Tactical Combat Diver
Rendering with my own shader in 3ds max 2010.
Used maps are: diffuse, normal, specular (rgb) gloss(a), sss, cubemap. Size of base textures: 2048^2

This character should fit into some near future Arma3 like universe where he would operate over and under water in close quarters.

Sculpting was done in ZBrush. I removed many of the material details (straps) and stitches and instead implemented them later in Photoshop.

Triangles body: 10976
Triangles facial hair: 458

Nikos Older Brother
Triangles: 5884 Texture size: 2048^2

Custom model for Gta4. Rendered in 3ds max 2010.
I wrote an maxscript exporter for the community open file format to get the tangents correct ingame.

The Varlach
This model was made for the Dominance War III.
It placed 13th of 1680 participants.

8997 tris - all
2048x2048 texture (alpha, diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)

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DarFly
This model was made for the 2nd Dominance War.
It placed 9th from 664 participants.

5302 tris - body
884 tris - gun
2048x2048 texture (alpha, diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss, glow)

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The "Varlach" character ran through several design stages.

The different concept steps leading to the final base design from where the first modeling process starts.

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At the bottom you can see on of the various concept sheets.
Even if the head looks quite simple, many different versions where drawn first, to nail the wanted look.

The image on the right shows two different head versions worked out in ZBrush.

The big image shows the lowpoly with applied normalmap and baked AO.

Designing the wings and the head of the "DarFly" character.

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Zomby soldier
1314 tris - body | 256x512 diffuse texture | 196 tris - helmet | 128x128 diffuse texture

Alien Jedi
1472 tris | 512x512 diffuse texture

Power suite
680 tris | 512x512 diffuse texture

Battlemechs
The picture is an in-game screenshot from Mechcommander 2, where I'm using them as custom models.
The mechs below are animated and designed by me.

1284 tris | 256x256 diffuse texture | animation length: 30 frames - 24fps

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1048 tris | 128x128 diffuse texture | animation length: 30 frames - 24fps

The diorama was created in the CryENGINE 3 Free SDK.

Everything except the car wrecks and the fire particle effect is done by me.

Lower right: this picture is a fake advertisement for a MechWarrior Online hero mech. Was quite fun to make ;)

Pine tree: 1470 triangles and one 512x512 for the trunk and one 512x512 for the branches.

Fir tree: 324 triangles and one 256x256 texture.

Lowpoly with normalmap (2048x2048)

Lowpoly (10280 tris) wireframe shot

VOX:
I've created this model because I wanted to work on some human proportions, after all these creatures for the DominaceWars.

Also I wanted to create a character who's carrying a lot of equipment.
So I could experiment with different texture techniques to create the look of the different Materials. I'm also using my own shader here.

11114 tris - all
1024x1024 body texture (diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)
1024x1024 props texture (alpha, diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)

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With the "VOX" character I've tried the "down-shrinking" of a normalmapped model to a lower polycount and reduced texture size.

This model uses only 3846 triangles for everything and a 512x512 diffuse texture - compared to the 11114 tris and 1024x2048 texture of the normalmapped version.

Wires of the normalmapped and the diffuse map only model

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The finished highpoly Model of the "VOX" character.

The lower left image shows the baked normal map with AO and simple colours.

The "VOX" character was converted to a "very lowpoly" version.
Also the Textures where baked down to a smaller texture with some uv adjustments.

The lower picture row shows the workflow from the first bake to the final texture.

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Sketches where used to get a general idea of the model and the paint over concept helps to define all the tiny details while modeling the base mesh.

The Dwarf is roughly based on a sketch by minze. Check out his fantastic work!

806 triangles for the dwarf body + 92 for the beard and 52 for the helmet.
60 triangles for the pickaxe and
106 triangles for the bomb.

Triangles total: 1116.

One hand painted 512x512 texture for the dwarf, one 256x128 for the beard and a 256x256 for the helmet .
For the pickaxe and the bomb together one 256x256 with some space left for more items

Animations

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Dr. Oct the hero of the puzzle game octolab
He's using 808 triangles for the body and 484 for the backpack.

Body and backpack using each one hand painted 512x512 texture.

This is my 2nd Fallout3 custom model. Here I've tried to match the style of the game and design a retro scifi suit. I call this group of scientist "New America" because they try to reestablish America based on their scientific research.

The basemesh was done in max.

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Highpoly - shot from Zbrush

Screengrab of the lowpoly with textures in max 2010.

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7476 tris - all
1024x1024 texture (diffuse, normalmap, specular)

This environment practice is based on a concept of an public art test, provided by Splash Damage.

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This model is my personal custom model for Team Fortress 2.
It's completely functional in-game and ready for online playing.

5874 tris - all
textures: 1024x1024 (body) + 1024x512 (gear) / diffuse (50% smaller: specular-, exponent- and normalmap )

ZBrush sculpt for an Airborn fan art character

different props for the white-face-demon-game

Tak:
This model was some kind of a test for mixing several clichés into one character.
He should look familiar but also unique.
Mixing clichés is a very useful technique for this purpose.

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I'm using here my custom made "toon" and fur shader, both build with shaderFX.
You can find the shader here.

13402 tris - all
1024x1024 body texture (diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)
1024x1024 props texture (diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)
512x512 props2 texture (alpha, diffuse, normalmap, specular, gloss)

Different production images from the "Tak" Character.

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The wireframe shot.
Note: The fur ist generated by a fur shader. That's why you can't see the wires there.

Here are a bunch of lowres models I did for various games as custom models for myself.

My first model I created to plug into Fallout3, a really great game. Concept was thumb sketching.

The character is a cyborg who was once a normal human but got injured by radiation. A vaults medlab was able to recreate him.

Zbrush shots from the highpoly model.

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3ds max screengrab and on the right an ingame shot of the model.
9918 tris - all
1024x1024 texture (diffuse, normalmap, specular)