more clips

showcase render test video

My demo reel

Michael Carter Jr's demo reel from Michael Carter Jr on Vimeo.

My demo reel

Environment

I managed to squeeze in one environment painting before the end of senior studio

On to the next one

painting 2 environments and 1 ship still

Ship Render done

the is done for now

updates

ship paint over. I'm still thinking about the background

Ship Model

I modeled this ship in maya and then took it into alias: showcase to add different surface
materials now I'm goiong to take a few of these and make a paint-over.

The Story

While Working on this project I forgot to post what the project was. Sorry about that :(

Here's a brief Description:

The project is a action-adventure video-game with a movie presents and some r.p.g. elements.
I try to base it on the video games that I enjoy playing like: infamous, mass effect, mirrors edge and the uncharted series as well as other things such as: parkour, action and adventure films.

Even thought the project is for a video-game I'm mainly focused on the concept design side of its production. My main goal is to develop high quality concept designs and 3d work for the project.

the story (in short)
A young archaeologist chase is on a quest to the planet Jerrod (working name) from the evil tou and his legion of Taub who wants to rid Jerrod of the humans and other species and claim the planet as their own.

hopefully this makes sense to you. More will be revealed as the project comes to a close in December

All three characters together

Tou, The Villian

I finally got around to finishing this one I'm happy with the end result. I might come back to this design someday.

Ship Rough Model

Now on to the ships. this shouldn't take too long to do I know what I want to do with the design.

p.s. I will also be posting the concept art for this ship and tou's ship the first week of november

Almost done

now that the game model of tou is finish I can know focus on the concept art and the other stuff for this project. this concept is close to being finish, but I'm thinking of going high res with this image so that I can incorporate different materials.

Game model

Game mesh is Final done it about 7k polygon and 16K tris with 2048res maps with normal and occlusion maps bake on

Tou, the villian

this is the final high res model, I'm happy with how it turned and thank you to everyone who gave a critique on this thing, your comments helped a lot

My process

My teacher asked me to share a little bit of my process of character concept modeling. so here is some of my process starting from the bottom image to the top image

The Pack

sketched these up really quick in sketchbook pro designer. I didn't really like the backpack I designed in the early stage of my project so I went for something simple, I'll start painting this soon.

And now the fun part

I think I might do one more ship design, but overall I'm happy with these designs

Tou's Progress

Updates/ Final design

Two are finished and one still in the works

Car modified

lowploy character head

Ships

some thumbnails I did over the summer for my final project

Tao_High_res

fran w.i.p.

Final Designs

Here is the new and final design of the characters