Tech Art - HW7

For this assignment I used a goat man and animations from Mixamo, and wanted to figure out how to make a jump linger on fall until it reaches the ground again. I think I got it to work successfully but I'd like to clean it up a bit more.

South of Inferno - Use of Composition 

For this assignment I faced the challenge of getting half of Satan on screen, as well as a very tiny Dante. I also had the challenge of drawing ice, which I'm still not entirely happy with, but I'm pretty ok with it.

I shifted Satan around a bunch until in the sketch until I was happy with where he sat and used his wings to frame him and Dante. Dante got moved around a bunch too.

When lighting him I used multiple different highlights of blue to build a frosted effect, and a red rim light on the inner parts to make him still visible in the darkness.

Sketch

Lines

Color

Lighting

 Tech Art - Homework 6

For this project I hit a problem when retargeting, and had to change the target poses in the retargeter. One model was in an A-Pose and one in a T-Pose, so you have to adjust them to match for the animations to transfer over correctly. (Thanks to Trevor for pointing me in the right direction for that :D)

Busting a Move

Callisthenic Poses

IKs

Retargeting

Common Art - Use of Basic Lighting

For my color scheme for this version of Satan I was inspired by crabs, and decided on using a mix of red, orange, and yellow. I also used a deep reddish purple for shading. 

I thought the red would stand out against the blue ice he's going into, and create a nice gradient effect. I also re-lined our other version of Satan for this project.

 

 Tech Art Homework 5 - Rigging

For my rig I chose this big guy, and the biggest challenge for him was mostly weight painting. I tried to get his movements to be as smooth as I could. 

For his controller set up I used offset group and used circles that I color coordinated and made into different shapes. The pelvis and head are marked with yellow, and each of his limb starting points are marked with blue.

The rig + controls

The boy moves yay!

What my controls look like

 Wizards

These are a bunch of wizards I designed for RPP. They were all a first pass design as I didn't have time to concept art a bunch of designs for them, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

I had my teammates all give me a word, and then based their design off of that word.

 Crate Final Renders

Here's the final bake and textured version of my crates. To get a cleaner bake I actually went back and adjusted the models just a bit.

For the textures I actually used quite a few gradients to get the specific color I wanted for the wood. Making the crate darker at the edges and bottom, and lighter in the middle.

Render of my crates in Unreal

Beauty Shots from Substance Painter

Wireframes