Ori Cohen

A face study in black white, painting under the noise.

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 06:31:58 +0000

This painting is based on a photo reference, which you can find here.
it is painted from scratch, and it took roughly 3 hours to complete.
the best part of it was painting under 2 noise textures in overlay layers.

Bunnies Game at GGJ 2010

admin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:41:15 +0000

This year we had another surrealistic gathering at GGJ 2010, in just 32 hours we created a funny bunny game.

The purpose of the game is to kill all the bunnies but the way to do it is to pickup the Green poison bottles and poison the carrots using the ‘E’ key. bunnies that eat poison carrots become zombie bunnies and proceed to eat other bunnies. if you dont kill the bunnies they multiply very quickly. The game can be played here!

Credits:

Yuval Markovich, Michael IV, Jony Knobil , Amichai Naveh Marmor, Omer Nainudel, Gil Cohen, Ori Cohen (me) & Nimrod Sarda .

Lechuck WIP

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:40:21 +0000

Lechuck ™, based on some concepts i found on the web and a mix of my own imagination. this was a practice run at modeling from scratch in 3D studio Max

Modern Medusa

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:22:17 +0000

This is something i started a year ago, It is safe to say that i will never finish it. its not a photo, it is a real painting .
she is suppose to be Medusa from ancient Greek. reference is a photo from the web & a few art pieces i have at home.
i realy loved those eyes!

24 Hour game for Rosh Hashana

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:58:17 +0000

For Rosh Hashana, I helped a couple of guys (Adiel & Haim) to make a holiday game. its fun but probably too hard . you can download it from www.quatrogen.com/rosh.html or just watch the Youtube solution. one last note, if its too hard push Q 3 times to activate the cheat and get more apples

Book Credits in “iPhone 3D Game Programming All in One”

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:20:02 +0000

Jeremy and I were introduced a couple of years back through a mutual friend, and together we worked on full contact debate (PC) & skyline blade a 3D iphone game. a few months back Jeremy finished writing his first book, iphone 3D game programming all in one, where he mentioned me, and it says “Thank you Ori Cohen for helping me produce Skyline Blade, when that game finally hit the store i saw the light at the end of the tunnel” . this sentence goes both ways, skyline blade was the first iphone game i have ever worked on, and the first i have helped finish, it only took 2 weeks of intense work and i have learned heaps about iphone 3D game art optimizations. so, thank you Jeremy

King Quest 9 – The Silver Lining

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:49:42 +0000

like any good tale, it all starts 7 years ago. i got introduced to the torque engine and a group of people that decided to recreate the magical world of king quest with 3D graphics. i started as a programmer with the group, but actually that was only the beginning of the journey for me in the 3D art world. as it turns out these guys never forgot my contribution to the silver lining and gave me programming credits

to download the game go to www.tsl-game.com

Stoneman Animation for another Iphone game

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:12:10 +0000

These top view Sprite animation were made for CrazyWare (i used photoshop to make this an animated gif), the game is a 2D pre-rendered Dungeon game. the remarkable thing is that the engine was built in house. the rendering goes like this, the stone man is rendered with a diffuse+normal+specular to create the diffuse look. in addition we add a normal light rig and render the stone-man with a pure white material+normal map. inside the engine itself they overlay both versions, and by adding Lights to the environment they can actually simulate traditional normal map lighting behavior from 2D textures. incredible!

* for the explosion animation i used physics.

New Game: Global Game Jam 2010 – Evil Pigeons

admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:13:44 +0000

a few weeks back i participated in GGJ 2010, with a crew of four people (Alon, Omer, Shimon, and me) we created a game in less than 30 hours. the game has some 3D and 2D assets. can be downloaded from http://www.globalgamejam.org/2010/evil-pigeons

Brief Play Description:

player 1, the evil pigeon master, controls 4 pigeons using number keys (1 to 4). He can also make deceiving maneuvers to confuse his opponent, using the shift key with a corresponding number key.
Player 2, a mad car owner, controls a deadly broom-rifle, with which he can shoot pigeons while they are airborne. The broom-rifle is controlled by the mouse.

The evil pigeons master tries to shit the car until it’s worthless, while the mad car owner tries to kill all pigeons. It a fight to the death!”

Game Programming with Silverlight – featured pages!

admin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:42:48 +0000

In the previous post i wrote about the silver light book (game programming with silverlight). i managed to get a hold of the pages that show how to use envy games’ spriteworks application to generate sprite sheets from my pack.

Book Credits! my RTS Pack published in “Game Programming with Silverlight”

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:45:54 +0000

i was very happy to find out a few months back that someone is using my RTS pack for a silverlight book named “game programming with silver light“. this morning i was utterly surprised to see that not only did i make it into the book, but my Stone Man and rts advertisement are on the front and cover, i would like to thank the author Mike Snow for that.

one of the things mike did was to take the RTS pack which is a 3D pack in its essence and generate sprite sheets out of it using a cool tool called SpriteWorks that allows you to generate sprites from 3D Models and their animation files. note that Silverlight does not yet support 3D models.

i would like to stress that this is a very cost effective way of getting many characters and animations. we all know that making 2D sprite art is a PITA. one other thing that people should know is that any biped animation for torque, whether it came from another pack, or the stock orc animations is usually compatible with all the characters that use a 3DS Max biped. this is realy is the quickest and painless choice for sprite animation. its not only forSilverlight, it will basically run on any 2D engine, whether flash, Torque 2D, iTorque etc..

you can see what mike did in his tutorial here

shameless plug! here is another version the ad on the cover, you can see it in the small square and you can BUY it at the store: RTS pack

“Michael Snow has been a game developer for the past 20 years and has extensive experience in DirectX and multiplayer game programming. He has been a Microsoft employee for over 13 years and is currently a senior development Lead on the Silverlight Tools team. Michael has a Silverlight blog that can be found at http://www.silverlight.net/blogs/msnow.”

Skyline Blade for the IPHONE

admin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:46:28 +0000

Jeremy from Midnight Status and I have just finished developing skyline blade for the iphone, iphone development is realy unique in a way that you need to optimize every aspect of your art for it to work flawlessly on the iphone/ipod cpu.

Comic Cover Study

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:41:05 +0000

In the last couple of weeks i have been trying to find a better workflow for my comic work, it seems that i am most comfortable drawing in grayscale and later adding color on top. you can see the subtle differences between the left “original” and the right “my own”. i stripped everything but the hair and outline from the original and added forms by painting in grayscale, later i have used a nice color trick that pior showed me. and voila! in some ways it looks a little bit more realistic, but if this was a paid gig i would clean up the dark areas that you can see around the breasts.

hilary clinton video game persona

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:17:43 +0000

a while back i made a game character after hilary clinton, it was for lead foot productions for their election game full contact debate

Game art Style

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:17:05 +0000

a few months ago i made these gowns for radio active labs / critical mass interactive. they are going to appear in the online social mmo game kaneva.

these gowns were based on real life reference, i believe most of them were in the academy awards the previous year.

yet another zbrush anatomical study..

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:21:46 +0000

worked on it this weekend, the base mesh is the superaveragehuman from zb3, without detail or form at all.

zbrush anatomy study

fantasci weapon modeling

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:08:36 +0000

a few weapons i modeled for fantasci.com fully compatible in torque. i realy hope the developer (who made the concept) gets them textured!

comic covers

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:59:55 +0000

here are a few recent comic covers i colored for arcana studios/ platinum studios.

this one is a kade-japan cover. (line work by unknown artist)

this one was for big badz comic, but i think it was cancelled.. shame.

zbrush manimal

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:56:33 +0000

having done no zbrushing in months now, i decided to check out the some new brushes. my favourites are the claytubes with a round flat alpha. its like using a pencil but in 3D

here is my manimal (heavy wip!)

following this reference:

first post!

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:31:11 +0000

another cover for arcana studios, i was given the line work for the comic wingman. after a few crits from some good painters, i believe i have to learn color theory and implement it better in my future paintings.

wingman comic cover