Mesh Collective

Taylor rips. Give him a ping he's doing amazing work for Gloomwood currently.

Fixed, thank god for PCGEx 😌

Discovering New and exciting ways to make Pringles in Unreal

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May 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social finishes modelling and rigging our main character!

Behold! The Wanderer in all his final glory!

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That's all folks! Was a fun trip down memory lane doing this breakdown and the response has been encouraging, so will do more in the future!

@ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social is the incredible artist behind all this and everyone should go follow her! 👏 😤

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Here's the final model in Unreal, alongside the wireframe

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May 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social finishes modelling and rigging our main character!

Behold! The Wanderer in all his final glory!

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Just Hank in the glow of the binary sunset 🌅 @sainarayan.bsky.social

Parkour

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Parkour

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PCG explorations

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Here's a more recent concept Rose did for Birdy circa April 2025, and the team loved it, cause of course we did??

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE TOGETHER 😭

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As we continued work on the Wanderer, we started calling our companion character "Birdy" internally and that stuck around!

We pinned down our visual inspiration to L0-LA59 from Star Wars, and Rose started some explorations in that direction

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9 different sketches and concepts for different kinds of robot cat companions

Every hero needs a sidekick, and the Wanderer is no exception!

In the background, @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social explored ideas for companions, here’s a first take we didn't go with

I may have just read "Save The Cat" for the 1st time and gotten too excited

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Here's that same shot with a stylization shader that Substance Painter provides out of the box

An early test for our stylized texturing workflow

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An up-close shot of the Wanderer's torso showing their shirt, a red scarf, and some cloth scraps hanging down from their back behind them

April 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social finishes up retopologizing in Maya and gets to work on texturing and modelling the Wanderer's clothes and accessories

The addition of a "crotch-harness" was a hotly debated topic at this point

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GAZAR on Steam GAZAR is an intense vertical arcade space shooter where you fight against an alien fleet destroying the galaxy. Battle through Story Mode or test your skills in Infinity Mode with 5 difficulty levels ...

GAZAR is an intense vertical arcade space shooter where you fight against an alien fleet destroying the galaxy. - And the demo is live now!^^ (Nextfest demo update coming soon)

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Color explorations

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Some drawovers on top of the low-poly model from above

Explorations for clothes and accessories

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March 2025: @ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social blazes through the high-poly sculpts in ZBrush and then retopologizes the sculpts down to this low-poly guy here in Maya

The mesh is about 50% done, the other 50% is belts & cloth!

Other goodies in the 🧵

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Thanks so much for the kind words! The colors we're going with are still an open question, will drop this in our dev chat!

Some other concepts that were giving Majora's mask vibes

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Some color explorations

Red is classic game protagonist but we personally liked the Blue/Cyan vibes more

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Some outfit and helmet concepts Rose was messing around with

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February 2025: @ProfessorOfSass starts to lock in on the modelling and ZBrush sculpts of our main character

More renders and goodies in the 🧵

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great success

Yooo what

Wip I will probably not finish ~ #durge #bg3

Control rig is crazy, I wanna experiment with some procedural animated mech/loader-bot type stuff next milestone

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Hello World! Messing around with Control Rig

Don't tell our animator ( @maddiebee27) I posted this because she'll eat me

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