Senior Project Planning Idea _ The Gnome Hunter!

Hey all! I know I said every other day. I have failed you all! But guess what, all will be well, I'm posting some concept sketches for my Senior Project Planning class. Let me give you all a little back-story on what I'm doing here so you'll understand the concepts a little better. (I know concepts need to speak for themselves, but I have to at least you give you the setup)

So the whole idea of the class is to find a project that you would essentially get portfolio pieces out of to show potential employers. The direction you decide to go in should reflect which type of company you'd want to get employed by. In other words, the thought process would be that fantasy, low-poly, painted textures done really well might land you a job with Blizzard. I personally don't know where I want to work, I have no real dream job, other than working for EA on the FIFA series.

With that being said, I went with my favorite genre, Hi-Fantasy. I'm going to try to keep it hyper realistic though with the style of modeling & texturing. My Idea is to do a Big Game Gnome Hunter's trophy room / den. His little house is made inside the trunk of a tree high in the canopy where he spot animals on the ground from his balcony with his telescope. Once spotted he then uses the harpoons guns to zip cord from branch to branch down the tree, or hops onto one of his hang gliders and hunts the animal this way. Back inside of his den the gnome has all of his hunting equipment, and pieces of animals he's hunted from around the area. Such as a rattlesnake head, a giant wasp head, a lizard claw, a scorpions tale, a rhino beetle carapace, just to name a few. Some Ideas my teacher has given me was to have cages in which the hunter has captured a few animals as well outside where the hang gliders are. Also to put more windows in the room to show that its a tree, this might changes the shape of my room a little, so the concepts you are seeing are just preliminarily sketches.

Environment Concepts


Prop Concepts

Mayan Temple UT2004

Here is the first attempt at creating a level in Unreal 2004. My idea for this level was that this Mayan Temple that had been long forgotten in a cave in the jungles was now the bases for a war between two sides, in other words, a Capture the Flag map. I had big eyes for this but little time of course, though I did get my water falls in, and my temple with the lake! Check out the screen shots.

Egyptian Pillar

Another little update. Here is a pillar I did really quick, it was to show off my ability to take a low poly object into Zbrush and make it look good. Its an Egyptian pillar, something you might fin hidden underground in a pyramid in the desert.

As Promised

So here we go! I'm going to try to blog every other day for the next month or so, or until I am out of stuff to show you guys, or write about.

My first project is from the Winter Quarter Jan08-March08. Its a small CTF level built for the Unreal 2004 engine. Here are some concepts I did for the village, and a few screens of the village in the UT2004 editor.

I have no clue if anyone actually reads these, but if you do, please comment with whether or not you want more written about the pieces of less. I only ask because as you may have noticed I can write a lot without even knowing I am doing it.
Thanks for your comments guys!

The Dawn of a New Age!

I understand that I haven't posted in ages. I swear it's not that I don't love the 4 or 5 people that comment, it's because of how busy I have been. So let me get you all up to date with my life.

Since my last post not much as changed, I went on a couple of trips to Florida, worked on a lot of school projects, and pretty much kept life the same. That is until the beginning of January I started my new job as a librarian assistant at my school, the Art Institute of California San Diego (mouthful.) In March I moved out of my place in North Park, it was a very tough decision. However I needed a change, so I moved in with my school buddy Dylan, we live in Mission Valley right underneath the 805 bridge in some apartments. To add to this new change of scenery I decided to take my tax return and blow it all on a new Dell XPS 420, a much needed tool (seeing how I haven't bought a new computer in 6 years.)

So I guess you're all caught up. I'll post more now, with some screens of some of the past quarters works. I wanted to delete all my old posts, but, something inside me told me that it's always good to see where we've come from, to know where we are going.

It's all about that Piano Black Finish!