Brogan Ross’ Blog of Random Interests

So I’ve been working on this one for a couple of days. Been trying to get feedback from mattepainting.org. But nobody’s really writing back. That just makes me think it’s absolutely terrible.

This is from the 4th book. It’s the Citgo oil field that Susan and Roland check out.

*Updated - 6/29/09*

Actually started working on this as a matte painting. There is a WIP thread over at mattepainting.org. It’s got some way to go. If there’s anyone actually reading this and you happen to be a member at mattepainting.org, please give me some feedback. If you aren’t a member but are interested in matte painting I highly suggest the site. It’s a great community and a wonderful resource.

very green.

Just a random sketch I worked on today.

And then the beauty pass! Dadadadaaaa!!

Next came the Zbrush! This was probably the most time consuming. Mostly because I’d make a displacement map and in Maya it totally mess up the model. So there was a lot of back and forth. And much swearing. But in the end these are the hires models created with Zbrush, which were used as displacement maps in Maya with Mental Ray.

And this is the mid poly geometry. It’s basically the Zbrush models with the subdivisions reduced to 3:

The next step was building up the background some more, so I threw in buildings and such:

Then it’s on to the modeling of the dropship. This is the low poly model:

so the next couple posts will be updates of the work I’ve done on a painting I created a while back.

So I’ll start now:

This is the original sketch:

Then there’s the design images I uploaded before:

Well I give up. On this painting at least. I originally intended it to be more, but eh this is good enough. I’m putting the 2k image in my main gallery here

but here’s a smaller one for quicker viewing

Shortly after the last post, I found a greeble plugin for Maya, it’s actually a part of the GooMoo Utilities. This image shows a small part of the use I found for it. I’m so glad I found a Greeble plugin for Maya that actually works.