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Re: [WIP] Teapot spirit - Character Art
This looks like a fun project!
Looking at the concept before reading your description, I thought the liquid appendages were supposed to be tea, not honey. Coming as they are out from a teapot and all.
So you might want to seek ways to clue the viewer in that it’s honey, like adding some bits of honeycomb, or maybe some bees flying around?
What is her purple hair supposed to be made of? If semi-transparent then I guess it’s like a fruit jelly? Or maybe some ghostly ooze like the stuff that drops out of the ether in Poltergeist?
So you might want to seek ways to clue the viewer in that it’s honey, like adding some bits of honeycomb, or maybe some bees flying around?
What is her purple hair supposed to be made of? If semi-transparent then I guess it’s like a fruit jelly? Or maybe some ghostly ooze like the stuff that drops out of the ether in Poltergeist?
I think it’s important for you to have a solid goal for each material before you start, so you can create believable materials for them.
Instead of simple alpha blend, you should consider refractive materials, would look awesome with these blobby shapes.
Eric Chadwick
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Re: Are more 4K textures being used in games now?
The of texturing on these is so nice ! I'd love to see more games do that, perhaps it will finally become more widespread now that Arcane got popular. This reminds me that I still need to try that one NFS game with celshaded characters.
About grouping and all : Outside of tech specifics is still think that even when using a single texture, grouping things in "sub-squares" within the layout is a good habit (even keeping a few small areas unused just in case). It certainly saved my butt a few times when having to go back to an asset for further editing, or even straight up adding a new element.
If anything it also helps with outsourcing, as providing a "pre-layout" loosely indicating where things should go in the UVs makes things more predictable ... and easier to fix.
Very interesting stuff about the VR specifics, thanks for sharing !
About grouping and all : Outside of tech specifics is still think that even when using a single texture, grouping things in "sub-squares" within the layout is a good habit (even keeping a few small areas unused just in case). It certainly saved my butt a few times when having to go back to an asset for further editing, or even straight up adding a new element.
If anything it also helps with outsourcing, as providing a "pre-layout" loosely indicating where things should go in the UVs makes things more predictable ... and easier to fix.
Very interesting stuff about the VR specifics, thanks for sharing !
pior
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Re: Hello, I'm 16 years old and I'm doing 3D modeling. What can I learn or do to improve my skills?
Show your work.
Vertrucio
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Re: Sketchbook: Fabi_G
2 small things
^ clearly inspired by rexo12's serpent vase thread :P
Setup of snake in Blender. Array mesh fitting curve using start and end caps. Thickness controlled by curve points.
snake on Sketchfab
model
Fabi_G
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Fall Baptiste - Overwatch Fan Skin
Hope I am doing this right, Im new to polycount but I would love some feedback.
Currently I am close to completing an Overwatch fan skin for the character Baptiste. I want it to be game-ready and match the Overwatch style.
Heres what my low poly looks like:
(And heres a reference of Baptiste in-game/Some refs I used)
I am currently unwrapping his gun to start texturing and then I will move on to rigging him.
Again any feedback is appreciated!
Currently I am close to completing an Overwatch fan skin for the character Baptiste. I want it to be game-ready and match the Overwatch style.
Heres what my low poly looks like:
(And heres a reference of Baptiste in-game/Some refs I used)
I am currently unwrapping his gun to start texturing and then I will move on to rigging him.
Again any feedback is appreciated!
SSkelton
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | January - February (94)
Hey everyone! I'm an Unreal Engine tech artist working on the games industry. I've been following these challenges for a little while now but struggled get started on personal 3D projects so have never participated. However, it's been awesome seeing all of the results and with it being the new year I figured I'd try to start the year off well and get something finished.
Here's the blockout so far (with a bevel modifier enabled so I can better visualise the end results). Still plenty of work left to do but I'm taking my time with this and trying to make sure the proportions look great and things match up to the concept art as best as I can.
Great work from everyone so far, as more progress gets shown I'll try to give some feedback in my next posts 
ATaylor96
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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | January - February (94)
Cool designs, looking forward to see them translated into 3d.
Looks like a good start @Hymil. What's your plan for the edge-treatment? Will you bake from a highpoly or something else? Are you going for some stylization or realistic texturing? Keep it up!
I had to give the abandoned place a go. Once again will use Unity and baked lighting. Aiming for a video sequence and maybe a web build. Perhaps I need to re-scope in order to get it done, I'll find out.
Sketches of different modules:
Screenshots of scene in engine:
Lighting the foliage via light probes to reduce amount of lightmaps.
Overview of modules in Blender:
edit: web-build of current state can be found here
Looks like a good start @Hymil. What's your plan for the edge-treatment? Will you bake from a highpoly or something else? Are you going for some stylization or realistic texturing? Keep it up!
I had to give the abandoned place a go. Once again will use Unity and baked lighting. Aiming for a video sequence and maybe a web build. Perhaps I need to re-scope in order to get it done, I'll find out.
Sketches of different modules:
Screenshots of scene in engine:
Lighting the foliage via light probes to reduce amount of lightmaps.
Overview of modules in Blender:
edit: web-build of current state can be found here
Fabi_G
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Re: Where should I start if I want to become a character artist in the industry?
it depends on what you do, but it sounds like you want to make characters with normal maps and a realistic look, and not stylized or handpainted, like WoW.
This is a highpoly > lowpoly workflow, so you'll want a highpoly sculpt usually made in Zbrush, make a lowpoly by retopologizing the highpoly, UV unwrap the lowpoly, and bake the highpoly details into normal, ambient occlusion, and possibly vertex colour or more types of maps onto the lowpoly using something like substance painter.
It's years of hard work and learning. There is a lot of nuance with each software you use, from their capabilities to their limitations and bugs, as well as traditional art skills like anatomy, silhouette, and colour. Digital Tutors, Eat3D, Gnomon Workshop, and Michael Pavlovich's yt channel are good places to start.
This is a highpoly > lowpoly workflow, so you'll want a highpoly sculpt usually made in Zbrush, make a lowpoly by retopologizing the highpoly, UV unwrap the lowpoly, and bake the highpoly details into normal, ambient occlusion, and possibly vertex colour or more types of maps onto the lowpoly using something like substance painter.
It's years of hard work and learning. There is a lot of nuance with each software you use, from their capabilities to their limitations and bugs, as well as traditional art skills like anatomy, silhouette, and colour. Digital Tutors, Eat3D, Gnomon Workshop, and Michael Pavlovich's yt channel are good places to start.
zetheros
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Re: Star Wars Outlaws: Character design was the least of this games problems.
I really hope this is the end, because to have the thread devolve into discussions about head shaving then finish with poetry is just perfect.
Happy 2025, polycount
Happy 2025, polycount
Benjammin
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Re: Blender Mega Thread
That's interesting.. not using a layered painter addon by my myself in blender .. i knew at least about this one https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter with initial release from 2021.. of course there are also some newer one like https://github.com/Hirourk/HASPaintLayers or maybe more known https://github.com/ucupumar/ucupaint (at least for me reading this thread on BlenderArtists https://blenderartists.org/t/addon-ucupaint-tool-to-manage-texture-layers-for-eevee-and-cycles/1390056?u=okidoki ).. or
this older one from seven years ago (for blender 2.79 https://github.com/David-DiGioia/blender-paint-layers
)..
( Shamelessly "advertising" for BA because i often link to PolyCount in particular to the HowTheF..DoYouModelThis-thread or the Wiki.. )
this older one from seven years ago (for blender 2.79 https://github.com/David-DiGioia/blender-paint-layers
).. ( Shamelessly "advertising" for BA because i often link to PolyCount in particular to the HowTheF..DoYouModelThis-thread or the Wiki..
)
okidoki
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