Ryan Gles: 3d Art WIP Blog

#1

As it says in the tittle, this will be a forum blog that I update on every Saturday and Wednesday. I will show the Work in progress renders and screen shots of my own personal projects, as well as projects that I am working on for University and if contract permits my freelancing work.

A little about me, I am a full time student, studying “Advanced Diploma of Screen & Media: 3D Animation & VFX for Film” at Academy of Interactive Entertainment which is an online course based in Australia. I an currently using Modo and Zbrush for all of my sculpting, modeling and rendering needs. I am also using, Substance Designer and Substance Painter for Texturing, although it is a bit unconventional, I want to continue using the substance pack to produce textures for my projects, as I love the workflow.

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/freedom.gear.studio/

I am currently working on two projects, but this is due to change in the future, and this post will be updated with current screenshots and projects that I a working on when need arises.
Guardian of The Temple: (Personal)
Updated: 16 March 2016

Robot and DragonFly: (Personal)
Updated: 26 March 2016

Past Projects:
I will only post the most recent and finished videos/renders within this Section

Dungeon Escape (AIE):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nVzU7DYxg

The Psychotic Worm:

Thank you! Creative comments are welcome. I will happy take on board any advice and input someone has :slight_smile:

#2

That’s a nice scene!, I would love to see the render :slight_smile:

Keep updating!

#3

Sorry for the delay, but due to recent computer malfunctions, not much progress has been made within past days, but i have had time to sculpt out a small candle for the pirate ship scene:

Original WIP:

Pirate Cabin (Personal):

Tiny Robot (Personal):

Hopefully I’ll have some more progress on Saturday :slight_smile:

#4

WIP Saturday: All of the UV’s are finally complete for the pirate scene, so i will be able to start texturing any day now. I’ve been playing around with some of the lighting for the scene as well. I like the general concept of the lighting, but I will need to play around with it a lot more before i am happy.
Before the weekend is over, hopefully I’ll have some texturing done as well as the UV’s completed for the Small robot.

Pirate Cabin (Personal):

#5

Well done!, its looking good so far :slight_smile:

#6

I’ve started texturing this week, it is turning out to be difficult. I am trying to texture within Substance Painter, but I can’t seem to replicate the textures within Modo. I am using Modo so I am unable to use the substance plug in for modo.

Pirate Cabin (Personal):

Tiny Robot (Personal):

#7

Screenshot Saturday: A little work in progress render from my Pirate Cabin Scene. I’m currently working on the textures and lighting. Trying to replicate realistic textures from Substance Painter is harder than I thought. I am thinking of adding some god rays with post effects.

#8

WIP Wednesday: WIth university starting back up this week, I did not get a chance to publish a post yesterday.
Here is a screenshot of some of the textures that I am currently working on within substance Painter. I’m still having trouble replicating them within Modo though, but i’ll get there :slight_smile:

#9

Its looking really good dude!, amazing work :thumbsup:

#10

Thank you :slight_smile: it means a lot :slight_smile:

#11

Surprise!
last weekend I decided to create a secret project, so that I will be able to learn Substance Painter
Scuplted: zbrush
Retopo/UV/Render: Modo
Green Fog: Photoshop
Textures: Substance Painter

I took inspiration from the digital tutors tutorial "Introduction to Substance painter’ and “Worms” The video game. Overall this project took one week.

Time to finish my other projects now!

CC welcome :slight_smile:

#12

Robot and dragonfly (personal):
Wip Wednesday: A little progress shot of my dragonfly for my robot and the dragonfly project. The sceenshots are taken within Substance Painter, I still have replicate them within Modo. I am in the progress of rigging the character before I start work on the environment.

#13

Robt and the Dragonfly (personal):
For the past few days, I’ve been working sculpting the environment as well as texturing the environment and putting final touches on the dragonfly.
The dragonfly is now fully rigged, as soon as I finish texturing the environment and the robot, I’ll start animating :slight_smile:

#14

WIP Wednesday: This week, I decided that I would do something a little different and sculpt out my first Dragon :slight_smile: It is still very much a work in progress and I am still learning about anatomy in general, the blocking out stage is progressing at a steady pace. After I finish the general shape of the character, i’ll import it into Modo for re-topology before I start adding details like wrinkles and scales :slight_smile:
Guardian of The Temple: (Personal)

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Screenshot Saturday:
Project Name: Guardian of the Temple
so it may look like that I haven’t made much project in the past couple of days, but in reality I have, I’ve been working on the teeth, mouth and claws of the character this week. I still have to import it into modo and retopo before I start detailing.

#16

WIP Wednesday!
It’s been a busy week these past few days :slight_smile: I’ve finally finished sculpting the base for the Guardian of the Temple project as well as finished the texturing for the Small Robot for the Dragonfly and Robot Project :slight_smile:
Now it is time to start animating the Dragonfly and The robot, as well as starting to texture the Dragon for the Guardian of the Temple project! All other Alpha/skin detailing will be done while texturing :slight_smile: I’m so excited!
PS. If you can’t see the detail on the dragon :slight_smile: Please zoom in :slight_smile: thank you

Guardian of the Temple: (Personal)

Dragonfly and The Robot: (Personal)

#17

Hello There!
So this week, I am trying something new :slight_smile:
I decided that I would come create 12 different colour schemes for my “Guardian of the Temple” Project. The colour schemes were creating by altering the hue and saturation within the first Colour Scheme which is called, “Original Colour”.
The rig within photoshop allows me to alter every part of the dragon, for example, I can turn the mouth brown, while turning the body and belly blue.
NOW here is where you come in, I am looking for the top 3 favorite colour scheme, and from there I will further refine the colour scheme, by adding colour variation, patterns, ruins, etc within Substance Painter.
Looking forward to seeing the results! if you have any suggested colour scheme ideas, please speak up :slight_smile:

Thank you!

#18

Easter Holidays :slight_smile: A time for family, and Chocolate! I should of made time to create a small Easter project :slight_smile: Oh well, next year :slight_smile: but this time for Screenshot Saturday, I decided to post my progress on my Robot’s textures. I am quite pleased with the overall look, maybe it needs a little more work, but I am dieing to start the retopo of my dragon as well starting to animate the characters!

#19

Screenshot Saturday: something a little different this week :slight_smile: With the start of the Term 2 for University in 2 weeks, I’ve been doing some preparation work for the up coming compositing assignment. I don’t normally create silhouettes for my characters, but this has been a lot of fun :slight_smile: So I decided to post a bit of Behind the Scenes Concepting, they still need a lot of work, but i am liking a couple of the designs thus far.

#20

Screenshot Saturday!
More Behind the scene screen shots of the Composite Project :slight_smile: Enjoy!
I was thinking about using Piano Tiles 2 as the game within the phone, but I am still going through my ideas list :slight_smile: I’m pretty happy with my current idea though :slight_smile: Just need to find someone who can do an epic voice over :wink: