jetzken art

Jazz // September // Commissions: Open all my art things posted here including wips, idea generation, and completed things

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High poly modelling practice as well as some basic work with mental ray and Maya’s material editor. I think if I were to redo this, I’d definitely change the bridge to make it more interesting, add a pick guard, and make coils around the tuning pegs. I’d also focus a bit more on the topology of the sound hole so that I would’ve been able to add some detail, like rings, around it. However, it works as is if I were to bake it down to a normal map, and do the sound hole details in a texture instead.

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Some of the animations I worked on for the Chronocorps student project

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So I did Finn’s Sword from Adventure Time to practice realistic texturing, using Marmoset as the render engine. I’m already working on a more optimised version (where I use a 2:1 texture instead of a square) as well as trying to understand where the errors from my bakes came from and how to fix them.

(see more stuff on my website: http://jdodsonart.com/ )

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in-game lighting and fire effect (done with Maya particle effects and rendered to a 4 frame 128*128 texture) for the flying unit

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first pass on lighting - all lighting done with vertex colours

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early concepts for the ranged and melee units

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currently working on something for Tension Graphics AB, and yeah its still within the apprenticeship, but its an actual potentially commercial prototype that some of us are lucky enough to be working on, and its great fun right now, im getting to try out a new art style that i really like as well, which is pretty great too!

also working on building my hand-painted texture skills, cause i really love that style and it just looks really fun to attempt, im finding it a bit tricky right now to grasp the basics of painting in photoshop but im determined to go through with it, and make a small alchemy prop set later after ive figured out the workflow that’s best for me

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several hours spent coding my portfolio from scratch later, im pleased to my portfolio. im still adding work to it, and you can follow my art blog (http://jetzken.tumblr.com/) for updates and in-progress shots

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was so lucky to snap this photo when I was at Manchester SeaLife

more on my redbubble

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Love the way this fish stood out in the tank

(see it on Redbubble)

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low poly piece from a photo of a moray eel I took on a trip to SeaLife

(see it on Redbubble)

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Another attempt at hand painting textures and particle work in UDK. Got better UVs this time so it made texturing so much easier. Also included my reference/inspiration sheet and a screenshot in Cascade of the fire particle system.

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First time using UDK.

UVs for the chest were broken up a lot because of using xNormal for making the normal map. If I were to redo this, I wouldn't bother with a normal map for the chest so that I could hand paint the metal - or at least prevent artifacts from baking the light map.

Both the glass and the liquid for the bottles were done solely with materials in UDK. Working with materials and doing the particle work on this was the best part of the assignment.

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modelled the grenade from brink

made use of the lattice to shape the body of the grenade to give it the slight bulge shape

bottom two screenshots are the low poly version

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animated version of the autopsy table

the mechanics took so long to figure out but im glad i did it

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modelled the autopsy table from Quake 4 with this concept art (LINK)

this is the high poly/smoothed version. haven't made a low poly version yet

the hardest part was doing the arm and making the mechanics of it look plausible. had to build in some hinge pieces and put in aim constraints to locators to make the whole thing move fluidly

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finally finished it

total triangles for the low poly version: 7725 (compared to 245936 for the high poly)