More WiP updates on the environment.

WiP of an environment I'm working on. Concept from Gray-Shuko, an awesome artist!

 

Finished up the Chest. Now on to the next project!

A treasure chest in WoW style that I have been working on the last couple of days. Going to finish it tomorrow.

It's  been a while, here is a WIP screenshot of the ArenaNet Project. Got a few more things to do before it's done.

Couple of studies I've been doing.

Spent an hour and a half for this rock surface study. A friend of mine mention that I should try to work on design since it's a big weakness of mine.  I'm going to learn how to do better design in all of my pieces from now on.

Finally getting back to the ArenaNet Art Test. Going to push hard and finish as soon as I can.

Was struggling quite a bit today trying to do a study on a sandy type ground. 1 hour study.

Was looking through some Torchlight 2 textures today and I wanted to try to practice making cracks. Did an hour and a half study on it.

School is starting again so it's time to get back to work mode! Did a one hour rock study.

A couple of tilling texture studies I have been doing.

Tried to model this machine part for a study. After 2 hours I decided to stop and move on. Need quite a bit of practice
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Going to post up the update of the Arena Art Test soon. The last couple of days have been slows, really need to get motivated again!!

Color study~

Test baked on the rock wall for the Guild War Art Test

A bunch of studies I've been doing throughout the week. I was trying out the Trim-border Smooth to create a rocky like surface. I can see how it will be quite useful for a few things.

Finished the shield. I don't like how the wood turns out and I think that was because the sculpt wasn't good. Tried to fix it up during the texturing the process but no go. This was my first time texturing with DDO so not quite comfortable yet.

1 Hour rock study.

More progress on the shield. I'm going to mirror some elements of it so I only sculpt half. Going to finish sculpting and hopefully bake everything out by tomorrow. Then Wednesday will just be texturing.

Still playing around with the block out stage of the GW project. I'm thinking of adding a hanging lantern by the front of the door and possibly vines going up the wall. Going to finalize everything that I want to add in by tomorrow and move on to modelling.

I'm doing the shield from 3DMotive tutorial. Finish modelling the low-poly and brought it into Zbrush. Going to sculpt it then texture using NDO2 + DDO. This will be the first time I use DDO so I'm quite excited to learn more about it. Going to try and finish this whole thing hopefully by Wednesday.

Meanwhile I'm gathered up references for the ArenaNet Art Test project.Grab a bunch of screenshots online and also other art test done by talented artists for inspiration.

I started with the block-out just to get the right proportion and shapes. I still want to figure out what sort of extra elements I want to add to the concept before moving forward.

Finals are done and the folks are gone so it's time to get back to some art!
Here are the final for one of my class and reference. Looking back I probably should have chose something that I could find multiple references picture of. Also the cloth looks terrible =/

I went back to try and fix up the sci-fi floor spec map following PhillipK's tutorial. I tried to darken the other area where there were dust and rust. I also brighten up the scratches so it would catch the light. Doing a proper spec map is actually quite hard and I will need to do a lot more until I get a hang of it.

I'm going to move on to the next 3DMotive tutorial and starts on the AreanaNet environment art test as well.

1 Hour tilling texture study. I'm not good with tilling grass texture so I'll be doing them the most.

More work done on the bag for finals.

Did a color study for an hour today. Would like to spend 2 hours next time but yeah, today was a long day.