Zach Brackin Modeling Demo Reel 2011

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Here are some examples of modeling. There's the spaceship Serenity model, which was modeled and textured at high detail and then modeled to be used in video games. At the end there's shots of my Serenity model in the Unreal 3 game engine (UDK) along with a couple rodeo environments I did for a canceled project.

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Serenity
• UDK
• Unreal
• Zachary Brackin
• Demo Reel
• Modeling
• Video Games

[darthviper7]

Actually, I had a thought at one time to redo the FX shots in Firefly. Many of them weren't rendered at 1080p and the quality is inconsistent. Also sometimes it switches between two different versions of the Serenity model

Plus, the movie version of the ship that this one is built off of is more detailed anyways.

Don't have the time to do it though. Have too many other things to do (like the inside ;) )

[donpdonp]

Amazing Firefly ship! I was a bit confused with the horse ranch and stadium at the end. What I'd like to see is Firefly *landing* inside the ranch.

[darthviper7]

@donpdonp Hah, this is my portfolio reel, so it's got work from other unrelated projects in there. The rodeo stuff was from a canceled game project.

[cristhianfs]

amazing work man, Joss would be very proud, you should tweet this to @nathanfillion, he may retweet it.

[darthviper7]

@cristhianfs Did someone link this or something? What's with all the attention today?

[PurityandDeath]

@darthviper7 Whedonesque blogged and tweeted it.

[darthviper7]

@PurityandDeath Ah ok. It's kind of funny it just now happened since I've had some of this stuff up for more than a year.

[BlenderHelixAlpha]

i would literally freak out and be very very happy if you were to make a firefly game.

[darthviper7]

Sometimes I build the interior. I'm working on the inside of Serenity, since you should be able to see the inside of the bridge from the front through the windows. If the ship is really big, I would try to avoid having to build the interior, since it would take a lot of time.

For video games, you have to try to keep things low detail so that the game runs as fast as possible. And of course keep them separate.

[ILLIAM003]

Really good work, lots of detail in modeling and texturing. Hope the metal textures I have on my new reel turn out as nice as yours.

[coolstream1]

Pretty bad ass IMO!

You should do all the CGI scenes in Babylon 5 in your free time and then give them to the studio so they can finally release B5 in HD :P

You may also want to consider putting "3D" into the video title...

[Zergblender]

Mass effect 2 music =P

[gossitd]

@darthviper7 I look at the Serenity VFX stuff on YouTube about once a year and post it on Whedonesque. I love this stuff!

[Raycheetah]

Easy to imagine our Big Damn Heroes bein' aboard that shiny ship. Well done! =^[.]^=

[saxmachine7]

This is an incredible model...and the ME2 music is an awesome addition. Well done!

[bytor137]

@darthviper7 ... and the cortex on facebook. : )