Kevin Luther

Update

2010-04-24T19:46:00.001-05:00

Wow, I haven't updated this in a year. Oh my. Well, time to start fresh. In the year since my last update, I have been doing multiple things. I still write poems and stories, as well as do a bit of game developing, but I have also expanded my horizons to composing music and making videos. I don't have any professional experience in these two fields as I do with writing and game development, but I am really confident in the work and hope to evolve more in these fields. If you would like to see what I have been working on, here are some links for you to take a look at. My old links are included as well.

Photoshop Work

Music

Videos

I do not currently have a website for game development, but I will work on getting one set up.

That is pretty much what is going on as of now. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me at disturbedstricken@sbclgobal.net.

Graphic Work

2009-05-28T08:48:00.000-05:00

I am very big into graphic designing. I use Adobe Photoshop a lot. I make many signatures for forums and I also have made banners. I made flyers as well for bands, and promotional pieces also. I plan on expanding into web pages. Here is a link to my photobucket where you can see all the work I have done:

My Artwork

Above is a sample signature I made for my clan forum for the Xbox 360.

Cryochamber model for Extraterrestrial: A Crysis Mod

2009-04-30T01:00:00.000-05:00

For our Game Studio I class, we are creating a mod for Crysis. Ours is called Extraterrestrial. You are and alien that was captured by the USEM (United States Extraterrestrial Militia). Upon leaving your cryochamber to go to the infirmary for shots, you manage to escape. Your commander contacts you and tells you that you NEED to get off that planet. You must fight your way through the military base, Fort Marcum, to get to the launch pad and escape. One of the models that is needed to be made for the game was a cryochamber, and it was my job to make it. Here are the two versions I have. Which one we will use, I am not sure, but this is what I made, using 3D Studio Max.

Low Poly Keyboard

2009-02-16T10:24:00.001-06:00

As required for an assignment, I had to create a low poly model and animate it. I chose a keyboard. It was pretty simple, although the keys texture did not come out as well as I hoped. Check out the video.

The Sickness/Parasytic Studios

2009-02-12T17:30:00.000-06:00

The Sickness
Parasytic Studios

I have shown some of the work I have done, now it is time to show you what I am doing. I have organized a team of Flashpoint Academy students, which we came to name Parasytic Studios (also posted above), to work on a Doom 3 mod called 'The Sickness'. It is a First Person Survival Horror PC game. The game features a character named Steven who must fight against the beings from hell to save his town, and possibly the world.

There is not much modelwise on the site for the game, but our modeler is hard at work creating props for the game and has about 4 or 5 done. Our design team, consisting of 3 members (which I am a part of), is working beautifully on getting the Formal and Dramatic Elements of the game. We are also close to finalizing the script for the game. We also have a Sound Effects guy, and a Composer for our game. We also just recruited 2 concept artists to draw characters for our modeler to work on. We are also working on getting a programmer, as our game will require a lot of new code and modified code for the game.

We don't have a set date for release, but we are hoping to get it released by the end of May. If not, our team will be meeting at the school over the summer break to work on the game. I enjoy working with these guys because they are very dedicated and love the job they are doing. This is my first time leading a mod, as well as my first time working with Level Design and Programming (as well as writing), which are things I really enjoy doing.

Alternate Desk Texture

2008-12-04T09:26:00.000-06:00

I messed around with attempting to create a wood texture and i think it came out pretty good. I needed to add it to a model so I decided to add it to my desk. I like how it looks. I added the word "fate" to the maps to make it look as if someone scratched it on the desk.

Crate

2008-11-20T20:47:00.001-06:00

Another model I made for the game I am modeling for. There will be other sets of this as I finish them, but here is what I have so far. The process I went through to get this was pretty simple if you know 3DS Max. I created my square primitive, inset the top, then extruded it down. After that, I created a smaller square primitive, rotated it to the angles I needed, then placed it so that is was sticking out both faces of one side of the model. I copied them over till I had a row, then copied the row down to create basically a full pallet of squares. I copied and moved the pallets to each side and then used ProBoolean to delete the squares and the area the squares penetrated. I did the same process for the handles but I made a box, beveled it, then used ProBoolean again.

Barrels

2008-11-20T20:40:00.000-06:00

These are a set of Barrels I modeled. A team I am on is working on a game and I am modeling some props for it. This was my first experience with texturing versus using basic colors in the material editor. I used specular and bump maps.

Desk

2008-11-20T20:36:00.001-06:00

This is the second model I did in 3DS Max, and the revised render is above it. They were both made out of one primitive, and the second one I beveled the base instead of keeping it square.

First 3DS Max model

2008-11-20T20:30:00.000-06:00

This is the first model I ever did in 3DS Max. My name was made out of primitives as required for a school assignment and I made a flash drive as well. The drive is 6 primitives, with the base being inset and extruded out to make the metal area of the drive. I created the square holes by creating a square and using the ProCut tool.