For a such over the top character like Chainperator, chainsaw gauntlet is necessary, but it is quite not enough for the total devastation on the arena, so he got a drill mace.
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Re: Chainperator
It is quite heavy, so I thought it would be cool if character
will have some sort of pet-helper. So I explored the idea of rover
with a stand for a mace.
And over all we decided that time needed to model both those assets on reasonable quality level is too much, there are already a lot of stuff with the character(so stay tuned 
). And If I'm planning to do one of those things, it is better to unite mace and pet in to one character: drill-mace-bot
). And If I'm planning to do one of those things, it is better to unite mace and pet in to one character: drill-mace-bot
Sigmatron
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Re: The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | May - June (72)
I've been trucking away at the hard surface environment. I opted to use Megascans for the rocks and decals so I could stay focused on the bigger forms. I've got the materials for the houses ready to go so hopefully they should be fairly quick. Still have a ways to go but I'm happy with how it's been progressing so far. Definitely open to any critique anyone might have. 
Pinkfox
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Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
Hi everyone 
This is a model I created and textured using Maya, Substance Painter and Photoshop. I used one of Florian Dreyer's concepts called 'Candy Farm Buidling' as inspiration.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9nyvP
This is a model I created and textured using Maya, Substance Painter and Photoshop. I used one of Florian Dreyer's concepts called 'Candy Farm Buidling' as inspiration.https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9nyvP
andrewmelfi
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Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
Hello all, this is my first post here, so I hope I am doing this correctly. This is the latest personal piece I completed after working on and off on it for a few months. It is based on the Bag End concept drawing by John Howe. You can see additional shots at my website below. Thanks.
whizbang70
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The Bi-Monthly ENVIRONMENT ART Challenge | July - August (73)
Hey everyone, I'm excited to bring you the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of July and August!
The challenge is open to anyone interested and at any skill level. Remember if you don't finish in the time allotted, just keep plugging away and post when your work is finished. We want to see your work! So keep going and finish those pieces!
Before we begin, one last thank you to @alytlebird for hosting these challenges for the past year and a half! The time you dedicated to hosting these challenges across those many months is most appreciated.
With everything out of the way it's onto the challenge!
- ENVIRONMENTS -
HARD SURFACE:AI prog by Paul Trochu
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ELo3Xe
STYLIZED:
The Cursed Bard Environment by Bryan van der Linden (Thank you to @Orbit for the suggestion!)
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68o6Rw (Close-up of chair available in link)
- PROPS -
HARD SURFACE:Invisibility Device mark 2 by Vasiliy Ivanov
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EL5R68
STYLIZED:
Lumberyard Demo Stylized Props by Brian Yam
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4Egq8
Please read all the rules before starting:
- Try to post at least one critique for every post that you make. This will make for a better learning environment and help us all grow as artists.
- Try your best to finish as much as you can in the time frame provided, but remember even if you don't finish by the end of the challenge we encourage you to keep pushing and finish your piece!
- Post
what you are working on in this thread so that way it's a more
centralized place for advice and critique. Please avoid creating a new thread as we don't want to spam out the forums.
- It is recommended to use a game engine to present your work. Unreal Engine, Unity, and CryEngine are very common engines that can be used but feel free to use any alternatives that you want. (Marmoset Toolbag is allowed as well)
- 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.
- If you finish your project and decide to post it to Artstation, make sure you give credit to the concept artist in the form of a link to their profile. Additionally, it is recommended to ask a concept artist for their permission to post a 3D piece based on their work before doing so.
Recommendations:
- When you are just starting out making a scene, it can seem complicated or imposing. Take your time planning and blocking out, it will set you up for success later on.
- Think about how you can re-use assets, re-use textures, break it down as simple as possible and plan it out. A lot of people will break it down in their own way when they start out their challenge. Gather some reference images as well for different parts of the scene, don't be afraid to make it your own.
- We strongly encourage you to go and look at other games and see how they make their assets as well as get concept art to give it your own feel.
The goal is to learn and grow both artistically and in your ability to both give and receive critique, but don't stress about it and remember to have
fun!
Pinkfox
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Re: Show your hand painted stuff, pls!
My latest project that I recently wrapped up not too long ago. Check it out and let me know what you think! Thanks!
Artstation - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kDbBkn
Sketchfab - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/river-raptor-ae861039c0834300b5b1736dbcc85289
Artstation - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kDbBkn
Sketchfab - https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/river-raptor-ae861039c0834300b5b1736dbcc85289
brosadocg
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Re: Fire hydrant modeling questions (was: Hello professionals)
Before I start, I noticed that you spent some real effort modeling each part separate. Fuckin' nice. Keep doing that and you'll have less issues going forward.
Alright, so what I noticed at the back was confirmed when looking at your model.
When you connected the main body cylinder to the three conical nozzle parts, you altered the main body's cylinder so much in order to make them fit that you made it non-cylindrical in the process.
Look at how deflected these selected edges are in comparison to the rest of the cylinder. In these areas it's no longer a cylinder:
The way I would go about this would be to start by ligning up all the geometry you want to intersect properly. I chose the same amount of sides you did for the main body because I could see that the amount of sides you chose for everything just barely didn't line up.
The only variations between mine and yours will be:
-I noticed in the refs you uploaded that the three nozzles should be at the same Z-height. I lined mine up. A bonus to this is that it makes the geometry easier to line up.
-The amount of sides to the nozzles will be determined by how many I need to make them fit nicely into the main body cylinder. 20 for the big one, 14 for the small ones.
The sizes for the nozzles I copied from yours by placing mine on top of yours and inserting them as floaters into the main body, ready for booleaning.
Then I upped the amount of sides on the small nozzle until I could envision myself making the cuts shown in the nextnext pic when they're all grey.
TEMPORARY FUTURE TIME! These are the cuts I'm envisioning and they will be my supporting geometry. No alteration of the main body cylinder will happen outside these lines and that will ensure that the cylindrical shape of the main body cylinder doesn't get fucked. No, not proper fucked.
Back to current time, I selected the outermost faces of the nozzles and scaled them down until they matched yours in size. From this...
..To this: That gave me the same amount of conicity™ as you had.
Back To The Future©, and this new cut will dictate where the melding of the nozzles will stop.
Now it's time to clean up the boolean intersection. First I select every vertex that is only connected to two edges. These verts are generated in a (max) boolean operation and do absolutely nothing except hide behind other verts thinking you cleaned up your boolean, but you didn't, so everything looks whack for some reason. Select them and delete them (ctrl+backspace):
Now it's time for some cleanup. If this was some huge boolean operation with thousands of verts on something that wouldn't be important I would just select and weld the verts by some small distance, but because this is a practice in making the right decisions, and there's 20 verts to weld, I'm gonna do some thinking on this.
Because the edges on the nozzles are shorter than on the main body cylinder, the error generated by altering the topology will be less noticable if I target weld the main body's verts onto the nozzle verts. The same logic applies to the nozzles. Big nozzle has longer edges, therefore weld those onto the small nozzle's verts. I also connected the verts that are selected here to create that new quad between the two nozzles.
Now did I plan on having to create this quad in the planning stage when looking at how many sides I wanted each nozzle to be? Let's ask Mark Wahlberg.
A couple of edgeloops...
..And a symmetry modifier later:
This is why I bother, when you look at the results. When you squish the geometry of the main cylinder like you did, the reflections on it don't stay cylindrical. They can't. Some effort is required, but I'm guessing I spent less effort trying to select the appropriate amount of sides on cylinders and making them fit than you did. Yours on the left, mine on the right.
An added benefit I just noticed after completing this is that I see that the refs call for the small nozzles to intersect with the big nozzle, and that the big nozzle's conical shape should dominate that intersection. This workflow achieved this by accident by following the sizes of your nozzles. Mine left, yours right.
I have a bunch of other things I could critique, if you want me to. I will spend twice the amount of time to critique your work than you spent modeling, if you ask.
Now let's play a little game of "Find the Ngon". No, not the obvious ones on the flat faces of the nozzles.
Alright, so what I noticed at the back was confirmed when looking at your model.
When you connected the main body cylinder to the three conical nozzle parts, you altered the main body's cylinder so much in order to make them fit that you made it non-cylindrical in the process.
Look at how deflected these selected edges are in comparison to the rest of the cylinder. In these areas it's no longer a cylinder:
The way I would go about this would be to start by ligning up all the geometry you want to intersect properly. I chose the same amount of sides you did for the main body because I could see that the amount of sides you chose for everything just barely didn't line up.
The only variations between mine and yours will be:
-I noticed in the refs you uploaded that the three nozzles should be at the same Z-height. I lined mine up. A bonus to this is that it makes the geometry easier to line up.
-The amount of sides to the nozzles will be determined by how many I need to make them fit nicely into the main body cylinder. 20 for the big one, 14 for the small ones.
The sizes for the nozzles I copied from yours by placing mine on top of yours and inserting them as floaters into the main body, ready for booleaning.
Then I upped the amount of sides on the small nozzle until I could envision myself making the cuts shown in the nextnext pic when they're all grey.
TEMPORARY FUTURE TIME! These are the cuts I'm envisioning and they will be my supporting geometry. No alteration of the main body cylinder will happen outside these lines and that will ensure that the cylindrical shape of the main body cylinder doesn't get fucked. No, not proper fucked.
Back to current time, I selected the outermost faces of the nozzles and scaled them down until they matched yours in size. From this...
..To this: That gave me the same amount of conicity™ as you had.
Back To The Future©, and this new cut will dictate where the melding of the nozzles will stop.
Now it's time to clean up the boolean intersection. First I select every vertex that is only connected to two edges. These verts are generated in a (max) boolean operation and do absolutely nothing except hide behind other verts thinking you cleaned up your boolean, but you didn't, so everything looks whack for some reason. Select them and delete them (ctrl+backspace):
Now it's time for some cleanup. If this was some huge boolean operation with thousands of verts on something that wouldn't be important I would just select and weld the verts by some small distance, but because this is a practice in making the right decisions, and there's 20 verts to weld, I'm gonna do some thinking on this.
Because the edges on the nozzles are shorter than on the main body cylinder, the error generated by altering the topology will be less noticable if I target weld the main body's verts onto the nozzle verts. The same logic applies to the nozzles. Big nozzle has longer edges, therefore weld those onto the small nozzle's verts. I also connected the verts that are selected here to create that new quad between the two nozzles.
Now did I plan on having to create this quad in the planning stage when looking at how many sides I wanted each nozzle to be? Let's ask Mark Wahlberg.
A couple of edgeloops...
..And a symmetry modifier later:
This is why I bother, when you look at the results. When you squish the geometry of the main cylinder like you did, the reflections on it don't stay cylindrical. They can't. Some effort is required, but I'm guessing I spent less effort trying to select the appropriate amount of sides on cylinders and making them fit than you did. Yours on the left, mine on the right.
An added benefit I just noticed after completing this is that I see that the refs call for the small nozzles to intersect with the big nozzle, and that the big nozzle's conical shape should dominate that intersection. This workflow achieved this by accident by following the sizes of your nozzles. Mine left, yours right.
I have a bunch of other things I could critique, if you want me to. I will spend twice the amount of time to critique your work than you spent modeling, if you ask.
Now let's play a little game of "Find the Ngon". No, not the obvious ones on the flat faces of the nozzles.
Thanez
4 ·