Mike Blackney Portfolio and notes

3Feb/100

Wraith highpoly gun WIP


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26Jan/100

Ghost hunting torch!

Here's a torch that's in progress. I've been wanting time to work on my texturing skills; I'm slowly working my way up to weapons.

Spoolite flashlight

New ghost busting torch from the manufacturers of Maglite. Rendered in Max using a modified version of Xoliul's Max viewport shader.

Spooklite, Marmoset edition

The same mesh, rendered in marmoset. I love how this engine brings out all sorts of little details from your normal and specular maps.

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6Jan/100

Wraith

More progress on Wraith:

Current progress

Current progress

Wraith direction

Wraith direction

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5Nov/090

Skin shader

I've been running around trying to get myself some work, while also finishing the last few assignments and exam study for final year!

In the interim, here's a skin shader I'm still working on.

Skin Before / After

Skin Before / After

I've been trying to work with some techniques that add a lot more life but that also play nice with Unreal's hard coded lambert/phong niceness.

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30Sep/091

Wonder Boy finished!

Here's the final (well, actually the second final :p) for the 3D▲-TRANSFORMATIONS GameArtisans mini comp.

Edit: I modified the shader and corrected a lot of small problems with the baked highlights (which were overblown at a spec-level) in the diffuse map.  The shader's got ambient light now and it has a lot more of a TF2-style half lambert look.

Altered final entry of Wonder Boy!

Altered final entry of Wonder Boy!

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23Sep/090

Current Works in Progress

Here are two models I'm working on now.  The first is an entry for the '09 Game Artisans Comicon I had to drop.  The second is where I'm at on the Artisans 3dUp sprite-to-model comp.

Comicon 09 WIP

Wraith - Comicon 09 WIP

Wonder Boy for Game Artisans 3dUp Mini Comp

Wonder Boy for Game Artisans 3dUp Mini Comp

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22Sep/090

Recent Work

Here's a some of my work from my old portfolio website and that I've made for personal projects or game art competitions.  Thanks for looking!

Seven, a psyker from an underwater action game

Seven, a psyker from an underwater action game

Baloo model for Kingdom Hearts War

Baloo model for Kingdom Hearts War

Mini Moo!

Mini Moo!

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