Normandy Study (Mass Effect 2)

Trey — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:52:03 +0000

A material study of the Normandy from Mass Effect 2.

One stop rock, Zbrush

Trey — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:16:13 +0000

My goal here was to stay out of Photoshop and 3ds Max as much as possible. Its a bit heavier on the triangles than I’d like, but I don’t plan to use it for anything other than exercise. The two small rocks (seen at right) are from Unreal 3.

Here are the notes I took while creating:

Sphere quick scuplt, cloned twice, moved around and booleaned from the parent (for making intersting edge loops and getting rid of the sphere’s poles)
Paint over with existing rock texture in drag select paint mode
Then, New Texture from Polypaint and clone it as an alpha texture
Mask from alpha and then begin playing with some deformations like size and inflate to bring out the color map details
Decimate
Paint UVmap seems, unwrap
UV welding in Max
Render-to-texture in Max
Import to Unreal
Time: 40 mins

zbrush tile

Trey — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:49:05 +0000

This started with a herringbone brick mask I made in Photoshop.

Previz & doodles

Trey — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:50:12 +0000

Some one-day previz work done in Max.

Trey McCool

Normandy Study (Mass Effect 2)

One stop rock, Zbrush

zbrush tile

Previz & doodles