Back to Gears of War

Hey after I skipped the 3rd Gears of War I am now back and work on the 4th. Gears of War Judgment
I worked as an Environment Artist on this level shown currently at the E3. Nick Donaldson did the Leveldesign and Tomas Lidström helped me out with the lighting.

I was asked to post some uncompressed highres screenshots of Dystopia

Show highres gallery on Photobucket

Head Sculpture

Just a quick bust too improve my scuplting skills and a test render with a hand painted texture.

DYSTOPIA shortfilm released

Here is my Bachelor Project. 6 month of work all by myself.
There are two version of the film. One is my orignial where I used music form Nine Inch Nails. The other one was created later and uses music from Philipp Grünauer. Philipp is a fellow Student and he needed a project to finish all his courses at school. So he asked me if he can do an original score for my film.

also on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/36637008

Flythrough Dystopia

Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/36507495

Batman Arkham City Environments

I finaly had some time to play through Batman AC and make some screenshots. Those are the environments I worked on. All of this is team work and I can't take full credit. I think in the end almost everyone of the the great artists at Rocksteady worked on theses areas.

Zsasz Hideout

Mad Hatter
This was my favorite environment to work on. I had to do a all new set of assets and the huge pocketwatch was fun to make.

Demon Trails

Bane Hideout

Poison Ivy Lair

Arkham Entrance

Skyline

Dystopia Trailer

also on vimeo http://vimeo.com/34393892

Dystopia Teaser Image 3

Puh last week of the Bachelor Project ahead. Almost finished YEAY!

2nd Teaser Image

Dystopia Teaser Image

Just a teaser image for my Bachelor Degree Project. It is a 6 minute Sci-Fi shortfilm created with the UDK. The film is not done yet but most of the assets and animations are done so from now on it is mostly lighting and polish work. It has to be done on the 23rd of December but it won't be released befor the school presentation.

Robot Highpoly backside

Robot Highpoly

Almost finished the highpoly model of the Robot. Here are two mentalray renders

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.