i can't really be bothered to format this prettily, but for the curious-- here's a beastie i made i don't think i ever got around to posting.
sculpted in zbrush, retopoed in blender by hand like a masochist, baked in substance, and textured by hand in photoshop. final model comes in at a neat 53.6k faces / 107k tris, though it goes down to 36.7k faces when you pull out the light squigglies.
my final BFA film, Corn Wizard, a midwestern-gothic horror fantasy about a crow, two girls, and a wizard.
it's unreal to see this thing finished after almost 2 years of work...what a way to end my college career, huh. thanks so much for supporting me this far, i hope you all enjoy it!
So I read All Roads for a class assignment. Based on the glimpses I got of it, I was expecting to see Benny a bit more fleshed out in the sense of what makes him so evil and threatening. Throughout the game we're told to look out for him and watch our backs, and while he will 100% back stab you if given the chance, he's still kinda...lame. Between the flat voice acting and the anticlimax of it all, Benny is just a dude and it's hard to see him as an actual threat, so I went into All Roads thinking it would expand on him a little more.
It DID, and it definitely showed him as a traitorous, evil scumbag, but he's still lame as hell. Any time he tries to take control of a situation all it takes is a look from the Khans for him to IMMEDIATELY back down and do things their way. This combined with the knowledge that he goes on to fail to kill the courier despite shooting them point blank in the head just makes it worse. If cringe-fail was in the dictionary, he'd be the definition. It's astounding that the Khans didn't just mug him and move on with their lives.
Other takeaways:
Getting a more fleshed out story behind the Great Khans was nice.
I had seen fanart of Chance before and didn't know where he came from, so this was a nice surprise.
I wish that Benny's tactic of poisoning (?) people was brought up in the game. Just seems like something that could be expanded upon in an interesting way.
Why does Benny's face change every couple of panels? Truly no one knows what this man is supposed to look like.
I am in the process of making a PowerPoint presentation to present this book to my class and failed to realize just HOW MUCH of the game's context I'd have to explain in order for the book to make sense. I have to cram half of the FNV lore into a 5 minute presentation, wish me luck.
I’m using my web design class to re design and re brand cosmic funnies it’s the only way to get me to be motivated again. (Yes I went back to school to get my BA in graphic design and web design)
Maybe I've mentioned that I took an intro to design programs class last semester :3 I have a lot of classwork stockpiled, but these are all my favorite small assignments! I'll post the bigger projects later on
Slides 1, 2 and 7 were made on Photoshop, and 3-6 + 8-10 on Illustrator. Additionally, 2 and 4 use borrowed imagery (armadillo+hat+delicatessen and blank bag respectively) - all I made from scratch was the lamp haha