Artist Research

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Artist Roadmap:

1. If you could project out past graduation, what is your overall career goal?

    I'm interested in working for AAA, AA, midsized, and Indie teams. Additionally, I would be happy working across games, movies, and theme parks.

2. If you could project out into starting your career, what sounds the most appealing to you?

    Character Modeling, Costume/Skin, Texture/Painting, Concept Art, Weapons/Prop

3. What are some of the top companies that you are interested in working for?

    Nintendo would be a dream, especially since I am alright moving long distances. Other companies I'm interested in are Level 55, Square Enix, FromSoftware, Supergiant, and honestly any other companies making games that center around storytelling, lore, and fantasy/mystery

Top 10 Artists:

1. Airi Pan

2. JC Leyendecker

3. Hunter Boyun

4. Wayfinder's Game Art

5. Elden Ring

6. The Legend of Zelda, specifically Twilight Princess & BOTW/TOTK

7. Hades

8. Final Fantasy & Kingdom Hearts

9. Monster Hunter

10. Professor Layton

11. Potionomics

Studies & Research

 Studies:

1. Sculpting Anatomy

    -faces 

    -hair

    -full body sculpts

    -clothing

    -clothed full bodies

2. Retopo / Modeling

    - Face topology

    - Hand topology

    - Body topology

    - Clothing topology

2. Clothing studies

3. Making my Bishop Knight Concept!

Research: Costumes for games 

1. Marvelous Designer patterns

2. Zbrush Sculpt

3. Final Retopo

Blogs to look at:

    - Dasha

    - Yamiset

    - Noel Graham

Resources to look at:

    - Final Fantasy Marvelous to Zbrush workflow

Vertex Painting

 

Vertex Painting between Normal, Moss, and Dirt

Node Setup

Dirty

Mossy

Original

Trim Sheet: Stone Wall

Unreal:

& as a curved surface:

 Substance

Zbrush Sculpt:

Textures:

Tillable Texture: Desert Stone

 Unreal Render:

Zbrush sculpt:

Substance Texture:

To be used in Jerusalem game in tunnels:

Tunnel Ref:

Stone used is limestone or sandstone in different tunnels. Most of the ground was just sandy, which I thought was too simple for the assignment so I made it more of a stone laid version as some artistic divergence from the reference for the assignment.

PurRef + planning personal project 1

 

Personal Project 1:

Eve Music Video Sculpt

- sculpt Tobi and Ryuuko in Zbrush

- paint in zbrush

- 3d print