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This was a speed modeling excercise that took me about a day to build and set up for render. It's kind of just a statue and not really made for animation.]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:05:31 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/717054

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My favorite comic in the world! This was done in about 5 layers in PhotoShop starting with distorting photos and then painting on top. I wanted to make it more realistic than the comic but at the same time keep the spirit of what it is. Salem in the background was built and rendered in Maya. If you squint at it the clouds look like angel wings.]]> Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:20:18 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/373921

My first major painting in PhotoShop of my character. Did it in about 2 days. Thanks to my friend Tom Szakolczay for the graphics.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:18:32 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/373924

The only other successful painting of mine from the BangDoll series. I painted in my friend Lisa's face because I have a thing for her. Haha. I love you Lisa! Took me months to design the composition and elements. Otherwise it's just straight painting on layers with effects and masking.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:29:10 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/378540

Did this in 2 days back to back. I never got paid for this one so the image is mine to own. It was originally for the Dragon Lance comic book but the guys who ran the company went under before I could get paid.

I wanted it to look more like older pulp covers done in the 60's and early 70's style of harsher or more raw illustration than the more pollished look of the 80's and on.

Everything is done straight up in PhotoShop on 2 layers and still works out pretty well. All the brushes are custom created using the palette menus that are provided in CS2. Most of the image makes high use of the paintdaubs filter in spots with soft selection. The armour on the knight and the silver scales on the dragon were dodged out with highlights selected on the tool. All the scrapy effects on the painting that look like blending oils are done with the smudge tool and a speckle brush selected then squashed.

I'm thinking of going over the whole thing again making it really cool. I'm thinking of revising it with a few more characters and extending it taller. I guess that would be a whole other painting in the series and would have to take on an underscore 02 moniker.]]> Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:11:38 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/373926

I did this for EA's Earth and Beyond and it never got used so I'm posting it here. It was a huge Image with a whole bunch of 2D and 3D techniques on a imense stack of layers for editing. IN the end they only used the spaceship up front without the cool lighting effects and a screenshot of an in-game character for the background.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:40:03 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374249

A fast painting of my fried Brigette as a surfer pin-up girl. Four hours one layer! I was in the zone on this one.]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:15:27 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374014

Real SSS material on this one. Looks great but takes forever to render and precalculate. Did this all in XSI and PhotoShop for the textures. ]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:38:07 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/668676

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Newest in skin renders!]]> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:49:29 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374019

This was done in Maya and textured in PhotoShop. I found a satelite photo of Hong Kong and altered it; then slapped it on a plane and did some fast editing. Popped out the render and there it is. Total work and final out put in about an hour and a half. I would consided this a sketch.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:56:59 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374016

Don't know why I called it Audrey. I painted this in about 20 mins in ArtRage 2 then did some filter work through PhotoShop. ArtRage rules!]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:54:08 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/382278

I did this whole painting in ArtRage 2. There insn't much to sat about technique as you just start throwing down colors in that program. I like it! Makes it feel like real paint!

As for the mood of the piece I thought that I wanted it to have that warmer feel or earthiness so to speek with a saturated palette. My usual would want to lean it into the reds and blues, but I was concious about it this time and fought the urge all the way to the end.]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:34:32 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/475369

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This was a design I did for work a while back and now Dead Space stole the idea.]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:06:11 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/601174

This was a design I did for work a while back and now Dead Space stole the idea.]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:00 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/601176

This was a design I did for work a while back and now Dead Space stole the idea.]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:45 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/601177

This was a design I did for work a while back and now Dead Space stole the idea.]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:08:22 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396924

This was an early concept board for the game Getting U.P. Each board was done in about an hour and a half. They were hand drawn in ballpoint pen and then tinted in PhotoShop with an emphasis on generating movement in a still drawing.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:39:16 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396923

This was an early concept board for the game Getting U.P. Each board was done in about an hour and a half. They were hand drawn in ballpoint pen and then tinted in PhotoShop with an emphasis on generating movement in a still drawing.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:37:17 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/448349

These were drawn with ballpoint pen and then yoned in good 'ol PhotoShop. Your basic comic book techniques.]]> Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:07:11 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/476630

Freelance job I did while back that never madeit out the door. It was a great opportunity to work with my friend Tom. The total job was about 3 days and some hours with a bit of back and forth.]]> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:36:31 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396910

My first hit on designing a space race for the Earth and Beyond game. I went for a bunch of varieties so the Art Director can choose a direction in which to go in. It was all done in PhotoShop with the metalox_01 texture overlayed over the whole thing. Total working time this piece was about 3 hours.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:49:18 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396911

This was the first attempt at an alien design with a direction in mind. I was given a concet sketch from the AArt Director and instructed to take it further. It was all done in PhotoShop with some texture overlays.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:52:15 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396912

This was the first attempt with the same alien design for Earth and Beyond as my previus posts but with my own original spin on it. The Art Director wanted me to try doing it my way just to see what it would look like. He liked it a lot and the design stuck for the final look. It was all done in PhotoShop with metal overlay.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:57:12 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396913

This was a vaiation on the Vrix alien design for EA's Earth and Beyond. After the look was finalized I was given the room to create variations with the same feel as the established shapes and color permitted. It was done all in PhotoShop with metal overlay. Total working time was about 6 hours.]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:00:45 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374026

This is a screen of an in-game space station I did for Earth and Beyond. All the textures were 256 X 256 pixels. The whole model was 2K polys. All the shaders were all done in OGL with UV animations and multipass rendering. The model was made in Maya, rigged in 3DS MAX, and textureed in PhotoShop.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:34:57 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374027

A detailed shot of the previous image. ]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:36:19 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374028

More of the same. This model has an added avantage of having a state change when characters scored goals with each other and lights would come on and off that were controlled through a script.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:39:16 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374004

Concept art I'm doing for myself in PhotoShop. This was in the course of a couple of hours while watching anime.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:01:53 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/374007

More self concepting. ]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:10:22 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/448730

This concept was done for the game Azurik: Rise of Peratia. It took about 3 hours to do from a scanned drawing. I didn't know what the hell I was doing at the time so it had sort of a cheap finish to the whole look of the piece, but I do like the nostalgic feeling of it being such a primative painting.]]> Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:50:27 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/448731

This was also another creature designed for Azurik. The final piece actually took me 2 days to do as I never painted the effects of transparent fire before and took m all that time to figure out.]]> Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:53:31 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/373996

Old game art I did and rerendered in Maya.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:39:19 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/398148

This was an in-game model for XBox. I was all modeled from scratch in Maya and texture in PhotoShop. The texture was completely hand painted sight unseen until export time to OpenGL. The final time for modeling and texturing with Maya 3.0 was about a week.]]> Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:40:15 +0000 http://nghia59.cgsociety.org/gallery/396920

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More old game art I rerendered in Maya. This one's about 2k polys.]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 11:40:19 +0000