Witch Doctor WIP II

So this is my final submission for the GameArtisans chibi mini comp… I’m calling it a work-in-progress because I’m still pretty damn unhappy with the texture (sooooo much to do stll….), but you know, deadlines are deadlines, so here it for now. ‘Zah!

Witch Doctor Chibi WIP

Finally got a chance to start on my chibi for these guys last night. Just wrapped up the model- on to UVs and textures!

Right now she’s right on budget at 1250 tris. Fitting all her trinkets in was a fun pain-in-the-ass sort of challenge.:P

Annnnnnd Sketches

Apparently, in Hadidjahland, the only thing worse than two consecutive posts is putting a bunch of 2D and 3D in the same post. Unacceptable! It makes my tags all messy.

GameArtisans is having basically the most awesome contest ever for chibi models of various generic RPG classes. So, from left to right, concepts for chibi/Borrower-style wizard/witch doctor (Sorry Blizzard. I love you.), warrior and scribe. I really like the witch doctor, but the other two need more love and a complete redo, respectively. I’m hoping to get the entire set of six done eventually, I’m having a blast with them.

Cute girls sharing giant headphones. All it needs is for them to be sitting on a unicorn on a road made out of a rainbow, or something. I’m going to try watercoloring this and see if I don’t completely destroy it.

BAM! New environments!

I’m assuming it’s pretty shivery in hell right now, being as I actually finished some things. Been trying to practice more current-gen (or at least less blatantly past-gen) modeling and texturing. It was fun, and I’m going to go make something that hasn’t even heard of spec maps now.

Greenhouse built in UDK, modeled in Maya, textured in Photoshop and nDo2, and weighing in at either 9300 or 3800 tris depending on whether you feel like counting instances.

This mighty kitchen has been forged of the same programs mentioned above and throwing around about 6500 tris. Also I learned all sorts of fun things about custom materials and it was awesome.

I should probably update….

As mentioned above, updates as to what I’ve been doing, besides being a jerk, and instead of daily 3D sketches like I should be, shall now follow:

Kitchen corner in UDK, about 5800 tris.

Greenhouse corner in UDK, about 7000 tris with instances, 3300 tris without.

They’re *mostly* textured at this point… Mostly… But you just get detail lighting for now.

Lock Sketch

Mannnnn I’m out of practice speed modeling. I’m so lame.

Lock in 90 minutes in Maya, with a quick mental ray render afterwards.

I did a lot of 30- and 10-second sketches that I’m even more out of practice on too, but until I get a big scanner or someone buys me an Inkling, they’re going to stay on the paper for a while longer.

Some pin-up girls

I don’t know how I keep managing to forget to post these up, but no more!

I’ve been trying to do more 2D work to get practice with color and… well, 2D stuff. Going to try and do the next few in proper watercolor instead of cheating it in Photoshop. It’s buckets of fun.

(For context’s sake, I drew this on May 22. Just so we’re clear that I don’t have some weird flying-naked-girl fetish, and am in fact just a bad person.)

Guru-Guru dolly… thing

I’ve been trying to practice texturing more. So look! I made you all a tiny Guru-guru. Eventually I’ll rig him and give him some angry texture swaps, but this is where he’s at for now.

Maya viewport with no lights.

1490 tris, 512×512 color map

A few more speed models….

And the sad, sad beginnings of my foray into rendering.

Remote control, hour and a half.

NES controller, also 1 hour 30 minutes.

Me goofing around with various mental ray and Maya materials.

I guess I should probably model something that isn’t a control next time.

Sketches from the last two days. I think I might keep the chair, I kinda like him…

Chair took just over three hours. Slowwwwwwwwww.:(

Battery took about 30 minutes.