Hey all, my name's Martin Ocejo and I had the awesome chance to work on the new Sonic the Hedgehog game while at Big Red Button. I don't know if any of us have posted work, but here's hoping a few others chime in.

The game shipped last year on Wii U. Though our team had to deal with what has to have been one of the most intense production schedules in game dev history, I'm pretty proud at what we were able to accomplish on the art team. I can't imagine pulling it off with any other group of guys, all the props & love in the world to them.

Every level shot is a team effort, though the shots posted below try to focus on areas or scenes that display work I did for the game.

If you want to see more than is posted here, I've uploaded extra images+texture flats to my artstation (as well as some cool zbrush brushes): https://www.artstation.com/artist/martin

https://cdn.artstation.com/p/assets/...jpg?1429510012

Few sample scenes:









Lastly, you can download a few neat brushes I like to use on my artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/free-zbrushes









That's all for now. Thanks for viewing!

wow massive amount of work, thanks for sharing! tiling texture assets look pretty cool! good brushes too! How did you guys manage to get so much done under such pressure? any tips and tricks used to pump out assets faster or build levels quicker etc?

Beautiful work!

This looks great. I really love that it all feels so painterly. What was your approach for texturing? Do you use something like Substance or dDo or do you go for more of a hand painted approach for coloring?

My finger hurts from all the scrolling. Great work!

Damn nice modeling, that sci fi interior!

I'm lovin' how this game is looking, seriously great work! And the brush set is pretty sick too.

Great stuff man! What sort of schedule were you guys under?

Beautiful sculpts! I particularly love the rocks and foliage. Thank you for sharing.

There's some awesome stuff in here! I really like the sculpts! And some of the texture work is also really stunning! (some of the foliage and some of those scifi tiles really got me!)

Thanks everyone! Truly means a lot.

@Ged: The easiest method was to just come up with a shared library/kits we could all use to rapidly populate areas of the game. From large blockout pieces, to more final assets that would be used to setdress the levels. These were then tweaked and fitted to whichever level they were intended to be used for. For texturing, usually after a level had gone through a 1st pass modeling phase, the two artists working on it would start creating tiling textures, then one would get a kit up and running as quickly as possible while the other started the 2nd pass of the level.

Other than that it was pretty standard - we just had to work as smart we could and re-use as much as possible.

@slosh: Not sure what I'm allowed to say, even now, but every artist had to carry a lot of responsibility. For a full level that nearly any other studio would give you months to complete, we had a fraction of that. Really had to get it "right" on the first try, not really any time for iteration and polish.

@praetus: Most of us used a combination of nDo and standard painting techniques, on top of any highpoly bakes (where needed). I'd say the majority of work that was done was 70/30 in terms of handpainted vs photo/procedural texturing. I'll probably upload a test PSD of the process sometime soon.

Thanks again everyone. There's more to come!

So awesome i was thinking about doing a sonic themed portfolio piece and this is exactly the kind of inspiration i needed!

Thanks

Loving the quality! Orb would eat this all up!

Fantastic work! Love seeing the sculpts.

Thanks for sharing!