Here’s a small asset I did, once again for a competition over at the awesome community Game Artist!

Wireframe

Texture sheets

Some pictures from my portfolio are being showcased, and a 8 page interview where topics such as games industry, photoshop usage in the games industry, tips, etc are covered.

Thanks to  Paulo Sales and everyone in the magazine for the interest in my work!

aPS blog ~ Mag #15

Cheers!

Few weeks ago, I participated on yet another speed texture competition, which I am also proud to say it got first place!

By the way,  some people asked me for the high polys, so here it is, the full thing!

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This is the source files for my entry on speed texturing competition at game-artist.net
http://www.game-artist.net/forums/speed-texturing/10170-stc-43-june-14-june-21-exterior-wall-9.html#post95965

there’s everything in there, .MAX with the original high poly, the low poly (just a plane )
and I’ve also included the original PSD files for all the maps. I’ve resized them to 1024*1024 tho,
as the originals were 2048*2048, they got to big to pack it into a RAR file.

I used xnormal to bake my original piece, but if you select the plane on the .MAX file It’s already set up
to render using Max’s baker.

You’ll need XOLIUL viewport shader to properly view this in Max’s viewport, I’ve placed it on the RAR as well,
just in case. (Although, you wont have parallax mapping on it, that’s why I used marmoset to submit my final pic)

This is it, keep in mind of course, that [U]I’m sharing this solo for your learning![/U]
I’m all for freedom of information and transparency, so I hope I encourage others to do the same
and share their workflows!

Be nice!

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Download: http://rapidshare.com/files/249054816/HP_STC_wall.rar

I just had 3 days of vacations, which I placed them to good use, and practise hard surface texturing (metal), folowing a couple of tutorials on the internet, like this one for sub-d modeling, or obviously Stefan tutorial on how to make good metal, also the awesome  Texturing a Metal Crate tutorial by racer445.

• Sci-fi texture for a pillar, or a wall.

For this one I started up with a high poly, inspired by Doom3 style.

Here’s the normal map, baked from the high poly, onto a simple rectangular box.

Then I jumped to the texture painting, from left to right. Diffuse, Normal Map and Specular map. I could have use parallax on it, (height map) but I guess the normal map already does a great job giving depth to the texture.

And the final piece!

• Sci-fi crate

A sci-fi prop, based and inspired on Doom3 style as well.

And the texture sheets:

And, the final piece:

As some might know, a few months back I’ve been at Crytek’s offices in Frankfurt, Germany, for a on-site interview.

I really enjoyed those brief days. Frankfurt is a beautiful  city, I had the opportunity to get to know some people I only knew from MapCore forums and to see the next Crytek project.
Although, obviously I can’t talk much about it, needless to say I was speechless with what I saw!

Not only the project, but also the team and the offices are very nice. I’ve been offered the position of Level Artist, and I’ll start in July! Can’t wait to get started, wish me luck…

Although, like we say in Portugal, not everthing is roses. It’s not easy to leave your girlfriend, friends, family, old job, culture and life behind, but It’s the price to pay for one to pursue his dream, there are some oportunities in life, that we just cannot say “no” to! And I’m sure I won’t regret this, games and game art are my passion, and I’ve been doing it for more than 5 years now, and I intent to keep on doing it, and keep on growing professionaly!

I don’t want to finish this post without mentioning two other things, my beloved girlfriend who I have to thank for the comprehension, and of course Seed Studios, where I worked on  Under Siege, the project I’ve been working on for the last year and half. (Schedule to be released somewhere around September/October on Platstation3 Store, make sure you get it and support the small but constantly growing Portuguese games industry)
I have the utmost respect for those guys, I’ve learn’t a great deal on my time there and I hope everyone will be satisfied by the work I’ve made there! It was an honor, and I’m going to miss you all, keep on rocking guys!

Thanks a lot!

Enjoy!

It has come a long way since I started this small project, then Lee joined along and after a few weeks Buddy joined in as well. Thing is, I’m so glad they did cos I don’t think I would make it on my own, it was a very ambitious scene!
But here it is, dead line for the competition is finally over and here is what we submitted, enjoy!

I would also want to thank Honza Rükr (creator of the website, Aliens Papercraft) who has helped us providing really great reference material for us to work with, he was a valuable help!

Moodboard

Primary ScreenshotClick to see wireframe image

Secondary ScreenshotClick to see wireframe image

Diffuse Map
Specular Map
Normal Map
Alpha Map

Credits:

Helder Pinto
Hélder Pinto – Online Portfolio
e-mail: helderhp”@”gmail.com

Lee Amarakoon
Lee Amarakoon | Level Designer
e-mail: gizmosan”@”gmail.com

Wojtek Starak
Wojtek Starak – Online Portfolio
e-mail: buddy_gman”@”hotmail.com

Honza Rük
(References)

http://aliens.humlak.cz/

Enjoy the updates, all WIP stuff of course!

(Again, to see more up to date progresses of this scene, check the original thread at game-artists.net)

Ground texture I made especialy for this scene:

PS. Thanks to some websites that have been making articles about our work, we really apretiate that we are getting the attention.
But, keep in mind that although that I was the one that started this, this is not MY work alone. There’s 3 of us working on this, Lee3Dee, Buddy, and me (HP).

Movie: Aliens (1986)

Scene: Exterior of colony LV-426. (Hadleys Hope)

We already gathered a lot of really useful references from the Aliens fans websites, and the Making-of, from the movie, and got started modeling some of the stuff from the scene. For now, I’m modeling vehicles and smaller props, and Lee is taking care of the buildings. Dead line is 29 March, so we don’t have much time left, but I’m pretty confident we will finish it on time.

Now for the fun part, here’s a few screenshots of the stuff we made so far. (needless to say, all this stuff is still very WIP)

APC, high poly

A bit old, ingame screenshot. (Objects without textures)

Finalized APC with baked normal maps, and AO. (3DsMax viewport screenshots)

Lee has also been doing a really great job with the buildings, here’s some screenshots from his work:

For more info, and more up-to-date progresses, and some more props I didn’t posted on this blog post, check out our thread, over at GA foruns:

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/scene-movie-competition/8708-sfam-weyland-corp.html

PS.
If you’re interested, you can also take a look at the refs we’re using, here:

http://www.helderpinto.com/images/SFAM-Aliens/

Yesterday, ID opened QL to the whole world, for everyone to play! It’s of course, still beta. But if you liked Quake3, then you’ll most likely love this one!

http://www.quakelive.com/

The King is back! If you wan’t to chalenge me, you can add my nickname to the friends list, my nick is simply: HP

Cheers, and happy fragging!