3D Art

About the Small Ship: The Small ship utilizes stealth and mid-ranged weapons. While making this ship I found it much easier to separate some of the mesh into individual objects. In substance painter I got a little carried away on the sails. I painted the spear and the skull with my mouse; this was before I got a drawing tablet so it took some time. I found how important it is to balance my time when texturing.

About the Game Environment: Rock Rampage was in interesting game to develop. Our Designer chose to make the game 3D but side scrolling. Initially they wanted the terrain to be destructible, but that feature was out of scope. Ultimately after several changes I made the terrain out of a sweep tool in maya. Figuring out the terrain building process while juggling my other responsibilities was a challenge, but it turned out well enough and I learned a lot from the experience.

About the Objects: Vehicle Parts are modular in the game. This is because the player is able to build their own vehicle from parts by snapping them together on a grid. This means that each part had to be rotatable, and fit within a uniform box, while still being uniquely identifiable. The booster engine is one that I was particularly proud of and it was inspired by Donkey Kong.

About the Game Environment: According to the premise of the game. The player is a magical artificer, who toils away in their magical workshop making “Cans” of magic for the kingdom. The game design is a +1 design of Suika Game. Given the setting I designed this environment from a single perspective. The player can see in the background a desk with items cluttered about. They also see a kingdom out the window, with the sun setting on the horizon. My favorite prop was the magical textbook I made to give the scene some comical relief.

About the Objects: Orbs are what Can ‘O Magic is all about. There are 10 unique orbs in the game which the player drops into the can. When like orbs collide, they merge into the next larger orb. The design direction for these orbs was totally open to interpretation, so I made many of these ideas from scratch after collecting some reference material. There are also 3 special consumable items, as well as 6 rune (which unfortunately didn’t make it into the gold release)

About my contribution: The models that I was responsible for replicating during this project were a lot of fun, and you can see several of them in the pictures below. One of the things that helped me a lot in the process was that I have the game myself and I was able to run around the scene taking screen shots. That is how I got many of the profile angled reference images. The most intricate model that I made was the Snow Cone Cart and my favorite textures are the Cactus Pots. In Substance Painter I detailed the paint on the pots by hand.

About the Eddie project: Eddie the Robot is a model that I did not make myself, it was an educational tool that I downloaded from a community website called The Rookies in order to practice texturing techniques. I did model and texture everything else in this turn table scene however, including the Shrink Ray which is in the glass case in the middle of the shop. The concept art of that Shrink Ray came from a game called Outer Worlds developed by Obsidian Entertainment and that concept art is also not mine. This was only intended to develop my skills as a 3D artist and I will not redistribute these objects.

About the my experience: While learning 3D Art I also practiced making my own game assets. I progressively advanced my skills and learned multiple techniques along the way. Below you can see a golden dragon statue that I 3D Scanned. I used software such as Metashape and zbrush to produce it. I also modelled some rock golem statues and a dungeon scene where an Iron Maiden is the centerpiece.