Here is my asset sheet for my pillar in that level clipping I previously posted. For those who don't know how exactly a game engine or 3D program works, I'll explain from left to right top to bottom. and those of you who do know can skip to the next paragraph or simply gaze at the picture. Left top is the in game model, what the asset looks like while you're playing the game. Next to it is a Diffuse Map, or color map. The term has recently been switching around so I decided to use both. Its what your asset will basically look like. Next to that is the Specular map, which basically tells you what places are going to be shiny, how shiny, and what color shine its going to have. Then, next to that, is the Normal Map. The normal map is an RGB image that basically lets the computer read depth on the object. It won't actually give depth TO the object but it will cause the illusion that it has that depth. On the bottom left is the material set up for this asset in the UDK engine. This is how the engine knows what maps do what, and if they get masked off, and how to read them. There is also where you add cool effects like glowing and distortion if you want to. And last but not least is the Height map. This is simply how I generated my normal map in Photo Shop with the Nvidia Normal Map filter. I hope you now get the basic idea of why I needed these for turn, if not feel free to ask.
I generated my normal, specular, and height map in Photo Shop using different filters and layers to get the look I wanted. Due to the fact my Diffuse/Color map had so much detail I felt it was better to generate it in photoshop rather than ZBrush so that all my dents and bumps would match up exactly.
Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed the technical side of my Pillar
Okay, so I drew an herbivore creature...So now, I decided to draw a predator from the same environment. A nocturnal, feline, pack hunting predator. The Yelt is a small cat like creature that has 6 radial claws on the front paws, and 5 radial claws on the hind paws for easy climbing through dense jungle. The front paw has a rear talon, much like raptor or bird of prey. Yelts attack from the canopies gliding down with front paws, rear talon out. They have a small rounded tail that is a lighter color that the rest of their body, and is used for signaling the rest of the pack like a deer. Unlike a normal cat with the nose on the front of the snout, they have a larger nose the takes up a majority of the snout and is its main way to track its prey. Its eyes are hard and luminescent, more like ocular stones making it near impossible to blind. It relies on scent and sight more than hearing, and evolution has rendered it deaf, the ears are a defense making passers by assume it can hear them walking by. More drawings should be up soon, I hope to make a character sheet for it as well.
Here is the concept sheet we had to do for class. 3 silhouettes, 3 orthographic and 3 different color pallets. A short bio, name, and RGB numbers corresponding with a color key. Still debating if I want to change up my main color scheme or not. 
Here is an idea for a light practical to use in my atlantis level. I'll probably model a few logs or sticks to put in the top then put a fire particle in it to make it look nifty. 
For our first lab we were to make an under 500 tri count animal. Got bored and did it for homework^_^ hope its up to their standards when I get to lab wednesday morning. 
Today for a class exercise, we were given a picture of a wolf and told to draw it out in polygon primitives. For those of you not 3D savvy, thats basic 3d shapes like cubes, cones and spheres.
Here is a screen shot of the High Res model of the lady balance statue. Done completely in ZBrush. Started with ZSpheres and then built up from there.
Decided to start working on assets for my Atlantis scene, here is a screen shot of the high res and low res of the model. After this last week of classes I'll have a few days to relax and work on the textures for it and hopefully make a few more assets. Low resolution model made in Maya, high resolution model was sculpted in ZBrush.
The very rough concept for my Focal object for one of my classes. Done in Photoshop 4/14/10.I will be posting my progress on my model as soon as I get enough done on it for it to resemble the actual statue. I intend to use this in my Atlantis scene with the portal. 
Some concept art for a scene I intend to work on. Done in photoshop 4/14/10 during some spare time in lab. I've been calling it the Atlantis Portal for lack of a better name.
