I did this up for the monthly challenge over at the Gnomon workshop forums. The theme was "War Helmet". For the final, I assembled my first scene in Unreal Engine, which it turns out, is extremely easy and intuitive for lighting. Definitely a new favorite in the tool box.

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I was playing a game called Sanctum 2 a lot, and though I would try making of few of my own characters, borrowing from the art style of the game.

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These were my first attempts with Substance Painter and Low Poly modeling. I was following along with an awesome tutorial by Tim Bergholz. Check Him Out if you're interested in trying Substance Painter.

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A friend randomly asked me to make him a desktop background. I though a knight riding a bear seemed appropriate.

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I forgot to toss this one in here from a while back. I've got pretty mixed feelings about how it turned out, but overall feel like I learned a lot from it.

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I've always wanted to try the whole painting over a kit-bashed model workflow, so with 8 hours left in the Ghost in the Shell challenge, I decided to randomly wing it, figuring I probably wouldn't even finish.

After about 2.5 hours of kit-bashing, 2 hours of installing and troubleshooting Keyshot, 1 hour of rendering (My computer's kinda old and slow), and 2.5 hours of overpainting, I managed to finish with about 10 minutes left.

It's definitely made me re-think what can be accomplished in a day.

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And this should catch me up. Some of my latest experiments in Substance Painter. This has become one of my favorite pieces of software to play around in.

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Some WIP for the Overgrown challenge. I've never done foliage before, so hopefully things will go smoothly, and I can get done in time.

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It has been done. Going to reduce the blooms before I put this one in the ol' portfolio though.

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I got some time today to try re-lighting this scene. I think I'm liking it a little better now.

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Trying out some exercises I've seen in various tutorials.

First two are from films.

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Another thing, and a work in progress of a thing.

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Even more things, but with more struggling this time.

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Apparently on the Substance Share website, you can also share models.
I decided to play around with one by Andreas Stromberg. model

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This originally was going to be used as part of the Hidden Danger challenge a while ago, but I had too much stuff on the schedule to make it in time.

I decided I'd finish up the creature though.

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Color and light studies from Dredd for tonight. Love the comic style cinematography from this movie.

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