Ryan Bone’s 3D Art Portfolio
3D Art Showcases
“3 Emotes”
Made during Ryan’s Fall 2022 (9th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Emote” assignment in Professor Grimsby’s GAME 431 Advanced Game Animation I course. Not all art is created by Ryan Bone, see the description below the art for an explanation of what work was made by Ryan or provided by Professor Grimsby.
For the final project of the Advanced Game Animation I course, Ryan had to animate three emotes. Professor Grimsby provided him with the rigged 3D model, and the rest was up to Ryan. He decided to show off a sassy, exaggerated character, as he knew that would be the most fun to animate. Ryan filmed his own references for each of the actions, and this helped him to animate the character with realistic weight shifting throughout the body.
“Stoat Rig and Animations”
Made during Ryan’s Fall 2022 (9th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Quadruped” assignment in Professor Grimsby’s GAME 431 Advanced Game Animation I course. Not all art is created by Ryan Bone, see the description below the art for an explanation of what work was made by Ryan or provided by Professor Grimsby.
For the quadruped assignment, Professor Grimsby tasked Ryan with rigging and animating a quadrupedal animal of his choice. Ryan chose the Stoat, since he believed it would be a fun challenge to animate an animal that was infamous for its stretchy, gelatin-like movement. Using many nature-recorded references, Ryan attempted to make his animations as realistic to the actual floppy actions of a Stoat as possible, including how a Stoat attacks its prey by distracting them with front flips!
“Construction Hammer User Animations”
Made during Ryan’s Fall 2022 (9th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Final Project” assignment in Professor Grimsby’s GAME 431 Advanced Game Animation I course. Not all art is created by Ryan Bone, see the description below the art for an explanation of what work was made by Ryan or provided by Professor Grimsby.
“Construction Hammer User Animations in Unity” 3D Model, Rig, and Codes for the Unity Project provided by Professor Grimsby at George Mason University. Only the animations themselves (and the hammer weapon model) were created solely by Ryan Bone.
For the final project of the Advanced Game Animation I course, Ryan had to animate a character using a weapon held in their hand. Professor Grimsby provided him with the rigged 3D model, and code to put it into Unity, but the rest was up to Ryan. He decided to use a small construction hammer as the weapon, since he believed that it would lend itself to creative uses while animating. Ryan worked hard to make sure the character, though lacking in any visual detail, had a clear and consistent personality that shined through each of the animations. The end result shows a bubbly and energetic character, with cartoonish exaggeration when they put their all into any action.
“3D Art Showcase Level”
Made during Ryan’s Fall 2020 (5th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Final Project” assignment in Professor Grimsby’s GAME 398 Advanced Game Design Animation course. All art is created by Ryan Bone, programming for the level provided by Professor Grimsby.
“Art Showcase Level” [All content made by Ryan Bone except for the programming by Professor Grimsby]
For the final project of Ryan’s Advanced Game Design Animation course, he was tasked with making an original character that would explore either an interior scene or an exterior scene, from scratch. He decided to go all out for this project, making both an interior and exterior area and going above and beyond the requirements, working into the following summer to make every part of the level as polished as possible. Ryan designed the character and level to fit with his typical art style, as he always wanted to see what his art style would look like in 3D. Every visible aspect of this level was created by Ryan, using Unity, 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop, and an XP-Pen tablet.
“Main Character Model Sheet” Digital
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“Character Texture and UV Map” --- This texture is applied to the character model.
“Lacrosse Weapon Texture and UV Map” --- This texture is applied to the character's weapon model.
"Grass Texture" --- This seamless repeating texture is used for grassy areas on the ground covering the areas that surround the school. This texture was painted onto the ground using Unity's terrain system.
"Mud Texture" --- This seamless repeating texture is used for muddy or dirty areas on the ground covering the areas that surround the school. This texture was painted onto the ground using Unity's terrain system.
"Rocky Texture" --- This seamless repeating texture is used for rocky and blacktop areas on the ground covering the areas that surround the school. This texture was painted onto the ground using Unity's terrain system.
"Grass 1 Texture" --- This grass tuft texture is placed on grassy areas using Unity's terrain systems' detail tool. This allows for these tufts of grass to blow in the wind and look more natural.
"Orange Bricks Texture" --- This seamless repeating texture is used for the exterior walls of the school. It can easily be altered to any color, and it was also changed to blue bricks and used for the ceiling of the school building.
"Crack 1 Texture" --- This cracking texture is placed on a transparent plane object, which is then placed on top of other objects within the level to add some detail and uniqueness to certain areas.
"Tree Bark Texture" --- This seamless repeating texture is used for tree bark sections of the various tree models that appear outside the school.
"Tree Top Texture with UV Map" --- This texture, which has multiple versions with various shades of green and height variations for the trees, is applied to the top of tree models that appear frequently outside the school.
"Bush Texture with UV Map" --- This texture, which has multiple versions with various shades of green for the bush, is applied to bush models that decorate the grassy areas outside, but nearby, the school.
"Hair Particle VFX Texture" --- This hair strand texture is used in Unity's particle system, placed on the character's hair. As the character moves, hair strands will fly out of his hair, and the faster he moves, the more hair flies out.
VFX TEXTURES: "Toxic Gas VFX Texture" --- This green, puffy, circular texture is used in Unity's particle system, placed on top of the barrel of toxic waste models that appear behind the school, so that green smoke emits from them.
VFX TEXTURES: "Electric VFX Texture" --- This electricity texture is used in Unity's particle system, placed on the broken lever model that appears on the front gate of the school parking lot, so that electricity emits from its wires.
"Brush Texture with UV Map" --- This texture is applied to the brush model that is one of the seven hidden construction tools hidden around the school's interior and exterior.
"Hammer Texture with UV Map" --- This texture is applied to the hammer model that is one of the seven hidden construction tools hidden around the school's interior and exterior.
"Dummy Texture with UV Map" --- This texture is applied to the destructible target practice dummy models that appear behind the school.
"Door Texture with UV Map" --- This texture, which has multiple versions with different colors for the door, is applied to door models that sit on the walls of the hallways within the school.
"Sundown Square Skybox Texture" --- This sky and sundown texture is used in Unity's skybox system, creating a faux sky, and allowing for more natural lighting based on the colors present in this texture using Unity's lighting system.
3D Animated Videos
"Exit”
Made during Ryan’s Spring 2022 (8th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Final Animation” assignment in Professor Rhoades’ AVT 383 3D Experimental Animation course. All art is created and edited by Ryan Bone, except for the sound effects and music which are credited at the end of the video.
“Exit” [Audio content is not directly made by Ryan and is shown in the end credits]
Exit is a short film made by Ryan Bone, where a thief chases after a glowing orb, but the thief painfully fails his mission. Made in Autodesk Maya with the Arnold Renderer (with textures made in Adobe Photoshop and the video edited in Adobe Premiere), Ryan wanted to make a video that focuses on several moving light sources in a dark area. The bright orb causes the thief to glow a sharp blue color, while the lights in the background pass by quickly, giving the audience occasional bright glimpses of the thief’s silhouette. The motion displayed in those flashes of light need to be striking, so Ryan animated the thief to have large, exaggerated motions throughout every bone in his body. Distinct silhouettes, lighting, motion, and colors make for a video that is striking to watch.
"The Goo Cleaner’s Slimy Demise”
Made during Ryan’s Spring 2022 (8th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Midterm Animation” assignment in Professor Rhoades’ AVT 383 3D Experimental Animation course. All art is created and edited by Ryan Bone, except for the sound effects and certain 2D textures which are credited in the description of the YouTube video.
Ryan made The Goo Cleaner’s Slimy Demise in Autodesk Maya. Since he was tasked with making a short video, Ryan decided it would be fun to make an animation where the focus is on the shifting size of objects. Doing this, Ryan had a slime of shifting size absorb and shrink down a table. The camera follows the shrinking of the objects, being sucked into the slime as well, adding to the effect. Eventually, the slime seemingly gets its comeuppance when it is shrunk and absorbed by a cleaner, though his cleaning device expands and explodes, ending the video. The camera is frequently in motion, following the action as close as possible, being sucked into the chaos and danger of the inconsistently sized objects in the room, keeping the audience on edge, following along with the changes.
“The Goo Cleaner’s Slimy Demise” [Video edited and animated by Ryan Bone. All outside sources are listed in the YouTube video description]
"Wildest West”
Made during Ryan’s Spring 2022 (8th) semester at GMU. Created for the “Final Motion Capture Animation” assignment in Professor Willis’ AVT 399 Motion Capture for Game Design course. Part of a group project, but writing the script, drawing the storyboard, acting for the thief and the bank teller, voice over for the patron, and video and sound editing were done by Ryan Bone.
“Wildest West” [Video edited and partly acted by Ryan Bone. All outside sources are shown in the end credits]
Ryan, in a team of four, was tasked with making a short film using motion capture suits and software. The team consisted of Brendan McDermott, who edited one scene’s data, then found, organized, and compiled 3D assets from online storefronts, Brennan Richardson, who edited three scenes’ data and transcribed the script, Trevor Simonson, who brought the animations and sounds into Unreal Engine, where he worked with the lighting and camera, and Ryan Bone, who drew the storyboards, edited three scenes’ data and edited the footage and sounds together in Adobe Premiere. The motion capture data was captured at George Mason University’s Black Box venue with Professor Willis’ equipment. The data was recorded into Autodesk MotionBuilder, where Ryan and the team cleaned and edited the data. Together, the group came up with the plot of Wildest West, with the intent to have as much fun motion capturing the characters as possible, while telling a funny story.
