Portfolio Creation Thread

Popolo

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My names Adam Olsson and this will be the place were I create items for my portfolio. This will be an ongoing thread during 3-4 months (around the end of march, beginning of april) before we have to apply for intership .

Project: KV-X2

Working from the model of Fichtenfoo. Basicly a world war 2 tank but with spiderlegs.

Concept:



Model:



More images further down.

C & C is welcome

hamzaaa

I like it! But your edges are really sharp. If this is the high poly (which is kinda hard to tell because of the sharp edges) you wanna soften them up a little to have a better bake, to not make the model look blocky and get more nice highlighting.

BasicallyNormal

I like it! I also think you could add a bit of detail to the part below/around the handle, it's the biggest flat area of the weapon and seems to be lacking in interest. Maybe separate that giant piece and instead break it up into two or three different pieces with varying designs on them.

Popolo

Hamza: Thanks man Great feedback went over and softened the entire models edges to get a better nrm.

BasicallyNormal: Thanks Thanks for the suggestion but I don't want to go to far away from the original concept. The idea for this piece is to follow the concept as close as possible to show that I can.

Update:



Think I'll start with the LP now, need to have it done for next week when Ben Mathis (www.poopinmymouth.com) is our guest lecturer.

Popolo

Finally an update! Got some time to work on it and now the LP and bake is pretty much finished. The LP ended up at roughly 6500 so I was able to keep it in my budget







The last image is a colorbake I made from high to low to be used in DDO, with roughly the materials that will be featured in the rifle. Sorry for the horrible colors. :poly136:



C & C is welcome

Also I seem to have a problem getting alphas to work in Marmoset toolbag to be used on the glass material, does anyone know how to make it work?

Popolo

Oops, saw that the color direction got a bit off. The grey is supposed to be metal and the yellow is copper.

theSixtyEight

red imo should be black metal...it would look better as rubber doesnt have much sense imo....rubber should be grips but othwersise I would choose only painted metal or raw metal

Popolo

I'm not really sure that I understand your feedback, would be helpful if you clarified it a bit
If it's about the color scheme, the colors are not final. They are just chosen to easily selectable for the DDO run where I'll change the color scheme.

theSixtyEight

I meant red color on ur scheme should represent black painted metal....only grips should be rubber, as I think rubber on those lense "cages" or whatever it is doesnt have much sense...and everything else except lenses should be painted metal or raw metal (without paint)...I wouldnt use copper either...

Popolo

First I wasn't sure about the rubber either. But when I thought of it it kinda made sense, I tried to think about my time as a metal/wood-work teacher where we did easier electronic wiring you need a isolator. When you have a gun shooting laser/electricity you need a good isolator especially on the places where the lightning is passing through or else a spark might fly and connect to the rest of the metal and become a conductor

Popolo

Still alot of work to do on it, hopefully I'll be finished this evening. But this is the rough base materials and colors. Will try to add some more grime and some more logical scratches:

Popolo

I'm almost done now! Been working on the texture and the next step is making better renders and adding some more decals:





C & C is welcome

Tits

I don't really know a lot about gun modelling and I dont creally have any critics for you because of it. But I can tell you that usually I never stop myself to look at a gun modelling but this one really cought my eye. Like the material definition and the touch of color great work!

Danglebob

This looks great! It looks sci-fi as well as functional. I especially like the flat wire on the top of the gun.

Dinky

This looks great! Really great design and model! Only thing I wish is that the blue painted metal maybe had some reflection on it.

Awesome job!

Bek

Looks pretty cool, I suggest removing the DOF in the screenies though.

Popolo

Tits wrote: »

I don't really know a lot about gun modelling and I dont creally have any critics for you because of it. But I can tell you that usually I never stop myself to look at a gun modelling but this one really cought my eye. Like the material definition and the touch of color great work!

Thanks! That's the best feedback I could get Excactly what I want a Art director to think.

Screwonhed wrote: »

This looks great! It looks sci-fi as well as functional. I especially like the flat wire on the top of the gun.

Thank you, really struggled to make it work. But in the end I'm really happy how functional the gun feels.

Dinky wrote: »

This looks great! Really great design and model! Only thing I wish is that the blue painted metal maybe had some reflection on it.

Awesome job!

Thanks ! Yeah, I agree with you. Wish that Marmoset wasn't limited to have no reflections . At least what I know of.

Bek wrote: »

Looks pretty cool, I suggest removing the DOF in the screenies though.

Okay, I'll fix that with the proper beauty renders.

ysalex

I agree with everyone, turned out great and despite the challenge, looks functional. Well done. All I could suggest is that for portfolio shots, taking out the vignette. It 'bands' really bad in .jpeg and smaller sizes.

Anyways, looks great.

Popolo

Thanks ysalex By the way, absolutly love your work (Finish the old man!... yeah... I haven't forgot) I'll remove the viginette for the final render. Will probably update tomorrow with the final shots.

Popolo

And done!

Removed the DOF and the Viginette from the image, thanks for all the help

Popolo

Turn around for the spider-tank:

Red Republik

great stuff Adam!

Popolo

Red Republik wrote: »

great stuff Adam!

Thank you so much! Really love your stuff Republik

Popolo

Haven't had time to work anything on the KV-X2 this week, last week of school game project going on. But thought I would post a tank I did for our game project Last game is the roughly the angle that is going to be shown in the game.

artstream

Love the sci-fi gun. What are you presenting it in? Really curious how you handled the energy effects :-)

Popolo

artstream wrote: »

Love the sci-fi gun. What are you presenting it in? Really curious how you handled the energy effects :-)

Thanks I rendered the gun in marmoset and I used two planes that kinda looked like a "vortex" that only had alpha and emissive, most of the effect are coming from the light setup where I used way too many point light to fake light-casting.

Finally got to work on the tank today and I'm pretty much done. The only thing I'm pondering is to drag into zbrush to make some weldingmarks on the railing. But I have a hard enought time to show it in maya in smooth preview as it is now.

mikhga

Lovely work, would have liked to see some more definition on some of the metal parts on the rifle but other than that it looks amazing. Your other work is also really good, you might want to soften some of those edges on the spider-tank though.

I don't think you'll have any problem what so ever finding an internship. Good luck!

Popolo

mikhga wrote: »

Lovely work, would have liked to see some more definition on some of the metal parts on the rifle but other than that it looks amazing. Your other work is also really good, you might want to soften some of those edges on the spider-tank though.

I don't think you'll have any problem what so ever finding an internship. Good luck!

Thanks Might look over the metal if I can find the time for it. Time is really starting to feel sparse...
Went over the tank and softened the bevels on some areas, thanks for the feedback.

Btw, does anyone know how many polies that are used for a next-gen tank? Was thinking of going between 30- 40 000. Is that to much?

Popolo

Haven't had time to update due to our game project. Had a quite intense final crunch, but now it's all over.

Got some pieces for our rts, created all the vehicles and one robot. I'll try to upload the rest of them with maps and RTS-views.




Plus the low poly for the spidertank is done.

DWalker

Do you have a poly count for the tank? It seems quite high for an RTS. Given the scale & camera angle, the wheels could almost certainly be replaced with a texture.

Moltazia

That is one sexy spider-tank

Popolo

DWalker wrote: »

Do you have a poly count for the tank? It seems quite high for an RTS. Given the scale & camera angle, the wheels could almost certainly be replaced with a texture.

The tank is at roughly 4.500 tris. For our game we only had roughly 10-15 units on screen at a time and the game was quite zoomed in. So I was given the opportunity to use quite a high polycount.
The wheels, well I wasn't sure at first if I would model them in. But then I saw that Company of heroes had wheels on their churchill tank, and like that game we were supposed to LOD the model but was never given support to do that unfortunately

ivanzu

Avg. polycount for a tank in men of war rts is around 5000 tris.

Ged

that tank looks great! wierd purple edges though :P

Christian Nordgren

Very impressive work! I love the details on the back on the tank!

fantom

Awesone rifle man! Love to tank too. Clean model and textres. Really top work :thumbup:

Cheers!

Popolo

ivanzu wrote: »

Avg. polycount for a tank in men of war rts is around 5000 tris.

Nice, then I actually kept in the limit.

Ged wrote: »

that tank looks great! wierd purple edges though :P

Thanks! Yeah, gonna work on the light-setup.

Christian Nordgren wrote: »

Very impressive work! I love the details on the back on the tank!

Thanks alot

fantom wrote: »

Awesone rifle man! Love to tank too. Clean model and textres. Really top work :thumbup:

Cheers!

Thanks alot! It means a lot

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Worked on the tank and got a basic texture going. The thing I need to do is get some logos going and add mud going like a gradient from the feet. But all and all I'm feeling half-done with the texture work. Haven't started on the light-setup, the pose or any post-processing.



C & C is welcome

Popolo

Finished the texture and trying to decide on a pose before I start creating the base and the light-setting. Can't really decide which one that looks best on the tank and it would be really helpful to get some feedback.

Popolo

We had the privilege to have the Art lead and art director from Massive entertainment to come over and give us feedback on our stuff. Tried to work in the feedback I got from them and here's the result. This is hopefully final on the texture and base and light-setting is next step.