Procedural Project

This week I've been looking at Hilbert curves and how to use them for generating a layout. I plan on placing tiles for each point in this layout which will make up the dungeon.
I've been doing this in UE4 C++.

Procedural Update

This week for the procedural dungeon maker I looked into implementing random wall and floor tile placement with some cell automata. I did this in UE4 using blueprints and the grasslands asset pack from Epic.

VFX Project 2

This week I didn't complete much.

VFX Project

For the VFX project I am making a simple ray tracer based off of readings from scratchapixel, Raytracing in One Weekend, and Graphics Gems IV.

This week I am creating the outline for the power point presentation. I will show this to the class in order to explain what a ray tracer is and how to make one from a high level. I'll be showing examples from the readings.

I've also began thinking about the final project. I'm thinking of doing a procedural environment with Unreal Engine 4.

Project Manager Week 3

This week for the project manager I tackled the gui.

 

  I thought if an artist was using this tool they shouldn't have to touch the file explorer. If that's the case then why even show folders? This is the question I had in my mind while designing the initial gui. The main idea is the artist is only seeing assets.

here is a link to the github

Project Management Tool Week 2

This week I made some changes to the folder structure and started coding. What I wanted to accomplish was creating a preset folder structure with python. To start it off I made the folder structure with the file explorer and copied it to json. I then created the folder structure based off of that json file.

here is a link to the github

Project Management Tool Week 1

This is the start of the Project Management Tool project! The project itself will be a manger for files. By the end it should allow the artist to never touch explorer while working on a project!

For this week I'm thinking about the folder structure. I went to the tech-artists.org to gather information on the subject. The key take away I found was the separation of what the user sees and what is happening behind the curtain. In other words maybe the folder structure doesn't need to be too complex or completely mimic what you see in Maya or Houdini.

Whether I'm right or wrong about that I think I should at least be consistent with what I'm doing for the duration of the project. So the file structure will be ... (X is the project name)

• project_X
• Art - all the art source files
• Textures
• Temp
• Config
• Meshes
• Temp
• Config
• Rigs
• Temp
• Config
• Animations
• Temp
• Config
• Temp
• Config
• Game - all the files needed for the game
• Temp
• Config
• Temp
• Config

Illustration

This week we began the illustration assignment again.
Part 1

Part2

Lighting Part 2

This week we redid the lighting assignment. I think it's better than my first attempt at the assignment.

Source, Part 2, then Part 1

Perspective Redo

This week I redid the perspective assignment. I used the same process as last time. However, this time I used a screenshot from my round 3 RPP game.

The perspective image

 Screenshot from RPP

 The last perspective image

Composition Redo

This week I redid the composition assignment. I was watching the Firewatch GDC talks and got inspired. It's not the same style since I don't have the same level of detail seen in some of the darker layers of the Firewatch image. I originally wanted to include Side 2 from Gundam in the image. It would be coming in from the left side of the image and would include the lighting detail like the tower. However, I just couldn't get it to look right. Instead I added a lone car entering from the right of the image as if the buildings are leading the eye towards it.

Firewatch

The Redo

The last assignment

Value Redo

This week I redid the value assignment. I used some Gundam line art of a GM.

The new then old

New

 

Old

 

Silhouettes Part 2

This week I redid the Silhouette assignment. I wanted to try doing a GM Command this time with different weapons but I couldn't get the angles right from the line art unlike the Scopedog from the first assignment. So I did a bunch of weapons. Unlike the first assignment I didn't stick with modifying from the same base object because many of the Silhouettes I saw from the first assignment weren't based off of the same object.

Mannequin Redo

This week I redid the mannequin using the original image from the first assignment. It went better than the first time. I used the value process to make it.

Cannon In Engine

This week we put the cannon in engine with the texture we baked in substance.

I really liked the algae look inside the barrel.

Final Illustration 1

This week we did final Illustrations which should include three concepts we examined this semester and be based off of an artist we referenced.

I used lighting, composition, and perspective. I was thinking of Frank Frezetta while drawing this.

Art of Boris Vallejo

This week we looked up reference of Boris Vallejo. I like half of his stuff. It's just seems like some of his art has odd detail on the characters compared to the environment.

Paint and Bake

This week we baked the low poly model with the sculpted model in substance painter. Then we painted it with different layers, generators, materials, and particles.

Basic Lighting

This week I worked on 2D with 3 point lighting. I picked an Alien egg from my desk and used the lights Diana brought in. It was really difficult trying to use the blackish greenish shadow.

Composition 1

When I started this I imagined a sword in a mound of dirt.  Doing nice line work is tuff for me so I tried to keep everything blurry and used gradients to guide the eye in a form of cross composition.