Keith_v's Fan Art

[The Navigator]

Looks like ****ing garbage.

Spoiler!!! Click to Read!:

I'm kidding, of course, it looks fantastic! Yeah, the wood looks a little off--maybe more of a smoother finish--but still some very nice bits, particularly the reflection of the notepad and the dead bulb in the corner.

Do you prefer either 3D modeling or hand-drawn stuff, or is there a preference?

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by The Navigator

Looks like ****ing garbage.

Spoiler!!! Click to Read!:

I'm kidding, of course, it looks fantastic! Yeah, the wood looks a little off--maybe more of a smoother finish--but still some very nice bits, particularly the reflection of the notepad and the dead bulb in the corner.

Do you prefer either 3D modeling or hand-drawn stuff, or is there a preference?

Lol thanks! I just recently found how to create soft reflections in Maya so I'm going to redo this scene and make it look much better. I'm also scrapping global illumination and doing all of my illumination through point lights. I get a much more controlled and realistic look.

I think I like them equally. I love drawing but it's usually a lot more tedious than 3d design. Although the problem with 3d are the numerous glitches and bugs in Maya that drive you insane when you are trying to work. I'm still chipping away at my illustration book, but I've taken some time to dedicate to 3d stuff as well. Me and a buddy are starting a small gaming company and our first focus will be on graphics and environment design. We're using UDK but all of our objects are made Maya and then textured in Mudbox, Painter X, and Photoshop. He's doing the tech stuff in UDK and I'm covering the art design.

[keith_v]

Here are the first screens of a demo map I'm building in UDK. All the assets were made by me. The only stock assets are the smoke and light effects. The map features fully dynamic lighting and real-time simulated global illumination. Even with the fully dynamic lighting and high polygon count, the map runs at about 15-20 fps when played in the small view-port. At full screen it gets choppy and only runs about 10 fps (The choppy framerate ain't so bad though, considering my pc could only run a 10mb demo map at 25fps, and that had baked lighting with low poly models).

I need to post a video of the map because you lose a lot when staring at a still shot. You can't see the light cutting through the smoke or the slight flickering of the light that you'd see in motion (I also had to tweak the contrast settings of the last 2 pics to get them to match up to the contrast levels you'd see in-game).

Also, the map wasn't built using a grid (big mistake), so everything had to be fitted in using the xyz coordinates from Maya. Had it been a straight cooridoor, I could've used a snapping grid system, but then I wouldn't have gotten those snaking halls I wanted.

[Godsfireworks]

So COOL!

[B-man]

great as always keith, the level of detail is mind blowing, shading is out of this world, great dark underground atmosphere.

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by Godsfireworks

So COOL!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by B-man

great as always keith, the level of detail is mind blowing, shading is out of this world, great dark underground atmosphere.

Thanks! The quality of the lighting and shadows can be attributed to not baking the light. UDK's baking systems is extremely ugly, and this is why games like Medal of Honor and Mirror's Edge used external lighting systems despite being made with the Unreal Engine. It's a shame that UDK isn't optimized to run dynamic light, but hopefully that'll change when the new consoles come out.

Here's video of the tunnel. The quality is very rough and choppy, but it's the best I could do with the video-capture software I used. I'll tinker around with it and try to get some better footage.

[keith_v]

Here's the latest update on the tunnel map I'm building in UDK. Sorry for the bad video quality, the Fraps trial version doesn't seem to let you upload to Youtube in HD (Although I may have missed something since I'm new to video capturing). The next update will be in HD.

[Buford The Sly]

Originally Posted by keith_v

Here's the latest update on the tunnel map I'm building in UDK. Sorry for the bad video quality, the Fraps trial version doesn't seem to let you upload to Youtube in HD (Although I may have missed something since I'm new to video capturing). The next update will be in HD.

That's awesome man! I keep waiting for one of your creatures to pop out.

[ShiningJudgment]

That is amazing work! I love it oodles. ^_^

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by Buford The Sly

That's awesome man! I keep waiting for one of your creatures to pop out.

Originally Posted by ShiningJudgment

That is amazing work! I love it oodles. ^_^

Haha Thanks! Here's a new update. I didn't update the map much, other than putting a temporary doorway in, but you can see how the lighting works on some of the objects in this video.

[Juggertha]

That BG work is frakkin' great!

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by Juggertha

That BG work is frakkin' great!

Originally Posted by 92marriw8

nice stuff


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Thanks!

It's been forever since I posted last. Here's some recent stuff I've done. The second two pics were done for a trade-show last April. I'm hoping to be able to enter the next monthly fanart contest this time. I'm kinda mad I won't be able to get a Batman piece done on time. I'm still in Batman mode after seeing TDKR (9.3/10 as of my first viewing).

[AGSA5]

wow

[Buford The Sly]

Hey Keith here's a heads up since you're pretty bada$$ at these kind of things.

http://gameofthrones.tumblr.com/

It says it's about $4,000.00 worth of stuff.

[Syncos]

US residents only? Damnit.

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by AGSA5

wow

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Buford The Sly

Hey Keith here's a heads up since you're pretty bada$$ at these kind of things.

http://gameofthrones.tumblr.com/

It says it's about $4,000.00 worth of stuff.

Originally Posted by Syncos

US residents only? Damnit.

Thanks! This looks like an awesome contest, and I'm hoping I'll have time to enter into it. My time has been drained lately by work. I don't think I mentioned it on here but I've been doing concept art full time for games. The days can be looong, so I don't get too much time to work on my own stuff.

[Buford The Sly]

Originally Posted by keith_v

Thanks!





Thanks! This looks like an awesome contest, and I'm hoping I'll have time to enter into it. My time has been drained lately by work. I don't think I mentioned it on here but I've been doing concept art full time for games. The days can be looong, so I don't get too much time to work on my own stuff.

That's awesome dude, congrats! Any upcoming games that we're going to see your work in?

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by Buford The Sly

That's awesome dude, congrats! Any upcoming games that we're going to see your work in?

Not yet, but hopefully soon. I work for Disney Interactive so we have plenty of awesome games lined up.

[Piper Maru]

I would love to see your take on Dead Space!

[keith_v]

Finally have some new to stuff to post...


badNeighbor by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr


swampDdweller by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr


theBlindPrincess by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr


gangster by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr


fox by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr


theExperiment by keithwhalenart@ymail.com, on Flickr

[Buford The Sly]

[webhead9707]

Was there ever a point in your life where you couldn't even draw a person and it look good?

I want to draw comic style stuff so bad but I can't draw people very well..

[keith_v]

Originally Posted by Buford The Sly

Thanks!

Originally Posted by webhead9707

Was there ever a point in your life where you couldn't even draw a person and it look good?

I want to draw comic style stuff so bad but I can't draw people very well..

I wasn't able to draw people that well until I was in college. I could draw people ok in highschool, but it was a struggle sometimes. If you are determined to make it in drawing but struggle with people, I'd suggest 2 things:

1. Practice everyday and improve as much as you can with drawing people, and...

2. Define your own very unique style of drawing that doesn't rely too heavily on accurate anatomy. Look at some of Ben templesmiths art to see what he does. I'm not a fan of his, but he's making a decent living using renderings as simple as stick figures to a great degree.

[keith_v]

Have a few new pics I haven't posted yet. Some various character designs...










And this was a promo painting for a game I made recently, called Super Robot Bubble Pop on the IOS Store...

[MyIronman]

I like it! Amazing!