VG REMIX - Grand Theft Auto

givemeajob

Hi Guys,

This is the first competition I'm participating in and I'm going to create a diorama on the four leaf clover (bank robbery) mission in GTA: IV. The diorama will be specifically centred on the moment Niko, Packie and his brother are in a gunfight with the police (on the streets) as there trying to run into the subway tunnel.


If the competition permits it, you might see some familiar faces from the series in the diorama.

givemeajob

I have decided to slightly change my idea and make the charcters in my scene lego figures and the environment; the subway.

My idea is still based on the bank robbery mission in GTA IV and on one platform will be Niko, Packie and Derek. The other will be the cops in a shootout with them.

There will be other people on the platforms but I've yet to decide where they will go and how they will fit into the scene.

givemeajob

here is my initial rough blockout of the subway in GTA IV

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a3sthesia

that's going to look really cool! Especially with the pedestrians and theme. Will you leave the roof on? It might be ok to leave it off or cutaway or something. Can't wait to see more anyway!

givemeajob

Thanks a3sthesia, I'm considering to make the plane the top half of the subway or at least a portion of it. I'll see whats best with experimintation and document my progress for everyone to see. This will be a great way to hear everyone's feedback

givemeajob

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Its been a while since i've done a update but here's what i've been working on. The environment is completed but could do with some tweaking and I would love to hear some feedback

Now to move on to characters...

givemeajob

Managed to make my lego character in 498 Tris. My only question is do items I place on my characters such as hats or bags come under the 500 tris limit? Or are they counted as other props?

givemeajob

Textured the police officer and now I will be moving onto weapons and the other characters. Also I read about the 16 textures limit on sketchfab so I need to combine my 64x64 textures into an atlas and re-apply them to my models.

givemeajob

Here's a breakdown of all the assets I've made for my entry, starting with the props. It's been a great learning expereince and I look forward to future competitions

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Some more rail assets

givemeajob

Well into the competition I found discovered SketchFab only allows up to 16 textures per scene. This was a set back as I planned for my scene to be thriving with characters and life at every angle.

So I had to think about where the textures are going to be used and consider how there going to be seen and decide what texture resolution to use. Therefore I combined the glass and metal beam texture onto a atlas. To try and save space I put a tiled texture onto a atlus but quickly learned the downfalls of that.

Textures like the bullet and gun however are not going to be tileable so I put them onto a atlus. When It came to the Police hat I knew I couldnt waste one whole texture slot on this object in particular. So I thought what stands out on a police officers hat? That would obviously be the badge on the hat so I decided to place the badge on a section of the police characters leg, as they are the same colour.

givemeajob

Creating the characters was a fun and challenging process as character modelling isn't my strong point and overall making low res textures for my scene was new to me as I've never dabbled into pixel art before.

I was determined to stay within the 500 tris limit but found it difficult at first, as I was trying use allocate more polygons on the head to make it round. However If I had kept the head round, the hands would have had to be square. For me the hands had to be round to establish the charcters are lego.

givemeajob

Here is the finished artifact, I'm very proud of the results

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