Here’s a selection of my work so far. In focus is my contribution to Kung Fury, followed by my work on Crazy Pictures Vaskduellen, Arthur & Merlin and El Scorpio Games introduction video.
Modeling reel 2016
A variety of my models throughout the years. A mix of simulations for Vaskduellen, real time for UE4, hard surface for BlåFilm, organic creatures, characters and some rigging.
God’s Kingdom
I had the great opportunity to work on the short film God’s Kingdom, by Guy Soulsby. I was tasked to create creepy demonic skin effects for a scene.
Full film can be viewed here:
http://godskingdom.co.uk/
Also available on Alter:
http://youtu.be/Ul28h1U9oTc
http://imdb.com/title/tt5546506/
Majestic AF
Some years ago, I stumbled across an epic photoshopped picture of a centaur elephant/gorilla, (or gorefant?) captioned Majestic AF. I always wanted to recreate it in 3D, so during this summer vacation and COVID lockdown, I decided to have a go at it!
Made using Zbrush and Substance Painter and rigged, groomed and rendered in Maya using xGen and Arnold.
El Scorpio Games
I had the pleasure of making an introductory video for the newly established horror game company, El Scorpio Games. Theme: Amusing Horror.
Zbrush for hi-poly, Topogun for retopo, UVLayout for UV-map, Maya for animation and rendering using Mental Ray and compositing in Nuke.
Logo by Martin Runnzell of El Scorpio Games and music by Mikael Ericson of Jaded Produktions.
Involuntary Hero
This is also an early assignment during my time at Luleå University of Technology and gscept. A combination of platform puzzle and top-down shooter.
We were made up of a team of two artists and two developers, and I contributed with both environment textures, character animations and visual effects, as well as alien ship design, together with Mariusz Waclawek who created the interactable assets and background tiles.
As a game engine, Scirra Construct was used.
The project time was roughly 8 weeks, though developed simultaneously with other assignments.
The game is available for download: http://cyriuz.net/~trinex/
(However, the high-score function is currently offline)
It’s very hard, just like the games of old, so don’t blame me if your keyboard suddenly brakes for reasons unknown.
The Lunarena
Gscept offers education in visual effects, game design, prop and set design. One of its courses is a hands on experience in game creation, where CG-artists and developers team up for 6 weeks in order to create a fully functional game to compete with in the Swedish Game Awards.
This is our result: Lunarena. An arena based third person shooter in the Edwardian era, taking place inside the moon. The game art was inspired by Georges Mèliés A Trip To The Moon, with a bit of steam punk twist added to it.
We consisted of a team of 26 cg-artists and developers, using SCRUM as a method of development. My contribution was both as a concept artist for the player characters, 3D-modeler (creating A LOT of rocks and retopologizing hi-poly game assets), texture artists (both organic and metal) and animator (alienesque plants and player characters). I also did the music for the trailer.
We used Nebula3 as game engine, where developers had the opportunity to create proprietary tools and custom physics.
Even though we were not nominated in the end, it was a great learning experience, coordinating a big team, learning to focus on what is important at each stage in a production, and learning the hard way what happens when you get too over-ambitious (ie. not getting nominated).
The game is no longer available for download, but the trailer is still available on youtube. It was made by a small team of CG-artist (including me), using the game assets.
Kung Fury
I had the exciting opportunity to work on the trailer for the upcoming movie Kung Fury by Laser Unicorns.
Apart from several 3D-models that will be used later in the production, I was put to the task of creating the VFX for the scene where Thor lands in a lake. A challenging shot and nothing I really had done before, but that’s why it was all the better as well.
I’ve created a small breakdown with my contribution. Final grade and finish was made by David Sandberg himself. I would also like to thank David for awesome supervision.
Surprise! – Shortfilm assignment
A school project made by me and Andreas Rånman, where the assignment was to visualize the word Surprise in an animation. Did we succeed? 🙂
Childroom
The Childroom is one of the typical assignments that gscept are known for. It’s intended to sum up all the typical basic functions in 3D-animation. This is my childroom, which takes place in a fictive diesel-punk environment.
Specialization Project – Garth the Gargoyle
Here’s my specialization project for gscept GradShow 2012. I’m responsible for everything in the project, where I wanted to learn more of the process in implementing a CG-character in live footage.
I created the rig manually for the gargoyle and it’s got a limited muscle system for proper deformation and jiggle effect.
I used mainly Maya, Zbrush and Nuke.
Big thanks goes to Mattias Bergbom for VFX-consulting and Erik Öhman for awesome acting and camera assistance.
Paranorman – NK production for Laika
During July 2012, I had the fun opportunity to work with North Kingdom on Laika’s interactive site ParaNorman Stop-Motion Lab, promoting their new feature film ParaNorman.
The idea was to setup an online animation tool, just like a stop motion scene, where the user was allowed to animate their own zombie and share the result on YouTube.
My work consisted of modeling, remodeling, texturing and rigging work on most of the zombies, of which some already had the hi-poly version provided by Laika themselves.
I also worked on some of the scenery with modeling, lighting and texture baking.
The production was a fun challenge, and we had some great help from Frostware with the final tweaks in Unity 3D.
Jimbo's CG place 