Joel's Awesome Stuff

I maintained this blog throughout my time at university, and since then I have continued working to improve my skills and capabilities using...

I've been developing the mesh for the alien model to be used in the animation. I've made it very long because it will stand uprig...

The modelling for the poltergeist I'm a little more comfortable with as I've modelled a humanoid model before, and drawing from tha...

This is the nightmare model, rigged with joints in it's upright posed. It is posed resembling a snake or a cobra in it's attac...

Whilst I've dabbled in the textures and bump maps used for the environment, here are the ones for the character models. Once...

I don't particularly like the modelling phase, but I like the animating. This is the poltergeist after he was given a skeleton...

In the end, this is what I produced. I, at least, put effort into it to warrant confidence enough to win. Unfortunately that wasn't...

Unfortunately one of the things I couldn't find out from the rules section of the contest was whether we could submit more than o...

http://community.riftgame.com/en/2014/04/02/rift-concept-art-contest/ I have decided to enter this competition. But before I got started, ...

A game that I found on kickstarter a while back that caught my attention, called Kingdom Come; Deliverance, proves the power that people-pow...

A simple looking game with immensely complex systems and variables in place, Banished has kept me occupied for many hours - sometimes overni...

Wildstar and Elder Scrolls Online are the two latest triple-A MMO games that have been released, or in Wildstar's case, will soon be rel...

These are two speed paints I did, each of which was produced in under half an hour. The first one was on the theme of 'Bat out o...

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ This pixel art by Mark Ferrari is brilliantly done. It cycles through different times of the...

Another series of guides to drawing, this time focusing on an anatomy. I can't find the artist to credit them unfortunately...

Here are some of the custom brushes I've been using for a while. Some of them are ones I have made such as the mountains, whereas o...

In producing the practical work that tied into the written work of my dissertation, I produced several characters from different initial ...

Blizzard recently released a video which was inclusive of some detail into how they produce their models. Most of...