Contemporary Architecture WIP

I created this a while ago and was starting on the textures. I am putting it up here to remind me to finish it. The model is mainly complete and I have been running around it in UDK just to make sure that everything is water-tight.

Zbrush Head Practice WIP

I took a sphere and started making a head out of it. No reference pictures for the model, but I did look at various images online for the texturing. I just started coming up with a native tribesman, and then it started looking like Michael Jordan so I ran with it a bit. I'm still working on the texturing and planning on baking the high res mesh on a lower res, optimized mesh, just for some Zbrush practice. Right now I'm about 50% done with the texturing.

Burger Shop WIP

Here's the progress I've been doing on a new burger shop. This is a render with the diffuse texture only. I will be finishing the specular and normal maps soon. Will update when it's done!

Zbrush Practice

I have been wanting to do more zbrush lately, instead of just using it for tileable texture normal creation (like I have been). Here is a jukebox that I've been working on for a few days. Somehow my mesh doesn't like when I import and export back and forth between zbrush and 3dsmax, and my model would explode when subdividing. I found a pretty good cure by exporting and reimporting level 1 and level 2 of the object, but the uvs get screwed up and I was counting on texturing in zbrush. It seems that I have reached a road block and have moved on to my next personal project. If I ever find the solution I will revisit this model and finish the texturing.

Community Updates

Here are some links to forums where I've been posting my work:

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=722180

http://jonathanarmstrong.cgsociety.org/gallery/

More work to come soon!

Newest Read Books :)

I always like learning and I'm really taking some time out to improve myself, my art, and the way I live. Here are the books that I've been reading:



The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch




Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini





Letters of the Dragon by Bruce Lee and John Little




Game Art: Creation, Direction, and Careers (Game Development) by Riccard Lind




100 Ways to Motivate Others: How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy by Steve Chandler




Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

It's Monk Mode time!

Monk Mode was a term used by Jim Collins to describe a period where he would shut himself off from the world to get a major project finished. I've started an outdoor city environment, and I'm treating it as my job at the moment. I would like to get this piece in my portfolio to make it better and to test my current abilities. Here's the link on Polycount: http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=69122. I'll be updating frequently.

WOOT