THE PORTFOLIO OF HEIKKI PAULAHARJU
I created a dancing dude for a party out of the character I made earlier. At the party, this was projected on the wall and on screens while I was playing records.
For this I used the 3D model, I created earlier, and added in Mixamo bones and some breakdance animations. Imported those into Unity and built an app out of it. Recorded a video of the application. Definitely, not the most straightforward way to do this, but had very little time, and it did the trick.
The name and theme is still a secret. We recently updated Unity URP to HDRP – so, there will be more atmospheric effects. Here are some pics from the development.
I visited Tytyri mines, and got inspired by a mining vehicle. Made a rigged 3D model which has some similarities to it.
I first sculpted a new head in the 3D Coat. I then did a re-topo and integrated it with the previous body. I sculpted the original again and smoothed seams, etc.
Finally did a re-topo for the whole mesh. Added bones and animations to it in Mixamo.
After creating the marketing material, we in the development team found that more dramatic clouds are needed. We also decided to drop the interior and just leave the cloudy backdrop.
There is still some refinement to do with the slider design. These images also have some controls that are meant for the mobile version in the view.
Here’s the result
Name of the game has been changed again to: “Beat me!”.
There were a number of changes in this. First of all, the Covid character needed to be changed a bit more vicious/joyful. Then I tried to add in bones into it, to make it animated in some of our trailers. Early versions were built in such a haste, that I had to re-create the 3D model again.
Here are a few versions of the main masthead image:
Me and a small group of developers & gaming enthusiasts decided to create a game. Our first game together is getting close to be released. Here are some images and a video of its current state.
We are planning to release it on Steam, Windows and Android.
We changed the Basic idea of the game to be: “Beat the Covid”. I created a Covid 19 character.
I made sketches of a dude character and then made a 3D model based on the sketched plans.
I took photos of old (slightly rusty) railroad engines at the Railroad Museum in Adelaide, Australia. I used those photos for textures of two of these dudes.
