Low Poly Ballista

Pikey

Hello, everyone!

This is my first shot in handpainting. Would love to hear some feedback.

There was no specific concept I went by, except for some basic sketches.

Diffuse texture is 1024. Initially I planned to reduce it to 512 after finishing, but I decided not to, just so you can see and point out my mistakes easier.

Please C&C!!!

wirrexx

it's good looking but just as RiotForQuiet mentioned, play with the dark and light of certain places more.
And I find the Modell way to clean .

Other than that. Good job!

ivanzu

I think that wheels should be darker then body as they are touching the ground which is dirty and add some wear&tear to wheels too.

Pikey

Thank you for your comments!
I got pretty much the same feedback at the other forum. I will keep working on this piece and will post hopefully finished version soon.

Aga22

looks nice! the things i would point out is i don't like the way the cylinder with the rope on the back of the arrow is half immersed in the body of the ballista, generally i think you should design it more like "it works"... looking at some designs of real ballistas might give you some ideas. also, i would make the banner a bit torn, and add more padding around the texture islands, in case the engine blurs your texture, so it won't show black all around...

Pikey

Finally got a chance to work on this again!

Here is the list of things I did:
- Worked on lights and darks;
- increased highlights on metal;
- dirty wheels, darkened wheels texture in general;
- created simple logo for the banner;
- added ropes;
- other minor changes in materials
- increased padding.

Please let me know your thoughts.