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The Power Core
The Power Core is a Unreal Engine 4 Sci-Fi scene that was completed in two weeks. Low poly and high poly were made in 3ds Max. UV unwrapped in Headus UVLayout. All assets were textured in Substance Painter. The renders are straight from the Unreal Engine project.
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The Swimming Man
Hello! What do you get when you mix The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dory and The Shape of Water? You get The Swimming Man. I have millions of ideas and little time, so instead of movie, all I can render is a render of my idea.
Anyways, I took the Artstation Mastrclasses and learned a lot. To get this image I used the technique of one of the instructors and one of my heroes, Rafael Grassetti. His work flow is almost identical to the workflow I used to create the Zon character, however, for Rafael stays in and renders from Zbrush! I was quite inspired so as soon as I had some time off from my day job I created this guy. The top image is the final render, which was obviously composited in Photoshop. The second image is just a close up of the final render. The third image is the base render from Zbrush.
This workflow is quite effective and fast. I will probably choose this workflow for upcoming projects simply because time is precious and I have rare time for myself or my dreams.
Again, if you have any questions please contact me at [email protected].
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G.R.O.M. - Concept
Just got Keyshot and wanted to take her out for a spin. Not bad, pretty spiffy.
So this is a concept piece for my personal project. G.R.O.M. is an alien concept based on our own starfish. Since he was based on starfish I started with his head and worked my way out to his body. At first, he was looking very silly. In the beginning his body looked like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants. But I decided on a more realistic approach and used lobsters and crabs as reference as well.
I used Ian Joyner’s workflow to render out these images. Basically, you sculpt in Zbrush, render in Keyshot and composite in Photoshop. So, in Keyshot I render a main pass or “beauty pass”, an AO pass, a Clown pass, and a Spec/Gloss pass. I take these passes and combine them in Photoshop. I also add several other layers when needed such as a Burn layer, adjustments layers (usually Curve), texture layers and paint layers. Paint layers is where I paint over the render, I don’t always do that, but it does help alleviate the CG look.
Altogether, this took me a two days to complete, which is lightning fast. At least for me it is, at this point. Maybe I get faster, who knows.
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ENTER THE SPACE ORCS
MAGNUS
RAGNOK
TIM
As Audra makes her way further into the ship she encounters 3 Orcs who help out of a hairy situation. Magnus is leader of the Orcs. Ragnok is shaman and wizard. Tim, the biggest and strongest Orc, is pure muscle. Together all four must help each other if they want out of the forbidden ship. The pipeline for the creation of the Orcs is sculpting in Zbrush. Some poly modelling in 3ds Max. Retopolgy was mostly done in 3ds Max. If the poly count was too high for Max, retopology was done in Zbrush via Zspheres. I worked on Magnus first, Ragnok second and Tim last. With Magnus you will notice triangulated topology. This is because I experimented with using Houdini’s Game Dev Toolset and auto retopo. I saw Mike Pav’s tutorial and wanted to give it a go. You can find it here https://youtu.be/AxpImb2tGII. However, after completing Magnus, I manually retopo’d every object. For UV unwrapping and texturing and having complete control of topology, manual retopo is KING. I suggest using Houdini’s Game Dev for environment props since it saves a HUGE amount of time, which is what I will be doing for my game/ comic book. For hero objects, manual retopo is still the way to go.
Texturing was done in Substance Painter. Initially, I was using xNormal to bake High poly to Low poly. And it works great. But by the time I started working on Ragnok, I was baking exclusively in Substance Painter. The baker is just as good and it is so convenient since Painter will give you all the texture maps it needs for the Smart workflows (Smart Materials, Smart Masks, etc). So Ragnok and Tim’s baking were done in Painter.
A trick I used when creating all three Orcs was using some of the same sub-objects on different Orcs. Not only does it give them all a somewhat cohesive look, it saves a huge amount time. To further give the shared objects their own identity, I would use the same object, but texture each differently. I would take the object from one file, after it had already been retopo’d and unwrapped and baked and place it in a different file. When I did this I applied a Reset X-Form and and also reset the Pivot to zero in the world space. You must collapse the stack at that point, then all you have to do is pop it in to Painter and re-texture.
Morph targets are done in Zbrush and 3ds Max. Once I have my low-poly, unwrapped objects, in this case the character’s head, in Max I use Goz to pop a copy of that head into Zbrush. Using masks and the Move brush and Smooth brush primarily, I move the topology around until I get the desired facial expression. The trick is to not alter the topology be adding or removing faces. Once I got the expression, I GoZ the head back into 3ds Max where I store that new facial expression as a Morph Target in the original head’s stack Easy peasy.
Skinning and rigging is done in Max. I use a simple Bi-ped for the characters and add extra bones when needed. An example is seen on Ragnok’s Bi-ped. I added three columns of bones to control his cape. I added another column to control his waist straps.
By the time I got to Tim, I wanted to finish as fast and as cheaply as possible. By cheaply I mean as little polys as humanly possible while maintaining the standard set by the previous Orcs and Audra herself. I want my game and comic to look great so I take extra care in the creation of my characters and environments, but I was really curious as to how much I could get away with when retopo’ing Tim. Turns out, as long as baking is done with extra attention, I can go real low!
Last note, if Tim’s facial topology looks “off” on his jaw it’s because I duplicated pieces of his facial topology to use as hair cards for his jaw scruff. It’s subtle and all the hair cards use the same texture, the hair cards are all unwrapped over the texture in different ways to achieve that look.
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BAD ASS
I'm Making a Video Game/ Comic Book
I’m Making a Video Game/ Comic Book
My name is Alfred Carrillo. I am business owner of Twisted Skillz Game Dev and I’m an independent video game developer. I’m making my very own, and first, video game. It’s called Black Galactica. Black Galactica is a Sci-Fi third person shooter. It is a gargantuan and ambitious task for sure. I know that it will take years to complete the game so I’ve decided in the mean time to publish a comic…
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I'm Making a Video Game/ Comic Book
My name is Alfred Carrillo. I am business owner of Twisted Skillz Game Dev and I’m an independent video game developer. I’m making my very own, and first, video game. It’s called Black Galactica. Black Galactica is a Sci-Fi third person shooter. It is a gargantuan and ambitious task for sure. I know that it will take years to complete the game so I’ve decided in the mean time to publish a comic book of the video game story itself.
The comic is still months away from being produced as I am still creating assets, however I’ll use this website to blog and document my progress on my project. Please feel free to ask questions or give suggestions.
Below is a sneak peak of the comic book sans company logo and words.
Audra V-Ray Renders
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Audra the Seventh
The lead character of Black Galactica is Audra the Seventh. Audra is a Galactic Sentry, part of a sect of humanoids who have learned to evolve with technology. When a Sentry becomes a certain age, they are paired with an advanced technological being (Meta Tech) who is installed into the Sentry’s mind and body. Eventually, they merge into one supreme being if the human sentry accepts Convergence,…
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The Switchblade
Audra’s weapon of choice is the Switchblade. The Switchblade is basically, in it’s purest form, a laser sword akin to Star War’s Lightsabre. However, the reason this weapon is called The Switchblade is because the user of the weapon can switch the templates of the “blade”. There are 12 basic Switchblade templates, but Switchblade users usually install templates of their own. So if a user wants to…
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Corridor Level Work in Progress
Corridor Level Work in Progress
As you may know, I’m working on a video game and comic book, Black Galactica. I just wanted to share a small glimpse of a level I’m working on right now. Some of my favorite video games of all time are the Dead Space games. They are peak excellence in video game design, sound, play-ability and they are FUN! As you can see below, this level and many others are inspired by Dead Space. This render…
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Desert Storm on Nelva – Digital Illustration – Concept Art
Meet Substance Scavenger Bot. This is my entry for Allegorithmic’s #MeetMat17 Contest. My vision for this guy is a futuristic, sci-fi, scavenger bot who scours tombs, worlds and galaxies collecting substances for the best textures.
I wanted most of the textures to be subtle but I also wanted to catch people’s eyes, so a dynamic design was needed to show off the textures. I used particles, sticker painting, smart materials and every other trick that Substance Painter has. The design was inspired by Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Alien.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. The ghost with the most baby!
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The Incredible Hulk. HULK SMASH!
Spider Man vs Venom Painting