Hand Painted Buildings Project

Mrpopo

Hello fellow Polycounters,

I recently graduated and I'm just coming off a little break. For my first portfolio piece out of school I made a realistic german bayonet and I've realized that I need to expand my horizons beyond photo source texturing.
I also want to try a project outside of my usual workflow of high poly, low poly, bake, texturing, and I have decided to just hand paint my textures onto my low poly model.
I have no idea what I'm doing but that's for the best, I think.

Edit: Final render, I may revisit this later and add more details although I'm not sure it needs it. Here are the renders for my folio.




And here are the texture sheets for those who asked and general lookery,




Thats what I have so far the next step will be unwrapping then texturing. The tri count is around 1700. So any critics, kind works, or ideas/things I could add or do differenctly would be more than welcome. Hell, anything you may have to say really.

Also here is my reference.. Amazing artwork by Matias Hennecke

DWalker

Nice job so far, but the awning just doesn't seem to fit. Awning colors typically match (or at least coordinate with) the building's trim color. The geometry also doesn't work; the far edge of the hanging cloth is much longer than the near edge, and the bowed-in shape feels inverted.

Mrpopo

Thanks for the reply! And I'm not sure what you mean by inverted? And I will play around with the colours once I get to the texture phase.

DWalker

Most awning are either straight or bow upwards, held by stiffeners. Yours appears to be held by stiffeners to bow downwards. I suppose concave awnings do exist - they apparently sell them - I've just never seen one in the wild.

Mrpopo

Update-r-oony, Im gonna start practicing painting stone and tiles and such before I texture this SOB.

Here is what I have so far.
Just a worn Stone tile.
(More to come)

Mrpopo

Another quick update on the stone tile. I will finish this one tomorrow morning and I will get a finished version up and start on something new.

Mrpopo

Got a quick screen grab of this texture in action. probably wont use this one on this particular model so i will chalk it up to practice. I think Im gonna start some roof tiles next.

chazzur

I love the tiled floor. Wish I was able to do hand-painted. Keep it up!

Mrpopo

Thanks Chaz!

And now with shingles! A first pass, but so far I like em

wirrexx

care to make a fast tutorial on how you made the Chingles? Did you make one Chingle and then copy paste. Cause im trying to make a roof atm and i have a hard time getting the "tile" to work correctly.

SaferDan

Really love those shingles! Not a fan of the stone though, you have two separate styles going on there!

Mrpopo

@ Wirrexx Yea man, next chance I get I will throw something together and you are correct, I made one base shingle then copy pasta-ed it 5 times and made each one unique, then copy pasta-ed those into the pattern above. I will post something more clear later though.)

@ SaferDan Thanks! And I agree entirely, the stones were more a practice run than anything (it was my first h.p. texture :P), I don't think I will actually use them for anything other than practice. the stones that is.

SaferDan

Oh cool! My bad! Cant wait to see more textures in the style of those shingles!

fab-camp

really like the concept you got there.
looking forward how you will get this style into 3d!
are you planing to use normal-maps also?

ps. the art-deco-style of your portfolio-page is great!

Mrpopo

Thanks fab-camp! I appreciate your appreciation for the deco.

I'm planning on doing the diffuse first, then tailoring the textures to use ndo for my normal map creation. we shall see how that turns out :P

Mrpopo

Little Update here, Ive began working into the roof texture of the smaller building. I still have to work the high and low lights as well as some grime building up.



That tutorial for shingle will be made eventualy as well, I have just been having some photoshop issues at home.

Mrpopo

1st pass on the bricks, needs work but I think its coming along.. the main thing is I've noticed, is that victorian brickwork is layered out differently (big brick little brick.)
I may also need to up the contrast..
I will post my brick texture on its own later!

/anty/

I would suggest something))
Try to think about your textures as if you would paint whole image - First mock up all colors, shapes, big details, make it feels the same as your reference, and only then- start work on fine details like bricks and tiles on roof.

thepapercut

Love that shingle texture man, but I'm not feeling the green shingle color goes well with that brick color.

Mrpopo

Anty - wow. thanks for the advice, that makes a lot of sense :P. I may go back to the drawing board on this one, or at least follow your advice for second building then revisit this one after. Learning a lot about hand painted textures during this project.

Paper- thanks, I appreciate it, and I agree with you about the colour, I think they are too saturated, Imma work on it!

DWalker

The large 'bite' on one of the shingles might cause a noticeable pattern when you tile it.

Mrpopo

DWalker wrote: »

The large 'bite' on one of the shingles might cause a noticeable pattern when you tile it.

That shingle in particular is a part of my variant tile, which I will be sure to use sparingly.

Mrpopo

A little update, Ive scrapped the bricks and now im just working int he big deatails and shapes etc. Thanks again for the advice from anty!

Gannon

There it is yeaaaah. That looks much better. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see this finished.

Jeff Parrott

Yeah go with the paint strokes visible. Look at Prof Layton games for building ideas.

chrisradsby

Indeed, visible paint-strokes are a really nice touch.

Mrpopo

Thanks for the kind words everyone! A little more progress here. got the second building blocked in and Ive started the windows. Ive also added a tree, its foliage is in the works don't worry .

lotet

getting there, its looking good. I like the brush strokes, but if you look at the concept they are more like big choppy blocks of color then small squares.

nathanbarrett

Looking awesome! Can we see some texture sheets?

Mrpopo

Thanks lotet, unfortunately, being the fool that I am, the way that I unwrapped will prevent me from painting in many of those big blocky shapes from the concept. but I will be trying to work in some of the colour variations and implied brick work from the concept.

Nathan- I will post dem texture sheets once its more done ish :P

Heres a new WIP render..

most of the colours are blocked in, now I just need to get to those details (and some of the window frames.)

Mrpopo

Update the project, some polishedish renders and texture sheets for those interested

Soldeus

Love this! Really like the big brush strokes you've left in the texture. Amazing style you've got in there!

Mrpopo

Thanks Soldeus!

WarrenM

This turned out great, nice work! I think you could have punched up your saturation and contrast somewhat as the colors don't really pop, but overall it's fantastic. I wasn't sure this was going to work when you started but it does!

lotet

turned out great, good job!

serriffe

awesome job, great style

Mrpopo

Thanks everyone! I appreciate the kind words and I will be sure to mess around with the sat/con when I get a chance Warren, thanks for the advice!

mikhga

Wow, this looks amazing. Though I definitely agree about the saturation and contrast. Also, I would love to see at least one of the trees quite a bit bigger. Other than that stellar work!

fab-camp

great style !