Dungeon

Painted this for a painting class at school. I am not really experienced in painting with acrylics, but I had fun. I usually draw only characters so I wanted to push myself to paint an environment and use a different colour scheme than usually.

Schoolwork: Airship Study Room

This was done back in early 2011, we had to model and render a hotel room. I though a hotel room would be kinda boring so figured I make a sort of study room inside an airship. During this project I learned a lot about lighting in 3ds Max and also hipoly modeling and materials. In the end I didn't have time to make all the models/details I was going to make, so maybe I'll come back to it later...
(I think especially the ceiling area and the carpet needs more work, also thought about putting another airship in the background)
Once again everything done in Max and Photoshop.

Making of: 222

This was for the ImagineFX weekly challenge and the job was to design a robot which would replace infantry. I designed this android which was partly (subconsciously) inspired by Iron man designs. The actual sketch came around very quickly and I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't have to modify it much anatomically (usually my sketches seem fine but when I scan them I have to draw them all over again because of all the errors :D ). 
 After scanning I painted on top of the sketch in grayscale and also did some linework. After that came all the coloring and textures. I didn't have time to paint a background in that short competition time, so I used a simple, boring gradient ramp. After the challenge I did the background in 3ds Max, placed the android painting on a plane as a texture and worked a long time trying to get the perspective right. After that I rendered the background and modified it heavily in Photoshop so that it didn't feel too out of place with the android. I am pleased with the outcome, even though I now see some design errors :).


Final image can be found here:  http://zubasa.deviantart.com/#/d3jkcnu

old project: Arctic Mayhem

Arctic Mayhem from EImo on Vimeo.


 This was a school project I did with my friend in 2009. My job was to conceptualize, model and texture everything. I think it took about 3-4 months work, we we're working in a game studio at the time and worked on the animation in our free time.
It was my first time modeling hipoly so I learned a lot of the progress. Also this was my first project where I learned to use specular maps (though you can't really see it because of the somewhat bland lighting).

Programs I used: 3ds Max 2009 & Photoshop

A newer rendering of the mecha can be found here:
http://zubasa.deviantart.com/art/PROTOTYPE-F-00235-155282777

First post

Hi!
    My name is Juha Koppström and I'm a digital artist from Finland. Currently I'm studying 3d-animation and visualization at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. This is actually my third time starting this blog, but as they say, third time's a charm :).
  I probably post here some abandoned projects and unfinished material, maybe some making of's too. Also I will happily read and answer any comments I receive :).

-Juha