Risk Assessment: AR Pedestal Drill and VR Kitchen

e-learning studios.

I am responsible for the AR Pedestal Drill project and put together a design specification and created the art for this AR Risk assessment app. I worked with Programmers to make sure when designing the specification that it was achievable within the time limitation.
It was created in Unity using Vuforia , Illustrator, Photoshop and Blender. Designed for the iPad Pro, Android and IOS.

The VR Kictchen is created in Blender, Photoshop, Illustrator, Make Human and Unity. Designed for the S9.
I made the Props, Environment and Environment Optimisation, Characters and key frame animations and animations using Mo Cap data and BVH files and baked the lighting in unity.

Acorn Dude wip Zbrush

Currently on my personal project list, I'm creating this Acorn Dude to 3D print and turn it into a silicon mould to cast resin models from. This is going to help me establish the 3D Print to resin pipeline. As a 3D print (PLA) Isn't very sturdy or strong or weather proof, I thought I'd give resin and silicon a go.

Dundee waterfront

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Green IT

Green IT is a short and interactive Serious Game, developed as part of the Is It Green

project.

Its purpose is to help improve the capability of IT experts and managers of SMEs across

Europe.Encouraging preliminary energy assessments of IT and IS (information systems)

infrastructure.

Empowering lower energy consumption; enhancing opportunities to save resources and 

encouraging eco-friendly behaviour.

Dispatched by the government to bring local companies into new eco-friendly 
regulations, the protagonist is a self-assured individual (a trait that often backfires).
He grapples with the realities of being an energy assessor, often dealing with the most 
tragically incompetent or eccentric cases since getting on the wrong side of his boss. 

He will have to produce some brilliant results or risks being fired!

Humorous encounters with quirky characters.The player will need to search for items of 

energy inefficiency in these IT environments, all while being entertained by the

protagonist’s remarks and interactions with other characters. 

He will have to use the knowledge obtained to reason through a logic-based
assessment; players complete tasks to progress. Tasks require selecting the right item
or using a combination of items to solve more complex problems. However,
the process becomes even more involving as environments differ depending on the
timing of the visit and equipment being used. This gives greater depth and layers 
of interaction with each setting.

Axe

W.I.P Axe

I'm exploring Substance Painter, its pretty fun, now the next step is to get it into either Unity or Unreal or both, I haven't quite decided.

Thinking about it now though, it does look too shiny considering it has scrapes and battle scars. I think a 2nd Pass with extra roughness and stains to give it more of a battle presence will be next on the list. Then I will import it into Unity and will probably also use it in Unreal too.

(W.I.P) This is a caricature of me

My Hop Skip and Jump to Totem Learning

I started at Totem learning with a bit of experience up my sleeve, working on PlayStation Home items and creating a game for a competition called Dare to be Digital.

I am a fully-fledged 3D Artist at Totem Learning and enjoy assets and environment creation. Since I have been here at Totem Learning my position has been varied from creating Environments, Characters, and Assets to User Interface and occasionally drawing from my animation skills.

I have worked on many dead interesting projects such as the Anatomy Simulation project and researching this topic is not for the faint hearted - believe me! I have also worked on Enclosed Spaces serious game, I’m not claustrophobic but it really makes you aware of how vulnerable you are without the right PPE (personal protection equipment).

Working for Totem Learning is pretty good fun and every day is different, it never gets boring and there is the added bonus of cake eating and games testing. I have also been granted the name of Noodles since working here and it seems to have stuck.

I see myself as a Crazy Ginger creative monkey. I like helping people out and the outlook I have is to always see the fun, positive side of things.

My inspiration comes from looking at loads of fun stuff and mixing it up a little. I get a buzz out of watching epic films and fun old school cartoons and Disney films. My favourite game of all time has to be Zool. It was fun and was surrounded by sweets and icing, gives me a good feeling when I remember playing it. That’s what games are all about kids!

I enjoy the great outdoors and believe that Artists should never just stay cooped up in a room drawing but to draw on the fly and soak up the colour.

Hobbies: Mountain biking, sailing, exploring and drawing.

Totem Learning has had a huge impact on my attitude towards serious games. We can make learning interesting and immersive and to do this I reckon, creating believable game art is the key to the believability of a serious game but then I am slightly biased.

The thing I value the most above anything else is progress. Without progress, things stop, you stop learning and you become stale. Notice how progress and practise sound similar. It’s pretty much the same. You have to practise what your good at to progress. (I’m going to try and get a moral in every blog I do).

Concept illustration

Inspired by Paul Kidby's Dragons and The DreamWorks film 'How to Train your Dragon' I have come up with this illustration that will be developed further into a 3D Digital Sculpt.

Tudor house

This cartoon house is going to be part of a Tudor town, There is still work to be done. Please send me your comments. 

Bird Bath

This is Unity ready and you can find it on the Unity store.

Tudor House

Hi everyone, This is my latest  design idea. I've gone for a cartoon style. I have been meaning to create more things in a cartoon style for a while now.

Wire frame Assets

Screen Shots of our game 'ShadowLight'

 

I produced all the 3D assets, Character and Character animations for this game demo.

I worked very closely within our team to understand every aspect of the production pipeline. It became apparent to follow our Team Leader/Programmers direction and the 2D Concept Artist to convert their visions into 3D. Whilst being able to understand the limitations of using our own Game Engine to produce a game demo within the 8.5 weeks in the games competition Dare to be Digital.

We are very proud of what we accomplished during the 8.5 weeks of Dare to be Digital.

Baskets

This is a little taster on what im working on, its soon to be finished, still a bit rough (line through apple etc..) Im going to fill the baskets with fruit and veg too, cant wait.

Low poly

High poly

Renderd in ZBrush and taking advantage of the ZBrush Material Editor.

It is a bruised apple dont worry i have kept a clean one stored in a file for later.