Physical Fabrication Projects

 

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Portfolio #3 Final

 I crashed out. The burn out finally got me.

Portfolio #3 Week 02

 SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Address UVs and texture research for stylized PBR. 2. Week 02 - Substance painter jail. 3. Week 03 - Polish textures and nice lighting set-up/renders turntable for presentation.

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THIS WEEK: 

1. I sprained both (yes both) of my wrists.

2. I broke my toe. 

3. I got a fever for 3 days and was hallucinating off of cough syrup.

You can guess the order of how these happened.

Anyways here's the block out textures I did and the goal is to get it not look like straight out of substance generators (which is currently is).

The lighting for this hasn't changed but it WILL BE. TRUST. 

Portfolio #3

 For this project I'm going back and finishing a project where the last thing I needed to do was focus on texturing.

SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Address UVs and texture research for stylized PBR. 2. Week 02 - Substance painter jail. 3. Week 03 - Polish textures and nice lighting set-up/renders turntable for presentation.

Reference: 

Research Project

 For this research project, I was interesting in creating a moving screen material in unreal for my tamgotchi model!

The goal was to create an LCD type screen that would resemble what would traditionally be on a tamagotchi, but with a little bit of *spice*.

The Goal:

1. Base texture (flipbook animation)

2.Dot Grid Effect as would appear on an LCD screen

3.Have some form a screen flicker

4.Add a subtle vignette to the screen for screen fade

5. Jitter and Scan/"sizzle" lines

1. Flipbook Animation (Optional Static Noise)

• Add Texture Sample (a sprite sheet of glitch frames).

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2. Dot Grid / Pixel Pattern

• Add a Dot Grid Texture (tileable).

• Multiply Texture Coordinates by a high value (ex: TextCoord * 100) to tile the pattern.

• Multiply or Lerp this with your Base Color to simulate screen subpixels.

• Optional: Invert grid (1 - Texture) for different styles.
  

3. Flicker Effect (Backlight Variability)

• Add a Time Node → Multiply by speed ( ex: Time * 6.28)

• Pipe into a Sine Node → Output ranges from -1 to 1.

• Use a Lerp node (A= 0.8 B=1.2) → plug Sine result as Alpha.

• Multiply Lerp output with Base Color or Emissive to simulate flickering brightness.
  

 4. Vignette (Darkened Corners)

• Use Screen Position node → get Normalized Viewport UVs.

• Subtract 0.5 from both X and Y → Center it.

• Get Length of resulting vector (distance from center).

• Apply 1- Saturate *2.0 or Smoothstep to shape falloff.

• Multiply with Emissive or Base Color to darken edges.
  

 5. Scan Lines (Horizontal Glitch Bands)

• Use Sine(Time + UV.y * Frequency) for animated lines.

• Or use Frac(UV.y * 100) to get horizontal bands.

• Optional: Combine with Noise Texture for jitter.

• Add or Multiply this with Emissive to create line flickers.
  

 

 7. Combine Everything

• Multiply or Lerp all effects into a final Emissive output:

• ((Base Color x Dot Grid x Flicker x Vignette) + Scan Lines) x Mask -> Plug into Emissive Color

FINAL OUTCOME:

Portfolio #2 Final

 

Portfolio #2 Week 3

 

SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 2. Week 02 - Have all hard-surface modelling done in maya. 3. Week 03 - UV mesh and texture implementation in substance. 4. Week 04 - Polish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

Next steps: Finishing textures, addressing texture adjustments in unreal and implementing aspects of translucency into the material.

Portfolio #2 Week 2

 

SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 2. Week 02 - Have all hard-surface modelling done in maya. 3. Week 03 - UV mesh and texture implementation in substance. 4. Week 04 - Polish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

Portfolio #1 Final

Portfolio #2

 For the next project I'm doing, I've signed myself up to recreate another piece of concept art from the same artist that drew the concept art from previous project.

SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 2. Week 02 - Have all hard-surface modelling done in maya, clean w/ game res, uv'd. 3. Week 03 - Texturing research and implementation in substance. 4. Week 04 - Polish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

RESEARCH:

Jessica Marrubini

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EzNYVK

Also have been working on researching and implementing textures with transparency from substance into unreal engine and creating a material for it.

REFERENCE:

BLOCK-OUT IN MAYA:

LIGHTING IN UNREAL:

Portoflio 1 #3

 1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 

2. Week 02 - Have High Res model completed. (DID NOT FINISH) Do research for translucent materials in Unreal (DID FINISH YIPPEE)

3. Week 03 - Finish sculpting cassette and earbuds, Game Resolution Mesh, Finish UVs, Begin Texturing.

4. Week 04 - Finish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

Portfolio 1: Mid-check

 

ORIGINAL SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 2. Week 02 - Have High Res model completed. 3. Week 03 - Game Resolution Mesh, Finish UVs, Begin Texturing. 4. Week 04 - Finish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

NEW SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 

2. Week 02 - Have High Res model completed. (DID NOT FINISH) Do research for translucent materials in Unreal (DID FINISH YIPPEE)

3. Week 03 - Finish sculpting cassette and earbuds, Game Resolution Mesh, Finish UVs, Begin Texturing.

4. Week 04 - Finish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

Portfolio 1

This is the project I decided to replicate for the first project.

 For this project I gathered reference on the different pieces involved in making a walkman like object, especially because there are parts that will be able to be seen internally due to some of the textures having transparency. Additionally, I gathered reference for the various materials for the look I'm going for, which is pushing much more towards realism. 

A lot of the references were related to this one artist on artstation Jessica Marrubini. Been looking through their artstation and several posts have videos that you're able to go through and have different breakdowns.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/yDeNVK

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g0LweG

SCHEDULE:

1. Week 01 - Proxy Model (Block out pass). 2. Week 02 - Have High Res model completed. 3. Week 03 - Game Resolution Mesh, Finish UVs, Begin Texturing. 4. Week 04 - Finish Texturing and have everything in engine with a proper lighting set up.

Here is the current blockout within MAYA:

Here is the current first pass at lighting: