Brendan Prettie: Artist at Large

More work sketches

2010-06-26T23:05:00.001-07:00

Sketches at work

2010-06-10T21:35:00.001-07:00

LBIALW 3

2010-04-24T16:53:00.001-07:00

LBIALW 2

2010-04-20T11:46:00.001-07:00

Life invades, bugs are lonely.

2010-04-19T21:05:00.001-07:00

Working at Sears right now, drawing on my breaks to stay sane, this is Lonely bug in a lonely world, part of a series.

A little project, with more to come

2009-12-29T03:01:00.000-08:00

About an hour and change of work, modeling, unwrapping, texturing, and some really simple lighting.

2009-06-29T16:45:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of ZBrush sculpts I worked on a few months ago. One is the space mutant from this island earth, an old movie from around the 50s. The lizard is from my own imagination.

Deceased warrior

2009-06-20T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here is my bronze-age native warrior, who has seen better days. Pose on him is very WIP, I didn't realise I had basically just given him a T-pose until a while after this render when someone pointed it out to me. I'm quite happy with the model though, I had a lot of help from my mentors and classmates on it.

Life Drawing reel

2009-06-20T12:38:00.000-07:00

Here is my life drawing reel, I'm fairly pleased with how much I learned in the last 2 years, and I'm looking forwards to continuing that trend.

Trees!

2009-06-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

Here's a tree I whipped up this morning, 50 triangles, 256 texture, 256 transparency map. I have another one I worked on earlier that isn't animated yet, I'll post it when I get it done tonight. I'll be working on a few different styles for the rest of the day as well. I'm not an animator by the way, I was just seeing if I could get it to move like a tree. Close I think, but no cigar.

I've replaced the old shrub with one I made the other day, looks less like lichen.

Critique is always welcome.

Dominance War 4

2009-04-20T20:26:00.000-07:00

Here is my model for dominance war 4, check out the whole dealy here:
http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8185

Here is what I am thinking of using for my beauty shot camera angle. Problem with the beuty shot is that it isn't going to show off his details well from this angle.

2009-03-01T23:13:00.000-08:00

Heres my current progress up for my warrior

Next project for demo reel, a submarine

2009-02-01T02:28:00.000-08:00

Here is my next project for my demo reel, a submarine based on krill and squid shapes. The final design is at the top of the first sheet, with a head on pic on the right edge of the page. The general shape of it is finished, I'm just working out the details on it now. It's going to be a fairly large sized model, so it needs a lot of the smaller detail to be worked out.

Modeling progress, learning a thing or two about texturing.

2009-01-28T23:05:00.000-08:00

I'm actually surprised how much I enjoy prop modeling. The objects are usually quicker to unwrap than full scale models so I can get to the fun part of texturing a lot faster. I like the "Shea's Parkatorium" sign alot. The model is dirt cheap, but the texture adds a lot to it. The neon tubes inside the sign were fun to simulate.

Update on some of my final projects

2008-12-15T20:04:00.000-08:00

Demo Reel Projects

2008-11-29T15:21:00.000-08:00

Here's an update on how my demo reel projects are coming along.
First, my underwater environment. It turned out good, but not great. I'm going to be working on this one a lot later on. Then there is my robot that I'm working on, it can turn into a ball and roll around. Last is my creature, some armor concepts for it, and for it's deceased rider.

What I'm up to now:

2008-08-27T01:32:00.000-07:00

5'7", ba-dum, tish!

I've taken on an extra-curricular project at school that will result in a full conversion mod for the Half Life 2, Episode 2 engine. I'm the co-designer for this game, as well as a few other positions, like modeling, character and item design.

Besides this project, I am doing well in my other courses. Got top marks on my head model just recently. Here's some pictures to bring you up to speed:

Learning Lighting Rigs and Environment Maps

2008-04-13T20:52:00.000-07:00

Easy enough once you get the hang of it.

2008-04-05T14:09:00.001-07:00

And here he is pretty much finished as a sketch. I'm not much of a painter yet, so it'll probably be a long time before he gets coloured.

2008-04-05T01:00:00.001-07:00

And here is a friendly little feller I started working on today, should turn out pretty wicked if things go well. I'll post progress updates.

B pencil on 80lb medium drawing paper.

A new term, a new.....term.

2008-04-04T21:09:00.000-07:00

Just figured I'd throw some of my drawings from over the last little while up here.

Welcome

2008-03-16T22:24:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog, hopefully you will find something that catches your eye. I'll be posting some pictures of my sketches, modeling and animations as soon as I figure out how.