Dino Marsigliese CG Artist

Tank

2011-10-10T13:50:00.000+01:00

Has been a long time since I last posted here, been busy doing this, that and everything. I have modelled a few things here and there but this is the most up to date and nearer completion.

SD Environment

2011-03-23T22:53:00.002Z

The famous Splash Damage art test. Learnt a lot creating this piece from modelling the assets to new texturing techniques. A raw hardware real time screen shot image from 3ds max using dirextX shaders without any lighting or shadows. Last image are textures for the AA12 shotgun changed for the scene.

Maya 2011

2011-03-21T23:05:00.001Z

Haven't used Maya in a while so had a recap of the new 2011 version as well as do work for my portfolio. Above are high polys which will become low poly real time renders.

Lamborghini Reventon Test Render

2011-03-03T17:29:00.001Z

Lamborghini Reventon update

2011-01-16T23:11:00.003Z

Pretty much finished modelling.

Lamborghini Reventon rims WIP

2010-12-15T17:53:00.005Z

Render using Arch and Design materials to differentiate each component of the rim. The reason for the fan like rim is for when the wheels rotate the rims act like a fan to cool the breaks.

Lamborghini Reventon WIP

2010-12-03T12:54:00.003Z

My first car... (I wish) ...modelled. Not the easiest car to model but a large learning curve definitely.

Sci-fi Environment

2010-11-15T13:23:00.000Z

Sci-fi Environment

2010-11-14T12:04:00.005Z

Modelling props is a good stepping stone and wanted to create something with everything collaborated together so thought about environments. This environment is a tutorial by Richard Tilbury. When I first saw the render I was blown away! I will be applying my own work techniques.

AA12 Shotgun

2010-11-09T16:21:00.001Z

AA12 sneak peak

2010-11-08T18:29:00.002Z

Low poly unwrapped and textured with basic ambient occ, diffuse, specular and normal map. The AA12 writing I manually created a normal map in photoshop. Haven't decided on the diffuse for the gun but I'm looking for 2 types of textures so maybe this digital blue camo (will amend of course) and a black metal diffuse map.

Textured in Photoshop

AA12 shotgun High Poly

2010-11-04T12:01:00.006Z

High poly AA12 shotgun seen in the films 'Predators' and 'The Expendables'. Next is to bake the details, create a few normal maps and a diffuse map in photoshop and create a low poly to put it all on.

Modelled in 3DS Max.

M95 Sniper Rifle

2010-10-28T00:01:00.006+01:00

A low poly sniper rifle and accessories crate based on by the lovely M95 sniper (crate made up in my head)

Modelled in 3DS Max, textures created in Photoshop.
Rendered using scanline.

High and Low

2010-10-21T15:27:00.005+01:00

A render to show my progress, wasn't going to post anything until its finished but this is my WIP portfoilio :D Using techniques like floating geometry and baking my normals and AO together is a very nice workflow. Diffuse so far are more basic just to get some color onto the model. Hopefully when finished the model will end up in Marmoset's engine Tollbag that I have recently grabbed my hands on (very nice realtime render preview engine).

NASA

2010-10-15T16:54:00.000+01:00

Digging up older work :D This was a hallway for NASA headquarters. A series of holding cells I did for Lee in collaboration about 1/2 years ago.

Preview

2010-09-23T17:26:00.001+01:00

Just a quick peak of what I'm up to at the moment. M95 sniper rifle modelled in 3ds max, nearly finished the texturing, scope looks very nice textured but im off to egypt tonight and I've found some new techniques to baking and making textures in photoshop so wont be too long.

Luxury

2010-08-17T16:57:00.001+01:00

Daily sketch

Beauty or Naughty

2010-08-17T15:45:00.001+01:00

Getting back into 2d and concept work, really enjoying it. Recently looking through youtube I found some amasing art on the female body with the intention to help beginners learn the basic form. Whilst reading through the comments I couldn't believe the arguements between this type of nude life drawing to be labled as porn or art hence my title Beauty or Naughty you decide lol.

NEW website

2010-08-17T15:14:00.007+01:00

Finally completed my new website! Happy days! - http://www.dinomarsigliese.co.uk/

Old and new

2010-08-10T12:59:00.004+01:00

Acrilic and oil paint hand painted. Size is 47.83" x 31.7" so is pretty big.

Acrilic Paint.

Acrilic paint.

New website

2010-07-20T22:07:00.001+01:00

Currently constructing a new more fullfilled website with my best works from when I started the art dicipline though will be used mainly for my cg artist works. Hopefully should be up and running by the end of this week.

Showreel 2010

2010-07-12T21:58:00.010+01:00

Enlarge and then you can watch in HD

Zbrush WIP

2010-07-07T17:14:00.002+01:00

Current progress of my model in Zbrush is coming along well. Started polypainting which really brings the character alive and is fun to experiment.

T-rex collaboration (WIP)

2010-06-05T14:32:00.004+01:00

A few stills of my hyper-real character in the T-rex scene. I am more than happy to be part of this compostion short and has worked well as a collaborative project. The team has done very well and ryan has done an awsome job! Link to the video and WIP is on the right of the my blog.

Stills

2010-06-05T13:52:00.001+01:00

Saying

2010-05-27T22:36:00.001+01:00

You win some you lose some...

Fighter WIP

2010-05-27T18:44:00.002+01:00

Zbrush is coming along nicely learning a lot of tools. Nearly finished modelling then i will polypaint.

Mech Flamethrower

2010-05-26T22:33:00.004+01:00

Flamethrower from a different camera shot and better angle. I'm trying to create a liquid type of fire so at the moment just adjusting the simulation and parameters of the fumefx and particle emmiter values.

End of year (nearly) short summary

2010-05-24T22:59:00.007+01:00

So il keep it short (short enough anyway), the past year has been an experience and a half having being an artist for a year and finishing uni this year I have successfully achieved what I wanted to achieve and further. Originally my path was towards video games but after collaborating in a T-rex short feature (link on side --->), I created a hyper real character giving me a learning curve to becoming open to anything from video games to feature films. I have studied with a bunch of wicked students/friends and has been an eventfull 3 years. Times have been tough but you fall down and you just pick yourself up stronger with motivation and initiative.

The year has been a very innovative and creative year for me and I'm more than happy and looking foward to what lies ahead for me in the future.

Zbrush WIP

2010-05-24T22:39:00.004+01:00

With the help of anatomy for the artist and other scupting books and tutorials im progressing myself with zbrush to become fluent with the tools of the software.

Character run

2010-05-19T20:22:00.004+01:00

My character has been rigged, skinned and animated by Sarah Crossman (absolute life saver) i animated the axe but everything else including the cloth modifier on the piece of geometry in from of the legs is done by Sarah. I'm happy with the outcome and is nice to see my character have some life in him :D
(for some reason the something wierd happens through the clip but you can get the idea)

More Unreal Engine

2010-05-19T00:14:00.010+01:00

I thought I would have a go at adding my Titan mech machine into the engine so I did :D came out well and also the weapons shot againt the geometry which had collision which I have also shown. I didn't do my whole mech because of time plus it's massive so wouldn't be able to see all the machine. I'll do it one day soon though!

Game Engine

2010-05-18T21:49:00.004+01:00

So here is my character WIP in the Unreal Engine. the Unreal Development kit was tricky at first but all in all took an hour to get my model with textures - (that go in seperately, pulling my hair out :D) Using the VCTF-Sandstorm environment (one of Unreal Tournamnets 2 Blacks playable levels) was best suited for my character with the desert textures etc. The last image is to prove i havent composited my model in :p

Need a few tweaks on the spec and normal maps and then 'hey presto'..

Environment WIP

2010-05-18T19:15:00.003+01:00

Two 3ds max scanline renders of my environment so far. Going well but bits pretty much everywhere to tweak :) Increased the colour of the darker orange to a more yellow/white colour so the environment hopefully is fully visible on all monitors.

Few environement props

2010-05-16T15:18:00.004+01:00

Additional WIP

2010-05-16T14:49:00.004+01:00

A few additional models based around my gladiator thought would be nice to model and learn addional skills of modelling and creating bump maps without using zbrush or mudbox :D

Environment WIP

2010-05-12T23:52:00.010+01:00

Depending on what monitor you have depends on how you visually see this (obviously lol), but thought id point it out as having a 24inch LED 8million:1 contrast and a TrueHD monitor really differs to the uni monitors haha, is extremely vibrant and bright at home but at uni need to bump the light parameters up a bit.. Anyway about the work, im really happy with how its going, had some really good feeback especially about the lighting so I'm happy, still more texturing and other bits of debris and objects to go in the scenes.

Mech and Gladiator update

2010-05-12T23:06:00.005+01:00

A quick render of my character so far. So far so good, still have texturing to do and adjust like the spec and bump. Is rigged to so will have him in a nice pose.

Another quick render of my vehicle as it stands, again still adjusting and texturing on the diffuse maps, is rigged as well so will have the machine in a nice pose and fire coming from everywhere as well as steam etc GOING TO BE EPIC (hopfully).

Bump WIP

2010-05-12T23:02:00.002+01:00

Here is a quick post of my bump map from the zbrush model onto my low poly in 3ds max.

Gladiator WIP

2010-04-23T11:17:00.001+01:00

Vehicle update

2010-04-17T09:08:00.002+01:00

Few tweaks

2010-04-17T08:43:00.003+01:00

Zbrush character

2010-04-13T12:55:00.004+01:00

A WIP of my character for my final major project. Spent a day on it so far so lots more to come but will keep up to date with the sculpts :) really been trying to focus on the specific muscles and how they lie in accordance to each other like the weaving muscles on the rib area etc. At the moment the scuplt is symmetrical but after finishing sculpting the muscles I will mess about with it a bit :D Any comments welcome!

Alice (Hyper-real) Textured

2010-03-22T13:54:00.004Z

So far so good. Textured the cloths and face of Alice. Still a WIP of the hair and eyelashes to modify. Overall I'm happy with outcome.

Zbrush

2010-03-22T13:49:00.002Z

Zbrush sculpts of Alice

Hyper-real character (collaboration)

2010-03-15T23:20:00.005Z

Hello, currently im texturing a hyper character i've been asked to model and texture for a T-rex project in collaboration with fellow students at uni. The character I'm modelling is a girl running away from a T-rex but unfortuantely ends up in the T-rex's stomach hahaha! Currently is going well and im happy with the way things are going, I will post more updates soon!! :D

Fire Test

2010-03-15T22:57:00.004Z

I tried some fire tutorials and tests for my mech for the flamethrower to see if i could achieve a desired effect. They both came out better than i thought, i went into premiere to add some sound for a more true home cinema experience (joke lol) I used the 3ds max 2010 plugin Fume Fx (is very nice I like!)

2010-02-14T18:42:00.003Z

Coolio, here are a few images of my machine work in prgress :D Currently I'm happy with how its going, still have plenty to do but the pistons work! (will upload a video of them) Modelled in max and probably into zbrush so i can some really nice metal detail of scratches and dents etc.. Please comments are good and appreciated!

Vehicle Project

2010-02-14T18:29:00.004Z

My other project is a vehicle. I decided to do something different and came up with the idea of a combat mech or APU. The image above is from the intial ideas for my mech but then decided to completely change and finally wanted to model a Titan mech - machine the size of a skyscraper (probably bigger :D) top image with a colour test. The brown one will be my texture final as its closer to a more rustic and metal like feel. I will apply rust on the metal to :D

Character Concept

2010-02-12T11:03:00.006Z

Three concepts of my character and weapon from my intial pre-production.

Current Project

2010-02-11T23:53:00.008Z

A few updates on my Venetian Gladiator, a few more tidy ups on the edgeloops etc and then can ZBrush (so excited :D) Please feel free to comment!

Pit-Stop

2010-02-03T14:49:00.009Z

HaHa this is something I dug out from the first year (the memories), this is an animation for the glammies. I textured the bathroom using photoshop and was modelled in 3ds max.

2010-02-02T15:23:00.010Z

Currently working on a Venetian gladiator. Two renders with and without wireframe low poly mesh modelled in 3ds Max and eventually will end up in ZBrush.

Demi Chojin Stills

2010-02-02T15:14:00.011Z

A few stills of my model with and without hair to show in detail parts of the body so I and the viewer can see the model in more details of the low poly mesh with the applied texture maps. Above is a wireframe image to show the low poly in depth and below this image is the mudbox sculpt.

Mudbox Project

2010-02-02T13:56:00.011Z

Low poly mesh was done in 3ds Max 2010, unwrap in Roadkill and sculpt in Mudbox 2010. I enjoyed this project especially the freedom of creating intricate details and forms as well as using alpha stamps and brushes. (I would watch it in 1080p otherwise quality isn't the best :D)

Maya Environment

2010-02-02T01:50:00.003Z

Few more renders around the environment and one with the environment lights off on the top left.

Final Environment Models

2010-01-28T22:02:00.012Z

Here are the final finished models from Maya. The image above has environment fog with a higher saturation distance and colour intensity of about 50%, the image below has very subtle settings to show a slight density of environment fog.

Maya Environment Pre-viz

2010-01-21T18:51:00.003Z

Digital painting in photoshop allowed me to create a nice red/orange sky and tints into all of the moutains and houses. The painting is my final pre-visualisation on what my environment is going to look like.

Maya Environment Pre-viz

2010-01-21T18:26:00.003Z

This digital paint I created in photoshop and was to get a sense of an old mood of fog and lights. I tried to silouette the image and concentrate on the lights and sky.