900 tris Soldier wips

jp3d

Hey hi!
Ive been working on that soldier model for about 2 days now, ill be posting here until its finished.

900 tris and 1024x, final result is the lowest i've ever got to, its gonna be interesting to try pushing it down there. Its an entry test for a company in montreal, so ill sculpt maybe abit more details than needed for such a low spec, i want it to kick ass. (in reasonable time span)

thanks buddies!

jp3d

here is the vest part, added just enough details for a very low poly thing.. quickly as possible! looks OK from far

Torch

Say whaaaaaaat XO 900 tris for all this? It looks great man, very clean model you got there!

jp3d

@Torch XD XD i know such an overkill, hope its gonna look not too bad on that most minimal topology of all time!.

Spiffy

Following, your works really clean

i'd love to see how you tackle this with such a low target.

jp3d

@Spiffy thanks buddy !!, yeah its a mystery still XD

Torch

Nah it'll look great Are you using a Normal map? If not the details could probably just be painted, unless you want to bake the AO onto the diffuse. Anyway looking forward to the results!

jp3d

ill rely alot on the AO! sure, some dDo and paintovers, its gonna be blocky but i think i can get some silouette, some :P

Noth

I just created a 700 tri character for an art test. I'll be impressed if you can validate your time spent here. I'll keep an eye on it. high res looks great so far.

homrighausen3d

That is one badass vest @_@. Very nice so far!

ysalex

Great work so far, the character has a nice solid feel about him, and that vest is awesome. Looking forward to seeing how you deal with the tri-limit, plus a 1024.

garriola83

i think i know which art test this is. i didnt do so well in mine since i lost electricity for nearly 5 days and was also doing online classes so i was more inclined on focusing on my classes instead of this. its doable.

jp3d

thanks people, glad for the comments! @noth thats a really good point for the time validation, but since its an art test i chose to show up with at least a medium quality sculpt rather than just go texturing. But youre right! i dont know what they're going to say. @_@

jp3d

@garriola83 haha some awful memory! thats cool you think you know which one, lets see if you can confirm its the same

garriola83

haha yeah...it definitely was a horrible time in my life. keep going, its looking much better than i expected.

jp3d

ok, im done doing high rez over-exhuberantries, maybe get some assymetry here and there, ajust stuff, gotta retopo that lego character and bake!

Tits

amazing work!

jp3d

heille c

DEDE_pig

Nice Work ! Cant wait to see the LP of it.

And also cant help but notice that the pockets are not camo...

Tits

jp3d wrote: »

heille c

jp3d

ben ouais mon idole! ton stuff tue depuis longtemps , donc

jp3d

Finally had that down yesterday,the most low ive every got :poly134:

jp3d

Today i textured, using dDo mostly, a few paintover, some parts zbrush spotlight,

too far in to go back after baking some elements, i realized i should have mirrored a at least a boot or a hand. something. I'm used to try giving a spot to everything.. and also ill usually favor distortion over loss of space, so i smear UVs all over. Both habbits not too suited for low poly . anyways, at the end it does passable..

Muzzoid

Jeeze why 900 tris?

Seems like a weird goal man, Like it all looks sweet i'm just confused behind the spec.

Torch

Yep definitely go with mirroring so you can max out that texture rez, I've been finding its better to have a little distortion as well and try to have seamless UV shells (before I used to seam the crap outta everything.) Seems fairly solid though from looking at your texture flats, would like to see them on the model.

jp3d

heres a render, i think i might make him a little less sleepy before submit, if anything else, i still have a few hours ahead. seams ,
unintentional profanity?

jp3d

! @Muzz haha! its an entry test for Gameloft, hopefully maybe my first job, .. they made me do it XD!!, too much on sculpting maybe, for the spec. I dont know how to go strait on lowpoly like those genius pixel art japanese kids on the internet.. I rely alot on AO and normals XD

jp3d

@! Torch, thanks man! tho i dont even remember it went well ever for me, mirrored geometry with same normals,, ever got that atrocious seam right in the middle the whole thing?. would have been alot better but then I tried to put some little different details on each side XD ,, [SKETCHFAB]19K2v7vyw4wiLek4H8Sd6sxGvMQ[/SKETCHFAB]

robomaniac

omg, thats looks awesome
thanks for posting

Torch

Its a bit late but I would probably say the upper legs are a little on the short side, or possibly the lower legs being too long? Think it may just look that way from where the kneepad placement is. The texture itself could use some dirtying up, if you've got a 1k texture you can go pretty nuts! He's looking good though man

jp3d

:D:D:D:D:D I DO THAT! ( convenient silouette changes at moving 1 vertex XD ) also dirty up too right!, try to contrast more i found out, keep the color code clear..

!robomaniac, thanks komrad!

Tits

I think it turn out great!
The only thing I would say (and it's been said before) is that if you had mirrored some part of the UV you would have save a lot of texture space and get a better resolution.
Otherwise great job!

jp3d

yeah i learned some few many things in there,! At least mirroring a boot instead of having 2 skewed shits..., but aw, fun test thanks much !!!:)

Wendy de Boer

I'm surprised how well it baked considering the low polygon count. Normally, I would expect a model like this to have hand-painted diffuse textures only! Looks good man, great job.

Bao92

great job !

Slaught

Looks great!

anal_cove

Looks amazing! Did you bake onto a "Mid" poly model and then reduce/collapse edge loops to make the current model?

really sweet job

makecg

ya that baked really nice good job

jp3d

thanks! thats a very good idea, bake on subdiv higher, i got to the almost right count straight when doing my retopo, there were some proportions to follow like, 25% legs 50%midsection 25% head,

anal_cove

Really Stellar job! I need to give this a shot, it seems like great practice

jp3d

thanks so much ! yeah man! if you do,, hope you think about keeping strait solid uvs, re-use the space quite abit :P

Bruno Afonseca

Looking pretty solid I'd run an extra edge on the top of the forearm, hands and calves so it doesn't look that flat. There's a tiny little bit of weirdness that can be fixed by changing the triangulation, for example where the ears meet the neck. Also there's a little bake weirdness on the back of the neck. You can just manually paint that out if you get the chance.

Hope you get the job PM me if you need anything. Good luck!

jp3d

you right! i didnt take the time to spin the triangulations, few parts i spotted. with some more edges left, i would really put them on the boots. i was annoyed to block their shape that badly cause for once i didnt make them ''clown shoe'' type XD they were decent, much appreciated man! :thumbup:

fab-camp

900 tris very well spend!

FuzzYspo0N

Awesome work.

bobmartien

900 tri soldier.
Are u applying at Chara Artist Gameloft ? xD

jp3d

@bobmartien yesss you got that one right! :D:D