Terrorific

Happy Halloween! Here's some more from crunchybunches.com

A new shape!

Some new comics on CrunchyBunches.com !

Batman: Arkham Larger Space

Huey the Chameleon

I made this low-poly character a few months ago, mainly because I've always liked low-poly stuff and hadn't modeled in a long time, but also because I wanted to make a custom character to try out in some tutorials for Unity. I think Unity's a pretty cool piece of software to develop 3d games on, and although I don't have much programming language experience, it makes things fairly easy to understand. I went through one of the '3rd person platform game' tutorials and came out with this little demo thing for Huey:

http://wscottwarren.com/archive/Huey2.html

The Arrow Keys move Huey, and the Space Bar makes him jump. You can wall jump too. I'm also working on a first-person look mode, and figuring out how to add in fidgets while idling.

More Webcomics

 A few more from crunchybunches.com

A new webcomic

I've started a new webcomic called Crunchy Bunches. It concerns the adventures of Munchy, cereal mascot extraordinaire. You can catch up with more every week at this blog: Crunchybunches.com

Game Pets

Continuing with the theme started by Mario & Yoshi, here's some more video game characters with pets. Know all these characters?

Mario, Yoshi, and the Process

I was inspired by Mario Galaxy 2 for this one:

It's been a while since I've done a completed illustration. This was done entirely in Flash, using a Wacom tablet for drawing.

I also put together a gif slideshow of my process on this one. I go through a lot of refinements in the sketching stage, since it helps me really know exactly what on earth I'm drawing when I get to the final lines.

As a matter of fact.

Doing some painting digitally.

Boo!

Some Halloweeny paintings done in Painter. Hmm I still have to decide what I'm going to be dressed up as this year...

Make something cool everyday

Here's some characters I've been drawing for the Flickr group 'Make Something Cool Everyday."

Internet

Happened across a local internet cafe today so I thought I'd do the sensible thing and blog. Here's some kind-of-but-not-really-old sketchbook sketches, as captured by my cell phone.

Speedpainting Friday

So I decided to start doing the speedpainting thing we do at work on Fridays. Here's my first couple.

The Tootsy Rollers

My design for the Tootsy Rollers junior roller derby logo.

Blue Wolf

Just a quick little computer painting.

More Paints

Saur

I'm still a little new to using Painter 9.0, and painting in general, but I like how the brush strokes turned out on this one.

I was bored.

The Dominance War II

This past month or so was the second year of the Dominance War, a 3D game character modeling competition spanning four online CG forums; Polycount, CGChat, CG Society, and 3DTotal. I work at a game company, but I mostly do animation, so I thought entering would be a good chance to brush up on my modeling skills. I heard about the war from two of my co-workers, Gabe Jackson and Eli Heuer, both of whom entered as well. I went for the Polycount side - you can see my progress thread here.

There were a few things I was taking on for the first time with this model, mainly Normal Mapping, which can give a low-poly model the appearance of something much, much higher-poly if done correctly. It was used extensively in Doom 3, and is becoming an industry standard. You can see the Normal Map below with the other textures, it's the blueish-purple thing, and it's job is to control how light effects the model to create the illusion of added detail and smoothness.

I designed General Atrox, battle-ravaged warrior from an ancient and endangered race of giant lizard. They once ruled the galaxies with thousands of colonies on various planets, but have since been systematically eradicated by an unknown force. General Atrox hopes to find revenge somewhere on the battlefield of the second Dominance War and bring his race back to glory.