3D Modeling Class Project

DrowseyDrop

Hello, I'm a game art student from Lawrence Technological University and this topic is about my 3D modeling project over a two week process. It is somewhat of a re-post because my original post disappeared. The project is to go through the process of creating a 3D model that is ready to go into a game. The process for the project is:

1. Choose concept art
2. Block out and simplify the model
3. Create a low poly model
4. Create a high poly model
5. Unwrap the model
6. Bake the high poly model into the low poly model
7. Texture the model in Substance Painter
8. Render the model and create a composition for the renders

If you have any questions or comments please ask away.

Here's the piece of concept art I went with. It is concept art from the game Wildstar that can be found on their website. It's a robot spider.


Here's a general block-out of the concept to help visualize what I am going to model.



Here's the Sketchfab link to the low poly block-out of my model.

model

Here's the turbosmoothed model I'm taking into ZBrush. I have it split into 34 separate pieces and will mirror the legs over later.



model

Here are some views of the ZBrush high poly model. Any critiques would be welcomed. I tried making the metal damaged and rough looking.

causelessgiant

nice

Alex_J

Cool. 

Probably just a typo, but I think you'll need to unwrap the model (step 6) before you can bake maps (step 5). 

defragger

You probably want to do the high-poly before the low-poly as well.
So the low-poly you are showing on sketchfab is just a block-out and not the actual low-poly mesh right?

I´m curious how the high-poly turns out. Nice concept!

Do you have a size reference? Because the srews look pretty big so I imagine this spider bot is tiny.

CloudedTech

I can't wait to see how the final project turns out!! 

DrowseyDrop

BIGTIMEMASTER said:

Cool. 

Probably just a typo, but I think you'll need to unwrap the model (step 6) before you can bake maps (step 5). 

Yep, noticed that. Made this post quickly for a deadline because my old one was deleted and didn't really think about it. Thanks for pointing that out!

DrowseyDrop

defragger said:

You probably want to do the high-poly before the low-poly as well.
So the low-poly you are showing on sketchfab is just a block-out and not the actual low-poly mesh right?

I´m curious how the high-poly turns out. Nice concept!

Do you have a size reference? Because the srews look pretty big so I imagine this spider bot is tiny.

That is correct. I've since updated and revised the low poly model from the block-out. Thanks! Unfortunately, I do not have a size reference. I just went off of the concept art from the Wildstar game's website. I think the concept made it into the game given that there are some 3D models if you Google "Wildstar Probot". There might be some size reference from the images there.

DrowseyDrop

Here is my progress on unwrapping. I'm nearly complete.



Here are my UVW islands I've made so far. I'll be organizing them later.

DrowseyDrop

Here's an image of the progress on my texturing. I'm pretty much finished, but I've got a few more details to add. 

DrowseyDrop

And here are the final renders and composition of the renders all done in Substance Painter. For the textures I wanted to go with a more realistic style instead of the painterly style in the concept. I had a lot of fun making it and definitely learned some new things.