quantm_project2 - "The Skillfull Huntsman" - Brothers Grimm

Topic of the second project was a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm named "The skillfull huntsman". Well the story wasn't one of their best, but anyway. :D
We had to create one of the archetypes of the story (Huntsman, Princess, King, Giant or Watchdog), while the setting was free and we were encouraged to not use the classic fairy tales scenario.
Everything from concept, design, modelling, texturing was our task.


For detailed description look here: quantm_project2 - "The Skillfull Huntsman"

Referencesheet

Concept with colourstudy

Colourmap

Finished mesh

Finished mesh with textures and podium

Close-up rendering

Charactersheet

quantm_project1 - "First Kiss"

First project at the quantm institute, SAE Vienna.
Topic was the first kiss. Of caterpillars and/or worms.


For detailed description look here: quantm_project1 - "First Kiss"

Concept

Rendering

Overpaint

Christmas Aftermath

Christmas Project I made with a colleague of mine. A different look at Santa, how he looks after giving away all of the presents and stumbling into some austrian parties ;)

Concept by Michael Merkatz and me, foreground by Michael and background (trees and surroundings) by me.

Depressive robot

T-Pose of my second try on the Robot-Character. I'm still fond of this one. Since the first one had neither character nor looked too good, I searched the internet for inspiration. While looking for it, I remembered the robot from "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy". So I made a depressive robot. It had nothing to do with my current state of mind, but I liked it anyway ;)

btw: The things that could be interpreted as boobs, are just fillers. There was so much space left in the front, so I just played around with the faces ;)

Since we had to put the robot in pose, this pose was a natural choice for the character. That character was not rigged, I just used parenting functions and basic tools for that. Since it is just a robot, there was no need for more anyway.

A depressive robot can also look proud as you can see. That pose, like the others, were made while screensharing everything to my grandfather, who since then had no idea what I was doing. Since he is very interested in all kinds of new technology, it seemed to be a very nice experience for him. And I enjoyed myself showing him too :)

Another pose for my Robot-Character, running anime-style :)

Some robot

First tryout for the Maya class. Homework was a robot, but this one had neither charcter nor was it well done. I still got some experience from it.

Hand

The first mesh I made of a hand. Hand texture is okay, mesh too. Since the smooth option changes the UV layout, the texture had to be redone for the smooth version. It looks too much like plastic, a Noise Filter would have been a good choice and imho always is for skin (if you don't use another filter, like the sandstone texturizer or even a texture of real skin as a backgroundlayer).

Inside of the hand.

Another view.

Face Colourmap

The mesh of the face was already made by one of our supervisors, our task was to make the colour and specular map. That's the outcome of my work, the lips are really bad, but I'm not ashamed of the rest. Still, there is a lot of space for improvements :)

Hand on fire

That's my final product of the "fire" effect lesson in Photoshop using liquify and other filters. The hand could be way bigger and I'm not too fond of it anymore, but anyway here it is ;)

Duck

"Quest" was to make an animal of any kind, with some surroundings), if I remember it correctly. Don't be too impressed of the water, that comes with maya ;)
Model is mine, island and trees too, the background is from some picture in the internet.
I also had to overpaint. I should have done more on the dork, but I still like the trees :)

Overpaint

One of the first overpaints I did. Since I was everything but convinced of the tryout on myself, I took a quick snapshot of the person who sat next to me.
I was pretty proud of the textile effect at that time, face was okay, but nothing more.
Naturally there would be a ton of things I would do different now ;)