concepts and dragons and mechs

This post is gonna be all about 2D. Me and a few friends decided to re-open our old sketch blog. Which is pretty much art jams we do in our spare time. http://letsjustdraw.blogspot.ca/
At the moment all artists are welcome to join. The More the merrier

So the first jam is based on story and to basically sketch out something based on that storyline and the characters. The 2nd Jam is pretty much the same concept but different story and characters. But somehow sub consciously while drawing, i made a connection between the two different story.
So because of that i drew the 3rd picture with the dragon in it.

Lastly the mech is just a random concept. i just wanted to make a mech haha ..
I have been thinking of making a 3D mech, just don't have a clear concept for it right now.

Story : The girl is going through a time portal to save her grandfather.

Story: An agent who was suppose to get intel on some secret weapon from a enemy base was caught and 2 mercenaries chased after him.

 

This one is the merge between the two story line, where the girl warps through time to save the dude.
Originally this wasn't the idea, but somehow kind of connected haha..

 Mech concept, with two power shields.

Firebird with textures

Finished up my Firebird. The textures are 2048, and i used xoliul shader 2 to see my model in real time. There are a few things i want to test but i guess for now i am calling this done.
Tri count : 4,465

PS3 Sideways New York

  Soo..here it is, Stuff i worked on for the PS3 Sideways New York.
If you want more info on this game, this is the website http://www.playbrains.com/sideway/
Of-course you can you-tube it as well. Its been out for some time now and just recently it was released for PC, Steam.

In this game i worked as a prop artist and level decorator. Basically building the props as i get them and from time to time, i would go in the game engine and populate the level. I did that newspaper and stuff that you see in the first picture lol. I also placed some of the 2d posters and graffiti, but i did not make them.

Along with some in game screens shots, i posted some of the props i made. As you can tell its very low poly, with simple textures. I think the highest polycount was for the bonsai tree i made. Around 700 poly. Sometimes i would reuse the same models and create different textures. Like for example, the taxi and the police car share the same model but have different textures on them.

Other than that, i have been playing a few new games now. One of them bieng nds game, Radiant Historia. I really like the concept in that game. I think i play more portable games than pc games lol.

Anyways, hope you liked this post.
Oh, almost forgot.. i hid some easter eggs ( Golden Statues) in different levels. If you have the game, see how many you can find ^^

The Pineapple Plant

Hey ! hey !
So a lot of things have happened since my last post. Well first , here is the finished version of my pineapple plant. I used 3Ds Max, Zbrush and photoshop. The original concept for this was from a MoD i used to work on. Anyways, The screen caps are taken directly from Max, i used Xoliul shader and 3 omni light set up.
One of the comments i got for this prop was, " its a pineapple with a bonzai tree on top"

Asides from this i got the chance to work on a PSN game called Sideways. Maybe in the future,i will post up some of the props i made and levels i decorated for that game.
And in other news, i recently took part in a Starcraft 2 tournament, it was fun !
If you want to watch it, it happens every Tuesday after 6pm http://www.twitch.tv/bigpietv

 So been working on a plant like object ...slowly. The picture below is just a low poly with normal map on it.
Still gotta tweak a lot since i have to lower the poly count. Anyways i am just texturing this at the moment. I wanted to get some sort of fake reflection / spec on the edges on those triangular shapes. So instead of painting it all by hand, i found a much better and faster solution. Of-course something like this would be more ideal to set up for your spec map. Which is what i plan on doing it later when i reach that stage. But for the moment, just doing some test runs.

Anyways posted picture below, showing the technique i used to create a fast reflection/ spec.

(´･ω･`) my muscles are kinda of sore right now from playing tennis and soccer. But at least i can still surf the net and work on my computer haha... Anyways i wanted to share my updated model of my pilot. Did a lot of tweaking's on the textures and especially the face part.
The old pilot model > http://ingeniusartskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/mr-pilot.html

The screen shots below are taken directly from max viewport. I used a shader called xoliul shader. here is the link> http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader
I am still playing around with the shader, but these are the results i got so far from using it.

Btw.. i wonder what it would be like if life drawing became a Olympic sport ............ (＾▽＾)

So... got like a bunch of new stuff to update on here. Thought i'd start with this. If anyone knows of monster hunter you might know of this contest that took place 2 months ago maybe ? Anyways Monster hunter Tri for wii came out, not to long ago. And i decided to enter this art contest of sort. I made this model long time ago using 3ds max and textured on photoshop. So it was pretty convenient for me, and just made a small animation etc and entered it in the comp.

Oh btw watched a new movie ... other than iron man 2. The movie is called Ip Man2. The first time i read that movie title .. i read it as " Internet provider Man 2" >.<

http://news.deviantart.com/article/118049/
(Art contest for fantasy earth zero )

Mod Project concept paintings

Some early concepts for a group mod project. Its gonna be a bar scene with sci-fi elements. My concepts were mainly for color and mood purpose. And how sun light would affect a dark environment. I will be doing one of the character designs and modeling it for the mod project, along with some assets.
This is random but while i am trying to type this..i can't see that blinky line that usually appears when you type. Don't even know what its called... Anyways Still checking now and then to see when Fantasy Earth Zero will come out in beta. Speaking of beta, starcraft 2 beta looks pretty neat. I love some of the new units they got like THor. Did you know .. when u click on Thor, he or it ..makes sound impressions like arnold. So Arnold ( the terminator) drives Thor. The thought on Arnold driving a Thor makes me laugh. Some people on JustinTv are streaming sc2. So if you want to watch Thor in action.. you can see it there. Oh yeah, Thor is btw the new goliath. Its pretty badass and big. Although Blizzard made some nifty improvements, i kind of did prefer the old voice clips. My favorite quote's are the one Dragoons say from sc1 " For vengeance " "I have returned". If i ever model a badass robot ..it will have those two quotes as its voice clips. But yeah..can't wait for the final sc2 to be released. For now i'll just play sc1 and mass effect 2.

And here check these two sites out. one is about concept ships and the other is basically the fundamentals in drawing. Its always nice to get a refresher on the fundamentals or basics.

1) http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

2) http://www.autodestruct.com/thumbwar.htm


Concept paintings for group Mod project.

ToLoveRu

Character is from a manga called ToLoveRu. It's funny ^^
Trying out different coloring style.

Lots of Stuff

Well heres a big update because as usual i am slow with my updates and sometimes i am not. Life, cafe sketches, personal drawings, assignments. C+C are welcome!!

Personal drawing

Cafe Sketches

Life Drawings

Characters Roughs

wolfman

Villan

Vampire

Mad scientist

Superhero

Gorilla