcepted the twin towers in the back, and added a massive fissure leading from the refinery, steam pouring from the site of its meltdown; slum homes falling into the ground. The Vagabond's Aircab home and town eatery sit on slanted chunks of the land, tilting toward a foggy-green-fate.

VEHEMENCE -concept

Another time, another place.

There was once a small town, poor and simple. The people lived in peace with each other, despite their lack of money, and struggle to survive.

The town hungered…
…Until one day.

The townspeople found Vehemence, an organic material which can be refined into a power source. The news spread quickly, and the forces of government opted to build a refinery in the slum.
The structure towered over the town. The citizens were offered employment at the refinery, which they accepted hastily.
They were paid only enough to maintain a livable poverty.

But one day, the Vehemence source dried up.

The refinery shut down. The people lost their small income, and were left with the abandoned structure at the heart of their town, and unusable, broken down transport ships and debris littered across the streets.


Scene:

the town has been overtaken by nature. A massive structure looms over an abandoned aircab. Left rusted and wrecked, a vagabond now uses the shell of the ship as a shelter.
The makeshift home is adorned with scavenged amenities and found goods.
The plants have been held back by the vagabond as much as possible, but they have begun to creep onto the dwelling.

concept building

quick building concept

AC: Great Tree

re-optimised and re-unwrapped, retextured and added foliage.

Alchemist's Catacomb's progress updates

More work from the environment I'm piecing together

AC: shrine

this will be attached to/ behind the stairs, there will be candles and scrolls inside the inset, and a waterfall will flow over the top.

Alchemist Catacombs: Dock WIP

quick shot of the dock in engine. Decided to break it down a bit. more to come

Alchemists' Stairs : work in progress

UPDATE AGAIN!

:UPDATE!:

The Alchemist's Catacombs: Lamp and Diverter

Assets completed thus far for the environment I'm working on.

Pet Accessories Vendor

A concept for the node I'm designing for FreeRealms

Parrot's Cove Concepts

treescape thumbnail

messing around with a tree brush i made

The Tree Village

Dragons Skull Dwelling

The Time Machine (update)

What I got for Christmas

Lip Synch practice. :D

Heavy Lift

Needed to do a heavy lift animation.
Thought I'd have some fun with it.

Time-Machine

Here's the Time Machine I've been working on for about 2 days now. I built it from a reference, which I believe is from the original The Time Machine movie. I began a texture, but after deciding to add more detail to the model, I have opted to redo it. Diffuse, Spec, and High-low bake are on the way!

Explodo-Squid Dispenser

A TF2 Dispenser concept

Environment First Pass

Here's a first pass at the environment I'll be working on. For the moment, its just a structural layout. I'm going to start designing props and elements soon.

I tossed some gray onto the first image so the line art alone isn't so blinding. I'll be doing a greyscale and color comps shortly.

Look Before you Leap!

ANIMATION!
The idea behind this sample is that the character is charging into a brawl, but his gusto turns into immediate regret as someone flings a block at his head.

low poly liniage sword

GUI Console

GUI Console

Modeled and textured from scratch. Based off pre-existing concept sketch.

low poly assets

1110 tris, 1024 diffuse, spec, and normals

low poly speed-modelling

A low poly utility/powerbox.
About 4-5 hours of work. 568 tris. 1024x1024 diffuse,spec, and normal maps.

Ol Jasper demo

Here's a video spotlight of Jasper's phasing so far. The walk cycle needs a lot of work, but its mainly there to demonstrate the rigging.

dry erase board sketching

sketched this on a dry erase board while waiting for a fellow classmate to finish class.

just a regular square tipped expo marker. This isn't really supposed to be a specific kind of fish or koi, just something swimming through my head at the moment. :p

Zbrushing with color

About an hour and a half of painting color in Zbrush.
All scratch, no refference, no custom brushes.

Concept work

This is part of a bigger project I'm working on. Here's a lil' concept work for Wattana's Hip-Hop Sword Shop.

BioClock

Here's one from my Material and Lighting class. Had to do an object in the style of BioShock.

a quick tree

just a quick tree. I experimented with some brushes for the leaves and bark.

All from scratch in Photoshop.

CAHG Victory

low poly model. Assignment was to use exactly 2000 tris; no more, no less.

Another doodle

Another quick doodle from class.
I wish I had more free time to do some finished personal pieces.

A quick one

Well, this came out a little bland. ...Okay, its very bland.
But I had to do a quick black and white environment for Background Design and Layout, in which i was supposed to experiment with brushes. However, i barely used brushes thanks to my stubborn, purist mindset. anyway. Hay, look, its a swamp!

The Big Fish

Fortune Cookie Art

For my art history class, I had to create a Wu-Zhen influenced piece with meaningful words.

I once got a fortune cookie which read "If at first you do succeed, try something harder."

These words are very meaningful to me, and directly relate to my mindset.

4th quarter finals are killing me!

Heres some stuff

First off is the castle I designed for my concept art class:

A landscape I made while experimenting with brushes:

Here's something interesting; I did a neo-Expressionist version of my earlier painting influenced by the style of Georg Baselitz.
And here's a cubist revision of my earlier painting based on the style of Georges Braque: