Bret McNee

On top of my full time job at Disney, I have taken on full time freelance work as well. I am currently working on a game in my spare time right now and between this and my full time day job I no longer have time to finish this model. I plan to revisit her as soon as my time allows. Until then, I wanted to let viewers know this model is on hold.

This is my most current work in progress. The Voodoo Queen. My goal is to have this model game resolution and rendered real time in the Unreal Engine. My goal is to be under 17,000 triangles for this model with one 2048 texture sheet. I am unsure where the concept is from or who it is by, I apologize.

Presentation shot rendered in Softimage.

Concept by The Great Oharu.

The maps: Normal, Spec, Color.

The ZBrush sculpt.

Presentation shot rendered in Softimage.

Software used:
Softimage 2011 for base mesh modeling.
Zbrush 4 for high resolution sculpture.
TopoGun for retoplogy.
Headus UVLayout for UV Mapping.
Maya 2011 for light map generation.
XNormals for normal map generation.
Photoshop 4 for texturing diffuse and specular.
Softimage 2011 for lighting and rendering.

Dead Man Zand – First Official Teaser – Indie DB

Link to an interview that has a rendered image of a WIP of this model: Link.

I joined up with Mountainwheel Games not too long ago and began work on this model right away. The project “Dead Man Zand” is an adventure puzzle game, but not much more than that has been announced. You can read more about the project here. The work has been fairly low poly and stylized cartoony. It has been a fun project to work on. You can also see more on the IndieDB site here: http://www.indiedb.com/games/dead-man-zand

Real time render in Marmoset Game Engine.

Concept in the middle with a painted ZBrush sculpt on the left and the blank ZBrush sculpt on the right.

A comparison of the different stages of the model process: The ZBrush sculpt, the game resolution model and finally the game resolution model in a game engine with normal maps and a light map displayed.

The maps: Color and Spec.

Software used:
Softimage 2011 for base mesh modeling.
Zbrush 4 for high resolution sculpture.
TopoGun for retoplogy.
Headus UVLayout for UV Mapping.
Maya 2012 for light map generation.
Maya 2012 for normal map generation.
Photoshop 4 for texturing diffuse and specular.
Marmoset Game Engine for real-time lighting and rendering.

This section here is for my various Speed Sculpts. Some of my friends and I have a “lunch crunch” or speed sculpting group on Facebook. Each day we take turns picking a topic, and then each one of us picks a character from that topic to sculpt. We only have one hour to finish our sculpts from start to finish. This includes painting in ZBrush as well. Sometimes I start with a basemesh, sometimes ZSpheres. I will indicate below in the picture description which I used. I also would like to add a disclaimer. All these are not my own ideas. Each character was picked from existing characters. I did these for fun and practice, not to be used for anything commercial. Thank you.

Kratos, topic: God of War. Sculpted from a basemesh.

Draenei, topic: World of Warcraft. Sculpted from a basemesh.

Rango, topic: the movie Rango. Sculpted from four ZSpheres.

Hellboy, topic: Hellboy. Sculpted from a basemesh.

Sirius Black, topic: Harry Potter. Sculpted from a basemesh.

Moria Orc, topic: Lord of the Rings. Sculpted from a basemesh. (Teeth and rings modeled earlier before sculpt).

Greedo, topic: Star Wars. Sculpted from a ZSphere. 45 mins.

Mervyn Pumpkinhead, topic: The Sandman comics. Sculpted from 2 ZSpheres and modeled the hat after. 45 mins.

Captain Crunch, topic: Cereal Mascots. Sculpted from 4 ZSpheres. 30 mins.

This started as a quick speed sculpt warmup, but I really enjoyed the concept so I finished it and made it a digital bronze statue. I would not say I nailed the concept, my sculpt is different in a few ways. Like the turban for example. The turban is more realistic in my sculpt and not as stylized. Sometimes when I sculpt, I enjoy taking a more artistic approach and instead of copying, I add a little something to make it my own. That is what I did here.

This started as a one hour lunch crunch exercise that you can see in image two. The theme for my speed sculpting group was Lord of the Rings the day I began this piece. I was enjoying the direction of this model so I worked on it for 7 more hours and created this bronze model.

The one hour speed sculpt that started this project.