Twindragons Blog

Game Artisan mini comps.

2008-11-27T01:27:00.000-08:00

Here are two finished mini comps that I participated in at Gameartisans.org. The first mini comp was to recreate an existing game franchise character as a zombie. One of my favorite games from back in the 90's was Teenage mutant ninja turtles: turtles in time so I chose Raphael. The second was the first mini sculpting competition at GA.. I didn't have much time to work on him so I quickly did up a base mesh in xsi and sculpted him in my Zbrush class...about 2 hours of work.

Posting finally.

2008-11-16T21:06:00.000-08:00

I take forever to post on my blog so starting today I am going to post on it as much as I can. you will see more models from me as well.

Resume

2008-06-26T22:05:00.000-07:00

Trent Trombley

196 Brighton Rd

V1X 6V4 Kelowna, BC

Home: 250-491-2028 Cell: 250-575-1670

trenttrombley@hotmail.com

Objective

To establish an entry level position in the gaming industry and to continually strengthen my abilities.

Skills

Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Premier
3D Studio Max
Softimage XSI 7
Zbrush 3
Maya

Non-professional:

Center for Arts and Technology Kelowna, BC
Modeler, Texture artist May 2005 - May 2006
Worked on modeling, texturing and R & D on an in school mod called blackout mod which can be located at www.blackoutmod.com.

Professional:

Center for Arts and Technology Kelowna, BC
Contract Instructor April 2007 - present
Teach a variety of classes such as Adobe Photoshop CS3, Modeling using Softimage XSI 6.5 and Zbrush 3.

The Real Canadian Superstore Kelowna, BC
Photo Lab Supervisor August 2003 – October 2004
Supervised employees, maintained equipment, filed paperwork.

Hi - Fi Design Phoenix, AZ
Comic book flatter 1999 - 2002
Color flatted comic books to get ready for print.

Education:

Center for Arts and Technology Kelowna, BC
2 year graduate with a diploma in Game Art and Animation. 2004 – 2006
Okanagan University College Kelowna, BC
Three years of fine arts. 1999 - 2002
Quesnel Secondary School Quesnel, BC

High school diploma. 1995 - 1998

Published work:

3D image of the month in the December 2005 issue of 3D World Magazine.

2008-06-25T00:50:00.000-07:00

Might as well post something.

2008-02-01T23:17:00.000-08:00

I almost have all of my low poly assets created with normal maps and ambient occlusion maps. Right now I am finishing up all of the buildings I will need for the canal. I have 3 more to model. The rest need textures and details such as shutters and balconies which I already have modeled I just need to add them to the buildings and change the textures. I will post some of the work I have done so far.

Venice Environment.

2008-01-26T16:34:00.000-08:00

Someone told me that it is easier to get a job in the game industry doing environment work than character modeling. Right now I don't have a job in the game industry and have been wanting one since I got out of school so I decided to try my hand at Environment work. The environment I chose was a canal in Venice Italy. I was drawn to a canal because of all of the detail I could add with all of the old buildings and adding special caustic effects from the water.

This post is a little late in my process so the next post I add will show what I have so far.

Dino wars

2008-01-26T15:55:00.000-08:00

This is my latest finished 3d model. I was inspired by Gears of war and wanted to try my hand at modeling organics with hard surfaces. I wanted to try to model as much detail as I could and I decided that I would do a dinosaur character like the one from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I started out with a base model of the dinosaur creature and brought it into Zbrush. I actually sculpted the whole character in Zbrush but usually I would only sculpt what would be needed such as the arms head and hands but I figured its always good to practice. After the sculpting was done I brought a medium res version of my sculpt into xsi and began building the amour for him. Once the amour was finished then I created a low poly based upon the high poly and created the normal maps and ambient occlusion maps. A little photoshop manipulation and this is the result.

Blog started!

2007-03-22T21:44:00.000-07:00

Well this is my blog. There's not much here right now but in the coming weeks I will try to fill it with projects that im working on as well as tutorials and finished work. Well thats about it be sure to stop by often and hopefully there will be an update fairly soon.