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Re: Advice with secondary forms

I really like how Gio Nakpil approaches hierarchy of forms in that regardless of how you delineate between secondary/tertiary or whatever; tertiary forms support the secondary and secondary support primary forms and that they aren’t added haphazardly, but built on top of one another.

https://youtu.be/ZGbBrWRRN7o?si=JaOzrm6hiDsRkQL3&t=87

https://www.youtube.com/live/qAq294tcuDM?si=mjRNMk-jd50Eenql&t=1328

I feel like in your last image those secondary forms seem like they are placed with no rhyme or reason and consequently detract from underlying structure of the primary forms…they also look very similar shape and size and spaced almost evenly that gives it that “averaged cg” (please pardon the term) look.

While I don’t know any courses solely focused on secondary forms, I’d offer that any videos you can find of Gio Nakpil and Glauco Longhi would be worth your time. Of course, Zuccarello is great too!

pxgeek

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/ai/mt0jdp6zwhsz.png

Sculpting is a big weakness of mine, and I feel this concept absolutely calls for sculpted elements - so this is going slowly and painfully.

Paxwort

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | March - April (95)

Hi,

long time lurker here. First time taking part in the challenge and really excited about all these concepts.

I am working on the hard surface prob and have the basic model down. Maybe already lost myself in some detailing

At the moment I am trying to find a good balance on textures, trimsheets and tileables as I intent to make it a game ready asset.

Since this is to showcase in my portfolio I would like to get the best result but with an industry standart approach.

Would love to hear a recommandation on texture layout. Maybe I should give everything a texture map, like 6 maps, without trims / tileables?

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/x2/wbovnzv1r6lw.jpg

For the feedback part:

@cturbo: In the rules is a bullet point about adding your own touch and ideas.

"Feel free to change up your chosen concept a bit if you want! Interpret these concepts to your liking, especially if your aim is to add storytelling elements."

@vladoralis: I would recommend taking a closer look at the height and scale of the room. The ceiling on the ground floor seems really low, like 2.5m, compared to the reference probably like 3.5 - 4 ish. If thats what you intend to do sure go ahead

The stairs feel quite flat too because of how low the ceiling of the ground floor is.

@virtualman looks really cool already. really nice mood you got going already. not much to add really

@Dvin_ looks good. Maybe the stairs a touch to wide but thats just nitpicking really... :P

@Badgoing really like the references you gathered. they fit very well with the concept. I can recommend the Hitman level dartmoor if you need more.

MRpnut

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

moved!

Eric Chadwick

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Re: Advice with secondary forms

@Eric Chadwick for vis

@DustyShinigami
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG8K5eWAZgv/?igsh=MWk5eGE0cmR6dXliZA==
This one reminded me a fair bit of your goals here. I feel a bit like the structure is smoothed out too much after its applied, but i think the direction is quite similar

Neox

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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros

progress, innit

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/085/623/544/large/sheng-zhong-p175.jpg?1741239868

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Have a great week!

zetheros

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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros

Did the highpoly + lowpoly, baked & imported updated female infested race to UE5. More concept work done on the automaton race. And there we have it folks; five races, fitting for a quintuple A game.

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/085/372/616/large/sheng-zhong-p173.jpg?1740629374

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Have a great week!

zetheros

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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros

Male infested baked & in UE5. There's a lot of polish work & actual painting (not polypaint) to do, UV layout work etc. I'll be doing all of this once the fifth and final race of Project Nova are complete; the Automatons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tamfSrer0_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0HY6BWOYs0

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/085/115/300/large/sheng-zhong-p172.jpg?1739997929

Have a great week!

zetheros

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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros

Done for now, retopology underway & female version up next. Removed veins, too much work, especially if I want to create other infested things (which I will) and I can probably get some sort of procedural geometry node wizardry to work instead.

Image: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/084/883/707/large/sheng-zhong-p170.jpg?1739421039

Image: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/084/883/715/original/sheng-zhong-g98.gif?1739420958

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Have a great week!

zetheros

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Re: Sketchbook: Zetheros

Very late update on Project Nova, normally these are posted on Wednesday or Thursday morning, not Friday. Had some IRL stuff to take care of, but it's all sorted now. Added head spikes to differentiate the back profile, polish, separated polypaint into layers, removed subdivision level 7.

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/084/662/816/large/sheng-zhong-p161.jpg?1738881257

Image: https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/084/662/807/original/sheng-zhong-g97.gif?1738881243

Have a great week!

zetheros

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