LPC: Time 2 Die- Saad Butt
polycounter lvl 11
Ok so im reserving my spot 
Hopefully ill be able to start working on this when im done with my texture for the marine.
OK so ive come up with a better brief;
So im probably going to make a comic strip out of it, something like 6 frames. Im going to have a dark alley. Theres is a trash dumpster in the corner of the rundown alley. Right in the middle of the alley infront of the dumpster is a bottle of beer. One of the two cover flaps of the dumspter bin opens, you can see 2 eyes clearing out the area. A hobo jumps out of the dumpster. Crouched, he starts hand-loving the bottle. Right behind him, a couple of zombies gang up on him ever so silently. BOOM
Hope it sounds exciting! will up with an update soon!
Hopefully ill be able to start working on this when im done with my texture for the marine.
OK so ive come up with a better brief;
So im probably going to make a comic strip out of it, something like 6 frames. Im going to have a dark alley. Theres is a trash dumpster in the corner of the rundown alley. Right in the middle of the alley infront of the dumpster is a bottle of beer. One of the two cover flaps of the dumspter bin opens, you can see 2 eyes clearing out the area. A hobo jumps out of the dumpster. Crouched, he starts hand-loving the bottle. Right behind him, a couple of zombies gang up on him ever so silently. BOOM
Hope it sounds exciting! will up with an update soon!
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Didnt have any internet access so i couldnt post anything :P
Im done with the modeling!
Here is the hobo (at 812 tris)
And the environment (its at 1500 tris i think )
Dont know if ill do a zombie or not though.
Next is unwrapping! Will update when i have the basic colurs down
poor Hobo
The zombies will know when they realize they got HIV!!!
HIV? i'd put my money on cooties
I have seriously no idea what i should do about the weapon though. Do you guys have any ideas? maybe like a syringe (;)) or something? he is at 813 and i think i can lower the count to 800 with some work on the hands. TELL MAY which waepon i could use with 30 tris XD
Soup can grenades ? I don't know
Or he could be so hungry that he'd be the one eating the zombies with a knife and fork, reverse roles !
Looks good by the way.
Make a scene where he's desperate to get into the house.
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I do like the ideas youve mentioned, but i want to stay away from anyting that MIGHT add humour to the model :P
@ il duce:
yeah i think im going to go with that idea. About him tryin to get into the ouse,i was thinking mroe like him being in the dumspter creeping out just a little bit?
cheers to alexl for the idea, i think ill go with that. Just a simple bag hanging from his waist with a bottle in it
Edit:
Will only do the bottle, no bag :P the bottle turned out to be around 38 tris lol so the total now is 831. Sounds ok to me? its roughly 800 tris right? XD
ill probably be going for a prostitute zombie (they ARE what you find in dark alleys at night eh?
ok HELP
So this is my unwrap. The whole envo on a 512 map. Is this how i should do this? dont have/nned any tiling btw.i had the dumpster on a seperate 128, but after reading the rules again and again, i joined everything. Can i get ob with the texturing now please?
EDIT:
changed the sucky unwrap
EDIT 2:
Ok so i DONT have any tiling textures,but i DO have things that im mirroring. Like half the dumpster,lights,grills and things like these:
so does this count as tiling textures? what makes a tiling texture? if its tiled more than once?
If its not counted as tiling, then butt->
If not, then that means that all the pieces i want to mirror/instance have to be on a 128?
Sorry first environment (bet you can tell)
Ok so here is what i did, i set up the lights like in the second picture so that i could render out a light map to overlay ontop of my diffuse. The second picture shows how the render looks with my current light set-up. Now, when i render out the light/shadow map, i get the map on its right. Now there is no overlappig of uvs as all the mirrored shit was offset'd. What gives? isnt there a way i could render out a lightmap like the redner i have?
I then tried a skylight and rendered out a map using a light tracer. Did a normal render as shown in the top. And the map on the right shows it as map. I dont see any light from the spot ligths and stuff.
What gives?
Oh yeah, thanks ric, yeah i knew i had to tackle that problem. I had geometry for the ear that i got rid of and added that loop in the coat. The total is now 820 :P
so ric, could you help with the above posted question? any idea wtf is going on?
Props to rick for helping me take the polycount down and helping me with the lighting situation
Heres the final hobo. I added a syringe
And here is the final environment before i start texturing. The light map is untouched as of now, will tweak it in photoshop!
Can anyone spot the hobo? coke flavoured cookies for the one who guesses farst!
thanks again rick
Also,
thanks teriyaki!
Ok so i started the texture, didnt know how to go about it, so start cropping out photos. It sucked ass. It looked lame and seemed like an easy way out. SO to learn as much as i can on this damn project, i went ahead and tried handpainting the environmebt.
Everything is handpainted at the moment except two obvious dirt overlays (for the dumpster and the door). The window is a photo atm btw
You should be seeing some weird opactiy screw-ups which i wont fix till the end XD i just did a quick opacity map for the window grill.
Refuse to do the dirty pass till the very end
The grills over the windows arent working too well for me though, maybe the dirt will help. They look a little too chunky maybe?
Excellent stuff though, killer hobo scene
First, thanks for dropping by ploon.Appreciate it
Yeah teh grills really werent working for me either. I actually had more bars for it before, after which i reduced their number, but after reading your comment, i thougth i shouldnt have done that
Hope you like the update
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Ok guys so im done with the environment
Pretty much everything is handpainted except the dirt overlays,the graffiti and unfortunately, the wall (base colors)
Oh and by the way, that blue poster on the wall? right in the middle, it was made by my brother for a concert here
Dont know if ill have time for the prostitute though. Im thinking of having her limb-les/capacited or something. Do you guys think i should?
Hope you see some clever uv-reuses and hope yo cant tell whats mirrored and whats not
Onto the character!
Please comment!
I dont know if volumetrics can be baked, never tried that and I dont see how it could be done.
I scrapped the volumetric issue.Too much of a hassle,too little knowledge
Well, i textured the hobo
Tried to be as asymmetric as i could. Everything is cut right through the middle but the patches have their own unique space. SOrry for the quality, i used MSpaint
Please comment!
Ill dirty-fy it up now.
I do see where your coming from with the stink line issue,so do you guess i shold take it out? I'd rather not, so maybe tell me how to make it more read-friendly!
Hehe yeah :P shirt out the fly sounds crazy.yet arousing. i wanted to have flies aswell, but on a 128 diffuse/opacity, they looked like black dots XD
Tumerboy:
Haha yeah
adam brome:
yeah, i know! i thought the idea was pretty good right upto the end.And then when im done, i look at it, and i see exactly what you said, an alley with a bum.I was going to have a prositute zombie, but i couldnt make her in time :/I think i should have fortified the dumpster.... im fucked.My first contest and i dont know even if its fucking eligible to enter
Well, waiting for the submission thread to open up
Beauty shot 1
Beauty shot 2
Construction
and now....im sad
You should have had a go at an envo aswell.Too much fun!
where I'm sitting. Damn gotta do mine now, tough act to follow dude!
You have to fix the enviro texture quickly to get it entered! just redo that wall texture, the rest is passable im sure.
PS: I dont accept your excuse about the flies...add the flys to your Enviro texture and put your character under that part of the environment. :P
Thank you very much for the support
Ploon:
I highly doubt that
Though you should think about adding more of your excellent environment in your beauty shots
Microneezia:
Hehe wouldnt that be cheating?:P using the space on the environment map fro something that will be used for the character? If i had to move the flies somewhere,it would have been maybe in the accessories map,but its a 64 :P
As you can HOPEFULLY see from the wall texture on the map, that i have used the same uv space AS MUCH as I could.Adding blood eh? Ill have to add that to a plane i guess, as even the slightest distinct spot on the texture mirrors horrifically :P Maybe, i could use that window grill texture to make like a cage around the dumpster.hmmm
man i REALLY dont want to touch this project again
I'm gonna echo what everyone has said, great execution, and well done on getting it done in time, you really have proven how good of an artist you are becoming man
Top notch work for a top notch fellow :P
Hugz