Fictitious Game Fantasy Spear Low Poly...sorta

spectre1130

So I'm in class right now that we've had to do a pretty large mock, GDD/Art Style Guide for a fictitious game. The game is somewhat like God of War, except for that the player faces off against the zodiac deities instead of Greek gods. This the spear for the main protagonist and is magically imbued.

This is just the kind of low poly version. I really want to get this into Mudbox/Z Brush, and sculpt it out so I know my final LP will lose that blood groove, and bevel on the blade. But, for the purpose of this image I just wanted a pretty detailed LP to show before going into final modelling/sculpt faze. Things I would love C & C for is the presentation and renders mostly, but feel free to just give advice. Below are thing I tried to accomplish for this WIP, and things I want to accomplish.

1. modeling in a way to think about the end goal
2. Really tried to experiment with MR shaders to get my renders to look nice. Turned off GI/II and shadows on these renders. Still not quite great I don't think.
3. Working on A/O passes
4. Really need to work on my LP/HP/Baking workflow.
5. Lighting still needs work on my renders.
6. I tried hard to get a nice composite and clean presentation in PS. Is it too much??

That's all I got for now.
Link for bigger:
http://spectre1130.deviantart.com/art/Fictitious-Game-Art-Asset-355536228?ga_submit_new=10%253A1361421661&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1

Thanks for looking:poly136:

harricool

i would say yeah bit ..too much...my eyes went straight on to the glowing text...could u just show us some reference u were following..so that we can give some comments and closeup sceenshots

spectre1130

I wasn't following to much reference except for a few roughs I made for the spear tip. I just like modeling freestyle with a basic idea in mind. I did look at partisan spears to see how they were joined at the top, but that is about it. I can render some closer shots too. Also there is a link to larger shots above.

spectre1130

Should I maybe make that logo a little smaller and more translucent?? I was thinking along the line of a marketing shot for a game, hence the logo. Thanks for all advice.

spectre1130

Okay, I went ahead and made the logo less prominent, and the models a little larger. I agree it was too distracting.

spectre1130

One more update, I played with the bright/contrast and levels and think it is yet less glaring. Thoughts??

spectre1130

I lied last one. maybe went too far with the unsharp mask. I'm way tired...

spectre1130

link at top of page still good as well.

spectre1130

Hey there, I went ahead and made some more renders while experimenting with MR shaders...sheesh this is hard. No shadows or FG/II turned on. I am gonna shoot for a sculpt in Mudbox at least before texturing.

link to bigger:http://spectre1130.deviantart.com/art/CelestialSpear-Spear-present04-flat-sharp-355889721?ga_submit_new=10%253A1361589061

spectre1130

So I've gone into working the HP spear head. I've got it pretty worked out I think except for some Willy Wonka Geo I still need to figure out(circled in blue). I'm not sure though if my edges are too tight, and seeing how Mbox likes even poly's, I'm not sure how this is gonna pan out in sculpting-any tips? The rest of the pieces I'm not thinking I'm going to have too much problems with. I'll just add some more even geo on the long pieces and secure my edges. The LP of the spear is pretty much done I think. I removed the outer bevel and blood groove, of which I still need to model into the HP.



All crit is welcome..thanks Polycounters

Bek

Higher res pics would help. The pinching around the top two diamond shaped holes looks seems to be from the lack of any supporting loops around the diamonds on the flat spearhead sides.

Generally speaking the edges on your high poly look quite sharp, which might give you problems when you bake the normal map. Usually you'll make things smoother in the high-poly than they appear just to get a better normal map result. Good call on removing the blood groove from the low poly, that will be taken care of by the normal map.

The 'wonky' geometry in the last part of your picture shouldn't really cause a problem when subdividing, but if you want to fix it you'll just have to remove the edges that have been merged causing those triangles and manually add in new edges to make it a loop again.

The general design of this spear reminds me of something you'd find in Planescape: Torment. Love that game.

spectre1130

Yeah, the new photobucket is whack. I'm gonna just put a link to the higher res pics.

http://spectre1130.deviantart.com/art/Spear-head-geo-help-356310615?ga_submit_new=10%253A1361760283

I'll get some of the final LP renders up too, hopefully tonight.:poly135:

spectre1130

Ok just more of the HP spear tip. I cleaned it up a lot and loosened the edges quite a bit. Does it still need more loosening?? There are a couple of errors I fixed that the renders show that I hadn't caught either.