Cruxko Art Blog

based on a miniature from Privateer Press from “War Machines”

Game character work in progress. After an unplanned two day “staycation” after buying Mass Effect 2, wanted to make a character that was something along those lines; but I stopped short of putting Cerberus logos on her. Can’t say enough good things about the art in that game. Inspiring.

5570 triangles in this model

Also, I’m using the marmoset engine. ‘Makes things look pretty sharp I think; http://www.8monkeylabs.com/technology

Don’t have the patience or attention span for long video tutorials?

I use this Myspeed thing from Enounce. Great ap that lets you speed up flash based vids without the “chipmunk” effect on the audio. Costs a little money, but saves a ton of time.

http://www.enounce.com/

‘Found this tutorial instantly useful. Particularly the trick about the Xnormal photoshop filter for making highlighted edges for spec maps;- brilliant. I’m embarrassed to admit that has eluded me for far too long, thanks Racer445.

Kinda basic, then at about 7:55 mark. -great trick.

Did this for fun for a mini challange on gameartisans.org

making up mind mind about how to texture it.

This was my final entry.

Dead Sled, working on more game models. realtime render

Worked through this, ‘wish I had made the pose better. This is based on some more warhammer designs.

here is a work in progress based off some warhammer 40k art by Adrian Smith.

wip 11-28

cover art

More work for the Motorcity Auto Art Mavens, some cover art for their Pinstriper’s Starter Guide that will be distributed at the Detroit Autorama Hot Rod show.

character work in progress

Still working on this generic FPS character, the materials need to be pushed a lot further; and he needs some final modeling improvements.