Dan's Art Things

PS3 Sideways New York

2011-12-14T06:15:00.000-05:00

Soo..here it is, Stuff i worked on for the PS3 Sideways New York.
If you want more info on this game, this is the website http://www.playbrains.com/sideway/
Of-course you can you-tube it as well. Its been out for some time now and just recently it was released for PC, Steam.

In this game i worked as a prop artist and level decorator. Basically building the props as i get them and from time to time, i would go in the game engine and populate the level. I did that newspaper and stuff that you see in the first picture lol. I also placed some of the 2d posters and graffiti, but i did not make them.

Along with some in game screens shots, i posted some of the props i made. As you can tell its very low poly, with simple textures. I think the highest polycount was for the bonsai tree i made. Around 700 poly. Sometimes i would reuse the same models and create different textures. Like for example, the taxi and the police car share the same model but have different textures on them.

Other than that, i have been playing a few new games now. One of them bieng nds game, Radiant Historia. I really like the concept in that game. I think i play more portable games than pc games lol.

Anyways, hope you liked this post.
Oh, almost forgot.. i hid some easter eggs ( Golden Statues) in different levels. If you have the game, see how many you can find ^^

The Pineapple Plant

2011-09-15T17:47:00.000-04:00

Hey ! hey !
So a lot of things have happened since my last post. Well first , here is the finished version of my pineapple plant. I used 3Ds Max, Zbrush and photoshop. The original concept for this was from a MoD i used to work on. Anyways, The screen caps are taken directly from Max, i used Xoliul shader and 3 omni light set up.
One of the comments i got for this prop was, " its a pineapple with a bonzai tree on top"

Asides from this i got the chance to work on a PSN game called Sideways. Maybe in the future,i will post up some of the props i made and levels i decorated for that game.
And in other news, i recently took part in a Starcraft 2 tournament, it was fun !
If you want to watch it, it happens every Tuesday after 6pm http://www.twitch.tv/bigpietv

2010-10-25T19:46:00.000-04:00

So been working on a plant like object ...slowly. The picture below is just a low poly with normal map on it.
Still gotta tweak a lot since i have to lower the poly count. Anyways i am just texturing this at the moment. I wanted to get some sort of fake reflection / spec on the edges on those triangular shapes. So instead of painting it all by hand, i found a much better and faster solution. Of-course something like this would be more ideal to set up for your spec map. Which is what i plan on doing it later when i reach that stage. But for the moment, just doing some test runs.

Anyways posted picture below, showing the technique i used to create a fast reflection/ spec.

Starcraft 2 and new enviornment project

2010-08-30T01:01:00.002-04:00

Been playing starcraft quite a lot these days. Well only ..when friends say the magic word ( Friend : "SC 2? " Me : "Sure !" ) . And then play for like hrs.. maybe. But still my rank is like bronze, and winning ratio ranges between 50 - 55%. I saw some trailers and videos of custom games that users have been working on using the sc2 editor. All i can say is wow.. keep it up ! Links / videos of those custom games are below... watch it =)

Some concept sketches and a new personal environment project i am working on. I was trying to get ambient occlusion with mental ray to work in max 2011 but apparently its not supported. It works fine on the older version. So instead i got my AO using light tracer, which does the job too. Sometimes when i cant get things to work, i think to myself if i forgot how to do it. Which was the case here for AO... Anyways hoping to get this finished , so i can start on something new.

My fav one so far , kept watching it so many times.

Something about this one, made me laugh too much.. a sc2 ums racing game , sounds fun .

2010-07-23T14:53:00.002-04:00

hmmmm....icecream. Normally i don't eat ice cream but for some reason eating ice cream in summer feels good. Strawberry is good flavor. Anyways the screen caps taken below are from UDK, testing it out with my previous environment model. I made it in 3ds max, pretty simple shapes. Then i just put it together using props that came with udk like those big rocks, tree etc. Actually at first i put it together in unreal engine 3 editor. Then just recently i imported it in udk. Of-course at first things didn't turn out too well. So i had to play around with it and this is the result i got from it. I find it convenient that u can make new separate uv's for light mapping in udk instead of making it in max then importing in the engine. Still playing around with the lights and trying to understand it. But overall udk is neat.

Ohhh thought i'd share some stuff that friends showed to me. First this video
Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion from Onyx Cinema, Inc. on Vimeo.

And second this site http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/popular . Its a online music player, with a lot of songs.
On another note, a new game came out on steam called alien swarm and its free to download.It also comes with the level editor to make your custom maps. Everyone is talking about it, there's even a article on polycount about it. I have yet to try it though.... I have been playing a little bit of l4d2 , league of legends and Monster Hunter Tri !!

A video of alien swarm.

UDK

Unreal 3 editor


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Unreal 3 editor

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3ds max

2010-06-06T17:13:00.005-04:00

(´･ω･`) my muscles are kinda of sore right now from playing tennis and soccer. But at least i can still surf the net and work on my computer haha... Anyways i wanted to share my updated model of my pilot. Did a lot of tweaking's on the textures and especially the face part.
The old pilot model > http://ingeniusartskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/mr-pilot.html

The screen shots below are taken directly from max viewport. I used a shader called xoliul shader. here is the link> http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader
I am still playing around with the shader, but these are the results i got so far from using it.

Btw.. i wonder what it would be like if life drawing became a Olympic sport ............ (＾▽＾)

2010-05-26T18:49:00.007-04:00

So... got like a bunch of new stuff to update on here. Thought i'd start with this. If anyone knows of monster hunter you might know of this contest that took place 2 months ago maybe ? Anyways Monster hunter Tri for wii came out, not to long ago. And i decided to enter this art contest of sort. I made this model long time ago using 3ds max and textured on photoshop. So it was pretty convenient for me, and just made a small animation etc and entered it in the comp.

Oh btw watched a new movie ... other than iron man 2. The movie is called Ip Man2. The first time i read that movie title .. i read it as " Internet provider Man 2" >.<

http://news.deviantart.com/article/118049/
(Art contest for fantasy earth zero )

Mod Project concept paintings

2010-02-21T13:23:00.005-05:00

Some early concepts for a group mod project. Its gonna be a bar scene with sci-fi elements. My concepts were mainly for color and mood purpose. And how sun light would affect a dark environment. I will be doing one of the character designs and modeling it for the mod project, along with some assets.
This is random but while i am trying to type this..i can't see that blinky line that usually appears when you type. Don't even know what its called... Anyways Still checking now and then to see when Fantasy Earth Zero will come out in beta. Speaking of beta, starcraft 2 beta looks pretty neat. I love some of the new units they got like THor. Did you know .. when u click on Thor, he or it ..makes sound impressions like arnold. So Arnold ( the terminator) drives Thor. The thought on Arnold driving a Thor makes me laugh. Some people on JustinTv are streaming sc2. So if you want to watch Thor in action.. you can see it there. Oh yeah, Thor is btw the new goliath. Its pretty badass and big. Although Blizzard made some nifty improvements, i kind of did prefer the old voice clips. My favorite quote's are the one Dragoons say from sc1 " For vengeance " "I have returned". If i ever model a badass robot ..it will have those two quotes as its voice clips. But yeah..can't wait for the final sc2 to be released. For now i'll just play sc1 and mass effect 2.

And here check these two sites out. one is about concept ships and the other is basically the fundamentals in drawing. Its always nice to get a refresher on the fundamentals or basics.

1) http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

2) http://www.autodestruct.com/thumbwar.htm

Concept paintings for group Mod project.

2010-01-20T11:43:00.011-05:00

So now i am in final semester...Its going by soo fast >.<
Anyways this semester i have a new course now called mo cap. It looks like fun, just started last week so i can't tell u anything more than that. From what i know u get to wear these black outfits with sensors attached to it. So your motions will be captures on to the computer and then later you use a software to clean up an bring it in one of the 3d packages and put it on your character. I have only done cleaning up so far on existing captured motion. I guess it saves time...
Also started this 3d mod project which me and classmates will be working together on, Right now we are still deciding on the setting, looking at examples from other games. Once we are done all that, we'll move to concept stage etc etc..
At the moment i am working on my creature project, got some concepts for it and then soon gonna model it. Except this time, i will be using maya. Learning maya, getting the hang of the basics.

This work below is very low poly. The task was too make the most of our texture and light it properly. This is from my last semester. I was trying something with the wall...mixing two different wall textures. I try to just experiment to see what i can get away with at times lol..
Oh and its suppose to be a outdoor scene, a guild like place where elite hunters gather. At the left side of the wall, i stuck a pic of from monster hunter haha .... i Like that game ^^

The character designs below are from my 2nd year, i was designing some of the characters for a group story board assignment. There was just soo many ideas poping into my head at the time, of course i had tons of refs and inspiration from various sources. The story board assignment went pretty good in the end, i can still remember ..when me and my friends got soo into it, even added music from metal gear for our final lieca reel. It was tons of fun !

Oh btw ...there is this new mmo ...well its 4yrs old but its coming out in english for beta testing. Its by square enix and its gonna be free if its like the jp version. Its a 50 vs 50 pvp like game on a battle field with mage's, warriors , dragons etc .. here's the link
http://fez.gamepotusa.com/

Can't wait ^^

Environment Model etc

2009-12-30T15:32:00.002-05:00

So just wanted to share with everyone the environment model i had done. Later i imported it into unreal engine and used unreal assets to make the trees , rocks , fog effect, lighting and water. The actual tent model was done using 3ds max. I also made the ground in 3ds max and just imported in unreal. Below is a video of it. Hope you like ^^

Ahh i recorded it and streamed it live earlier using procaster. Its very easy to use. Right now i am just using it to stream and record the games i am playing. If you scroll down and look to the right, you might notice a large square box that says "Turn on" or something like that. If you turn it on, you'll find the current game i am playing or recorded video of it. If it says "Live"
then its probably me playing at that moment haha.... Well now i am playing The last remnant and Borderlands. I just beat the last boss on borderlands few days ago with a friend online. Btw i highly recommend using game ranger to play any pc games online that is supported by game ranger. If you are trying to play borderlands online for the pc , then use it lol. Its simple to use.

This is where i stream > http://www.livestream.com/ninkuex
Also watch and listen to this opening if you like old school anime, Escalfowne ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3SeOBRNXm4

Btw avatar is a nice movie, everything is nice about it even though it has few cheezy moments. The story is cool too but i guess for the most part it feels like its already been done but never the less must watch movie.

I just remembered, just yesterday.. there was a live performance by all the kpop artists for the end of the year event ? i guess. Anyways it was up on the web being streamed and wow so many ppl were watching it. It seems kpop is more popular than jpop ?

Mr Pilot

2009-12-18T19:33:00.023-05:00

So here's my character model. Part of it came out pretty nicely. But some things need to be re-worked, like the fur... which is kinda shiny etc etc. But here it is... The poly count on this model is like 3k or so.

Anyways Now i am playing borderlands... I was playing batman ..till weird stuff started happening in the game..glitches etc.

Diffuse Map

*notice how the eyeball looks like a pokeball .... ^^

The concepts for my character

other concepts

2009-11-08T21:59:00.010-05:00

Sharkie Model with cheezy bg. ^^ And animation below..

Added displacement map for this one

Diffuse map
I have a animation due next week and this is the shark model i used, with the displacement.
Going to add more sounds, if i find something good. And yeah tweak up the animation a bit ...
The thing that pops up out from the chest is a fish cracker.

2009-09-28T01:04:00.005-04:00

Thought this music was nice ^^ . It's amusing to hear ppl say how happy happy i am maybe its bc of the type of music i listen to .. i don't know. anyways watch this music video >

2009-09-28T00:35:00.011-04:00

It's been 3 weeks so far in gaming and learned a lot so far ^^. It's also nice to work and talk with new ppl from other ani groups. The castle is for upcoming ani project.

Dino for organic modeling, although my dino isn't so organic.. i spent a lot of time on the harness lol just extruding and stuff..

Lol simple stuff but fun and learned a little big unwrapping. For texturing class our next assignment is to model a simple cannon and unwrap and texture it if we want to for practice.

Mr robot here was for first assignment called snowman modeling, its not suppose to a snowman but we just take simple primitives shapes and model with it. Couple of us while modeling in class got so into it that we started adding lighting lol. It's always fun to work with others in the studio.

concept Metroid

2009-07-25T10:34:00.002-04:00

Just playing around in ps as usual lol.. wanted to create a mech Concept with samus metroid's color pattern. Part of the inspiration comes from armored core series as well. I was listening to armored core music while working on this ... the music is pretty epic.
Took me a lil over an hr.

ToLoveRu

2009-07-24T01:23:00.005-04:00

Character is from a manga called ToLoveRu. It's funny ^^
Trying out different coloring style.

2009-07-19T17:10:00.004-04:00

I bought a pair of new shoes few days ago ...it looks like my old shoes but this time its converse ^^ and its comfortable lol. My shoes aren't purple at the bottom....
sketch and colored in ps.

2009-07-15T15:00:00.007-04:00

Old stuff i guess but might be new to some ^^. The first one is my concept design and i did what i could to give it a 3d feel. 2nd one is a fan art of a light novel, there is still much to learn about colors...and the bottom 2 pictures are speed paintings.

From Crows Zero, a jp movie.

2008-06-12T19:56:00.013-04:00

Found this old drawing of mine ^-^ Did this When final fantasy advent children first got released, i was soo excited for the movie that time. I watched it like 7 or 8 times. I'd watch it again....

Random concepts, the first two are copied from the skillful huntsman book. I used the silhouette images from the book and desinged the rest of the characters. As for my vehicle concepts, drew w.e popped into my head. Just noticed this .. the underwater machine looks like its shooting a kamehameha !! ( had to check on google to spell it properly =D )

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My reference for Andy

This painting below ... while i was painting it .. i noticed i was painting on another layer and then when i turned that layer off, this was the result lol. It looks pretty cool to me =) The face makes me laugh , its soo wierd.

Been life drawing through a online life drawing website lol, its pretty good =) 45 seconds for each pose.

Yay Update ! Part 1

2008-06-06T14:07:00.039-04:00

Alright so this post doesn't have any drawings or such BUT the post below which is part 2 update does have .
okay so lets see..some of the new games which i have been played so far are WoW, Holic online, combat arms, 2 moons, drift city, neo steam, perfect world ....i played Holic mostly, its fun but needs pvp and pk mode

lol btw i highly recommend you watch this video..its totally random >

favorite lines from that video i liked "who put the goat in there " "beeeeejaaaaaaaayyy" "i fought a barber man "

oh man .... anyways here are pictures from holic online

my lettuce head pet (i call it peco )

POWER LVL OVER 9,000 !!

Me and Cloud are attempting to kill the boss using our pets only

and it failed ! because it was taking too long so we charged and died

oooo on the anime side... i been trying to catch up on Gundam00, hitman reborn ( all caught up on reborn but the eps come out so late or crunchy roll is just slow )

Lambo is one of my Favourite character ! younger version of him on top and after when he turns 20+

I got a New DS ! =) cobalt blue ! and hers a screen from the new game summon night: twin age.. i had a video but it's blurry so i didnt bother uploading it.

Me and the animation crew went out to watch Iron Man that day, visited the pet shop ( haha ... i love the dogs.. most of them thou looked pretty bored !) and then after that we ate out at the closest good restaurant which we could find. Oh we went paintballing also ! ... that was another day ..too bad i dont have any pictures of that. It was alot of fun !! and the paintball doesn't even hurt. i liked charging =) sitting back is not my forte unless i'm pinned. My brother played really well, thinks fast lol.. There was this moment where he tricked his opponent and went behind him and said " you have 3 seconds "
oh here watch this video, this made my day !

no clue how this picture turned out like this ... blame Chauncey (not photoshoped !)

sorry was just so eager to do something random with this picture

this is neat! i'd live in a underwater house like this ..maybe..

Yay Update ! part 2

2008-06-06T11:56:00.027-04:00

...okay so its not like i have'nt been drawing, i have ... just not as much. I am enjoying my freedom lets just put it that way.
So lets start with some life drawings, not the latest thou ...and i am deciding to go to Sheridan for extra life during the summer now just like i did the previous year because parking there is free and i know my way around there lol..closer i guess as well..speaking of Sheridan. A friend of mine from animation sent me these two pictures which i am in, appearently he was looking through his friends facebook pictures and noticed me in those pictures. Two pictures of the extra life rooms in Sheridan, dont worry .. you wont be seeing any models posing in the background or something (-_-)''

dam i look serious.. i wonder what my life drawings looked like back then. lol David behind me seems rather interested elsewhere. Oh and Kal or Cal or Calcium (dont ask how i got Calcium, random) got into Seneca i think and will be in 1st yr starting next semester =)

Life Drawings

Now for sketches and doodles, Majority of these are from games and concept designs. So these designs below are not mine except for one..

this one is my design

Sketches below are from anime, games, concept designs { advance wars/ dofus online/ Ds game ( something oddesy ?)/ etc..}

My new artbook which i ordered finally arrived !!! and worth the wait !

2008-03-17T12:26:00.005-04:00

sketch Jam using Open Canvas with Phil, Thea and Kang. Fun stuff ! Running OC did give some problem but luckily Phil thought of something and made it work otherwise, i think everyone was ready to give up because it was like late in the night..lol. Hopefully in the future more ppl join us and think of something so that its not limited to only 4 ppl at a time.... Looking forward to the next session and more blasphemous Sasuke's ! XD.

My two characters Wilson and Susan from our 2nd character assignment which turned out pretty good.

2008-03-10T16:35:00.004-04:00

Been sleeping lots lately...anyways..here are two paintings including the sketch jam for Native Indian. Painted using negative shapes etc and tried to put enough details to be able to tell what the picture is. I did The Paladin painting last week for my digital tools assignment but our class got an extension. So i don't think I'll be handing in the Paladin anymore instead i will hand this native Indian on horse painting. And now back to my hmks and more trance/ techno music or sleep!! I-tunes has some neat music stations btw ....

Old And New Drawing + extras

2008-02-23T20:24:00.028-05:00

Besides some drawings i wanted to post this sexy car from the autoshow. The auto show was really good.

I made sure i got my moneys worth by getting all the free goodies lol, lots of pics on various cars . Good refrences if i ever feel like drawing some cars.

Life drawings from last friday. Also got some older life drawings from back when i was in life drawing etc.

30 secs

2mins

5mins

i forgot to write down how long these are..but it seems like 2mins, 5 mins and 10 mins.

Lol So these are my old life drawing stuff

I used to do a whole bunch of these scribbly gestures, pretty much what Werner tells us to do now. And this was when i was in the workshop. It seems like a pretty pointless study but it actually helps in the long run. I still do this to warm up.

old gestures. I just used to work inside out and include shapes. So my main focus was getting the rhythm of the pose in my gestures rather than focusing on outlines.

These bottom two life drawings were like 1 hr studies and this was before the workshop during art fundies. During this time i just knew how to draw what i could see but i couldn't imagine the actual person in 3d and i didnt know much about bones either. So the only thing i knew was to draw details and draw line for line.

And this is my ancient device i used to train my eye which i was doing during the workshop. Apparently the old life drawing masters used this also. I used this tool to help block out positive and negative shapes and to see things in proportion. Its about the size of my palm and a bit bigger. Oh and the way you use this device is by holding it straight with one arm and closing one eye and only using the other eye to see through it and look at the figure. Its used for only long studies 10mins to 1hr or longer. I found it quite frustrating at first but after seeing the results i think it was quite worth it and didn't hesitate to use it again and again even thou i would get weird looks from other people during life drawing sessions.

So pretty much i drew grids on my life drawing pads about the same ratio as my device.. and i drew the figure using shapes only. Then on another layer i would draw out the contour lines around the shape and trying to feel out the form as i draw the contour. It wasn't just plainly outlining ...it had to be selective lines. I did studies previously of a old life drawing master to help me study selective lines and line quality.

So overall i did quite a lot of studies to get where i am at now eh..i still have most of my old life drawings, its not the prettiest thing but i always go back and look at em to remind of myself how far i have come along. I did a bunch of other studies like negative space drawings, blind contour or even 10 second gestures or less.

Pepper Sunlight

2008-02-18T23:21:00.004-05:00

lol...kept playing around in photoshop and this is what came out of it.
new style ? lvl up? i dunno ? but i like it ...finally produced something different.