Projecting Out Past Graduation

 Projecting Out Past Graduation, Questions:

1. If you could project out past graduation, what is your overall career goal?

• What are your three optimal jobs in order?

1. Contracting, something like ASquareGames
For instance, in a contracting company like ASquareGames, the company does a multitude of contracts in a variety of environments. They do diverse work for industries like medical, military, education, entertainment, urban development, and more.
2. Milsim, or some form of industrial simulation, think Lockheed or Qubic
3. Instructor, professor/teacher of some sort, either in undergraduate or high school. 

• Would you like to work in AAA game development?

Absolutely not. Not practically, nor theoretically, I don't see the entrepreneurship in it, and it seems to be very constricting. To my knowledge, it doesn't seem to be financially viable either, as opposed to more industrial positions outside of games.

• Would you prefer a midsize team?

I'd say so, I work very "personally", the bigger the team, the less agency amongst members. Unless the team is so big that a mini-team forms.

• Would you like a smaller team?

Yes, if I'd prefer a tight-knit team. It's binary with me, either it's a massive team or a little team.

• Would you like to be on an Indy team?

Yes, mostly as a side job, as I do want to work commercially.

• Would you like to work for a simulation company?

This is what I want to do.

• Would you like to work in the theme park industry?

If I can, that would be cool.

2. If you could project out into starting your career, what sounds the most appealing to you?

• What are your three optimal jobs in order?

1. Freelance Contracting (possibly with a company), a job where I can use my skills for a plethora of applications, not necessarily only entertainment like games and movies.
2. Hard surface/CAD Modeler for an industry such as military, medical, or manufacturing.
3. Instructor, professor/teacher of some sort, either in undergraduate or high school. I'm open to even creating my own curriculum/school.

• Would you like to work as a Character Artist?

Only for fun, to be honest

• Would you like to work as an Environment Artist?

Hard Yes

• Would you like to work as a Hard Surface Artist?

This is my absolute goal, one way or another

• Would you like to work as a Weapons/Prop Artist?

Hard Yes

• Would you like to work as a Vehicle Artist?

Didn't know this was a thing, but yes, as well.

• Would you like to work as a Lighter

If I got good at it, yes

3. What are some of the top companies that you are interested in working for?

EA Blizzard, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Iron Galaxy, etc.

Any company attending ITSEC, my main goal is to work for a contracting company similar to ASQUAREGAMES. For now, I believe I want to work at Lockheed as a graduation goal. On the side, if possible, I want to work in an indie company to always have a foot in the entertainment industry.

Week 10: Trebuchet Pt.2

  Part 2: Pushing High-Res

    Continuing on with the asset process, for this part, I added a few finer details to certain areas of the Trebuchet. After doing some UV work, I pushed it to ZBrush to make sure these early stages go smoothly. Because this model is so big, I need as much texel density as possible. I simply mirrored the UVs on the separated side pieces.

BPR Render

Wireframe

UV

Big Bad Wolf: Full Character

 Big Bad Wolf Character

    Here is the Big Bad Wolf for the RED Interactive experience in the Journey art style. Low poly made in Blender and Z-Brush, sent to Painter for texturing, and lastly into Unreal for material setup.

Week 9: Trebuchet Pt.1

 Part 1: Trebuchet Blockout

    For the Cannon project, I decided to do a different model, a Trebuchet. Here I build the assets to start the pipeline with proxy models.

Unreal Render

Wireframe

Main Ref

Ref Board

Stickermaxxing

   Making stickers using Cricut

    I made some stickers using previous turn-ins for Common Art. I printed the value illustration, colored illustration, milestone model, and an extra rendition of the Big Bad Wolf. All made in Photoshop.

Cricut Layout

Physical Stickers

Game Animation: Retargeted State Machine

 Retargetted State Machine

Using State Machines, I created this retargeted animation blueprint, which uses different animations based on input.

Week 07: Module 2 Static Mesh Final

  Part 3: Textures & showcase

    For the last part of module 2. I finalize textures and render them out for presentation. I went back to my low-poly and was able to reduce it from 12.5K to 8.6K. I also fixed up the UVs.

Unreal Render

UV Layout

Star Chart generated via ImageFX

Star Chart generated via ImageFX

Week 6: RED Environmental Concept

  RED Outworld Teleporter

Concept of how teleporters look in the world, allowing the ability to traverse the old world at the blink of an eye.