sketchbook:SHEPEIRO

[SHEPEIRO]

well just wanted to start one of these, im doing quite a bit of work, but most of it short and test like in nature. so heres my sketch book


been making bones, not sure if its going to become a full level or not yet

lightmapped
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/fin1.jpg


and in marmoset

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/marmoset1copy.jpg

removed the metal shit, couldnt get it loooking like i wanted

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/marmoset2.jpg

[Jeremy Wright]

That's really awesome!

[SHEPEIRO]

been trying to come up with an idea that i get past blocking out. i want it to be managable but my ideas always turn in to epics, so im trying to keep it a small focused environment, probably ging to try unreal or crysis engine for this.

this is my latest a small ceremonial sacrifice hut, thinking of having some standing stones circling it.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuff1.jpg

maybe situated in something like this

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuff5.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuf6.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

this is something else- its a radial component environment, absolutely melted my brain getting the stair case to work mathematically, but got it, kind of thinking of a fishy themed tower/temple which is half ruined, thinking of the possibility of a fish shaped magical submarine at the bottom half submerged in the water

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuff2.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuff4.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

this one relates too the first few shots of the bone, basically a small arena, of weird bone/spaceship/flying collosus stuff, basically, an excuse to get some nice shapes stuck in some sand
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/stuff3.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

the other thing im toying with is that ive never made a sci-fi environment, but i wasnt thinking all metal corridors and sliding doors, more of 2001 padded corridors, flat reflective surfaces, cool funky zero-g design

[SHEPEIRO]

thoughts are welcome

[Nate Broach]

Heya Shep,

Cool stuff so far, I personally think its all a tad too surreal for my tastes. i want to see something in there that I can understand. The bones are really wonky and strange and I cant tell what they came from. The huts the only think im instantly familiar with, which is cool, but super basic. And I personally dont like how it looks dug into the ground, makes it difficult to get a cool shot of it.

Don't get me wrong, its all seriously nice eye candy and looks amazing, I just dont get it, or get exactly what your trying to accomplish. Definitely something completely different from your bath house.

Anyways those are my thoughts! Keep it up! Im interested to see where your going with all this.

[hobodactyl]

Those are awesome, I love the shapes you've got going, and the staircase thing you worked out is rad :D

For the sci-fi enviro are you thinking something unrelated to these pieces or connected in some way? I like the idea of it being 2001-esque :)

[fast1]

looks really good, thanks for the share.http://photosnag.com/img/3322/n09x0302vnsn/clear.gif

[Saidin311]

Man some wicked stuff here. I love the first ones. I have no idea what it is but it looks fantastic.

I like the fishy temple too, I can't imagine how you worked those stairs out. I'm definitely curious about that aspect. It looks like an Escher drawing in that wire shot. It seems a little claustrophobic which might go well with that sort of underwater fish tank feel.

Sweet stuff though, can't wait to see where it all goes.

[SHEPEIRO]

cheers folks, yes decided o give the 2001 thing a go, dont think it wil be related to the boney stuff, though i could.....

anyway, decided to make a ship thats based in the 2001 universe but not from the film, so it this ship, a battle ship, did quite alot of research on the web about 2001 and future "real" ship designs and think ive got somethign fairly genuine, it will be a small environment peice, with and exteroir and interior, much more compact than the ship in 2001, more like the craft that they take to the moon, only with a bit more fuel and solar panels and heat radiators that can be folded away for combat and fast manuveures.

gonna work out the interior next week, should be fun

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/blockout1.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/opening.gif

[rasmus]

Sweet stuff Shepeiro, looking forward to padded 2001 interiors

[SHEPEIRO]

yes padding my thoughts exactly

little fun with shapes at lunch

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/ship.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

blockout went missing so i made a start on this

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridor.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/blockout2.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/blockout3.jpg

[Ged]

nice start, its already got that wierd antigravity feeling like descent in those 2 inside shots

[SHEPEIRO]

chers ged

some real times, and a pretty crappy lighting test, need to nail that

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridortex2.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridortex.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

marmoset fun, just kind of playing with what kind of lighting a scene like this needs and therefore which engine to go for.

i kind of want a mix of realtime and directional lightmapping....roll on unreal update please, maybe ill give crysis befor i sit back and wait though

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridortex3.jpg

[Uly]

Liking the piece so far shep. : ) It'd be neat to see if you could pull off a Alien (those computer rooms) or 2001 lighting scheme. Might take some restraint, but it'd be really refreshing to see.

The small differences between the ceiling/floor and the walls work really great too.

[SHEPEIRO]

yeah the lightingsgoing to be tricky,lightmapping dosnt seam to give the fidellity i want but its going to be tricky to get good bounced light which is important, just going to keep experimenting.

game engines just are not really suited to this type of lighting and these types of clean clear surfaces with no detail to hide the artefacts, so this should be fun

more marmoset progress

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridortex4.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

and finally finished playing with this tonight, a better lightmapped version, thouh i failed to get the self ilumination working on the new fancy refractive lights, in game bloom should stop it from having that weird dull look though

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/corridortex5.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

been pissing around with this airlock all day, just figured how im going to do the hinge and how its all going to work within the corridor

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/airlock1.jpg

[nrek]

Looking great so far Shep, it really has that classic sci-fi look to it. And those last 2 hallway renders look sweet. You have mentioned putting this into a game engine several times, just curious but what engine are you planning on using?

[SHEPEIRO]

cheers nrek, the corridor shots are actually realtime, not ingame but marmoset and maya screengrabs using shaders.

planning on either crysis engine or unreal, gotta play with both, but think crysis may be better suited looking at the styles of stuff produced

[StJoris]

Great stuff mate, I really liked the stairs, dug-in hut and the bones. They stand out in an original way. Are you planning on working them out more? Maybe for the bones make it sometimes go like a sort of corally structure so you can 'walk' up a bit.

Looking forward to more original stuff, keep it up!

[SHEPEIRO]

finished airlock bake, came out good me thinks should texture it tomorrow.

lighting quality is low cos its too late.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/airlock2.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

Great stuff mate, I really liked the stairs, dug-in hut and the bones. They stand out in an original way. Are you planning on working them out more? Maybe for the bones make it sometimes go like a sort of corally structure so you can 'walk' up a bit.

Looking forward to more original stuff, keep it up!

yep but not at the moment, i had half an idea then came to halt, so im just waiting for the thing to mature a bit in my head befor i do more, talking about the bones thing anyway, the hut is a a quicky as im interested in doing that sort of architecture modular style

[SHEPEIRO]

erm some "high poly" fronds im making for a tree that ive been meaning to make for a long time, an oversized chunky RTS style spruce tree

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/fronds1.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/fronds2.jpg

[Thegodzero]

hehe I did that a while back too, that part is fun, the second half will start to piss you off.

[SHEPEIRO]

which bits that.... i made a quick test branch and that rendered out well, made a few trees befor, quite enjoy it really, i have found that aslong as you keep the meshes seperate maya behaves pretty well, just have to resist the temptation to combine.

just need to model a couple of better branches with uv's then its on to the fun bit, trunk and roots

[Thegodzero]

for me it was that fact that i needed huge branches all baked onto one poly, it just saddened me to see it all flat after it looking so good.

Then again i was making it for a realistic FPS not an RTS view...

[SHEPEIRO]

aye there is that, i have made this way too detailed, but then as a side project i wanted to do an FPS version too, they will use the same assets to create the branches just different scale of frond/branch

the normal maps on these suckers comes out much better when oversizeing and stylizing than when at realistic scale

[SHEPEIRO]

lifedrawing, not too bad considering its the first time for about 5 or 6 years, did loads of five minute poses which are never going to see the light of day, a couple of twenty minutes which were alright and then an hour pose which i did this in, need to speed up
charcoal pencils were a bit scratchy for my liking
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/lifedrawing1.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

Hey look i made something

my besty mate Syd Mead made this awsome dropship concept, and i basically stole the image for the texture, mapping bits of the image to a model then baking that across to a another model with decent UVs, been cleaning it up and creating an underside, not quite finished

pished around with a basic env for it, buts it Pish, gonna change it up for something a bit more concepty, a hand drawn stylee with the textures getting more line drawn and "not there" like a concept sketch gets draws you to the focus by increasing the solidity around the important shit (play area)

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/q1-1.jpg

[Diwan]

Niiiiceee, I dig this alot!

[rooster]

awesome! gonna make the game?

[SHEPEIRO]

i'll slip Syd a fiver and im sure he'll lend me the rights yeah

[rooster]

rights? shmights!

[Master_v12]

Looks ace man, Thumbs up!

[SHEPEIRO]

ive nbeen messing with a design like this for ages, started off von a concept i made a couple of years ago, been changed quite a bit since, the idea is f1 car with wings or wipeout with a touch of realism, think im kind of getting there... would like opinions/paintovers etc though....been staring a touch too long

its designed around a magnetic feild style AG system with jets

old concept
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m221/osart/2d1.jpg

new sketch
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/sidesketch.jpg

recent model variations
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/3-5.jpg

current status
alot of redbulls 2010 car in the nose
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/2-4.jpg

[Snowman]

awesome stuff man

[SHEPEIRO]

grey box doodle, might make it....never know, enjoying just blocking stuff out

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/Shepeiro/thecapatinslovenest.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

my sittingroom, well alot nicer version, gonna make it into a photoreal huge version, that you can run around in udk as a 6 inch bundle of fury

still very early, photoshops for assets, temp floor tex no furniture...pretty damn early actually

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1324504/room1.jpg

some low polys from some HP zbrushy malarky

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1324504/ceiling1.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

interior decorating advice is wecome

[Nitewalkr]

Amazing work my good sir. :)

[SHEPEIRO]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1324504/roomy.JPG

[man_o_mule]

If you need ideas for interior decorating and furniture ideas. I'd recommend checking out the IKEA (http://info.ikea-usa.com/Catalog/) catalog. has lots of pics of all the furniture in actual rooms with people.

[SHEPEIRO]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1324504/unreeeeeels.jpg