RedWood, it was all done with calipers. :smile:

Then thats vary nice work indeed. I'm impressed. How many hours do you think you spent working on it?

Baron - nice work on that manitee pic. Good sense of values and form. The cylinder (body) sort of flattens out a bit. Maybe a little more reflected light on the left and stronger sense of shadowing in the center volume - the light source seems a little confused there.

Here's a few more celebrity caricatures:



http://www.duncanmoore.org/downloads/snarkpit/cosmo_duncan.bmp



http://www.duncanmoore.org/downloads/snarkpit/barker_duncan.bmp

http://www.duncanmoore.org/downloads/snarkpit/jeremy4.bmp

I just made an hourglass in XSI. I hope to use it in a map for the upcoming Gameflood contest.

It's textured with just base colors so far, but I'm going to make the glass clear and the base wooden. I hope to put some sand in there, too, but I don't know how I'm going to do that in XSI just yet.

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As I Lay Dying

Back in high school i made a cup holder for my car in Auto Desk's Inventor 11. I had planed on running it in the prototyper witch ran parts in ABS plastic. So it had a purpose. Well, long story short i never got to run it. now that i go els ware for my cad classes i can use their prototyper to run it. Only thing is that theirs runs parts out of cornstarch powder. so now it's no more than a mantel piece but, at least i have it. Finally. I wish i had a copy of inventor. It looks fare more impressive with a fire red metallic finish.

decided to create a garry's mod comic for my deviant art page.
I know its stupid, but I was bored

Sexual Harassment is Not Funny

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"Grotesque Voodoo Deity" + a robot.

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I finished that car that I showed part-built on the previous page. I used it as the basis of a final report for my AutoCAD course. the report itself sucked donkey balls, tbh, but my lecturer reckons the model carries me through to a pass.





It's a pity there's no hinges or constraints in autocad. Trying to creat decent poses without them was too much effort.

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Incredibly detailed, nice work! Now you just gotta texture it :wink: .

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Wow, i didn't know Auto CAD casted shadows.

Dunno about texturing it, Otz. :smile: Autocad has a decent materials library, but I've not found any sort of UV mapping tools yet.

Redwood, there's point lights, spotlights, bumpmaps, shadows etc. You can set colours and falloff curves for the lights, hardness of the shadows etc. Much like hammer in a lot of ways.

I've set up a little picture gallery here, with some more of my autocad work, and some map pics. I'm hoping fill it up as some sort of portfolio.

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Nice stuff there fishy, and nice site. I like the way the pictures appear in the beginning, although it is a bit unclear where to click to get back to the main page after looking through one gallery (ok, it took me a sec or two to figure it out, so perhaps it isn't such a big flaw afterall :biggrin: ).

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nice fishy!

A robot I've been working on, still needs work.

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Looks nice, its helmet reminds me a bit of Mega Man. Will you use this model for something in particular, or just doing it for fun?

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Thanks.

For now, its just for fun. I'm just learning how to use subdivs in blender,
experimenting... I want to also create an animation rig (armature) to him.
Once a good rig is made I can make some better characters and re-use it.

I'm assisting a friend with a series of CG animations with fully rigged characters,
and so far I'm just helping by making some of the props for various scenes.

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This is my first Release for Gmod10, if you want to play with them.

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Looks nice. Never played gmod though so I've no idea what they could be used for. (shooting others in the head anyone? :razz: )

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thank you, sir.
you could also use them in a HL2dm map, which is what I plan to do...

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did another one.

Comic #2, "To Catch a Predator"

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WIP


School assignment



Some classes in this game design program are better than others, instructor fires up the third powerpoint pres and I draw to keep myself awake...

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I've been at work on some custom textures for a small project I'm working on...

Here I have these reference pictures some of you might have seen before on the internets:











Now, I am building a factory of sorts, so these shots are helping me convey what atmosphere I'm trying to work with here.

So I searched the Internet and found these pictures of textures that I edited to my liking. Some I created from composites of textures and pictures I've taken myself. they are created with the following color palette I made:



Here are the textures downgraded for this forum. Each of them are about 50.0Kb in size...











These textures are seamless in all directions (except for the walls and ceiling texture meant to only seam horizontally)

I have made other textures and decals, but I would like to hear your thoughts on these "standard" textures that will make up the texture set for this "factory" scene!

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LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

Came to think about something today... How would one of those painting/drawing board for the computer work for things like writing and solving math problems etc? As a replacement for notebooks and pads of various kinds, mainly thinking about the A4 size.

Would be pretty neat if you could just use one long picture for one problem, and then save it and have them all stored neatly on your harddrive.

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Perhaps you should get one of these, Otz.

Also more crap by me.

f**k yea, some kinds of battle mech head/torso with a tunacan on the top.

very nice Riven. the only thing i could suggest, is to have no holes (white bits) in the corrugated iron texture, but instead, use a couple of seperate textures for alpha transparancy. then you could have a couple of .vmt files, all using the same texture, but pointing to different sets of holes, or even no holes at all. it would help mix up what may be quite a noticable repeating pattern.

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Well, because this texture is 1024x1024 I have made 512x512 versions with A) no windows B) no holes C) windows but no holes & D) holes but no windows so that I can mix and mach them any way I desire. Surprisingly though, I thought that the holes would repeat too much as well, but shockingly because I made it a 1024x1024 sized texture, It looks pretty decent and you don't really notice the repeating pattern at all. Here's a screen of it:



I actually like the holes. The factory will be this dark place with rays of light shining through. So I gave this texture a "$selfillum" parameter and applied an Alpha mask allowing only the window and holes to glow. After that, I toyed around with a normal map and applied it without reflectivity and I couldn't be happier. You can actually see the rips and tears around each hole giving this texture a very realistic effect. And to mix it up even more...

Whenever I want a hole big enough to support that point_spotlight effect, I have made a decal that is "$selfillum" that I can add anywhere in the textures, and will just give it an evn_lightglow to blind players when looking at it additively to the point_spotlight. And that will allow me to randomize it even more so... How does that idea sound?

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Natus: Yeah, perhaps. Nice turret btw.

Riven: Looks cool. The texture of the triangle in the far back looks a little bit repetitive though.

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Wee.

http://smackintosh.deviantart.com/art/Companion-Cube-67434743

I thought it was funny, anyway.

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But companion cube is male.
Funny nonetheless.

How do you know the weighted companion cube is male? They didn't make it anatomically correct. I assumed it was whatever you wanted it to be.
oh well.

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"I also invited your best friend, Companion cube, of course he could not make it, because you murdered him"

musta missed that part. damnit.

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Tried some 3dsm render stuff, I quite like it.




Models are made in xsi.

Nice. I'll have to try 3ds.

another disgusting comic. I apologize in advance for the language.

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Take it or leave it, a TF2 comic made with the new GMOD beta.
I went for more silly than really twisted humor.

The Good Doctor.

I've been practicing, the posing is getting a little better, I think (hope).
Added some "drop shadow" with Gimp, getting some techniques down in Inkscape.

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Some recent digital paints...

Goddammit, I wish I kept up with my art. Stupid ass degree.

Your stuff is, undoubtedly, good. Is that what you do, in general, for Insomniac?

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Thanks Crono. I'm a level designer at Insom. I don't do any production art or concept art. Designers at insom mainly work on 2D maps to illustrate the level design. I don't build any geometry beyond prototyping.

The art background comes in handy though - I constantly draw at work; sketching out ideas during the design phase. It's an amazing challenge trying to communicate a whole singleplayer level to a team of people . Any sort of visual aid helps, and I would eventually like to be doing the job of both designer and concept artist.

You can always jump back into art - in a way it's like riding a bike. Sometimes you'll find you have actually improved (or matured I should say), despite the time passed. Even an hour a day will knock the rust off quicker than you think.

Yeah, I've been trying lately ... but there's something wrong with my hands.

I think, I might just need to find some exercises for my hands, like stretching or something. Because they act inept when I hold a pencil. It's actually sort of difficult just to write and it makes my hands hurt only after a couple minutes. :sad:

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Playing around with Inkscape (free vector tool) trying to make a decent avatar.
I did not make the scorpion, it was a tattoo design I found on Deviant Art.

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I made this today for a small contest.

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Sweet, Altered Beast ftw!

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Very nice pics Finger.

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Crono.. did you draw those characters? If so, what program? I love pixel art - though I've never done it, I imagine it's a great way to start learning to paint as it forces you to think in simple planes and simple value changes.

Yes and no.

The four on the right are direct rips of the game's sprites ... with some pain in the ass manipulation since photoshop just HAS to resample the image when you change its size.

The one on the left is based off of a picture that I generalized with the pallet of the wolf on the right. I tried to do the same with the cromag man, but it didn't turn out as well.

I used base images, then used the pencil tool in photoshop at a size 2 and carefully moved the mouse. I'm not completely satisfied with the cromag man and the monkey looks a little too detailed to be in a 16-bit game, which this is based off of.

If you're wondering how I grabbed the sprites, I just went off of screen shots and used the magic wand tool at tolerance 1 or 0 and no anti-aliasing.

I'm curious, what does and doesn't work for the overall design? It's too late for the contest, of course, but not for the image.

One last thing, if you want to do really awesome and easy pixel art ... and this isn't totally legal ... get an emulator of Mario paint with mouse support. The game has a stamp section where you can make pixel art (it's sectioned into a grid) it's really awesome and actually makes it much simpler to do pixel art. When you're finished, piece together your character on the main pallet and take a screenshot and paste that in photoshop and BAM.

The only thing that sucks in Photoshop is that if it isn't the right size and you try to change it, it'll interpolate between the colors, which is bad for this kind of thing. So, what I did there, and I'm sure there's another method, but I didn't feel like looking around, was I zoomed in on the picture until it was the size I wanted and then I took a alt+screen cap and pasted it into a new image. It worked fairly well.

That was probably way more text than was needed to answer these questions.

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To get sharp edges when resizing go to Edit > Preferences > General and set 'Image Interpolation' to Nearest Neighbor.

When I'm doing small tiles and sprites in PS I like to set the grid to the tile size, and have at least two windows open for the file, one at 100% zoom and one at 600-1200% where all the pixeling is done. To open a new window for the file you're working on select Window > Arrange > New Window.

what does and doesn't work for the overall design?

The white background makes it kind of blah IMO. A screencap or collage from the game would give it a better sense of context.
The early man looks kind of flat, I think largely because he's only 3 colors for most of the body where the AB sprites are 4. I'd suggest try mixing the two pallets to get skin and fur, and beef up the legs a bit cause they look skinnier than the chimp's. Speaking of which it looks like you drew it over the white bg and faded the edges to the background color, giving it a different look to all the others. The guy teaching a lot of the art class in the game program I'm taking worked at Origin on a few of the Ultima games, he said the sprites were all created over a mid-dark cyan background for exactly that reason. Stuff that's drawn to look good on a white background almost always looks washed out or 'glows' at the edges when put into the game.

Overall I like it, I think the concept is great.

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Thanks, I figured it was there somewhere.

A screenshot or collage from the game would not fit at all and would be quite the opposite of what I was doing. It would look far too jumbled and all over the place. I mean, the entire point was to try to emulate the evolution paintings, which have simplistic backgrounds, often times, white.

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Getting back into 3D, taking another stab at character modelling (no polygonal boobs this time, sorry.)

~2700 tris at present, I'm building it as a subD mesh for zbrush sculpting, then I'll fine tune the final game mesh over the re-imported sculpted mesh.

And some other random thing:

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Alright, inspired by my friends drawings, i decided to pull out good 'ol paint and try something out again. Went with the Agent 47, From Hitman games (for those who possibly doesn't know :razz: ).

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Two holiday inspired comics featuring source characters>

Merry Festivus

Happy Holidays

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Blender Ice Monster

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For another contest:

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