Interface practice

As I come back to the real world after a year at Microsoft, It's nice to just re-visit some old ideas and concepts. Posting some interface updates as I get back to design and 3D. Look for some more updates later this week.

A game fighting game interface.

A flight sim game interface.

A redesign of a well known site trying to make it more organized or user friendly. Providing more information on one page where there is already so much going on.

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Forkin' Orks Character work.

By Brett Somers on 11:25 PM

Forkin Orks, was a fun project. Full of hand painting, modeling and texturing for me. The main concept of the project was a hack and slash with an old farmer as the main character. The farmer uses a special pick fork that transforms based on combos and killing of a group of orcs. Full of crazyness, but fun all the same. I was tasked with designing, modeling and texturing the characters of the game, in the span of two days. Easier said than done, but done none-the-less. I was pretty happy with the end result but may go back later and touch em up.

Early Concepts

Low poly models. Both roughly around 1200 tris

Textured models and texture sheets.

I also got to do the fully animated farmer moves and a bit of concept art of the endscreen where your stats are posted.

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Zombie Defense on Windows Phone

By Brett Somers on 11:13 PM

Yes there's a Bieber zombie.

A long time ago, or so it seems, myself and Ed Altorfer decided we wanted to make a game... in a weekend. Zombie Defense was that brain child. It was a quick and easy game, 2D and my first game published on a mobile device, the Windows Phone to be exact. For 0.99 cents i think its a pretty decent buy. Either way, I was the lead (only) artist with Ed the lead (only) programmer, lol.

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Crystal Caves project.

By Brett Somers on 10:49 PM

Another school project that was forever ago. "Impact", was a fun little platforming and scavanging project. The player goes around an abondoned little city and drills crystals for energy while trying to find pick ups. For this project, I was in charge of making assets, concepting and texturing. The crystals below were especially fun to texture.

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Old Projects - COG

By Brett Somers on 8:18 PM

"Cog" an old project that a group of other students and myself worked on was interesting. I had come on for its final leg, and thus never got to do any of the pre-production work. For the project, I was one of the main character modelers and general assets modeler and texture artist. The project was pretty, but gameplay wise unsuccessful and buggy. Project done in Unity.

Concept and original model done by Jame McDonald

Original concept by James McDonald

I think James concepted this one as well.

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Looking back as I move forward

By Brett Somers on 6:22 PM

Seeing as there is only one more quarter left for me at the art institute, I wanted to find a way in which i could stay in contact with the many people who inspire me and I aspire to be like as artists. There are tons of talented people I have met in the last 3 years and I want to be able to at least keep tabs on their current work while post mine, so blogging seems appropriate.
Seeing as this is my first of (hopefully) many posts, I'll start with a brief description of my intended blogging purposes. My name is Brett Somers, I'm 21 years old and I'm a current student in the 3D game art and design field. My aspirations and goals revolve around finding a promising job in the game field and I especially love working on modeling characters and assets, with a high attention to texture detail. Handpainted, referenced textures are something I really want to get better at and are definitely my main focus at the moment.
The following is just a sample of the stuff I've done over the last three years, any and all things being related to projects, homework or just general free time. Comments, critiques and questions are always appreciated. Without further ado, art...