New Art Posse Chellenge

I'm really liking the art posse community. It's very small with a wide range of skill levels. The weekly challenges have really helped me improve quickly. Here's the latest weekly challenge.

Randall of the Bog

Participated in an are challenge over at the Art Posse forums. Just a fun weekly challenge to get better at painting. This one was bog creature.

board game

whew been a long ass time since I worked on this piece. This is in theme with the old board game I was working on.

Update!

Been a long time now since I updated but I've been busy. I've been doing a number of steam workshop competitions. Just figured I would do a bulk update dump.

I won a spot in the Company of Heroes 2 skin contest and it's been on their store for a bit

Hellbound Skin submission

I've a few entries in the CS:GO skin challenge

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683556595

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=685326063

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=689671724

Then I made a few other skins. So I've been playing around in the workshop for a bit.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Grumpntug/myworkshopfiles/


I also started a personal Batman piece just because, very early still though as being a parent really drains the time away.

speed paint

piece from lunch

Board Game

Another alien race for Void Star

Hand painted Speeder

That was a fun weekend. Finished it up last night. I ended up just doing everything by hand. There's no bakes or grunge overlays. Just enjoyed straight painting. :)

I didn't do any fancy rendering or lighting I just took a full bright shader and grabbed directly from Maya.

 

Ok one render. It's hand painted with no fancy materials so it doesn't exactly look photo real but I still can't resist.

Feeling like something different

Was feeling inspired and I wanted to make something different. Doing a hand painted low poly version of the new speeder from the Star Wars Episode 7 teaser :)

Some WIP

I will be doing a mix of probably zbrush and running height map through crazy bump (I don't have Ndo :( cause I'm broke) to get some AO bakes but the goal is no photo usage at all and no normals.

 

 

About 6 hours in I finished the low poly. (after these shots were taken) I was aiming for 4k and landed on 4182 tris

More Void Star art

Also we came up with a name for the board game I'm working on! Void star! which sounds pretty dope.

I figured out the logo for it that we will put on the box and other things. Also made our ship pieces. These will be printed out on single tiles about 1 inch. Still have some damage states to make but it's getting there. Also some of the earlier ships at the bottom could use some love :-/

Finished the submarine

I finished up the submarine and rendered it out. zMore on the site

One man sub WIP

Making a sci fi one man submarine. still pretty early.

Cannon

Made this today.

Quick alien bust

Couple lunch breaks.

Now I think I'm done

I pushed it further into exploring better rendering and making the most out of my maps. I think I got it to a much better place than I did have it. I'm fussing over it now so that's probably a good sign it's time to stop and move on to something new.

Re-working textures

Still figuring out the basics of texture creation for PBR. Got a lot of it figured out now but just need re-build some things. About half way there now... My metalness map was wrong and there was no need for specular with both metalness and rough.

new texture wip

First Pass PBR

Created the first pass of textures for use in Unreal.

Low Poly done and initial bake

I've been super busy on my house but I have managed to get a few hours each night. I decided to re-topo everything again since I wasn't getting the quality I wanted from the bakes and I wanted to get the most I could out of the UV space. Will be doing a reflection map pass next and basically all the fun texture work for PBR in tool bag or maybe Unreal. Have yet to bake everything out yet.

Helm texturing and lizard dude

Only got a few hours tonight since all day was more house work. Almost ready for siding! Started another race portrait for the board game and started texturing the helmet.

More Helmet

More helmet progress. Making the cleaned up pieces.

Bug!

More board game art. kinda taking everything to the same level and then I'll do another pass on them if time allows. Turns out I will be doing much more of the games art than originally thought so I need to time manage a bit.