This year I decided to learn how to draw. As a little "capstone project" I designed this battery pistol entirely in 2d, as opposed to entirely in 3d, as my typical process has been. I used 3d blockouts for maquettes, but these blockouts were cut straight from the 2d drawings, like patterns in a garment design. The 2d always came first.

Some casual visual tips for the boys.

These last two were in the previous post, I'm just including them here to have it all in one place:

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A personal project I was working on over the summer using the classic chamfer-bake method from the first two sets. 

I still love this workflow. I think it's completely unexploited in games. The speed factor over traditional highpoly modeling is like an order of magnitude, with no downsides at any viewing distance besides close-up. Until I'm overseeing an art department though, finding a way to apply this in production somewhere is just an exercise for the reader.

The project is on indefinite pause because there's not much of a visual design element I havent already solved, which is what interests me right now. 

A project I took pretty far around the same time in 2021 that I made the ball gundam. This is an original design, basically a stug with modern styling and it hovers. Anyway, it's been sitting around for a year without progress — both from being busy with other things and also because my blender workflow has gotten so much better since what I was doing here. Which all makes me think I might not get back to it. So for the sake of closure I'll share where I got it to.

These shots are "dailies" — I set up the camera on day 1 and render it out every day to make sure the whole image is improving.

Early mockup for a "contextual" or "beauty" shot. Just a quickly slapped up overexposed daylight look. The idea was to make some kind of tarmac background, like the tank exists on a runway because it hovers;  this would have made visual sense even though it makes no sense.

Early volume checking. These days I would have done a lot more with the silhouette at this point before moving on, especially on the bottom hover area. Another reason I dont feel hugely drawn back to finish this one. Definitely learned from rushing that part though.

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