Jesse Moody's Art Rampage

Some more work

2011-12-03T22:45:00.001-06:00

Here is some more stuff. A lot of high poly stuff, baked down. Thinking of going back and doing zbrush passes and redoing all the materials on some of it.

The settings I usually use in max for my grid / environment /modular work.

Mass Effect inspired art. This is the high poly… Time for some bakes and materials.

Some work I've been doing lately

2011-12-03T22:35:00.000-06:00

Been kinda busy the last few months and haven’t shared a lot of work but here is an update on some stuff I’ve been playing with, tests, small projects, etc.

So here goes.

The scenes below were created in 3DS Max 2012, textured with Photoshop and rendered in Unity Pro 3.4. Target platform was for web and iOS devices. Effects and settings could be toggled depending on device.

Total scene was kept below 50k triangles including sideline props, lighting fx and variant cards for stadium to add specific team branding. The textures consist of diffuse and diffuse with alpha only. All lighting was baked into lightmaps using Unitys included Beast lighting system.

The environment was also set up to be customized via programmed inputs to swap out the end zone cards, mid field logos, goal post wraps and stadium walls wraps with home team logos and names. Each team was given it's own team texture / decal sheet that was called based off the home team loaded and the correct materials were applied at run time. Ad space was also configured to be driven via external script and could be swapped out for localized ad display or to add variation to the ads seen.

Along with modeling (everything except the side line props), texturing, lighting and assembling this scene in Unity I was also responsible for the design of the stadium, new shaders (which I will try to cover later) I created in Unity to achieve effects that were not readily available with the default shaders. I had to balance memory constraints and budgets while trying to also achieve the highest quality in visuals available for the target devices.

This was my first experience with both Unity and web/iOS development. I was quickly impressed with Unity and it’s toolset and what I could get to run on the web and iOS devices while maintaining a decent frame rate.

Iphone Photography

2011-09-29T01:37:00.001-05:00

Having some fun with the iphone in downtown Chicago.

The Latest

2011-09-22T00:20:00.001-05:00

Over the last few months I've been working in Unity for my current job. Huge difference compared to what I have been used to with UDK. At first I was a bit turned off by Unity and it felt sluggish and backwards in a few ways and perhaps this was because I was so used to using Unreal or UDK for so long.

I've taken the dive right in and been working on making my life easier for production. This has involved writing custom shaders, a few plug ins, tweaking pre-built shaders that shipped with Unity and a few other things. Our games target platfrom is web based and mobile (iOS/android) so that was a huge step back from the AAA high poly, high res world of console dev but it is a nice change. Pushing the tech of the iphone and ipad is quite fun. While it's no ps3 I am able to get some really nice visuals and presentation in my scenes and confident going forward they will start to look even better as I get a better handle over the tech.

Hopefully I'll be able to share some updates and work walk through stuff soon.

Holy it's been a while

2011-09-06T10:49:00.000-05:00

Been way too long since I've updated, but I've been quite busy. Had a lot of freelance work the last few months (can't share yet but it's nice stuff) and took a full time gig as Senior Environment Artist working @ Game Time Live on www.gameslam.com Check it out. I'm responsible for all the stadium designs and concepts, modeling, texturing, lighting and implementing through Unity.

Also working on a new folio and some really exciting pieces. More updates to come very shortly.

Retro Art Decoish Pistol Loving

2011-01-06T02:07:00.000-06:00

Been working on this a bit here and there the past few days. Having some fun with it.

Working on some textures...

2010-12-01T14:44:00.000-06:00

Playing with the surfaces. Adding some overlays and decals.

Base material updates

2010-11-30T23:00:00.000-06:00

Ok so after some redoing here it is. Got a little help from a buddy that was showing me how to just use simple materials from the very beginning and work on their values and the results speak for themselves I think.

Laying in the mats...

2010-11-21T19:44:00.001-06:00

Starting to work on the base materials and color scheme for this bad boy...

Time to texture

2010-11-21T11:18:00.000-06:00

Time to move on to the materials for this bad boy...

Baking and baking...

2010-11-21T07:44:00.001-06:00

There are a few spots to clean up but looks like the results came out pretty nicely.

Time to start texturing this beast...

Ahhh low poly completed (updated)

2010-11-20T16:14:00.000-06:00

About time I got around to texturing some things so figured I would start with this gun. Had to do a lot to fix the low poly to the original one I did back in 2007 for Borderlands and just some fixes for my tastes..

Brian Wood Memorial Trust

2010-09-09T13:18:00.000-05:00

As reported earlier this week, Company of Heroes Online lead designer Brian Wood of Relic Entertainment lost his life on Friday night, when his Subaru Outback was struck head-on by an out-of-control Chevy Blazer. The 33-year-old developer was killed in the crash. According to his wife, his last act was swerving his vehicle to take the full brunt of the impact himself, saving her life and that of the couple's unborn child.

A relief fund / memorial trust has been set up and every dollar that can be contributed counts heavily. Please help if you can.

Texturing the Hammerfist .50

2010-08-11T12:15:00.001-05:00

Updates to the hand cannon

2010-07-18T18:07:00.001-05:00

Fixed some proportions and more adjustments to the hand cannon.

Pistol baking lovecraft

2010-07-16T02:00:00.001-05:00

Made some adjustments from my original take on the quake blaster. Got some clean bakes so now it's time to texture this bad boy and move on.

and even more arts

2010-07-15T02:05:00.000-05:00

Models for this are by me. I did the high poly, low poly and bakes.

Textures were done by Gina Lohman at Raven Software

and more stuffs..

2010-07-15T02:03:00.000-05:00

Some older works... Need some new loving...

2010-07-15T02:01:00.001-05:00

Revisited Quake Blaster

2010-07-12T16:02:00.003-05:00

So after looking through some things I was looking over some old pieces I did and decided to “fix” some issues with them. The first one being this blaster based off the Quake 4 concept piece.

I originally changed up a few of the designs on it to make it more my own and after looking at it again some didn’t flow right and some weren’t rendering too well because of super tight chamfers and other issues. So dove back in to fix some up.

Nothing fancy for renders. Just some quick max screengrabs.
Now on to fix the low poly, bake it out and retexture this beast.

UDK Project: Lighting

2010-07-09T16:49:00.000-05:00

Played with lighting a bit today and tweaked some material stuff adding in reflection masks and adjusting some other values.

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UDK Project: Updating again

2010-07-08T11:06:00.001-05:00

Not a huge update. Fixing a few things, tweaking material properties.

UDK Project : Texturing

2010-07-07T17:55:00.001-05:00

Nothing super amazing. Just some progress on the floor tiles.

Changing up the color scheme from the concept. Going more for a dirty, run down, abandoned area. Will be changing up the area quite a bit too.

UDK Project : Modular Bits

2010-07-02T16:54:00.002-05:00

So many more pieces to go but here are some of the modular wall panels. Easily tiled and moved around and reconfigured.

Still need variants with windows and one for doors.

UDK Project : Some Material Love

2010-07-01T17:04:00.003-05:00

Got a few pieces baked out and proxy textures on them.

Currently working on the shader and master materials for this scene.

Most things are controlled by user input and can be toggled on or off depending upon what is needed for the object the shader is applied to.

UDK Project : Concept

2010-06-29T16:50:00.003-05:00

Here is the concept my enviro will be based around.

Will be making some changes to it.

** The concept isn't mine. I am pretty sure it was from Sparth but I can't 100% remember. If anyone knows please chime in.

UDK Project : More progress on the hall

2010-06-29T16:46:00.004-05:00

Still plugging away on this guy. Got the center hall wall pieces done as far as modeling goes. Quick proxy texture on them and moving on to other pieces to model out and bake.

Will texture everything at the end to its final stages to make sure its all cohesive and fits together.

UDK Project : Tech Hallway Enviro Wip

2010-06-28T16:04:00.004-05:00

Started this today. Still super early but got my modular proxy pieces layed out and in unreal. Now it’s just updating each piece, texturing and final lighting.

More on the pillar

2010-06-23T18:03:00.003-05:00

Little bit more progress on the pillar. Turned off the surface noise for now while I wrap up the main shapes and detail it out.

Sculpted Pillar

2010-06-23T16:49:00.002-05:00

Still a very much w.i.p. shot here on this but working up some of the main forms and will then smooth out the chunkyness of the rocks much like the stairs. The surface noise is just a toggle inside of zbrush to see how the surface would look. It’s not sculpted in yet and I would save that detail mainly for the texture stages anyways.

Ahhhh Rocky....

2010-06-22T15:09:00.003-05:00

Ok gonna call these done for now. They were supposed to be just a quick test with some of the new tools in zbrush and some of the other new features. I like where they are at now so it’s time to move on to the next item.

Almost there

2010-06-22T12:31:00.003-05:00

Almost done with the large, chunky details on these guys. Then some refinement of some shapes, adjust the stairs a bit and they should be good to go.

Zbrush Fun...

2010-06-21T17:53:00.003-05:00

Still going on these stairs. Changed up the proportions a bit to get them to where I want them and tweaking other shapes.

Update to the sculpted stairs

2010-06-21T12:32:00.002-05:00

Playing with zbrush materials and some render settings.

Also trying to give the more chunky look to the rocks now. Will re-work a good portion of this to better show that off.

Zbrushing some Stairs

2010-06-18T16:50:00.002-05:00

Just playing around with a quick sculpt. Some stairs carved from rocky surfaces. Really rough. Haven’t smoothed out and finalized the shapes yet and a lot of stuff is still mirrored but should be easy enough to clean em up.

Boss Battle Head Sculpts

2010-06-18T01:21:00.001-05:00

Working on some quick zbrush sketches of my boss battle challenge head sculpt...

This one started with a cube..

3Point Shader

2010-06-16T13:55:00.002-05:00

So I did this model last fall and figured I would give it another shot with the 3 Point Shader. The spec is too noisy right now and it needs some proper gloss and reflection masks so once those are done I think this piece will look pretty nice.

More work on the Reventon

2010-06-16T13:42:00.003-05:00

More progress on the rough forms of the reventon. Not too much time spent on this really. Just some time here and there on my lunches at work.

Some ugly geo up front that needs to be fixed / adjusted but just trying to quickly rough in the major shapes so this will start to take shape and will make life easier to cut details like the lights, quarter panels, seam lines, etc in later.

Reventon Update

2010-06-10T13:44:00.002-05:00

Now with pictures… So still blocking out the main shapes. The blueprints are kinda hard to read. Probably because I’m not used to working like this but it’s a nice challenge for sure.

Using a lot of ref to try and match this as close as possible.

3D Motive

2010-06-10T13:13:00.000-05:00

Some guys I know from school and Polycount have taken to the internets with their new training materials for fellow game artists and the like.

Some really nice stuff over there and even some free videos so all you starving artists can get some knowledge learned for free.

So check them out. http://3dmotive.com/

weird command post building

2010-06-09T15:51:00.002-05:00

A command post of sorts for an rts type game

another model

2010-06-09T15:45:00.002-05:00

(Top)A tv model from a piece of concept I found on the net…

(Bottom)And what I plan on doing for the back of it…

ahhh more old projects

2010-06-09T15:43:00.002-05:00

Here is another piece from another project I was toying with a while back…

2010-06-09T15:41:00.001-05:00

Was playing with some new textures on this. Right now its too shiny… So i need to fix that up.

Using the awesome 3 Point Shader light.

These are both max viewport screen grabs

2010-06-09T13:58:00.001-05:00

Blocking out my new project…

Wanted to do something where I don't have to worry about polycounts, texture res, etc and just make something gorgeous.

The Lambo Reventon is that car.

2010-05-19T13:53:00.002-05:00

Quick model done just to play with a few things and test out the new viewport shader stuff from 3Point Studios

Art Stuff

2010-05-19T13:45:00.000-05:00

Ahhh reserving my spot for some art stuffs.