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Ex-Ray · 01-07-2009, 05:51 PM

Hey All

I've been reading this forum for a while but haven't posted anything yet, so I thought I'll share what I've been killing myself doing for the past 4 1/2 month afterwork.

I decided to do one of those great concepts from Natural selection 2 but gave myself some creative freedom so it doesn't have to look exactly like it, this one here:
http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/05/4...ceptArt-03.jpg

I wanted to practice my next gen stuff (high poly to low poly bake) as I don't really get a chance to do it at work

and to prove to myself really.

This is part one of my finished piece, as at the moment my final output is a mental ray render. I do intend to migrate this to Unreal Ed which I'm still learning. Hopefully in unreal the spec and normals will 'pop' out more and I can play around with particles, light beams, cube maps etc and bring it more alive.

There are minor post effects such as the usual, levels, colour balance etc. I did add the smoke, light bloom and haze in photoshop and I hope I can mimic that in UnrealEd in realtime.

I definitely learn a lot on this piece and on hindsight I could have probably reduce the polycount down a little. The whole scene is 25968 tris with 1024x1024 textures and just one 2048x1024.

Hopefully I can post the unreal version soon.........probably in another 4 1/2 months time!

01-07-2009, 05:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Ex-Ray Senior Member 279 - 132	Natural Selection 2 concept Scene Hey All I've been reading this forum for a while but haven't posted anything yet, so I thought I'll share what I've been killing myself doing for the past 4 1/2 month afterwork. I decided to do one of those great concepts from Natural selection 2 but gave myself some creative freedom so it doesn't have to look exactly like it, this one here: http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/05/4...ceptArt-03.jpg I wanted to practice my next gen stuff (high poly to low poly bake) as I don't really get a chance to do it at work and to prove to myself really. This is part one of my finished piece, as at the moment my final output is a mental ray render. I do intend to migrate this to Unreal Ed which I'm still learning. Hopefully in unreal the spec and normals will 'pop' out more and I can play around with particles, light beams, cube maps etc and bring it more alive. There are minor post effects such as the usual, levels, colour balance etc. I did add the smoke, light bloom and haze in photoshop and I hope I can mimic that in UnrealEd in realtime. I definitely learn a lot on this piece and on hindsight I could have probably reduce the polycount down a little. The whole scene is 25968 tris with 1024x1024 textures and just one 2048x1024. Hopefully I can post the unreal version soon.........probably in another 4 1/2 months time! Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Ex-Ray; 02-07-2009 at 04:20 PM.