Robot WIP

I working currently on this Robot. It is just the highpoly head yet. Here is a screengrab from the viewport.

Also a little nicer shot from the RobotFly

Close up with UDK

I got my robotic fly into UDK and I did some scale tests, checking on how close I can get to small objects without clipping problems. The length of the model is just 13 unreal units. I also did some testing with the DX11 tesselation feature. The lowpoly model is 20k triangles + tesselation.
Here is a quick screengrab out of the editor.

Working on my Bachelor Project

I recently finished 6th semester. That means the upcoming is my last semester... YEAH! I already started working on my bachelor project. The best is I can do it with UDK. Its gonna be a near future scifi environment. But I plan on doing a little more than just the environment. We will see how much I get done in time.

Here a rendering of a robotic fly.

Movie release

Yeah its done! After all the work we had to do in this semester there is at least this movie that I can show. I wish I had a little more time to fix some animations and some render errors but I am still happy with the result.

Check it out

Tomorrow Land from Paul Mader on Vimeo.

One more still from the movie

Movie almost finished

A lot of work went in to the movie project and its almost finished. Well it would be much cooler to have another month or two to just polish it but it has to be done by the end of June. But I would say for the given time of 2 and half month and having several other projects, it looks pretty cool.

Here is a render including the main character. I did the character in 3 days including the rig.

FullHd rendertime per frame is about 5-6 minutes using Mental Ray.

more movie project

I finaly found some time to work on the movie project again. I really like this project but sadly my school sucks and this is just a small side project. The big project for this semester is a FLASH game and sadly I am on of the better programmers in my group what means I am doing the Actionscript code. So I spend most time programming instead of doing cool visuals and working on the movie.
Here is a little update on the scene I already posted I think its coming along nicely but if someone reads this and has a good tip on how to make it more photoreal, let me know.

I also started on a another shot but this one needs much more work. Also this shot is not entirely done by myself. A few of the highrise buildings are done by Simon Spatzl

Back in School

As I spent the last 7 month in London working on BATMAN ARKHAM CITY, I am now back in Germany finishing my last year in school. And I finaly have something to post. We have to do a short movie again. This time we are going for a realistic look and below is a first WIP rendering of the set. So far the scene is all done by myself and about one week of work. Hopefully this movie doesn't turn out as horrible as our first try in making a short.

Animated Short

This is the main character and a set piece I have done for an animated shortfilm that we are making in school. We have a really short timeframe on this movie and I am already yet worried because of render time but hopefully we can do it in this quality.

Bike and Girl

Not related to my project but I didn't post anything in a long time so here is some stuff I made while studying. In my 3D modeling course we had to pick a toy and model it. So I picked the toy from Kaneda's Bike known from the Akira comic/movie.

This is one of my tries to improve my painting skills and I like to believe I am getting better.

I used a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. I spend a lot of time on this one I think is was about 9 hours.

Finished LowPoly and Texture

I finally finished the lowpoly model and texture on my female character.
This screenshot is the Lowpoly model (22101 triangles) taken inside the Unreal 3 Engine .




This is the conceptdrawing for this character done by myself.
I know I am definitly not a concept artist. But hey the final result matters.

High Poly Female Character

I final dared myself making a female chracter. I am quite happy on how it turned out.

Also worked on the way I present my renderings. Critics are always welcome.

Now I have to make the lowpoly and some hair.

Some Character Modeling

This is a character I worked on for the last days. The concept was done by my buddy

Walter Druck. You can find a link to his blog in the right panel.

The highpoly took me 5 days, the lowpoly + fur also took 5 days.

Here are some renders of the highpoly model without the fur.

This is the finished lowpoly model with Normalmap and AmbientOcclusion.

Screenshots where taken in the Unreal 3 Engine. The model has about 18000 polys

about 14000 for the entire body and about 4000 for the fur.

This is the Finished Model with textures and rigged into pose. Again screenshots are done

with the UE3. The Fur was the most difficult to do especialy during the skinning.

But I learned a lot on how to do the envelopes right.

This is the concept done Walter. He made a few of these with differnt armors. This is the one

that fitted most into the setting.

Version 0.1 Released!

First of all thanks to all the comments I got sofar it gave me good push to make the map available for download. So I didn't made a video. But now you can download it as a Mod for UT3 so get a copy if you don't have it yet and download here http://www.fileplanet.com/files/190000/199206.shtml

Installation and some notes are in the readme text file.

First Screenshots

Hi this is a little project I am working on for some time now. I work on it when ever I have some time. I made it using the retail version of Unreal Tournament 3 using just self created content. Sofar I just show some high res screenshots I toke within the Unreal Engine. I am planning on making a video capture to show a little more. Critics and comments are very welcome.