New Life: Handpainted Environment

royalshark

Hi Polycount! I'm graduating soon and I wanted to make a piece that really showed off what I'm capable of. I enjoy doing stylized hand painted work most of all so that is what I'm focusing on for this environment.

Any critiques or help that you would care to give me during this process would be amazing.

Below is what I have so far.

Fenyce

Wow, looks lovely!

Will this only have a diffuse or also normals, specs??
I will keep an eye on this, looks promising.
I love those rocks!

cholden

nice, love painted stuff. Fun style.

minorthreat

Wow awesome, I really can't wait to see where you're going with this. Seems to me like you'll create a silicon based ecosystem evolving in radioactive subterranean caverns. Whatever you're doing with it, I predict it's gonna be beautiful. Keep color theory/balance in mind! That'll make any portfolio piece good! (opinion)

royalshark

@Fenyce Thank you very much! I'm planning on doing solely diffuse maps for this one.

@Cholden Handpainted pieces have always won my heart too, and thank you!

@Minorthreat For the most part I was thinking it would be above ground, but a radioactive forest could be interesting...I'll keep that in mind. Also thank you I'll be sure to keep control of my colors.

Iciban

I'm totally following. Can never get enough handpainted textures. Good luck

JamieRIOT

Looking forward to seeing more. Each of the rocks has good character to them, nice.

Pixelatedkiwi

Love your use of colour! keep it up!

royalshark

I've got a pretty hefty quarter this time around so pardon the lack of updates, I'm hoping to start doing some tileable terrain textures tomorrow. For now I have some low poly rocks and the start of the Mountain piece. I'm still toying around with the idea of doing some high poly sculpts of these in Zbrush, but I'm not so sure.

royalshark

@Iciban Thank you! Hope I can keep you enthralled
@JamieRIOT Thank you, I really wanted them to feel alive in their own way.
@Pixelatedkiwi Thank you very much!

Cordell Felix

I love those rocks Annie! They would be so fun in Zbrush!

royalshark

As promised I said I would start working on the terrain texture today. So far I like the direction its going in but I'm worried the lava is making it too obviously tiled. Any advice for what I can do? Also any other critique you can think of would be lovely.



Also I'm referencing this because I would love to emulate that glow.

Eliteabix

This look stunning, cant wait to see it more fleshed out!

Dubzski

Wowa loving the design style going up in here, some really nice colours on that larva. Looking forward to seeing this pull together!

Gannon

Cool. I really like the 2d stuff, I can't wait to see it translated into 3D.

Fenyce

For your tiling problem.... do a bigger texture with more stone and lava on it, this way, the tiling will be less visible, since it's taking longer till the same part repeats. I hope you understand what I mean.

The texture btw is AWESOME. I really love your style.

zxcman

nice texturing here man!

Twoflower

This looks really cool!
Any thoughts of recording the process that you use for creating your Textures?
Because i would really like to see that ^^

Kuki

Just looked at your Portfolio website, let me say your texturing work is amazing and you got a very distinctive style

Well, I think you should re-organize the website content in some way, it looks a little bit redundant...

Fenyce

Like Twoflower said: A walkthrough for your texture painting progress would be awesome!
I love watching people getting from a blank to such an awesome results!

Blaisoid

that lava texture kicks ass, it's so rare to see someone make hand painted stuff that doesn't scream blizzard.

Any advice for what I can do?

you can just try distributing cracks more evenly. for example here's how i did it:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CziigHrduvs/UVDsD5trMDI/AAAAAAAADGI/yiWNECpfB3U/s1300/HP_Vulcanic1.jpg

royalshark

@Cordell Felix , Thanks Cordell I dont use Zbrush too often so I figure its about time I start honing my skills,I might do some sculpts this weekend.
@Eliteabix Thank you very much!
@Dubzski Thank you, I'm also looking forward to the finished product.
@Gannon Thanks, I'll be modeling a lot this week so stay tuned!
@Fenyce I understand yeah I'll blow it up and see what I can do,thanks for the suggestion.
@zxcman Why thank you.
@Twoflower I've never recorded anything before, any tips? I could try to do a compilation of screenshots for my process.
@Kuki Thank you I'm inspired by a lot of different people so I guess my style has adapted to that. I've also been meaning to fix up my site, I completely agree that it seems a bit redundant.
@Fenyce I could definently do some sort of process picture, maybe a gif or something
@Blaisoid I started out very Blizzardy, but I realized it just didnt feel as natural or unique to me so I guess I kind of made my own style. Thank you by the way for the advice, this is gonna be very helpful.

moondog760

Cant wait for some updates on this!!!

Peaches&Cream

Subbed to this, loving the art style, will be very interesting to see how it turns out!

royalshark

This is my grass terrain, feels a little plain to me right now, but I was trying to not over complicate it like the Lava Terrain. Any thoughts on how it could be improved? I'll most likely be editing the Lava Terrain texture today so when I do, I'll probably show my process like a couple of you asked.

Also thank you moondog760!

pixelpatron

Good trick for hand-painted textures that always helped me, or projects I've been a part of.....is to establish the following: (Doesn't have to work on any of current models, but generally it's a springboard to take your stuff where ya want to go.)

Stone (rock texture)
Paver (brick texture)
Wood (Plank style)
Wood (bark)
Metal
Gravel
Dirt
Grass

Establishing the vanilla version of these elements will help you start with a solid foundation that will then in turn let you mix them, or incorporate other elements (like your lava) a lot easier.

D4V1DC

Can't wait to see this fleshed out, the first image made a huge impact on me.

I love the work!

ARCallejas

Likewise! From the initial image this has a lot of potential

Fenyce

I'd recommend to do a tiletest for your textures...
I think you'll easily see repetition on your grass, at least when you zoom out a little...

But I really love your style and this clean look, I can't wait for more! Hehe.

royalshark

Actually pretty happy with the way this turned out Its going to be used on most of the trees in the forest. I tested out the tiling as a tiled wallpaper, is this what everyone else does? Because its always how I tested things.


And for those who asked for my process:



Also thank you for all the kind comments and wonderful critique I assure I have been taking it to heart and been editing the other textures with your comments in mind. I hope to post my revisions this week. So stay tuned.

katana

Very exciting...good luck with your project.

tottot

Im really liking the vivid colors in those textures.

Gannon

I like the shapes but it feels flat, Quick PO - mostly focused in the center while messing with it.

Blaisoid

I like the original more than your paintover to be honest. it just feels too metallic with highlights pushed so much.
darkening the shadows seems like a good idea though.

Gannon

Yeah, I can see how it can feels like that. I still think it's flat though

royalshark

No I see what your trying to tell me, I really appreciate the paintover it helped me visualize a solution. I think I after looking at it for so long I missed somethings its nice to have another perspective. I'll be sure to paintover it again and give it more of that illusion of 3D.

Jeff Parrott

Level adjustment (bring the ends closer) then brightness adjustment to lower the brightness.

royalshark

I messed with the levels some does it look a bit better?

joshmtyler

royalshark wrote: »

I messed with the levels some does it look a bit better?

I Liked where you were headed at first. You had more color variation in there and it gave it some life/character, then you browned it up. It's great painting for damn sure. I just think you need some varied hues. A trick I like to use is to take a render clouds with two complimentary colors and overlay it. Then erase here and there. It's quick and can go a long way.

royalshark

Some progress in the midst of midterms @_@ oi vey

Anywho, thank you joshmtyler for the good idea I'm working on the trees so when they are done I'll show you how I've tried to implement more color back in to them.

aajohnny

Wow awesome work so far! Looking forward to more.

TheTurner

Your scene is coming together really well! Really diggin the textures

royalshark

Thank you guys I appreciate the support

Eliteabix

Im really loving these textures, Painterly seems quite popular nowadays but youve put a really unique swing on it

KristaW

Really great stuff! I would love to see those tiling textures on assets.

royalshark

Another Rock for diversity's sake

@Eliteabix Thats a great thing to hear..or er.. read lol thank you!
@KristaW Thank you! I'm working on displaying them soon enough, Just trying to rework the tree, might post some wips for some much needed feedback

Fenyce

Wow, nice!
But I'd maybe change the color of your presentationssheet to something more neutral. The border irritates the eye a little..

Love to see your painting skills!

minorthreat

wow this is really inspiring, I love the models you've uploaded so far. In my mind they are stylistically flawless. XD

KennyTies

These are so awesome, at first I thought they were paintings.