Adam Muratoff

After playing Assassin’s Creed 2, I had the notion to design my own… a sort of death-cult assassin. I created all the base meshes in Maya, detailed, poly-painted and rendered in Zbrush. I’ve started using Decimation Master to bring the pieces one at a time into Maya so I can generated my Normal Maps in there. I’ve used UV Master for some of the Pieces, while I find it doesn’t serve well in all situations. Albeit the UV’s are clean, I like to have a bit more control over them than UV Master will allow, but still a very welcome addition to Zbrush.

A Low-Poly Character.

This is The General, a low-poly character design based on the feel of Old-World British Navel military. I created The General using Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop. I gathered reference materials from the internet and compiled a comprehensive library of media that I could draw from at any time.

I began making the base meshes in Maya that I could export to Zbrush for detailing later. Here are a few screen shots showing the Facial Blend Shapes, the Rig I created and the Bind Pose (same as the Base Mesh).

This was the final Zbrush, Hi-Poly model that the Normal, Ambient and Cavity maps were generated from. I think it stands at about 51milllion Polys… which is about all my Macbook Pro can handle before it wants to roll over and die.

These are some closer shots of the Hi-Poly, Zbrush models of The General’s weapons. I researched the style of weapon used during this time period by the British Navy and came up with these designs. These are slightly more elaborate than the samples I found in my reference, but it was an artistic decision to do so.

Here is the Base Mesh created in Maya. I can optimize the weapons further by removing some of the edge loops along the majority of the straight, extended parts like the blade, sheath, rifle barrel and so forth. I created them intentionally straight so it would not effect the UV’s if I did so.

Here are the maps I created for The General, excluding the Cavity Maps. I only use the cavity maps for this type of work to subtly enhance the Color Maps where needed.

Low-Poly Character

This character was heavily inspired by Gears of War and the works of Vitaly Bulgarov. I created most of the base mesh pieces in Maya and some were created using Zspheres. Everything was brought to Maya for Uvs, before being shipped off to Zbrush for detailing. Here are a few shots of the final work.

The rig I created facilitated proper motion of the tubes that are attached to portions of his armor. It’s a little confusing to look at, so I included a few shots to help make things more obvious.

Here is the weapon I made, again inspired by Gears of War.

Here is the Zbrush Hi-Poly model that the Normal, AO, and Cavity maps were generated from.

Here is a shot of the Anatomy I created, before I was certain what the armor would look like.

And finally, here are some of the textures used in these renders.

This is The Seer. She is another Lo-Poly work in progress. Base meshes made in Maya. Some texture and Zbrush detailing have occurred yet, but are still very preliminary.

Low-Poly Character Work In Progress

This is a Female Anatomy Study I did loosely based on the Pin-up girls of earlier generations. Lo-Poly Base mesh made in Maya and detailed in Zbrush. Textures were made in both Zbrush and Photoshop.

Here is a Wire-Framed Render from within Zbrush

Mecha Armor is a Character I began working on, but have temporarily abandoned for other projects. He is one I would like to come back too and complete, but this is what I have so far. The bust and all mechanical parts were modeled in Maya. Hope you like the bare-bones start.

This is an Archangel. I created the entire piece inside of Maya and Photoshop, with only a small amount of help from Zbrush on the Head. This is a Hi-Poly work. I have also Rigged this Character for animation and have yet to post some of my Rigging images and some pose work. The wings, with all those feathers was a particular challenge… not to mention the multi-piece and cumbersome armor.

Hi-Poly Full Front Render with Wings Spread

Hi-Poly Mid Distance with Wings Folded

Hi-Poly, no wings or hair, armor is completed but no compositing here

This is the Hi-Poly Mesh completed, pre textures, lights, etc…

Some initial outfit sketches to get a sense of what I wanted this warrior angel to look like.

This is a Male Anatomy I built around the cannon of proportions for a Super Hero. Base Mesh in Maya and Textured in Zbrush and Photoshop. Zbrush was also used for the surface detailing.

Here’s a very small portion of the type of work I did in 2006 at EA while in their Character Development environment, better know as BodyShop in Burnaby, BC, Canada. I worked on modeling/texturing character heads to player likeness on Fifa 2006 & NBA 2006 for the big, next-gen, Xbox 360 console release. Again, this is a very small portion as I worked on 100’s of characters and these probably are not even the best samples I had, but after recovering from the loss of my computer at the time, it’s what I have left to show. Hope you like ‘em. Thanks.

This was a quick lunch time thing I made in a day or two… not much effort has gone into this at this point, but it has potential to be completed very nicely and used in a small animation. I wanted to do something like a short with some Fighting Sushi’s in a restaurant. Already have a script in mind and some of the other characters… would be hilarious…. jeez, why haven’t I done this yet???

Modeled, textured, rigged/bound, control system all built entirely in 3DS Max.