#apprenticeship work

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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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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