Substance Designer Study

Rendered in UDK

Rendered in UDK

Rendered in UDK

Generated Textures from Substance

Graph Network for Railcar

After tutorials and experiments with Substance Designer I think I have some idea of how it works. Besides having to bake the normals within Max from a high poly, the AO, diffuse, spec, world normals, and other maps were generated via Substance designer. There was a point I was going to make the leather, rust, and wood graphs by hand but saw that Substance already had graphs that were available and saved me time and pain from doing.

In hindsight I would've done a few things differently but I am eager to move on to another WIP and use Substance for that puppy. This is only Substance 3.7.1 but the ease of consolidating the majority of the texturing process into one program makes using this program for future projects appealing.

Railroad Handcar

Rendered in Keyshot

Took a model from the Fleeting Memory environment and gave it the Keyshot treatment. This particular model will also be the first in a series of forays into Substance Designer; figured go small first to learn the program before applying it to a whole environment.

Fleeting Memory Mk2

Freelance Projects

I've been given permission to show some of the projects I've worked on and will post them below. Various 3D concept pitches to big companies and didn't want to clog up my portfolio site with. I am unable to obtain the final renders for these sets of images but these were close to the finished concepts done over a 4 day period. This project was the first time I had touched Cinema 4D and after the first hour of learning the basic layout of the UI found it to be elegant in the way it renders and will check it again in the future.

Modeled in 3DS Max, Rendered in Cinema 4D

Modeled in 3DS Max, Rendered in Cinema 4D

Modeled in 3DS Max, Rendered in Cinema 4D

Modeled in 3ds Max, Rendered in Keyshot

This last image was made for a large corporation as a concept design for a similar function to the other vending machines. I had to remove the logos and slightly change the look from what it was in the end by request.

These pieces were a bit of a challenge as I had to use inches and measure out much of my modeling with the Measure Distance to something that could realistically be found in a large department store or mall.

Fleeting Memory Progress

Screencap from Unity3D

A small preview of the environment I have been fleshing out and experimenting with in Unity. So far I model a few props here and there each day and recently found this amazing skybox script that produced the results of the sky shown in the screen. No finalized lighting yet but this piece is to explore and push certain themes that sprang from a scene from Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, some concept art of a floating house, and a song from Two Steps From Hell titled "Forgotten September."

Bu Bot Family

Rendered in Keyshot

Based on a Jake Parker robot illustration, who by the way dig many of his robot designs, and finished modeling out today. Whenever I finish modeling the high poly of another Jake Parker robot I will return to the Bu Bots and rig then animate 'em as a side project.

Updates, Keyshot, and Daleks

Rendered in Keyshot

Finally, I have created an official website for my work. Now, this blog can be made into just a dump for artwork not worthy enough to be put on the portfolio, real reason is the limited space available with a free account under CarbonMade.

I'd like to take this chance to post up some experiments with Keyshot. This was the first time I've tried assigning multiple material IDs and so far has worked. Tried out several materials from the massive library and stayed in the brass metal category, with a few exceptions like rubber, frosted glass, red glass, and some steel materials.

Eventually I'll try adding textures on top of the materials to see what effects I can get. My main goal is to make models where I can utilize both the high and low poly meshes; this is causing me to be more considerate of how I model a high poly and to try making the low first, unwrap, then create a high from that. That'll be the next model though, but, the idea is there somewhere along the way.

Also, worked on this Dalek in celebration of the 50th anniversary approaching next month, love to see some old faces again.