Tag: Science Fiction
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Lightsaber Suspended
The saber in full detail. The saber glows in the face of advancing imperial forces. Luke’s saber hilt, screen accurate down to the oil and dirt on the handle. A peaceful town in the outer rim. The saber evaporates the ground water as it slices through the mud and muck. The courtyard is deserted before…
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Darth Vader: ROTJ Screen Accurate VRChat Avatar
Full breakdown of design (Combat animation at the end!!!) Screen AccurateAsymmetry & Detailing Hero Prop accurate Saber hilt Fully Rigged • PBR Textures • Game Ready • VR Chat • CompatibleVR Optimized A commissioned VRChat Avatar, the goal was simple: Create the most accurate and realistic Darth Vader model, then make it run in VR.…
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The last refuge ~ Blender 3.0 Cycles X
The last refuge for the survivors, if they make it on time. Blenders amazing adaptive subdivision (tessellation) meant this screen was super simple to direct and manage while giving me full creative control through procedural texturing. A scene I modeled to put Cycles X through its passes! Imagined as an old cave tunnel that has…
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Tantive IV: Modular Hallway
The full Tantive IV Corridor form a new hope, screen accurate. The airlock and screen accurate wall layout. The hallway broken down into it’s component parts The full Modular Hallway Kit A screen accurate and VR ready Tantive 4 modular kit! I designed it to seamlessly work for all use cases from VR games to…
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Alternate Realities Pwnisher Challenge
The full ‘cinematic cut’ of my Alternate Reality The hover dolly doing it’s thing, beatup, old, but still reliable Hover Dolly by MattMurch on Sketchfab The hover dolly was one of the biggest focuses in preparing for the competition. I wanted to creat a wholly original design that felt like an antique. Alternate Realities Challenge…
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Luke’s Lightsaber
Emmiter and hilt details Luke’s Lightsaber – ROTJ & Expanded Universe by MattMurch on Sketchfab 3D view of the lightsaber The hilt of the lightsaber The activator and grip Matcap details Happy star wars day, and May the 4th be with you! Inspired by Adam Savage’s Tested video on making lukes saber hilt, I started…
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Hollow-belly Cargo Ship (Realtime)
The Praclarush, a hollow belly cargo ship, in orbit around Neptune. The design is meant to be highly functional, large cargo space, high visibility for the bridge, powerful thrusters, and lower engines to control hovering and orbit. With these design goals defined, the ship takes a strong, grounded shape. The volumetric lighting in Eevee really…
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Modbox: Drone Defense
Defend the ruined mining outpost from waves of drone attackers. This level has fantastic hiding holes, sniper positions, and enough unique paths to keep you on your toes. Plus a ruined space-industrial aesthetic with ship crashes, lunar pipelines, and vegetation labs. This is another level based on initial designs by Lee Vermeulen. I kept the…
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Gunhead: Bridge Characters
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Gunhead: Drone
A close up of the drone’s armament. The drone deployed in space for visibility testing Early concept for an asymmetrical wing configuration The final concept that we moved forward with The rear ammo box and propulsion of the drone The drone deployed in profile for look devWhile at Alientrap I was tasked with bringing the…
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Gunhead: Boss Trophy Case and Skulls
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Gunhead: Airlock
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Lightsaber Suspended (WIP)
A study in environmental complexity: Steam form evaporation, melting from blade heat, fog rolling in, and vegetaion at all scales. The saber cuting through the ground. Not much can stop a light saber. The oppression of the Sith marches on, Who will save this town? The courtyard was fully detailed with vertext splatting used to…
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BC-304 (WIP) 2021 Update
The bridge of the BC-304 Realtime battle cinematic in Unity Rendered lighting test Multiple views of the BC-304 HMS Hadfield 3/4 view Greeble and details on the model Greeble close up Rear silhouette Roles: Modeling, Lighting, Texturing, Look Dev, Research The goal is to match, end eventually exceed the level of detail shown on the…
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Stargate Day 2019 sneak peek
The recent upgrades to Unity and Blender really made this project possible. From blenders improved performance for high poly modeling and sculpitng, to Unity’s HDRP, Timeline, Shadergraph and VFX graph. Using Unity’s High Definition render Pipeline has made it possible to achieve amazing lighting and atmosphere really quickly and consistently. My Stargate model has been…
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Terrorarium: Gardener’s ship bridge
The bridge of the Gardener’s ship. A warm, welcoming space where most of the Terrorarium story is told. The direction for the ship bridge was like a kind old grandmother’s home, but set in a UFO. Everything form the hand drawn wallpaper design, to the Victorian-era flower illustrations was created or selected to communicate the…
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Terrorarium: Pre-Rendered Cinematics
Roles: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Environment Artist, Texture Artist, Animator, Look Developer, Concept Artist I was brought on by Stitch Media to create all of the Terrorarium pre-rendered cinematics. That meant working from the original narrative scripts and building everything from scratch. I created storyboards, modeled the required environments, created new shaders, textures, animations, and choreographed…
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HW-10mm Enforcer Sidearm
WH-10: Enforcement Sidearm by MattMurch on Sketchfab WH-10: Enforcement Sidearm. Designed for first person games, with a grounded futuristic design. The HW-10 is designed with simplicity and functionality front and centre. Intuitive iron sights mean officers can aim quickly, and can watch their aim in peripheral vision thanks to the high vissibility alignment dots. The…
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The Zoopercar
The Modern Zoopercar: Tribute to George Shrinks by MattMurch on Sketchfab Sketchfab 3D view with animation Flying away for another adventure! Roles: Modeler, Texture Artist, Animator, Technical Artist Here is my vision of a ‘realistic’ Zoopercar. Modeled and animated in Blender 3D, textured in Substance Painter, then rendered in Cycles.
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RCSP Arrowhead
Beauty render showing the ‘renegade’ colour scheme. Modular Interior was created with attention to detail and plausible functionality. Roles: Modeler, FX Artist The RCSP Arrowhead is a versatile patrol ship with speed, weapons and sensors to patrol and protect the outer colonies without support for months. Home to a crew of three, this ship is…
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Docking Sim: High Realism Mundane Space Simulator
Workflow allows for gorgeous graphics with Unity’s deferred lighting engine. High fidelity “Face Weighted” models run perfectly in realtime or low end commuters. Using the ‘Face Weighted Normals’ workflow to increase visual fidelity without effecting the rendering overhead, Tri-Planar tiled materials allow for unbelievable close-up texture resolution. Roles: Game Designer, Modeler, Programmer, Shader Artist, Animator…
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SwapBox V1
SwapBox’s environment mixes organic and mechanical to create an atmosphere of unease and mystery. Swap Buttons by MattMurch on Sketchfab Buttons are your interface to the mechanical control of SwapBox’s environment. SwapGun by MattMurch on Sketchfab The SwapGun is your key to the world of SwapBox. I chose it’s mix of materials to reflect the…
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Terraformers: Space Command – Release Trailer
A spider mech takes on the slime The tri-station passes by the Terraformers logo The tri-station watches over the battleground. Aliens on the move. The tri-station passes by the Terraformers logo. Aliens attack the resource extractor. The tri-station passes by the Terraformers logo. A sniper mech and hover mech stand guard. Roles: Cinematographer, Technical Artist,…
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Daedalus: Sniper of the skies
A hero unit from the upcoming game Terraformers, Daedalus is a lethal sniper with the eyes of a craftsman.
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Terraformers Planetary Environment Art
When I cam on board my tasks grew form 3D Artist/Animator to Technical Artist as I ran them through the basics of PBR, introduced Substance Painter and setup easily replicateable systems and workflows for 3D content creation.