Week 9 - Archer Modeling + Texturing

This week I've been working on the Archer model. Building off a slightly altered base mesh from my previous work with the Warrior, I've modeled, UVed and done basic texture work for the Archer. I've been working on the uniform design, hopping back and forth between my Warrior and Archer to make sure their design is somewhat similar but contrasting enough. I like the additions I made to the Archer and would like to implement some similar design aspects back to the Warrior.

On Friday after 493 I'll be going into the mocap room to capture my animations! The animations range from a variety of battle stances to emotes (a total of 14 emotes). I will be directing the mocap work while Sebastien (programmer) will be in the mocap suit.

By next week I'd like to make alterations to the models + textures based on previous critique, work on the portraits, and clean up the animation to be brought into UE4.

Week 8 - Warrior Modeling + Texturing

I was able to meet my goal for this week, which was to have the warrior completely modeled and textured. The base color is all I have currently though, I intend to include specular map, metallic map, etc as well but I need to look up how to do that in 3D Coat since all I've done up until now is diffuse only. Each character will have their own unique head (the one I have right now is Finnian), however the body will be the same. Below are what he looks like within 3D Coat and UE4 respectively. I've also linked what we have for our game so far, which includes basic dialogue and placeholder portraits I made last week. On a programming aspect, the player controls are mostly done and the AI is the current priority and still in the works.

Next week I would like to have the Archer started and / or do the finalized portraits.

Week 7 - Warrior Modeling + Portraits

I've begun modeling the armor for the Warrior class. I'd forgotten how tricky it is to model armor so it's taken me some time. All I need to do from here is finish modeling the arm guards, belts, hair, and weapon and I can begin UVing / texturing.

I'm kind of bouncing around what I'm working on due to what my programmer is asking of me. This week he wanted to implement dialogue so I began working on portraits for the two first characters introduced in our game. They are placeholders for the moment until we settle on a design choice, but I've captured the general idea we're going for.

Next week I'd like the Warrior to be modeled + textured. I'd then be moving on to either more plished portrait work or beginning the Archer.

Wireframe WIP

Portrait Concepts

Portrait Sketch (Finn)

Portrait Sketch (Isa)

Armor References:

Week 6 - New Project + Critique

This week I've been working on the game I am co-creating with Sebastien Hutt. The title as of now is Rally! I've mainly been working on our game doc (it's 6 pages right now!) and modeling the base for our units. On top of that though I've also being doing a lot of other misc things with the project such as designing levels, props, outfits, UI, etc. Sebastien is handling all of the programming within UE4 and also creating placeholder objects (since characters are a priority but also take the longest).

The base model is done. It's mainly for proportions, a good chunk of it will be deleted once the clothing is added. The face will also use animated textures so no need for facial geometry.

Do they got a booty

They dooooo
(kindaaaaa)

UVing actually took less time than usual

Warrior and Archer outfit design + Body proportions

Intro level design + Asset concepts

Game progress by the talented Sebastien

https://gyazo.com/9e2a480e449e60eb29eafe37c132736b

I also received critique from a Slack group I'm a part of called the Handpainter's Guild, filled with lots of talented and friendly low poly / handpainted texture artists. She was super helpful and even drew on a screenshot of my model to point out some areas I could improve upon (and wow, did she really make him look stunning!!). I'd like to go back and add these changes, but it may have to be in my free time since I will have to work a lot in the upcoming weeks to crank out these assets for our game!