The Elder Scroll

Rhoutermans

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The Elder Scroll, based on a concept by Bethesda (I think);

W.I.P. Highpoly:



concept:

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/11/f868a61c882db85db3e55b550a4a623d.jpg

Still need to add some more parts and check proportions, then off to zbrush for detailing.

Any feedback is appreciated

Overmind5000

Very nice. I can't wait to see it textured.

ZombieWells

cool man, but the render is blinding white. Try to use a shellac material, (get some spec in there) color break up, and try to get a darker gradient in there so its not fighting the scroll... if your going to keep it at that bright white.

Rhoutermans

ZombieWells > Thanks , I'll try more spec next update. Will put some more effort in presentation!

Overmind5000 >Really wanna start texturing soon as well!

Another hour in..HP #2
Still need to add the 'star-shaped' decorations.

edit ; uploaded the wrong link doh'

Rhoutermans

Still need to add the scratched in detail

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Some zbrush work;

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Redid the centerpiece of the scroll, had wrong sub-d there and the alpha painting just messed it all up like that High poly in zbrush and gonna finish baking this weekend!



ANd one more for the heck of it

Rhoutermans

Done with the low poly, it's at ~10k tris now. This scroll would be considered a higher importance prop..I want this to be somewhat next-gen looking, so I don't want to lose much of the detail. Tho I do feel like I'm pushing the polycount a bit still...

Any opinions on this?

tristamus

Don't mind the tris count so much - I think something like this would definitely be a Hero prop of sorts, and would benefit from the extra details.

In any case, it's better to have more poly's than another texture map (say, Height map for tessellation, in this case).

Rhoutermans

Thanks for the advice! I went along with the tricount, rendered an AO/NM.
Lowpoly:


I kinda like the result of the bakes (AO rendered at 4k, NM at 2k)

Still getting some bake errors, setting up a better cage in Xnormal tomorrow and starting on the diffuse..Any feedback then will be veeery welcome

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Texture start...faked the specular for now;

magmabolt

very cool. I actually got to meet the guy that did the model for the elder scroll in skyrim (Dane oles I think), it might be too late now at this point, but I think the original scroll was a bit longer in that center area. Beyond that though, very nice work cant wait to see it finished

ayoub44

wow man , great work .. i make one too long time ago but it's not good as yours , you can
check it out :
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22638130/shot1.jpg
keep it up

fantom

Nice start on the model, weiting for textures. Cheers!

Rhoutermans

magmabolt > Thanks Really great chance to meet one of those guys, I really like the artwork they did on the elder scrolls series!


ayoub44 > Looks good m8 You should revisit and finish it, having a great time working on mine!

Update incoming

Rhoutermans

Checking out dDo. Really awesome tool! But as this is a practise piece I don't think I'll be using this for my final texture, just messing around a bit, and finally getting some color on my model..:) I might use dDo for boosting my AO a bit and getting a nice specular. Gonna try to use dDo with the 'color diffuse' function tomorrow, see what that gives me. Either way I'm looking forward to the weekend and getting a real start on a new texture. Here is the dDo generated one tho;

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Now to add diffuse details /material definition and work on a better specular.
But I think this is a nice base to start working from. Thanks dDo



Also need to build a nice material for the paper, if anyone has any advice / material refs for it please do let me know~

tristamus

Coming along great, excellent so far.

Rhoutermans

Thanks Sorry for the spam, working on specular (UDK), gonna get started on the paper after work tomorrow again.



Thinking of putting this prop on a stone table, add a quill/ink etc. But first to finish this one Any feedback is greatly appreciated

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Texture / spec update..trying to go for a gold-ish look

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More work on the specular. Tuned down the yellow a bit, more towards orange. Added a base layer for the paper. More tonight hopefully!

Overmind5000

By the nine, that's one good looking scroll! You got my approval.

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Thanks m8 A friend of mine (Roel Bartstra) helped me out building a shader for this one; This is what he got out 2day. I'm currently still working on a environment to show this one off

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Putting some time into final presentation; (possible video pan later)

Overmind5000

The very bones of Nirn are now at your disposal.

Rhoutermans

Final Presentation Post.

A video to show off the shader

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Flats. 2k Texture.



Model.
10233 tris.



Screens;









Calling this done, time to move on to an environment

Darkleopard

Really pretty, i love it!

Jessica Dinh

Oh, that turned out great!