Fozdar: Game Art Thread

fozdar3d

Starting a thread to document my work in low poly assets and characters.

Critiques and Comments are welcome and encouraged.

I'll start with my current project: a gatling laser from Fallout 3.
I'm referencing the concept by Adam Adamowicz.

Here's the high poly:





And some low poly renders out of marmoset.





I've only tackled normal and AO maps at this point. I'll be starting on diffuse textures over the weekend.

Here are my normal and AO maps at 2048x2048





At this point, the only issue I'm running into on the current maps is some waviness in the textures. This is most noticible on part that are cylindrical or rounded.

pear

Search Solving Wavy Lines on the polycount wiki
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap?action=show&redirect=Normal+Map

fozdar3d

Thank you very much!

fozdar3d

Long time since I've posted, and I'm on the diffuse textures for this gun.



I wanted to get some feedback before going ahead with this treatment on the rest of the model.

Joltya

Hey Tyler! I told you this before, but I think if you reduce the contrast of the metal a bit more, it will look a lot better. Keep it more subtle. Also, I see your trying to add some wear to it, but it doesn't look like it makes sense. Think about where the dirt and scratches would actually accumulate. Also, do you have your normal map on? It looks like you don't.

fozdar3d

Here are shots of my updated textures; I took another look at the concept and realized there wasn't even white paint indicated on the gun. I changed all of my paint layers to secondary metal. I also created a specular map.

fozdar3d

Here's another piece I'm working on; concept comes from First Keeper on DeviantArt.



Right now, my biggest negative is the straps on the handle.

Critiques appreciated.

fozdar3d

Moving on to the low poly on this piece.

fozdar3d

I rebuilt the handle straps, and I think they came out much better!

fozdar3d

Here is the low poly sword with Diffuse, Normal, Spec and Gloss Maps. My first attempt was unsuccessful because I tried to go the photo sourcing route, which was counter-intuitive. The new diffuse textures are much heavier on the hand-painted side.



As always, critiques are encouraged.

kmactastic

Saw your thread on the bliz contest.. I am aiming to enter as well
A comment I have is to try painting some glow into your maps. For the eyes of your sword.. it might bring it more to life with some green glow coming off the teeth. Just an idea! You matched her concept super well (:

fozdar3d

It's been awhile since I've posted here, but I'm going to start working on changes to my portfolio. First off, I have this high poly trenching vehicle that I want to create a low poly version of, but I'm not sure what a good polycount goal would be. Here's a render of it:

fozdar3d

Started working on some hand painted texturing recently. Definitely a departure from what I'm used to. Going for diffuse only. Going to be a repaint of the Ravager Blade from Monster Hunter.

For reference I'm using an image of the in-game sword from an older Monster Hunter title to get the general mesh placement. I'm not planning on following this particular texture direction. I want to explore different material types and dive into what is possible with diffuse only lighting information.

Here is the model in 3DS Max viewport with flat lighting.



And here is the WIP diffuse texture.




Right now I still working on the back side of the main blade. Trying to get the main highlights correct before adding finer details and moving to the handle. Once the highlights are in place, I'll do some hue shift experimentation to get the right color. Initially, a bronze metal is my aim for the back side.

fozdar3d

Made some more progress today.

fozdar3d

After a few weeks of work, I'm calling this sword done. Time to move on to another piece.

fozdar3d

Started work on a new piece. working from a concept by Peet Cooper, shown here

Here is my blocking so far

fozdar3d

Still blocking, need to add the lamp near the doorway.

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More modeling progress: