Character Creation for Game / Cinematic
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Final Result
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicHi there!
Now has the project come to the end. It has been very fun and very worthwhile time. I hope you has also enjoyed the blog here.
You can find the “How To” document HERE.
So I will show you here two clips bellow this text.
Take Care! (o~)/
Showreel
Final Showreel For My Project! from Mattias Eriksson on Vimeo.
Some Shoots in Unreal Engine!
Some Fraps Shoots. from Mattias Eriksson on Vimeo.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Sneak preview Character One
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicHere can you see a sneak preview of the sniper girl in unreal.
I have no normals on her yet, I got them but it doesn’t work in unreal. I guess the problem may be world space cordinates Z is up instead for Y.
But it’s easy to fix. If all will go as planed in this weekend I will also put up my second charcter, the Steam robot.
Just to mention it I have also skin weighted the girl and she works fully with animation. But thats eye candy for the final video presentation. So keep up visiting here for updates.
So hope you enjoy this picture.
//Take care!
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Saturday, March 06, 2010
Progress report
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicHere comes some images of this week progress.
It’s very late because I did some serious misstake on my highpolygon uv maps for both of my characters.
I wanted to keep the highpolygon uv map when I did a low polygon of it. But I had done some uv seems at most of edges that I was supposed to remove.
When I removed it destroyed the whole uv map. :S
So I guess this will be a workaholic weekend. ^^
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Friday, February 26, 2010
UV Mapping and Low Polygon
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicThis week has been a full work at uv mapping and correct some bad topology on these characters.
Have also made all accessory and uv mapping for both characters.
I am going to do four uv maps on both characters and they will be 2k textures.
UV maps sections are:
- Head
- Body
- Arms / Legs
- Weapons
Some minor changes on UV maps sections can happen, it depends how efficient UV map will become.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Improved Hair Alpha test
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicHere have I done some simple hair alpha texture but with more planes on top each other and a pretty complex mesh head. It is working pretty like i thought it would do. Except for alpha seems little thinner then in maya render but that is easy to correct. I think solution for that is to make less transperent in the middlepart of hair alpha texture.
Pictures
Video
Hair alpha test from Mattias Eriksson on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Early hair alpha test
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicI have now tested alpha textures in Unreal engine to achive hair effect.
It’s working very fine, and material editor is very similar to Maya’s Hypershade editor.
I know now it would’nt be any problems for hair planes on my character.
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Basic Rigg Previz in Unreal Engine
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicHere comes some previz shots of a basic rigg and skinning in Unreal.
This is just only for get knowing how to get a character with rigg into unreal and set an animation for it.
When I do the final part this will go much smother.
Test 1
Basic Previz Rigg Test 1 from Mattias Eriksson on Vimeo.
Test 2
Basic Previz Rigg Test 2 from Mattias Eriksson on Vimeo.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Character Creation for G/C - Progress Week 4
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicModeling
This week did I work mostly with the steam robot (character 2). I have finished the high polygon part now. I may do some very small tweaking to optimize the polygon count, it’s about 64 k triangles for the moment.
Sniper girl (character 1) has some minor problems with topology at hers jacket. Will look in to that problem this weekend and put up some thought about how to fix it. Then I will continuing to sculpt the high polygon part for her too.
Some Ambient Occlusion of Steam Robot.
Some wires of Steam Robot.
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Character Creation for G/C - Progress Week 3
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicModeling
This week have I most modeling robot and fine tweaking medium polygon base of sniper girl.
The robot took little bit longer than what I have estimated, reason for that was some design issue, I had not enough concept art for my robot. Some part didn’t look good in 3d as it did in 2d paper. I tried to keep the topology flow in the mind when I did the high polygon model, later when I do a low poly model of the character I will not have to destroy the mesh completely. This will probably save a lot of time for me.
On the sniper girl did I some tweaking on topology for shoes, bag, belt, kneepads and so on. Will try to figure out how fix the jacket topology. It doesn’t satisfy me for the moment.
What to do next week:
• Start to sculpt in the details for the sniper girl.
• Do the rest of modeling part for the sniper girl (gun, knife, rifle and ammo)
• Tweaking and rest job of the robot (backpack, water tank, machine gun and the head) will be done.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Character Creation for G/C - Progress Week 2
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicResearch
I put the three or more legged character at side and focused on a more humanoid character design, believed that it will be too time consuming and risky to project timeline.
If time allows I do a very easy design on a three legged spy robot, very similar to a tripod in classic movies “War of worlds” and “Invaders from Mars”. Just for testing to do a custom rig and animation.
Concept
I have done some quick concepts on the second character, haven’t made many parts as for the first character. Reason for that is I want to leave it opens for changes under modeling phase and tried to push my concept speed to be quicker and not stuck too much in details.
Possible Problems / Solution
This week problem is timeline, It did take longer to do base mesh for character 1. I overestimated my knowledge over few things. I will catch up this delay in this weekend so this will not impact my plan.
What to do next week:
• Build a Base for character two
• Detail Work for High polygon character two.
• UV Map for High polygon character two.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Character Creation for G/C - Progress Week 1
in Character Creation for Game / CinematicProject Idea
I wanted to do characters that have animation friendly topology, for both games and in game cinematic. Game player as I am, I think it’s a great Idea.
I am going to do two characters that have two different way of modeling them. It is a human and a robot. With the human character will I use sculpting software, Maya and Photoshop. With the robot character I only use Maya and Photoshop.
Research
Find out that Second World War 2 and Steam punk mix will do great to my characters. Then I did some research on several styles that I want to implement, as reference material for my concept art and some material reference to get right feeling.
I will do more thoroughgoing research for materials when texture phase comes, to get so realistic as possible.
Concept
Here have I done some concept on first character (human - female) and some parts that I think can be good to know in an early stage. Most of these concepts are based on these reference pictures I got under my research.
Possible Problems / Solution
A possible problem I know for now is my second character (mechanic robot) can have some issues to apply with the default rig in Unreal. Maybe I need to solve this issue by making a new rig to my character. Then the animation possible won’t be in same quality standard as the Unreal’s default human animation. It is because my project doesn’t include animation part.
What to do next friday:
• I will start to do a fast concept sculpting (3d) on my first character.
• Re – topology the scuplting.
• Concept on the second character.
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