Dan Burke 3D Development

UCA Jungle Labs portfolio WIP

2013-02-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

WIP for my eventual employment portfolio. Lit using the Daylight Simulation system in 3Ds Max. Originally part of our uni project modelling sections of the university campus and sticking them together, my section is now being converted into an abandoned science lab facility which will be set in a jungle/forest environment surround by trees and organic atmospheric sounds :)

Full sized images here: http://imgur.com/a/Mcak5

UV Unwrapping

2012-10-07T16:22:00.000-07:00

Here is a building scene I modelled and textured, using tileable textures created in Photoshop. The renders below are lit using the Daylight System in Max.

Character Lighting

2012-10-07T15:12:00.001-07:00

3-Point Lighting setup with supplied Troll model.

Sci-Fi Gun

2012-10-07T14:15:00.000-07:00

Here are some renders of the Sci-Fi gun, modelled from the supplied plans and lit using the Daylight system.

Skills Audit - Lighting the Army Compound

2012-10-02T12:34:00.003-07:00

Here are two renders of the army compound lit in 3Ds Max. The first is around mid day, the second is later in the afternoon to give the shadows a different angle. I used the Daylight system in Max, rendered using Mental Ray. Although there is no way to directly use the dunlight system from max in a game engine, I have also supplied a texture map of one of the buildings with the sunlight baked onto it - This would be the most direct method to aquire a very similar look to the Max's sunlight system in a game engine.

Head Tutorial Brief

2012-03-15T04:36:00.002-07:00

Here is the head I made referenced from tutorials and skills practice. He has strange eyes. I have since fixes the eyes and generally improved the head overall. I found it quite a challenging task to get the head modeled accurately, and i believe it is more difficult to model organic shapes than hard surface geometry, especially when modelling from reference images.

Robot Brief - BeoBot

2012-03-01T00:49:00.000-08:00

This is the Bang & Olufsen BeoBot. Too lazy to get off your couch? Or perhaps you're too busy working on the weekly art brief? Well not to worry, because the BeoBot is here to help! I based the design of my robot on the Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 5 loudspeaker design as I think it represents the design of common every day things in the distant future. I really enjoyed doing this brief as it enabled me to use some really interesting shapes to create something that has similar design elements to real world products, but at the same time has nothing to do with the product's design language it represents.

Robot Moodboard

2012-03-01T00:42:00.001-08:00

Surrealism - Final Render

2012-02-23T01:39:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I trailed off a bit from the original reference images I collated on the moodboard, but I am really happy with the end result. From the start I really liked the idea of using an eye ball in the scene, so I have kept that. I decided to experiment with Mental Ray in order to give the scene a very 'finished' and realistic look. I used the MR Sun and MR Sky systems to create the scene lighting and used Mental Ray's Arch & Design tool set to create the water effect. I would like to further explore the elements that are behind the Mental Ray system, as it can be a very powerful tool for creating 3D concept design and ultra realistic looking materials and surfaces.

Watching Manhatten

2012-02-22T11:45:00.001-08:00

Just a fun little extra thing I decided to do using the 3D eye that I have made as part of my final piece.

Surrealism Moodboard

2012-02-20T16:39:00.001-08:00

War Brief - Death from Above - The Automated Sci-fi Quadrotor with Mounted Plasma Cannon!!!

2012-02-15T23:21:00.003-08:00

For this brief, I wanted to do something radical. I wanted to avoid doing something generic or simple like a gun or a tank. Originally I was going to do a sci-fi gun turret, but I also wanted to do some sort of vehicle, so I decided to combine the two. I am very pleased with the results. With some more time spent on the model, it could be possible to have it textured, or perhaps used as a high poly to low poly conversion model, baking the lighting from the high poly model onto the low poly model, which could then be used in a game.

War Brief - Ideas Moodboard

2012-02-15T17:35:00.001-08:00

Self Portrait - Final Image

2012-02-08T21:05:00.001-08:00

The finished piece. Overall I am really happy with the result.

Self Portrait Workings

2012-02-08T21:02:00.001-08:00

Using Mudbox I made the main shape and structure of the Terminator skull, adding some of the promenant details. I exported it into 3Ds Max where I cut it down and added the eye and jaw support geometry. I then used the front on shot to merge into the photograph I took of myself.

Self Portrait Images 2 - Change of Idea

2012-02-08T09:45:00.001-08:00

After some time I decided to change my idea. I couldn't think of anything that inspired me enough to actually get the work rolling, so I came up with the idea of making myself into a terminator. This enabled me to use 3D to make something cool, and still incorporate 2D elements with Photoshop as well.

Self Portrait Research Images

2012-02-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

These images reflect the sort of thing I was wanting to do to begin with. I wanted to do something unusual and eye catching, so I looked into the idea of doing an abstract piece

"Alien Landscape" Final Image - Alien Marsh Land

2011-12-15T02:26:00.001-08:00

"Alien Landscape" Research and reference images

2011-12-15T02:24:00.001-08:00

"Wrinkles" - Final Renders - Old age Alien

2011-12-02T06:26:00.001-08:00

"Wrinkles" - Research and reference images

2011-12-02T06:25:00.000-08:00

Tentacle Sea Creature

2011-11-24T02:38:00.000-08:00

Tentacle Moodboard

2011-11-22T08:32:00.001-08:00

Reference and Research images for Tentacles Brief

2011-11-22T08:27:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my blog.

2011-11-17T07:01:00.000-08:00

Here you will find examples of my previous and current 3D work relating to my university course in computer game design.