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Office Desk Phone

March 26, 2018 / No Comments

Panasonic Office Desk Phone

Recently I created an office desk phone based on an old 90’s Panasonic phone model. Finding consistant reference images online for this was tricky and a bit time consuming. I treated this a passive environment prop so I wanted to keep the poly count as low as possible as well as pack in as much detail as I could. I decided to bake the cord down to a cylinder otherwise if the cord were to be rigged it would have been overly complicated.

The low and high poly models didn’t take long to put together as I wanted to focus my efforts on the texturing. I wanted to gve as much time as I needed to this texturing process as this was the focus of this exercise. I wanted to make the dirt and grime believable and not over the top. I added details such as flakes of skin, build up between the crevices of the handset and worn buttons. This all brings it together to give the impression that this was used daily within an office environment.

I baked and textured this within Substance Painter and rendered it in Marmoset Toolbag 3. This was a fun little exercise to focus on the smaller details. Overall I am pleased with the result. If you would like to see the results then please take a look at the screenshots and Sketchfab link below.

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Battalion 1944 Environment Props

March 25, 2018 / No Comments

Battalion 1944

Last year I worked with Bulkhead Interactive on their latest game Battalion 1944. A WWII online multiplayer shooter focused on competitive play reminiscent of the old Call of Duty games.

I created environment props and buildings for the game as well as optimizing assets and materials to reach the high frame rates required for pc. I started off making a multitude of props such as the morris column, chesterfield sofa and the bomb crates. I also helped with optimizing and light mapping some of the more complicated assets. This took up about half of the time I was with Bulkhead Interactive.

The other half of my time I spent creating buildings as well as linking corridors to different parts of the map. The biggest building I worked on was the old cinema in the map Derailed. I was tasked to create the outside as well as the inside including props and lighting. It was a big task and a lot of work was put into it, unfortunatly a lot of it was changed distastfully after I had left Bulkhead. I also worked on a Dutch house in the Liberation map. This was my first proper attempt at creating buildings and I feel as though I learnt a great deal in the process.

Below are a few of my favourite assets that I created whilst working on Battalion 1944.

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Felix Potin Shopfront Reims Market

April 6, 2017 / Comments Off on Felix Potin Shopfront Reims Market

Felix Potin Shopfront

This is my interpretation of the Felix Potin Shopfront in Reims market square France in 1917. I could only find a handful of small photo references online so this started out as a difficult task from the get go. I planned out as much I could and drew up diagrams to guide me along the process, then got going.

The modeling process was fairly straight forward and the only real difficulty was knowing how to lay out the inside of the shop. Once I had the models ready I then brought the scene into Substance Painter. There were three unique texture sets to work on, (walls/ pavement/inner floor) (food/bottle set) as well as (signs/pipes/curtains/extras) the rest of it was tilable textures. I worked on these three sets back and forth giving each equal amounts of time.

Once ready then I imported the meshes as well as the textures into UE4 and set up a basic scene. The first screenshots shown below were rendered in UE4 and the second set were rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 3. I have included the reference images of the shopfront, these being the best images I could find.

Overall I am happy with the result and I really enjoyed putting this together. I feel that I created a grounded and realistic interpretation of the Felix Potin Shopfront in Reims market square.

Asylum Manicomio Di R

September 23, 2016 / Comments Off on Asylum Manicomio Di R

Asylum Manicomio Di R was an Italian mental asylum abandoned in 1978. When I found a photo collection of this place online I was drawn to it, this desolate and worn environment has inspired me to recreate and portray it as best as possible.

This was one of the many operating rooms in the asylum, due to variations of these rooms gathering consistent reference images was a tricky task. Below are some screenshots of my most recent work, I tried to recreate a few key props in one of the medical rooms within the Asylum Manicomio Di R. 

I’ll be adding to this post once I have more to show as this is a work in progress.

Gothic Mausoleum

May 29, 2016 / Comments Off on Gothic Mausoleum

From December of 2015 I’ve been working at Antimatter Games in Falmouth as a 3D Environment Artist. This was my attempt at the art test they sent me, the brief was to create a Gothic Mausoleum, they left it to me to come up with ideas and designs. I felt that Gothic architecture was the ideal foundation for the Gothic Mausoleum, so I spent about 2 weeks creating what you see in the images. It was an enjoyable experience and I learnt a lot whilst putting this together.

Industrial Generator

November 3, 2015 / Comments Off on Industrial Generator

Below are some screenshots showing an Industrial Generator that I’ve modeled and textured. This was my first attempt at using Substance Painter for game art, I have to say that I absolutely love using it. It’s such a diverse and versatile tool to use, giving me complete control of the look and feel of each asset.