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Posted 04-05-2015 at 10:21 AM by Jordan
I don't really have a whole lot to talk about here but I haven't posted in a while so why not.

Recently my boyfriend and I broke up. Initially it wasn't wholly mutual. I denied the inherent issues we had and tried to look past them and hoped that we could move on and still be together. I wallowed in this hopefulness and kept thinking of the past until eventually I faced some brutal honesty that we could never move forward and be together. Since then I've become extremely positive. I guess I've realised that there is nothing to gain by wallowing in negativity and thinking of what was and what could have been. It's time to move forward with life and be thankful of some extremely special memories and not allow them to consume me. Life is too damn short. Of course, occasional blips happen and make me stop and think but I guess it's just part of the recovering process.

The important thing at the minute is to continue working as much as I can on my university work. I'll also use this post as an opportunity to present some of this semester's work which is just about ready to be handed in.

The project was to produce several Sci-Fi assets that could be used to build a 3D environment in a game engine. Below is one of the render pages as well as a screenshot of the small scene I built in Unreal 4 to demonstrate the assets together. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks for reading

http://i.imgur.com/uSPApU1.png?1

http://i.imgur.com/ovpWP1O.jpg?1
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Bullet Magnet's Avatar
That is quality work, though probably too generic for a release title these days, at least one with aspirations. We've all killed and been killed by soldiers, aliens, demons, zombies, space elves, giant insects, troglodytes, mutants, and vampire dogs a million times in corridors just like it.
Posted 04-05-2015 at 12:12 PM by Bullet Magnet

Nate's Avatar
*hug*

Glad to hear you're doing okay.
Posted 04-05-2015 at 12:21 PM by Nate

Manco's Avatar
I don’t have much to say about exes except if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out, and good job on moving forward.

For the model, it looks great! As someone who’s just learning about some basic 3D modeling, I have to ask: the untextured model has some surface geometry that could be done as normal maps, did you do that and if not why not?
Posted 04-05-2015 at 05:32 PM by Manco

MA's Avatar
nice one, man. moving forwards is obviously the best solution, it's just having the ability to do that that's the problem. also your work is fucking impressive. i'm no techno-whizz but holy shit. reminds me of that game Aliens Vs Predator Gold only with better graphics.
Posted 04-06-2015 at 02:29 PM by MA

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That is quality work, though probably too generic for a release title these days, at least one with aspirations. We've all killed and been killed by soldiers, aliens, demons, zombies, space elves, giant insects, troglodytes, mutants, and vampire dogs a million times in corridors just like it.
You make a very fair point. The project is merely a demonstration of some modelling and texturing skills. I chose a generic look to speed up my workfow and cut out any major unique design choices. Thank you for the comment

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*hug*

Glad to hear you're doing okay.
Thank you Nate it means a lot.

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I don’t have much to say about exes except if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out, and good job on moving forward.

For the model, it looks great! As someone who’s just learning about some basic 3D modeling, I have to ask: the untextured model has some surface geometry that could be done as normal maps, did you do that and if not why not?
Thanks dude.

I chose to model them in just to make them stand out a little more than what could be achieved with a normal map. I decided that because most of the detail on these assets is displayed using normal maps I had a lot of extra polygons I could play with.

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nice one, man. moving forwards is obviously the best solution, it's just having the ability to do that that's the problem. also your work is fucking impressive. i'm no techno-whizz but holy shit. reminds me of that game Aliens Vs Predator Gold only with better graphics.
Thank you so much!
Posted 04-07-2015 at 03:48 AM by Jordan

 

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