Avatar-Amp-Suit

ZombieWells

Well here's the finished Amp-Suit before I take it into Zbrush; all the mechanics of the suit work, (trying to figure out how all those little pieces came together- the shoulders in particular, was possibly the hardest part about the modeling). I would like all of you to tare this thing apart so I don't have to second guess all that importing, exporting jazz involved with Zbrush. Also, just as a side, I made some cuts to the suit, (no gun strap, or bullet clip) for polycount reasons.

nrek

Suit looks great dude! I really wish the renders were lit better so that I could see more of the detail that right now is just fading into the black shadows. You should also toss up some detail shots of things like the cockpit. Have fun with the battle damage, I cant wait to see it all messed up.

Also whats with the new thread? Didn't you already have one started for this?

ae.

Use this technique to get better renders good sir:

http://www.artemstudios.com/08Portfolio/Tutorial/MaterialRenderingTut.htm

ZombieWells

nrek- someone sujested that I make my title more clear so I wasn't giving off the impression that I was just making some genreal mech, instead of the Avatar amp-suit, (I know not a huge deal). I agree with the dark renders... I was afraid of that. I'll try to post somthing more clean after zbrushing is done.

ae- thanks man, I'll see about getting some better renders.


this somthing I just have laying around, it might be a bit more clear, just throwing it up there.

BigErn

Very nice modelling there! Must have taken a while I would suggest rendering on dark grey, rather than black! Keep it up!

roosterMAP

very good. exactly how i remember it. Now how about u put it in a more dramatic pose?

A.Kincade

Turning out awesome. Great work thus far.

ExevaloN

AMP suit ftw. Nice model work there.

ZombieWells

Heres the AMP-SUIT with its normals baked and a bunch of gray textures! I won't be posting the tri-count or the map size because I'm not done reducing, and or cleaning up the model... if you notice the identical scratch marks on the arms, stuff like that. I am shooting for something like 18-20k on the tris and one 2048 diffuse/norm/spec. Crits are always welcome!

OrganizedChaos

Great to see you're still working on this
I like the progress- but it's hard to say for most of it. I'm using a rather dark monitor so a lot of the detail is just fading into the black. Could you please re-render the images with a dark grey instead? Or well, anything besides black

ZombieWells

yeah I have a bit of a habit with rendering things too dark, I'll get something brighter up in a bit.

ZombieWells

here is something a bit brighter, I'll post again when I have some actual textures on the suit.

OrganizedChaos

er- its not the model, but brightening the background that I think will help the most- that does look a lot nicer though- looking forward to seeing how the wireframe looks

Megabiv

Super sweet model, but my one crit would be rendering on a black background. In my Uni we have been told repeatedly to never ever render on a black background but to use a different colour instead, such as grey as OrganizedChaos mentioned. Try it and it should look better. Other than that though it is looking very nice indeed

Jet_Pilot

A good tip when rendering is to NOT set your background color to straight black. (a value of 35 is pretty good)

The mech looks pretty cool... didn't it have a knife attached to it somewhere?

ZombieWells

Hey there, I am going to quickly post some texture progress before my internet craps out on me again. Tell me if I am heading in the right direction- and just to let you know, I kind of wanted to make the suit a little texture unique, in that it would be the master sergeant's suit, a real "kill the them all" sort of guy, so if there's any cool ideas floating around out there on how to get this thing to stand out, I sure could use them! thanks

nrek

Hey man this thing is looking great! I can't wait to see some wires when your ready to show em. I don't really have much to say other than some little suggestions. Maybe tone down the intensity of the graphics, like the pin-up girl and the 14s feel like they should be more faded. And then maybe some vertical streaks on the silver cylinder knee joint, like oil streaks or scratches.

Asteric

Now that last render looks great!

Lonewolf

looks cool

i'd use more polies on the cylinders and i think the fingers mesh was flipped when u baked it

ZombieWells

I'll get those graphics fixed- the, like oil streaks or scratches is definitely a cool idea.

Yeah, the fingers need a little loving, I'll see if I can't bring them around.

cheers

ZombieWells

alrighty, the gun is done and I downed the textures to one 2048 for the suit and one 512 for the gun, and two 128s for the cards... which I think all of these can be downed even more, but for display sake, why not. Crits welcome on the texture job. Kill the smurfs!

rahul_shrimali

look nice and texture work also good

roosterMAP

the color of the gun is bad. the rest is 100% i love the way you put mud on the feet.

Torrrtilla

Wow, great work man! I agree that the odd color of the gun doesn't work well.

konstruct

damn dude- this turned out great!

Ged

awesome finish!

roosterMAP

could you post the diffuse? I think we could all learn a lot from it.

ZombieWells

yeah, I agree with the blue for the gun barrel, but here is where I got that from.







Here' another pic from the side






Here's the gun with a black barrel, if the blue is super runaway bad! Let me know, thanks. One last thing, I tried to get some oil streaks in the leg joints, but it just read as too much black- there's still a hint of it in there but for the most part I took it out.

ZombieWells

okay, here is the UV map- I got some blackness from my bake that I should have saw coming, but I guess here it is... it could have been prettier

Ged

wow thats insane

LiselottePulva

great work ! hope we can see some wire soon

Thegodzero

DAMN! Very well done!