Ryan's hand painted thread

sipher3325

Hey polycount. I wanted to create a few hand painted assets. I'm going to use this thread to post my work, and explore a few different techniques and tools I could use. Feel free to comment or even post something of your own if you want.

My first piece is going to be this axe. I painted the concept myself.

sipher3325

here's what I have for the model. There is still more I can do to optimize my topology.

sipher3325

hmmm...I can actually see a problem on the axe head. Anyways, anyone know what the poly count is on some weapons from mmo's like WoW, or GW2?

KyleJensen

It would help if you posted the wires for this.

sipher3325

the bolts and ring look more dense than they really are but I might remove the bolts anyways. Using the symmetry modifier is kinda working against me too.

KyleJensen

You could definitely eliminate every other edgeloop on that ring. The bolts do look rather dense. As far as geo usage goes, it depends on what type of game this would be for and what tier of item this is. If this weapon is very low-tier, you could just paint the bolts in, but if this is a higher tier weapon, you can use some extra geometry for stuff like exaggerated bolts to make the silhouette more interesting.