In this post I will look into the use of modular characters in more recent games. For some time RPG games have used a somewhat modular design in the depiction of certain enemy or hero characters. Unlike more action orientated titles like Halo or Devil May Cry series, games like Skyrim and The Witcher 3…
In this post I will look at the primary inspiration behind this project. Without question my two favorite hard surface artists are Mike Nash and Vitaly Bulgarov and for a long time the Black Phoenix Project (http://www.bulgarov.com/blackphoenix_10days_of_mech.html) by the latter, has been a massive source of inspiration and a solid benchmark of quality for me.…
In this short post I want to discuss several cool things I felt could’ve had a positive impact on the project, but due to one reason or another couldn’t be implemented in time. These were usually tool and rendering features that were released in the project’s later stages and as such I did not have…
In the very beginning of the project I had to make a very tough choice – which real-time engine do I use? Seeing as how I wanted to focus on game ready assets I eliminated real-time rendering software like Marmoset, Sketchfab and Blender (Evee). Next I looked at which engines I can actually get my…
During my look into lighting methods in DevDiary 7.5 (https://scribble285.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/dev-diary-week-7-5/) I briefly mentioned ambient occlusion. Which is a method of darkening the edges of an object to create the sense of complex lighting. (Source: CryEngine demo) With the image above you can see that while the shadows calculated on the left are accurate, they come across…
Well before I started the very first piece of research for the project I made myself one promise – That I would IGNORE all developments and influences of the most MAJOR franchise that relates to my topic… MECHWARRIOR. For better or worst in it’s over 30 years of history, BattleTech has become a major influence on…
(Source: https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/1/14777806/gdc-epic-rogue-one-star-wars-k2so) A few of the many reasons why I finally decided to do a real-time character project were that A – I wanted to finally give people the chance to explore my models as they wanted from all angles and B – real-time renderers were getting pretty powerful, with UE4 and CryEngine V paving the…
Source: Miguel Angel Martinez, Principal Concept Artist at Guerrilla Games (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/BD2L4) According to some relatively recent posts about the behind-the-scenes work that went into this years’ most exciting title Horizon: Zero Dawn, it seems that the folks at Gurella Games have used a workflow that is very similar to mine (I’d say identical, but I…
Welcome to the week nine round up of the Hangar 45 student project! Here you will see some of the progress I have made with this task on a weekly basis and see me talk about some of the challenges and (more importantly) solutions that I deal with. Project Phase 2 COMPLETED This week I’ve…
Welcome to the week eight round up of the Hangar 45 student project! Here you will see some of the progress I have made with this task on a weekly basis and see me talk about some of the challenges and (more importantly) solutions that I deal with. Project Phase 2! Now that I’ve completed…
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