May the good blood guide you...

Whew! I'm calling this one done! This marks the first personal piece that I've taken to completion in a long while and now I remember why! It was a lot of work! Still tons more I could do too. More variation in the textures for one, more vegetation (definitely more than one tree like there is now) Overall though I'm happy with it. I learned a ton about Unreal Engine 4 while working on this. Learned a few new zbrush tricks, and some texture tricks as well.

Overall though what this project taught me the most about is ambition. I realized that most of my portfolio is large scale pieces. Very ambitious environments. That's all well and good but it's easy to get burnt out on large projects like this. In the future I think I am going to focus on smaller scale vignettes, and props. I'd rather do a REALLY well executed piece and have it stand on it's own.

Anyway that's enough musing from me! Back to playing Bloodborne!!!!

First Post of 2015!

Some new work I've been jamming on in my spare time. It's based off of a structure in Portugal.

Still needs a lot of texture work, mostly blends and moss touch-ups.

I am also in the process of expanding the scene.

"Pa-Pa-Pa-Paper, please!"

I decided to jump feet first into Unreal Engine 4, so I came up with a small scene. I have no real world, and little sci-fi art in my portfolio so I went with a quai-futuristic bathroom. Not the most exciting of subjects but it allowed me to focus, and easily find reference for surfaces and scale. This was a way more difficult exercise than I thought it would be but I learned TONS about UE4, Quixel Suite, and PBR materials. There are definitely things I can improve but after 2 weeks I'm ready to move on.

Back to beginning...

Well not really. I've been messing with UDK lately (I don't think there is much of a future for Cry Engine personally). I decided to drop one of my old projects in there and see what I could do.

Not too bad, lots still to learn but man I think I can do great things with this program! :)

Ghost Ride the WIPs!

Just some stuff I've been working on as of late.

Ouroboros!

So video game website Silconera picked up on my DKC:TF posts! Super cool to see some recognition for all of the hard work we put into the game! :)

A Glimpse at how Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freezes levels were made

Here are links to all of my DKC:TF posts

It's On Like Kong!
More Art from DKCTF
Last of the bunch

Puss.... IN BOOTS!

I found this amazing concept on Pintrest and found out it was for Puss in Boots. I've never seen the movie, but I loved the piece. I decided to do sculpt of it in Zbrush. I've never done a full environment piece in the program before and while it's not practical for games, it was fun to work on.

Concept by Todd Gibbs
http://www.toddgibbs.com/