Johans Stuff

Shop items for Edgeworld!

2011-12-18T11:26:00.000-08:00

These are a couple of shop items I made at my internship at Kabam. Enjoy!

2011-12-14T15:23:00.000-08:00

So I made this little 3D guy a while ago, and since he never actually got into anything useful, I thought I had to give him an epic monster to fight. So here he is.

2011-11-03T21:54:00.001-07:00

2011-09-04T17:32:00.000-07:00

Concept art for a game me and my friends wanted to make. We'll see if we can get back into the groove and finish it up. This is the stasis capsule the character starts in.

Ambolt Head Riders

2011-06-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

"They live deep in the Forest of Giant Trees. Through generations they have bred a species of lizards they call "Ambolt Heads". The tribes and the beasts are dependent on eachother to live in this dangerous part of the world."

2011-05-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

Some speedpaints. They are between 20 minutes to 1 and half hour.

2011-04-25T00:49:00.000-07:00

For once some 3D stuff. This is a gamecharacter of the old fashioned type. That is, no normals. Very much fun to texture for this kind of stuff.

2011-04-15T15:09:00.000-07:00

Stuff from class. Some of these will see some updates, but I wanted to upload something.

This little series is about a holy place in the middle of a mountainrange some other terraformed planet. The spaceships are there to protect the pilgrim against terrorists attacks from other sects.

2011-04-02T00:23:00.000-07:00

2011-03-17T17:31:00.000-07:00

Okay a little while crocodile. But here's at least a little something.

Habitat in a crash site in the site of a big skyscraper!

And some old junk I never posted. Figured i could do that now...

2011-02-25T20:30:00.000-08:00

Wanted to upload this yesterday, but decided last minute to add a stern to the ship. These two are some random things I did. Trying to do as much photoshop sketching as I can have time for...

also: check out mah shiny new portfolio!

Bleh stuff

2010-12-14T18:07:00.000-08:00

Turkey things!

2010-11-27T20:25:00.000-08:00

2010-11-16T22:17:00.000-08:00

2010-11-05T02:50:00.001-07:00

A knight with a trick 'hind his sleeve.

Updated the coloursketch.

Copics markers, whiteoutpen, pencil in a moleskine sketchbook.

2010-10-28T00:28:00.000-07:00

Still Lifes

2010-10-25T01:50:00.000-07:00

Don't know how successful I was at photographing it though,

Stuff from workshop.

2010-10-17T01:51:00.000-07:00

Poses are anything between 3 to 10 I think. When he started doing longer stuff I got bored of him and wanted to sketch out some sci-fi landscape instead.

Landscape

2010-10-09T14:20:00.000-07:00

Sketch sketch sketch

2010-09-24T00:49:00.001-07:00

About 1 hour ish. Did it while my friends played a game of Heroes of Newerth.

3D post for once!

2010-09-23T23:05:00.000-07:00

Click to see GIF

OK just a little update to this guy I'm tinkering on for a project I'm doing with some friends. First time I ever made a GIF! I wanted to do a turntable rendered from Unity, but I dont know how to render it out to an image sequence (yet!). But this is still somewhat close to how looks in the engine.

About the guy: I't meant for a RPG project. I have always been fascinated by the way RPGs have the customizable look, and have a couple of ideas of making "armour" attachments. But that's for another post. Just wanted to upload the GIF for now.

stuffffff

2010-09-18T03:24:00.000-07:00

The lilac beast.

2010-09-06T20:19:00.000-07:00

green doodle

2010-09-04T16:54:00.000-07:00

green!

Practicing quickies...

2010-08-29T09:15:00.000-07:00

2010-08-28T19:53:00.000-07:00

Johansstuff: Now in full technicolour!

2010-08-24T08:55:00.000-07:00

Ok some stuff I have worked on. And I even managed to make a progress thing! Scroll down for 3D stuff (yay).

So this guy was made for a project im doing with some friends. Early WIP stage. We are not quite sure yet as to how he will be shaded in-game. The skinning is also very rough at the moment. Thinking of brushing up the weighting the next days. And when that's done I'll probably make a little rig demo.

2010-07-16T09:40:00.000-07:00

Finally! Update! This time around a person of a reptilian origin.

Also, I have started up a soundcloud.com account now, and uploaded some music that I've made. Go to soundcloud.com/angroc! Uploaded one cheesy instrumental and one 12 minute noise beat thing (that I split up for convenience since it consists of several 'parts').

Speedese updated

2010-06-03T00:28:00.000-07:00

2010-05-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

This man is armed with the Icelance of Gondorod, and through it wields great strength. On his arm he has plates made out of bones of a great beast. When under attack, he will turn this side against the enemy fire.

Tank concept and a sketch.

2010-05-02T21:35:00.000-07:00

Wanted to try my hands at doing a vehicle like I have seen some of them pros out there do it, by first constructing it in 3d, and then use that mesh to make additional conceptual illustrations real fast and effectively. Used a bit more time than what I had hoped, and not sure how happy I am either, but i think once I get my workflow ailed down a bit more it will go faster. One of the "speedbumps" I bumped on was that maya doesn't have a proper wireframe render, so I had to find out how to use a the toonshader for that. Ended up finding a plug-in at Creative Crash (former High End 3d) to make it fast and simple.

A speedie.

Stuff for storyboarding.

A lot of red schemes today!

2010-04-21T17:57:00.000-07:00

Just posting some stuff I had laying around.

Doing some practice concept work. Always been fascinated by the idea of having mandibles going *behind* the shoulders sorta, so I wanted to try that out.

And some doodles.

More speed practice....

2010-04-14T00:42:00.000-07:00

Practicing speed these days. On this one I tried to push my speed and scetching abilities. Started out with loose, cloudy brushes, and chiseled shapes out of that. Didnt know what i was going for in the beginning. The bottom one is after 2 hectic hours, where my goal was to establish the general feel, comp and mood, wothout details. The top one is where I went into more of a 'chillaxed' mode, and just added and refined details at my own leisure. What palette do you like the most, btw? When I went back and looked at the 2 hour one, I sort of liked how cold and dark it looks, as compared to the refined one.

'Nother one. This one was sloow though : (

zogota!

2010-04-07T22:13:00.000-07:00

This first one I did in about 2 hours I think. Did it to test out some new brushes that are based on one of the brushes from Kekais feature in FX magazine (though I always take great care in never using others brushes, but rather making my own from scratch based on what I see). It was pretty random, creative process where I doodled down random shapes and this came out.

"Long time ago, a geomancer slayed the great dragon Nadyargunthagel, by binding it to the earth with chains. Now, millenia after, it has turned into one of the main gathering places of geomancers studying their craft."

This one... I don't know. 45 min I think...

Update!

2010-03-27T21:13:00.000-07:00

'Nother two.

2010-03-21T18:05:00.000-07:00

About an hour. Playing alot around with custom brushes these days....

more speed sketches...

2010-03-17T13:28:00.000-07:00

About 2 hrs each... trying to work on my landscaping skills. : )

More Quickies

2010-02-22T11:45:00.000-08:00

Speedpainting. 90 min or so each......

2010-02-18T23:19:00.000-08:00

Ravenbeast updated

2010-01-26T00:54:00.000-08:00

Just something I'm working on these days...

2009-12-09T03:06:00.000-08:00

I hope you like charcoal drawings...

2009-12-07T22:28:00.001-08:00

...cause I got a lot of 'em!

2009-11-27T18:53:00.000-08:00

Deep in the forest......

2009-11-21T18:35:00.000-08:00

Okeydokey. I repainted it now. Should look somewhat more mid-eival!

3 Point

2009-11-11T17:53:00.000-08:00

The Frenzy of Murush!

So this is where I made this thing. In the kitchen! I felt like taking a picture after reading another artists blog who posted his workspace.

2009-10-31T14:33:00.000-07:00

2point perspective. Not as carefully rendered as the last one. Oh well. Time is not something I got a lot of.

2009-10-20T02:10:00.000-07:00

Work I did for my perspective class, one point perspective. We where only supposed to do shading, but I wanted to see how it would turn out with colour. had great fun with the lights, especially the strong one behind the monster, as I could play around with it alot and do interesting things, creating rim lights all over, and lighting up the smoke (which I had to do in order to give the monster a good silouhette).

2009-10-18T15:36:00.000-07:00

More studies. Nothing special really.

2009-10-17T17:55:00.000-07:00

Graphite Smudge Style Study of a young woman in my intermediate fig drawing class.

2009-10-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

From my pocket sketchbook.

2009-10-03T16:20:00.000-07:00

Work for my perspective class. This is for isometric. Done with pencil, a copymachine and prismacolor markers. The local light version was also touched up in Photoshop.

2009-06-20T17:13:00.000-07:00

So. What you see there is a liittle guy I have been working on a while. I am aware that it might not seem like much, but there's actually alot of work behind him, experimentation wise. When I started him, I had no idea what I wanted really. I only had vague ideas and images in my head, but nothing specific.

This made even modelling very hard. In the beginning I was planning on having layers of planes to form the body, and then texture each of these planes with a 'brush-stroke', but I realized that it would be too much work after a little while. Not only do you have to model more, you to texture more, skin more, rig more etc etc. Around this time, my focus also started drifting more towards developing a style that would save time when it had first been tested and "systematiced".

So instead, I went for a sort of 'puppet' method where his torso plus head is one object, theshoulder is a second, the arm is third, and the hands a fourth, plus all the different pieces of clothing and hair. I planned on rendering him in such a way that minimalized the look of it, so that it would actually look like one single mesh.

Remember what I said about saving time? This step I think, will be crucial in same saving time when skinning and animating. Shoulders are usually the hardest place to deform in a pleasing manner, cause it has sooo many degrees of movement. This is issuea is completely resolved by having the shoulder, torso and arm breaked into seperate objects. The mass of the model wont collapse, and I can have complete freedom without too much worry of edgeflows either. This also eliminates the possibility of having to use correction blend shapes in animation time.

After that, when I started shading, I had sort of forgot my intentions of saving time, and begae use of normal maps to create this crazy, experimental chiseled look. It was kinda neat, and I had some problems with the normal maps. And even if I didnt have those problems, the resultingstyle was simply too detailed. Anyhoo, around this time, I put the project on the shelf until Juny.

I realised then that I wanted somehting more low-tec. So i simply applied a lambert shader with ambient colour cranked to max, and a pianterly texture inside the diffusemap. This created a completely flat shader. With this theres the advantage that what I see is what I get when I work inside photoshop. (Also, you might wonder why I didnt just use surface shader, but that's because it seemingly can't generate alpha maps out that consider the transparency map.)

Also, with this technique I can add floating bits of 'pencil stroke' over where I need it. Take a look at the gap between the shoulderObj and the armObj, where I cover up the transition with a flat piece of colour. (I know it looks a bit rough, as its still not quite done, but it proves the concept at least)

Over this flat colour map I would then apply a shadow. I had already decided i wanted some sort of stylistic shader that would be fast to render, yet give me alot of control. I settled on applying a lambert, again with ambient colour cranked to max; i inserted a ramp into the colour map, which again was controlled by a surface illuminance.

What I like about this kind of shading is that you can easily adjust its softness and stylistic look with the ramp. Also, render times are delicious! Since the shader is a lambert, I can combine this with cast shadows! The cast shadows and the ramp shading blends beautifully.

Oh, and you see that bit with the shadow transparency over there? That's the result of a really frustrating problem I had. Cause when I applied to the shader to something with a transparency, and turned on the cast shadows with normal, default raytrace shadows, and this object with transparency cast shadow, you could see actual object in the shadow as a weaker cast shadow.

After a while I found a simple answer to it (which is always a bittersweet feeling haha), cause there's a mental ray node that's called mib_shadow_transparency. What it dose it that you can simply attach a transparency map directly to the shadow, and then attach that node to the SG shader'r shadow input. I really needed that, or I wouldnt have any cast shadows! Or ugly cast shadows atleast.

A third kind of pass I have is the form pass. This is applied ever so faintly over it all to give a bit more volume, but without having it

look to 3D-ish. It also makes it look a bit more vibrant, and not too dull.

Oh and another neat little thing is to make a fake, oval eye specular point, to give it some more of that 2d flare. Ive seen this kind of highlighting of the eyes alot in anime, and i think it looks neat.

Comping is pretty straight forward atm, with just colour tweaking.

So that's the monk Sharok. He's not done, there's a few things I wanna tinker away with (like the face and hair). But for now I've begun the rigging. Stay tuned for that!

(Oh and sorry for that some of the pictures cant be made bigger. blogger seems to be buggy)

2009-06-03T15:38:00.000-07:00

Reel summer 2009. Its done in a hurry, no fancy vignettes or such, but it gets the job done. The tune is Phat Planet by Leftfield.

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2009-05-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

From my scetchbook.

Pencil scetch modification

2009-05-18T18:21:00.001-07:00

Moddin' some ol' scetchbook page

WIP??

2009-05-07T23:55:00.000-07:00

dont know if I'll continue with this thing....

Something

2009-03-01T19:12:00.000-08:00

I have no idea what this is supposed to be...

Update!

2009-02-27T01:23:00.000-08:00

Initially made just as a thumbnail practice (with emphasis on silouhette), I also felt like colouring and detailing it. Very rough though. Dont want to work on it anymore.

2008-12-17T18:26:00.000-08:00

There hasn't been much activity here lately due to school. Anyway, since this site is supposed to showcase my stuff, I'll post some oldies. Also, I've put up a link to my music site at NRK Urort, a norwegain site for indie musicians. My style is first and foremost classical and electronical, so if you like those genres, check it out! (The button labaled "Lytt" means "To Listen", and "Last Ned" means "Download").

Anyways, the oldies....

First finals work from my first year at my old college.

Then some 2d stuff:

2008-10-05T17:31:00.000-07:00

A scene with an assassin, about to kill the king.

2008-09-16T14:12:00.000-07:00

A soldier with a gas-mask and state of the art elbow-and-knee servos!

2008-09-14T18:34:00.000-07:00

Okay. Should do homework assignment, but ended up doing this. First we have an old secret agent, mr. Geezer. He may look old, but he's hardened by age. Just like bread. And the other thing's a photo I took with added graphical elements.

2008-09-11T17:16:00.000-07:00

DSFRGEG!!!!

2008-09-05T20:03:00.001-07:00

Another one.

2008-08-25T14:45:00.000-07:00