ZBrushCentral Interview: Epic Games - Gears of War 2

[Ammarkk]

Very nice interview, thanks alot man.:rolleyes:

[Stefan-Morrell]

those Kevin Johnstone & Pete Ellis environment pieces make me want to drop everything & spend the day doodling in zbrush..great stuff!

[ThomasMahler]

Man, there's a hell of a lot of GREAT stuff in there! Awesome work you guys! :)

[TravelGuide]

Absolutely G O R G E O U S work!:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:
Thank you to all EPIC artists for this "treat" and to Aurick at zbrush central as well !!! :)
Some of the BEST In Game artwork and high res images provided :)
This should be on CGSociety front page!

[ghZaaaRK]

"Zbrush allowed you to push your model detail to a unreadable level!"

That's it! Putting a lot of pixels doesn't mean you are making something good!
That looks so impersonal as artworks, so cliché... and the worst, not even good!

In fact, it remind me the first ages of Zbrush in 2001/2002, the era of the bumps and gaunts except now it's just a bit more detailed.

[gabo1991]

this is great stuff. everyone should check it out.

[DDS]

"Zbrush allowed you to push your model detail to a unreadable level!"

That's it! Putting a lot of pixels doesn't mean you are making something good!
That looks so impersonal as artworks, so cliché... and the worst, not even good!

In fact, it remind me the first ages of Zbrush in 2001/2002, the era of the bumps and gaunts except now it's just a bit more detailed.

quoted for disagreement, instead I'll do as everyone else and drop my jaw to these awesome artists.

[ambient-whisper]

"Zbrush allowed you to push your model detail to a unreadable level!"

That's it! Putting a lot of pixels doesn't mean you are making something good!
That looks so impersonal as artworks, so cliché... and the worst, not even good!

In fact, it remind me the first ages of Zbrush in 2001/2002, the era of the bumps and gaunts except now it's just a bit more detailed.

I agree that some previous Titles by Epic had gone way past the line of detail and into the realm of over detailing but a lot of the overdetailing was because there was just too much fine details in both colour and the shape detail. I think its much better controlled this time around. there are more solid blocks of colour which define larger volumes, while there are also larger forms which have subtle details. gears of war 1, and unreal tourney 3 fell prey to the normal mapping technology, so lets hope that from now on forward the art directors will use the technology where needed, and not abuse it.

[Kaowut]

That's it! Putting a lot of pixels doesn't mean you are making something good!
That looks so impersonal as artworks, so cliché... and the worst, not even good!

Quoted for agreement

[ambient-whisper]

That's it! Putting a lot of pixels doesn't mean you are making something good!
That looks so impersonal as artworks, so cliché... and the worst, not even good!

Quoted for agreement

I hope you aren't agreeing with me because I only partially agreed with the negative poster. The general meaning behind my post is that they are improving in art direction because it seems to be more considered than before.

[mrpeace]

Epic work! Its quite amazing what Game Engines could do in the modern world. The results are very realstic. Who knows what may turn up tomorrow.

[leigh]

Absolutely fantastic! I can't get enough of this game, and of course it's always so cool to see shots of the assets like this. Congrats again to all the talented folks at Epic.

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