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Admiral's 3D Models

This is a collection of 3D models created by Admiral in his spare time, because he has always had a fascination with videogames and virtual dimensional representation of different artistic ideas. Typically, Admiral's best models are formed as the result of collaboration with other Artists. Admiral wishes to send a big thanks out to those who inspire and work with him on these pieces!

About the technologies used to create and the models:

Admiral uses Blender 3D to create the meshes of the models. Occasionally he'll break out Photoshop on the texmap of one of the models for certain fine-tuning tasks, but the majority of the work of creating the texmaps is done in Blender as well. The models are exported from Blender and saved in COLLADA format for display on the web. For the viewer that is used to display the models and allow users to rotate them interactively in 3D on the web, Admiral uses a custom viewer that he developed using Adobe Flash, ActionScript 3 and the Open Source Papervision3D framework.

Trent's Devil Guy [Beta]

Posted by Admiral at 2010-02-21 15:48:07

Sketch:	Original drawing by Trent Call
Model:	3D model by Admiral
Texmap:	Texture map created by Admiral
Description:	Trent Call, the artist of the character shetch for this piece, is a professional artist who's work spans many mediums, and many styles. One day when Admiral was visiting Trent in his studio, Admiral suggested that it would be a lot of fun to make a model(and subsequently, a toy) of one of Trent's 1920s style characters. No less than two days later, Admiral was ecstatic to find this character sketch in his inbox, ready to start modeling. A bit about the character itself: Don't let the apparent innocence of this character's Candy-Corn nose, Mickey Mouse gloves and 1920s cartoon style fool you; in some of Trent's other works, this character has been seen boozing it up from bottles labeled with no fewer than 3 Xs, and smoking stogies of questionable content. When asked about the character's origins and intentions, Trent is quoted as saying: "I don't know. He's just some devil guy I draw. Just some cool dude, you know?" Due to far too much life chaos, this particular model had been put on the back burner for almost 5 months since it's start date. At long last, this model has reached it's Beta phase! Only bones, posing, and a bit of texmap tweaking by Trent remain before this one is complete. Expect to see this one in a certain Shapeways store soon! Admiral's time-log on this particular model was as follows: 2009-09-26 - 12:00 - 12:15 - 0.25 Photoshop prep, Blender scene setup 2009-09-26 - 15:00 - 16:30 - 1.50 Starting the model; Working on the upper body minus arms, face, head, hat 2009-09-29 - 18:15 - 19:30 - 1.25 A little body cleanup, working on the Arms & Hands (Mostly the hands) 2009-10-01 - 17:15 - 17:30 - 0.25 Working on the hands and arms 2009-10-01 - 17:30 - 19:15 - 1.75 Starting work on the Legs & Feet(Mostly on the Shoe-Laces) 2009-10-01 - 19:15 - 19:30 - 0.25 Misc tweaks & hacks, fine-tuning a bunch of stuff 2009-10-04 - 13:15 - 15:30 - 2.25 Misc tweaks, adding Bow-tie, UV Un-wrapping 2009-10-04 - 16:15 - 17:15 - 1.00 Taking Trent's feedback, teaching him a little bit about painting in Blender 2010-02-21 - 06:00 - 11:00 - 5.00 Noting a bit of time-tracking loss, estimating hours spent on the following: Implementing Trent's feedback on creating the teeth, making decent looking quad implementations of added teeth, doing semifinal AO bake 2010-02-21 - 12:30 - 15:30 - 3.00 Creating and coloring a texmap

Tags: 3d model | character | humanoid | old-timey | trent call

Chantell's Dragon

Posted by Admiral at 2010-01-10 14:26:43, Originally created at 2009-07-04 10:40:49

Sketch:	Original concept and drawing by Chantell Hager
Model:	3D model by Admiral
Texmap:	Texture map created by Admiral, an extrapolation of a projection from Chantell's drawing
Description:	A Dragon! Yeah! It's awesome! This model reminds many people of a Phoenix, but it is actually a Dragon. Chantell giggles at the little nubs that she has drawn on this cute little guy instead of normal feet.