Personal Project Part 03

This week I finished the sculpt with respect to my work timeline. I completed the retopo and UVs and had to troubleshoot through a few bakes in Substance Painter. I threw on some basic coloring for fun to get the following result, which I'm pretty pleased with.
 

IRay Renders

  I still need to create her clothing and necklace, which shouldn't take long. I've also considered adding a facial design or prop if there's time.

Personal Project Part 02

Through a lot of research in the Overwatch style, I've made a some large progress in my sculpt. It is still incomplete, missing a necklace I believe might round out the concept. Among other things, I still need to do semi-random cuts and partings in the hair to better align with the Overwatch style. At the end I will also need to smooth out the hair branches and where the eyelids meet the face.

I will likely create her clothing in Marvelous Designer as I've had decent results with it on Capstone. That will have to wait until after retopo.

Personal Project Part 01

For my first personal project in 3D, I'm going to model a bust of a character I concepted some time before coming to FIEA.

Mala Concept

Due to time constraints, I have scoped to do just a bust of the upper body. I'm planning on a partly stylized look, maybe akin to Overwatch or Fortnite, which I imagine will take some time to emulate, though I am quite pleased so far.

This will also be my first go at stylized hair, so I must research methods to reach an effective look.
 

Sculpt WIP 1

Sculpt WIP 2

Completed Work Plan:
     Week 1: Beginning sculpt
     Week 2: Finish sculpt
     Week 3: Retopo, bake
     Week 4: Texture, other misc work

Environment Game Final

This week I finished the retopology and texturing of the "tree". Due to time constraints, I could not hope to finish other pieces I had initially scoped for, including the furniture, door, window, and most unfortunately, cracked pieces of wall, floor, and ceiling to imply the "tree" has burrowed into them.

IRay render

IRay Render

Despite the time setbacks, I've gotten subsurface scattering to function in engine closer to how I envisioned.

UE4

Environment High Resolution Part 02

This week I did some lighting tests to emulate how I envision the final texture of the "tree" will look using a ZRemesh of the sculpt as a test.

UE4 Test

I also started the retopology.

Retopo WIP

Environment High Resolution Part 01

I decided to create a simplistic, but creepy scene for my final environment project. After testing proportions in UE4, I started iterating on my scene in Maya.

Maya whitebox workspace

Next I sculpted the tree-like parasite creature in ZBrush. Using the Maya tree as a base.

Zbrush render

Creature inspiration is somewhere between the Zerg from Starcraft and the Sha from World of Warcraft.

3D Class S2 Class 08 Organic Bust Project (Textures, Materials and UE4 Display)

This week we are finishing our projects by painting our busts in Substance painter and pushing everything to UE4.

IRay Renders

UE4 Push

3D Class S2 Class 07 Organic Bust Project (Game Res Mesh Texture Bake)

This week we are finishing the high-res busts and incorporating a hard surface stand. After that, we are retopologizing it in Maya and doing a bake in Substance Painter.

Maya retopo

Substance Painter bake

Reference images of Artemis Bust

3D Class S2 Class 05 Organic Bust Project (High Resolution Modeling Stage)

This week we are creating an organic bust based on a reference image. I chose a bust of Artemis. It's about 80% complete, but is on its way to completion.

ZBrush Sculpt, 80% complete

Artemis Bust Reference

3D Class S2 Class 04 Hard Surface Modeling Project (Substance Painter Section)

This week I painted the Paralyzer Pistol and pushed it to UE4 for a final look.

Reference image

I ultimately decided to give it a worn-out look and included some blast residue around the barrel.

Substance Painter IRay orthographic render

IRay Renders

I tweaked the maps in UE4 to make it brighter and better match the pistol's concept art.

UE4 look

3D Class S2 Class 03 Hard Surface Modeling Project (High Res Section Part 2)

This week I finished the high-poly model and the low-poly model, complete with UVs.

Wireframe

UV Layout

Then I did a quick untextured bake in Substance Painter to make sure things were looking right and to prepare for the next step of painting.

Substance Painter bake (Untextured)

Reference image