I’ve recently started considering what I would like to create for my final project at college so I’m currently in the process of making notes and putting together different designs. I have chosen to do an oriental theme for my game; however, I can’t decide whether to do a puzzle game or a fantasy open-world game. I’ll be posting different things as I work through the design process but for now, I’ve started off with a mood board for the oriental design.
Oriental Mood Board
Portfolio Board
I’ve currently started a new project that involves creating a 2D environment using Flash. This involves planning out the levels digitally and on paper, using sprite art techniques to create characters and designing tile sets. We have to build a total of 3 different platforms. These are just two of the mood boards I have designed; one for each world.
Mood board to Represent a Stables Theme
Industrial Mood board
Final renders of my character design that was modeled using Autodesk Mudbox.
Here’s the text effects I mentioned I would add… was harder than I thought and still turned out different than expected
Yep… I’ve been practicing again… I will be adding one that I was hoping to do today but it’s a harder tutorial that isn’t explained quite so clearly so it will take more time (plus, my assignment has to come first)
So I’ve been messing around on Photoshop again during my free time and this time, I’ve been practicing text effects and some of them didn’t turn out quite right, but hey… they still look fine x (all made by following online tutorials).
Our task to create a believable, mechanical, digital 3D model to be used as a worthwhile asset in a computer game. We had to create a mech model that was positioned in a scene with suitable lighting and used appropriate textures.
Mood Board for Mech Project.
As with all assignments, I had to start off with planning the project before progressing onto the modelling. This time, I chose to place more focus on the planning as I feel that the planning of previous assignments may have left something to be desired. As usual, I started off with a mood board. With this board, i was aiming to get across the fact that I have chosen to base my mech on a wolf. I also wanted to show the basic colour scheme and put the idea of metal across.
Final Render of Completed Mech.
Our very first project using 3ds Max was to create a 3D scene suitable for use in a computer game. We had to show our ability to model objects, apply texture graphics and place lights. Before we could begin the modelling, we had to create a mood board. For those of you who don’t know, a mood board is a piece of artwork in itself that puts across a theme and can include things such as textures and colour schemes.
Does it put across its theme?
Hopefully, the mood board shows clearly that I am looking at creating a stable environment. In order to get the images to flow and merge together effectively, I researched for an online tutorial (http://www.digiretus.com/tippek/cikkiro.php?SORSZAM=32) that showed how to merge images together by adding a vector mask to the layer and using a black and white gradient to fade out some of the image as shown above in the ‘Layers’ panel.
While building my scene, I rendered individual assets and produced asset boards to show off the features. To add to the boards, I added into the background either a drawing or the texture attached to the asset.
Main Asset from 3D Environment
Large Shelter with Water Trough. Background shows texture map of shelter.
Render board of smaller asset (includes white render)
After the individual renders, i could begin to put together boards that would show renders of my final scene. I put together one render board containing 4 renders and a A3 render of my final scene from the chosen angle.
Contains renders of same scene from different angles.
The final render from my scene.
If anyone is interested in finding out more about the project, I have an evaluation of my project including links to tutorials I used or the assignments brief which are available on request. you can either message me here or email me on stepup3d@ymail.com
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