Hand Painted Revolver

3D_Chae

Hello Polycount
I have been holding my hand to posting my stuffs in polycount for a long time
and barely started sketchbook thread few days ago.

I have never studied painting and Photoshop until 2 years ago, before I came to America.
But I feel like that I'm prepared to move forward to study more about hand painted environments and props.

So here is the small project that I started.
As a big fan of World of Warcraft, I thought it might be really cool idea to create a revolver that is fully done in hand-painted textures,
because; I have never seen a revolver in wow.

For the clear idea and designs, I started with the quick pen sketch and re-painted and designed the revolver in Photoshop.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119182





I'm currently working on the low poly, and probably will finish unwrapping UVs tonight.

Any tips and advice are always welcome :thumbup:

JoshuaMorrisonInk

The lowpoly looks a little dense in some areas like the handle and the bottom end of the front of the barrel. I would try and distributed your polys a little more evenly across the model. However your concept is very nice and stylized. I really enjoy the top one. The barrel could use a little more details on the top toward the front.

Can't wait to see it finished.

3D_Chae

JoshuaMorrisonlnk
Thanks for the tip and advice After your comment,
I noticed how my polys were unevenly distributed and needed more details in front.
I'll definely fix it hahaha



But the first lesson that I learned today. Save it...

DWalker

3ds Max does auto-save, however, so you shouldn't lose more than a few minutes work. You can change the save interval and number of back-up files under Customize->Preferences->Files. I personally use 15 minutes and 3 files.

Eliteabix

Lovely concepts, Watching this

pixelb

I'm not a gun expert, but shouldn't there be space behind the trigger so it can be pulled back?

minorthreat

Wow, your painting style is perfect! I can't wait to see the final!

3D_Chae

Thanks for the kind word everyone
pixelb - Thanks for the feedback hahaha. Yes somehow I totally forgot about the triggers. I'm thinking about to either show most of details through out the diffuse and specular map. hahaha


Right now, I think low poly is done. I already finished the UV unwrap too
Time to start working on the texture!

Any tips and advice are always welcome

3D_Chae

Good morning everyone

Here's my day1 texture work in progress (WIP) screenshot
without light and shadow :thumbup:
There are still a lot of things to do hahahaha.

Jeff Parrott

Push the forms more on the model! Make the cylinder larger. The trigger curl is too much. You'd cut your finger. Add some details on the barrel.

BrianSegs

Sick design and painting. Skills! I cant wait to see how it turns out.
Keep going!!!

3D_Chae

Hahaha hello everyone
Sorry about the late respawns hahaha. After Saturday class was done I passed out infront of my computer hahaha. Anyways...

BrianSegs - thank you hahaha. Yet, I don't know how it will end but yes I'll keep working on it until I feel like it's done

Jeff Parrott - Yes you are right! I should push more of the forms and shapes!
I fixed the trigger curl, and made the cylinder a bit more larger than original one. For the barrel part, I'll might start working on it tomorrow.

And here is the another work in progress (WIP) screenshot

minorthreat

Ooh the shape of the new model is awesome, so much better!

3D_Chae

Hello everyone!
Hahaha I haven't posted my works seems my mid-term is getting close to the end.
So far, I tried my best to work on my gun whenever
I had some free times after my personal studies, which you can find in my sketchbook thread
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119182



Also, here's my work in progress texture
I'm planning to make it below 256 or 512

Barrel still need more details and I can see some shadow problems.
I learned some new techniques few days ago and I'm trying to apply it to my gun haha.



Also this is one of my mid-term homework that
I have to make texture and rigging in two days hahaha....
This is my second time doing the character,
but i'm trying to make it in low poly with hand painted textures.

Again, any tips and advice are always welcome !

Wendy de Boer

3D_Chae wrote: »

Also this is one of my mid-term homework that
I have to make texture and rigging in two days hahaha....
This is my second time doing the character,
but i'm trying to make it in low poly with hand painted textures.

Again, any tips and advice are always welcome !

Oh man, that's not really enough time to do a fully painted character texture! :poly122:

With that short of a timeline, I would go for a very simple texture style, using an ambient bake and gradients for shading, and using gradient maps to get attractive coloring. Gradient maps are awesome, because you're able to hand-pick hues for the highlights, midtones and shadows separately, which gives you much tastier colors than simple overlay or multiply color layers.

Be sure to leave at least half of your remaining time for rigging, especially if you haven't done it before.