Willem René van Vliet

Working with Spike

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:46:31 +0000

Making a fully rigged cat is probably the single most tedious work I’ve ever put myself on to.
If you look closely, you’ll see that I never before did a full 3d character. Both since I never had to and game companies reserve those jobs to the more experienced workers.
A cat is even more complicated then a human, since it’s so much more dexterous and tends to stretch and shrink a lot.

At this point I have a fully rigged cat character (well, rigged enough for my purposes) but most of the extreme movement (read: like sitting decently or washing it’s private parts) can’t be reached without looking terrible. So I’ll have to go back and work on it more so at least Spike cat sit convincible.

Till that time, enjoy some positions I’ve rendered for your pleasure.

Spike_Pose 1

Spike_Pose 2

Spike_Pose 3

Shading in Unity

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:32:17 +0000

I’ve shown you a few shading styles in Maya just now, but the point of this project is to bring that into Unity.

Thomas van den Berg was so kind to share his own toon-shader with me, and implant the facing-ratio element from the X-ray shader from metervara. After fiddling with it he’s got my shader working.

With some tuning of my own I’ve added property functionalities to it and I’ve now got a fully functional, adjustable toon-shader with facing-ratio-contour in Unity. huzza!

Unity Toon Shading

Shading Test

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:26:44 +0000

Well, since I’m looking for the right look for the project, I was trying out some toon-shading styles in Maya.
Any favorites?

Compilation of Toon-shaders

Very not-like-me

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:20:53 +0000

Well, this is not my usual way of work. It’s an idea about the environment of my new project: Unami.
Using Photoshop, my trusty tablet and default brushes.

Unami at late evening

Art Test completed

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:19:34 +0000

After hours of hard work I finalized it. Now it’s up to the higher power

The clown and the art-test

admin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:44:21 +0000

As known, I have to make an art test to prove myself to the good people of Engine Software.
this involves concept art and modeling (texturing, vertex painting and the such).
The first is not my strong point and the latter is an irritation business since I have to use Max.

Really, now I remember what a relieve Maya was to me when I moved away from Max. It has such a stupid approach to modeling.

Anyway, I’ve mode a clown! be scarred!

ps. BattleCry will not be finished for a while. I did not got it done in time.

BattleCry 1.2.0

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:58:45 +0000

Working on BattleCry again. Level 1 is now more or less finished. I hope to get the following 4 levels done within the next two days.

Apollo: a new logo

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:54:46 +0000

The observant one would have noticed that all work on this site is dated at least seven months. This is because from that moment on I’ve been doing fill-time work at the student cultural umbrella organization Apollo. (Cultuurkoepel Apollo.) this includes standing for the rights of the many student cultural associations the university has.

This is very nice for me, but less for the viewers who wants eye-candies.

During the many months I’ve been working on a new Corporate identity for Apollo. Little did I know on what journey that would take me.

The idea phase

During a month I made a few handful idea’s. Most just figures of my imagination.

When the time had come, I presented this to the members of our group. some discussion followed and one of these ideas were taken. This was a huge win, since a lot of people wondered why they needed a new logo anyway?

A new logo

Well, with the idea at hand I started iterating it.

Letter-paper

Another month, another vote. To my surprise the gradient one was chosen. So, since this was going to be our new logo, I had to start with using it, in letter-paper for example.

A months, vacation and more time goes over hits. I’m still perfecting it. But in the mean time I’ve made more usages of the corporate identity. But more of that later on.

New planet background

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:22:54 +0000

Yes yes people. After a hand full hours in Terragen 2 (rendering hours not included) I made a new planet. Not where I want to be in a long shot, but at least it’s something.

Weebl’s game: For the Greater Pie

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:52:26 +0000

In line of my portfolio I added my very first flash game. It’’s nice and unfinished. With that: It’s not so enjoyable and playable. What it is, is working. The monumental value of a working game is very dear to me. Check the games page to try it out.

In the following week I hope to finish the levels of a better game: BattleCry. That is something to look forward to. Oh yes.