LOW-POLY ART

hawken

This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em!

Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:

• Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
• Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
  

Some dedicated low-poly modelling tools now exist that make this art style a lot easier to produce; Crocotile3D & Blockbench

Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide

GxD11

Sweetangel0467 wrote: »

I'm not sure if I fully understand your process.. but I like it :poly136:

Thanks btw Bloom was my first ever project outside of school I learned quite a lot and met great and fun people Are you a local?

Ive worked with a few USC projects before but this one has been my favorite so far and yeah you get to learn a lot from just watching difrent people work on the same project. But no im not local im from Puerto Rico, but i will be attending the demo day event. Are you gonna make the trip? Id be great to meet a fellow colleague.

Sweetangel0467

GxD11 wrote: »

Ive worked with a few USC projects before but this one has been my favorite so far and yeah you get to learn a lot from just watching difrent people work on the same project. But no im not local im from Puerto Rico, but i will be attending the demo day event. Are you gonna make the trip? Id be great to meet a fellow colleague.

Sadly my wallet doesn't allow me to But be sure to have fun and spread the awesomeness

Dr Red

I made a boxy 80's sedan so I could learn the ins and outs of UV unwrapping, mapping and texture painting.

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Here's a render from Blender itself.

Richard Kain

I made a test model for facial animaiton. He clocks in at just over the low-poly limit (1076) but I figure he's close enough.

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He's not all that pretty, but he's getting the job done.

rory

Really cool Richard. Was that done with blend shapes and a bone for the jaw?

Richard Kain

rory wrote: »

Was that done with blend shapes and a bone for the jaw?

No bone, just blend shapes. Doing it with a bone would have been more complicated than just yanking the jaw with blend shapes. I'm trying to keep this one as simple as possible.

JustMeSR

Should have went with higher polycount and handpainted textures...and resolve my baking problems sooner.

Leito

That's pretty legit JustMeSR

LANKUS MAXIMUS

JustMeSR - That looks awesome. Very inspirational. I've been wanting to create some top-down low-poly buildings recently.

What is the final count if you don't mind me asking?

JustMeSR

Leito wrote: »

That's pretty legit JustMeSR

Thanks

LANKUS MAXIMUS wrote: »

What is the final count if you don't mind me asking?

828 triangles.

Littlenorwegians

Delko wrote: »

Ohhh, I am in love with this one!

fatihG_

Snader wrote: »

This should help with crisp pixels:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=779753&postcount=1

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I sent a PM to hawken, asking if he could update the first post with that info.

GreypWalker

Low poly shield I made!

CaptInfinity

Yasakani

Hey I'm new to this forum but I've got some lowpoly stuff.

Bulbasaur: 220 tris
Charmander: 428 tris
Squirtle: 390 tris

alfredbaudisch

Uberren wrote: »

Made a sandwhich.

How do you accomplish this "uniform" lightning without darker or lighter areas? I tried to render like that but either one side is too dark and the other too dark, or everything too brigher, but never uniform.

Is this accomplish with the right light setup or is a shader/material setup?

Armageddon

Just set the "color" of your material to 100, or possibly tick "Unlit" depending on your 3D package off choice.

Also I'd suggest rendering with unfiltered textures and no AA unlike what he's doing, it would look a ton better.

Uberren

alfredbaudisch wrote: »

How do you accomplish this "uniform" lightning without darker or lighter areas? I tried to render like that but either one side is too dark and the other too dark, or everything too brigher, but never uniform.

Is this accomplish with the right light setup or is a shader/material setup?

I use Maya and apply my texture into the incandescence node and set the colour node to completely black. idk other packages very well but I'm sure there's something similar for them.


And I did use unfiltered textures on those, I just don't know how to save the gifs to look as crisp as they do in Maya yet



Anyway, here's something I made for my mom for mother's day:

Littlenorwegians

For a friend. Turned out very K.K Slider.

Palla

For April's character challenge.

Cosmicburger

Been working on a series of WoW like assets. This is one of the latest.

Dennispls

UmiPhoenix wrote: »

For April's character challenge.

Nice style! I love it.

nak1411

First attempt at hand painting. 330 tris.

rory

Did one more of these. Just under 1000 tris without backfacing. Otherwise cape puts it over.

Sweetangel0467

Rory, your work is awesome love this one as well
nak1411, looks good for a first try although I think you went a little bit too overboard with your metal :P a lot of spots you've got there.

izuzf

nak1411 wrote: »

First attempt at hand painting. 330 tris.

Great work for a first attempt!, Metal is tricky and can often look like stone, but for a first attempt, this is awesome! Geart work !

rodgon

Hi everyone! Great art over here!

Here are 2 quick projects I did few days ago to study different lowpoly styles and have some fun.



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Wendy de Boer

That's pretty cool, Rory! I would ease up on the definition around the mouth area though, it looks pretty harsh for a girl.

mcunha98

nak1411

izuzf wrote: »

Great work for a first attempt!, Metal is tricky and can often look like stone, but for a first attempt, this is awesome! Geart work !

Thanks! Yeah I agree on it coming dangerously close to looking like stone.

Sweetangel0467 wrote: »

nak1411, looks good for a first try although I think you went a little bit too overboard with your metal :P a lot of spots you've got there.

Thanks, yeah now that you mention it, it is a bit too noisy.

rory

Thanks again Sweetangel!

Thanks DemonPrincess good point, I'll try pulling back the rendering around her mouth some.

Yasakani

Here's something I put together quickly.
Model is 846 tris

Ervin

82 triangles, 256x256 maps

Vizmund

A bit higher tri count than normally posted here, but It could definitely be optimized down. 2270 tris. Ugly texture seams, first time trying anything semi-handpainted like this before.

FlexRoman

JRay

Flex those are all super awesome! Is the day/night cycle one a game that you are working on?

Yadoob

@Flex : Yeeeeeee, great stuff ! Post moar gifs !

FlexRoman

3dKai

Slightly butchered Davens' lovely concept art for some speed modelling..
It needs a bit of tidying up but was good practice! :poly142:




Davens post here > http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2045681&postcount=2

gaganjain

Wonderful work @FlexRoman @Vizmund @Ervin @mcunha98 and everyone
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Port-Seven

Hi guys! Since you guys seem to be the experts when it comes to low poly I wanted to ask for some advice. I'm doing the character challenge this month and I've chosen to do a mobile version. He's currently about 1,600 tris without any of his props (and looking at UmiPhoenix's fantastic character I'm sure I can optimize him much further).

Here's the concept if anyone wanted to take a peek:
http://regourso.deviantart.com/art/Bullywug-Scout-325229231

My questions are: Would a budget of 2,000 tris tend to apply to the character himself or the character and all of his props?

Also, the concept shows a necklace, so what would be the best way to go about doing it? Model out the string similar to the belt, use an alpha, paint the string into the diffuse, or ignore this detail altogether for a mobile character?

The hand topology is also giving me a bit of trouble. I'm not sure how many edge loops I need around knuckles for proper skinning, as I see some mobile characters only have one. I've had a look in the wiki at some examples and will revisit the shoulder and elbow areas with some new information in mind but any extra info about hand topology for mobile would be great. ^^



I'm also trying to get away from the mentality of everything having to be quads since I know this isn't necessary when poly count is so low. Sorry for spamming you guys with questions - you just seem like the best people to ask.

Delzhand

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1220 tris for the female, 1154 for the male. I could probably reduce them quite a bit, but I want the extra polys to avoid distortion when animating.

Fashoomp

Low poly camera w/ flash. 76 tris, 128x128 diffuse.

Torch

Very nice Fash!

ayak

Hello! Here is my 50 cents.

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And texture itself:

3dKai

Another speed modelling exercise, I had a go at a base texture too, needs mo' work!! :poly124:

Atanudas

nice work

CaptInfinity

For a friend's project. It's a zombie game with infected farm animals among the ranks of the undead. Here's a zombie pig.

Joebewon

Ended up having to add more Polys than I planned on, but adding the extra edges really helped the animation. Here is a character I'm working on for a game.

2600 tris & 512x512 texture sheet.