Star Citizen: Citizens of the Stars - Cheyne Hessler & Dastro

Transcript — every row opens the video at that moment

1. 00:00:15

   [Music] hey everyone and welcome to citizens of the stars our chance at highlighting some of the amazing content created by you the star citizen backers with that let's jump right in to citizen spotlight and meet one of the more prominent cosplayers of the community destro how are you doing no I'm doing fine how are you dilated now many people saw that you made something awesome at Gamescom tell us a little bit about what you made actually what I made and what you saw do the games come event and it was my big band is 2.0 because one year ago maybe some avoid of you people you can remember that I was doing the Big Bang soup 1.0 but this year was 2.0 it was a

2. 00:01:06

   little bit improved version of it because basically it was a big carton both supported with PVC tubes and the whole thing was modeled on the original in-game Big Ben is how long did it take you to make the Big Ben's machine oh and total I think it was four days neural before the games come event and as Susan as soon as I came back from job I immediately went to work on cosplay and I spent all my spare time preparing it until the late night I think all the time to the pile I think it can set it was about 20 hours of work on it last year we saw the first iteration of the big Benny soon and this year we saw an improvement can you give us a hint at what's coming up next year at first I had two such plans to do the Big Ben it's a 3.0 because there are certainly a

3. 00:01:56

   lot of things that can be improved such as interactive features or better lightning in the front but maybe I gonna try something new in the next year we'll see who knows maybe Numa naked male sheep cosplay the possibilities are endless daster Oh super excited to see what's coming up next and thank you so much for taking the time to join us today that's all the time we have let's see what's going on this week and star citizen hey everybody welcome to another edition

4. 00:02:45

   of quantum questions where we take a CID developer put them on the hot seat and make them answer as many questions as they can under two minutes joining us on the hot seat today is character artist out of cloud Imperium games Los Angeles mr. Shane Kessler Shane how you doing man I'm doing great how are you I'm doing well thank you for asking nobody ever asks how's disco hey disco how you doing I'm doing well you know thank you for asking all right rain hey how you think gonna do man I think I'm gonna pass with flying colors 77 percent is passing let's go ahead and put two minutes on the clock that's if I can get through this without forgetting what my words are and begin what is your name and what do you do my name is Shane Hessler I'm a characteris here at CI GLA what armors or outfits have you worked on I've

5. 00:03:33

   worked on all three of the slaver variants including the light medium and heavy as well as the RSI explorer suit and the legacy media marine which we recently debuted mm-hmm how many polygons are in a typical armor set on an average typical armor set could range anywhere between 50 and 60,000 polygons we try to model the interior and exterior of the armor sets so players can't see through the armors and they appear to be whole pieces okay what program is used to capture the characters high poly render for the high poly renders we use a program called key shot which is a GPU based renderer that allows us to render and visualize our

6. 00:04:22

   high poly characters in real time as we throw temporary materials and lighting on them okay how many steps are there in a character art process for our character our pipeline we run through four steps including our high poly which is where we're sculpting and concept hang out our characters then we optimize those high Poly's with a low poly stage for the game and then we throw textures on there that allow us to drive the materials which we finish at as our last step adjusting materials happens modularity fit into the character pipeline so with modularity we build our characters to be as customizable as possible so anything that's modular has

7. 00:05:10

   to be able to fit with any other item in the character so whether it be a helmet armor piece legs or arms all these modular pieces have to be able to fit together okay and what skill sets are helpful in the 3d character art field as a 3d characters it's very important to have a very strong background in traditional art so knowing your form Anatomy and design helps drive whatever we may do in the 3d world of art alright that's it you got them all good job and so Shane Hessler goes on the board with a total of seven questions answered correctly he'll go on and compete against other CID developers for the quantum questions championship it's not quite enough to beat Mike Jones but you

8. 00:05:58

   know it's a respectable showing and I thought a very informative episode all the same so for citizens of the stars I'm Jared Huckaby let's find out what's going on this week in subconscious happy September I'm Alexis and it's time for another episode of subconscious the subscriber only mini show that tells you what's coming up for our outstanding subscribers that's you are you ready to explore the brand new origins 600 I and do we ever have a luxury for you be sure to check out the subscriber vault where we've been sharing work-in-progress images created by the team at foundry 42 as they put this extremely fancy ship through its paces the vault shows how we do it with images taken from development tracking the progress of ships and assets moving on to the stanton system

9. 00:06:46

   the September ship of the month is none other than the Drake Herald a little flying bullet designed for data running all active subscribers will have access to the Herald all month long and if you want to do me a favor you can post your pictures and videos and a sticky thread in the den I'll share my favorites here ok ok we hear you you want more Harold I'm pleased to announce the next set of subscriber flare schematics will be released on Friday and they include wait for it the prospector and the Herald okay that was weird that's it for this week stay tuned next week for more same subscriber time same subscriber channel and until then I'm Aly and I'll see you in the den live from st. Louis calling in to say hello

10. 00:07:43

    to everybody out there having our students and events today we hello everybody community content manager Jared Huckaby here with this week's top five and MVP now if you haven't already noticed we're doing something a little different this week that's because we want to give this week's MVP to Joran and the entire bar citizen community if you didn't already know this last weekend was international bar citizen weekend and the Saturday immediately after our Gamescom presentation star citizens from around the world gathered in bars and restaurants in homes to celebrate everything that makes the star citizen community so fantastic so congratulations to Jordan and to everybody that attended one of these events you are this week's MVP well

11. 00:09:05

    that's all the time we have for today's show thanks again to Shan Hessler and Astra for joining us today and remember if you want to have a chance of having your own content being featured on this show you can do so by submitting it at the community hub until then we'll see you next week thank you for watching so if you want to keep up with the latest and greatest in the star citizen the squadron 42 development please follow us on our social media channels see you soon you