Portfolio Polish: Pt. 1

           Portfolio Polish Pt. 1

    For the final project, I will not be taking up any new undertakings. Instead, I'm going to go back and polish what I've got to portfolio level quality. For a lot of these need work here and there to get them to the stretch goals I originally intended. I'll be prioritizing more leisure work first, then pushing to pieces that need a lot more work.

As my friend says, "In a hundred-mile journey, the first ninety mile is merely half of it."

Below I've dedicated a good chunk of time to properly assessing scope and planning out which projects I should be tackling first. For this, I used Notion. Each thumbnail is a page of its own, with a set plan. Because I'm tackling multiple projects, and refining with knowledge that I've accumulated over my time at FIEA, this journey will most likely go beyond the final submission (probably into Ventures).

AI-Assisted Planning Page

Starting with the EH-Sattelite

Going back and cleaning bake

Part 4: Interactability

          Part 4: Interactability

    Currently sick right now :( But I was able to get a lot of work done, it's a bit all over the place, but I wanted to touch base on some other aspects of the project.

Trying out different lighting

In-Engine Topology

BP for Nitrogen Release

Hitbox and Trigger func.

Second Pass in Substance

MRI Brain Scan Texture

Part 3: Texturing and Simulation

         Part 3: Tex and Sim

    Done modeling, got some early textures and experimenting with the cold head nitrogen release sequence. Testing out some methods how I could do the smoke, flipbooks, animated texture arrays, or openVDBs. Substance painter recently updated and broke everything to no one's surprise, so I had to restart multiple times.

Good program 👍

Flipbook

Texture Array (GIF)

OpenVDB (Physical Smoke)

Material First Pass

Part 2: Hi-Res and UVs

        Part 2: Hi-Res and UVs

    Haven't got to a first bake yet, but I'm practically already there, using the CAD refacet, I was able to get down to 21k as a first pass without any effort. Making good progress. 

Plasticity Viewport

Blender Viewport

Part 1: Blockout

       Part 1: Blockout

    Starting work on the Siemens MRI Machine, getting a quick blockout of the scene just to get some early scale

UE5 Blockout

Part 4: Renders

        Part 4: Renders

    Sneak peak of the cinematic. And Plasticity renders.

UE5 Render

Final Plasticity Pass

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board

Part 3: Baking and Materials

       Part 3: Materials

    Finally getting back into it, for this part, I wanted to begin with my first bakes and textures, just to get a better feel of what the final model might look like.

Did some bevel shader baking from Marmoset to Painter, it came out pretty nice.

UE5 Render

Plasticity Progress

MMT Bevel Shader

M-777 Howitzer Ref Board