I finished the fishing rod!

A lot has been going on these past couple of weeks. Progress has been slower than planned but I'm still quite happy with what I've gotten done! The fishing rod is now finished (more renders on that soon-ish™) and I've began working on a tackle box which is now in the texturing phase. Thus far however it's only the first pass. Still needing a lot more wear and tear to match my reference. Also got to make an ad sort of sticker for it which was quite fun.

Mainly the difficulties working on this has been getting nice smoothing of the highpoly, something which I've kinda achieved through ZBrush. (But I mean, who is ever 100% satisfied with their own work ;)). Plans nnow are to finish the tackle box texturing the first half of this week and then get a better ground material together, hopefully the whole scene will be finished by the end of this month. Just in time for the next Kim Aava Art Jam (more info on that in Kim's Discord).

Now then, back to work!

Short update on my park environment (and along with it, the fishing rod!)

Today has been spent sorting out most (unfortunatly not all) baking errors, also got an ID mask baked and some placeholder textures thrown on in Substance Painter! I just wanted to play around a bit and see what I liked and didn't. In the end I'm going for a bit of a weathered look, so I'll definitely have to work more in Painter. I got a bit excited so I also threw it with the textures into Marmoset to get some quick WIP shots down. Please, have a look down below :)

Now then, back to texturing...

Hi, I'm Adam, and I'm a Boolaholic.

For this box I wanted something crate-like. Few more details I would love to add however to it (mainly patterns). Could be a fun side project (not that I need more projects right now hehe.)

On a more serious note, my fishing rod is still well underway, had a couple of baking errors during today's session which I need to sort out, as well as baking out a Color ID mask. Got some more fun with Booleans done earlier today too which I thought I'd post while I keep working on sorting out the bake errors. Will post a more comprehensive project update for the fishing rod and scene later this week to summarize. Until then!

(PS: Continuing with the last post's theme since stuff did actually get on fire this time, namingly the fishing rod bake...)

Spent the evening today to get into the HardOps plugin for Blender, I really like it! Big thumbs up to the folks behind it whom kindly made an excellent tutorial to get people started too!

(Luckily, nothing caught on fire...I think.)

Link to the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrnUx_2_uk 

Link to HardOps/Boxcutter Bundle on Blender Market: https://blendermarket.com/products/hard-ops--boxcutter-ultimate-bundle 
  

Finally done with lowpoly and UVs! (at least for the baking phase). Now it's on to baking and texturing and hopefully I'll get the fishing rod done in a week or so! :)

You won't believe how happy I am to be done (for now) with this part to finally be ready for texturing!

(Yes of course I had to include Baby Yoda)

New Year New Me! Well not really, but I have gotten back after some time off I got back to the project! I've been working on a fishing rod over the holidays and just got the highpoly done today (including floaters after a lot of messing around with the Bevel modifier in Blender)! I'm finally able to get to work on the lowpoly and then it's off to texturing! This will be one of the final pieces missing in the environment and I'm really excited to soon call this project "done".

Furthermore I just hope everyone's had a good start to the new year (and decade!) as me. Tomorrow it's back to work again and I can't wait to kick everything back into action again!

2019 has been a REALLY eventful year for me!

Not to mention, it's been a good year full of new experiences and learning. Apart from finishing a couple of new projects, the first commercial game I've worked on (Bannermen) launched. I've gone back to that same studio for a 6 month internship, working on some really exciting stuff I hopefully can share in the not too distant 20th decade of the 2000s! As you've probably already seen I'm currently also working on exciting projects in my free time which I look forward to keep working on (and finishing ;)) in 2020.

I wish to thank all of you, not just the ones supporting me one way or the other, and not just all my friends, collegues and mentors. I want to thank everyone here on Artstation and beyond for making all the amazing and truly inspiring art you do, no matter how big all small..

In conclusion I just want to share my Artstation Recap and wish you all...

Happy New Year, and Good Luck in 2020!

The last couple of weeks have been quite busy with the move down to Gothenburg and getting settled in at my internship with Pathos Interactive. Nevertheless I've managed to get some work done on the scene. I reframed the hero shot and started relighting the scene with the help of my friends over in the Road To Mastery Discord Server!

Now that I've settled in with everything going on around me I should hopefully have more time to work on the scene once again. It's getting there though!

Started adding in first iteration of the storytelling props, not entirerly sure I want the bottles in there however. Will see once I get the other props in and things are starting to get finalized. Might just be that they're in a need of a color change. Either way I can't wait to get the rest of the props in there!

I've had a lot of fun exploring Blender a bit as well as I'm slowly transitioning to the software for my upcoming internship at Pathos Interactive. Can't wait to get started!

Made some changes with my lighting since the last update. Also updated the scene with my own trees! Not quite happy yet though, got a couple of other props I want to add, as well as different colored leaves on the trees, leaves flying in the wind as well as work more on the lighting towards a more evening mood. Otherwise I'm really happy so far!

Also decided to try out a postcard-style presentation :)