Knife (Week 3) - Final Materials/Textures/Renders

This week I textured and rendered the knife. Before I did that, I had to go back and add more geometry because I was below the polycount (before: ~5k tris, now: 14k tris). I didn't realize I went overboard with the tris until it was too late and I ran out of time. I'll have to go back and reduce it now lol. I also re-did my UVs. Then I was able to go into substance, bake, and start doing my final materials/textures. I wasn't able to get it into engine in time, so I did some Iray renders from Substance.

Knife (Week 2) - Game Res, UVs, First Bake

 This week I had to make my game res model. It was a bit challenging to have good looking geometry without it all being triangles. That's something I would like critique on how to do better.

Tangled VR (Sprint 1)

We expanded our experience to have more of a story. The player now starts in a dock then sets out on their journey into the middle of the lake to enjoy the lantern festival. These two weeks I was tasked to model and design the dock environment. I proxied out the layout and then began game-res models starting with the dock itself.

References

Following shots are in UE4:

Knife (Week 1) - Proxy & High Res

Karambit Knife - Proxy

Karambit Knife - High Res (Opened)

Karambit Knife - High Res (Closed)

Karambit Knife - Game Res Wireframe (Opened)

Karambit Knife - Game Res (Closed)

Karambit Knife - Game Res (Opened)

Karambit Knife - Game Res (Closed)

Goals (Post FIEA)

My goal after FIEA is to work as a 3D environment artist for a mid-sized or AAA studio. My ideal companies to work for are Riot Games and Epic Games. I prefer to focus on stylized art. I'm also interested in working in film/cinematics either for game dev or animated films (i.e. Pixar, DreamWorks).

Current focus would be making more small environments and improving/diversifying my portfolio.

Some extra studies that I will need to learn are:

- Materials and texture practice (understanding base materials and how that will affect lighting/rendering)

- Learning tools/techniques in software (ZBrush shortcuts, Substance, Designer, etc. to help speed up my workflow)

Artstation Collection of Top Ten Artists: https://www.artstation.com/thomas3d/collections/1626497

1) G Liulian - Large scaled oriental inspired environments & value separation (concept)

2) Surendra Rajawat - Interesting compositional environments & color theory (concept)

3) Sylvain Sarrailh - Interesting compositional environments & color theory (concept)

4) Atey Ghailan - Chill vibes in compositions (tone)

5) Jasmin Habezai-Fekri - Stylized 3D Artist (3D)

6) Lucas Maxfield - Stylized 3D Artist (3D)

7) Oskar Woinski - Lighting & dramatic compositions (lighting)

8) Glen Fox - Nice presentations for 3D scenes (3D)

9) Leah Augustine - Environment artist with nice breakdowns (3D)

10) Conrad Justin - Stylized 3D artist with nice dioramas (3D)

Knife (Week 1 - Reference)

Knife Reference