Sketchbook: DCuatt

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edit: Hi, resurrecting this thread. It's been a little while. I'm refocusing less on giant setpieces that take me a long long time to complete and more on some smaller 3dsketches that I can experiment with more frequently. Stuff that might not end up on artstation but is fun to do and good practice.


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Hi everyone, I'll be uploading my environments and props here as I go. I've got a few recent projects to dump, should be pretty sweet.


First up is Fred of the Moon, about a 9 year old boy with a love of all things space. I'm still going back and tweaking it a bit.











And a fan environment, I wanted to take a stab at Psychonauts.

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Frawmus

Was about to say your Fred on the moon had reminded me of the psychonauts style, then you did psychonauts I like your work! Keep it up! Nothing bad to say

pablohotsauce

Jaysus, these are amazing! Seeing that Psychonauts fanart brought back good memories. Man, I loved that game's environments.

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Gonna revise this one later I think

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Adlivun

Seconding (or thirding?) the psychonauts thing. The environments are so weird but interesting looking. Nice!

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I'm ditching that princess net. Kind of reaching hard there...

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Updated Phoebe's room again


And gave her some stuff here, backpack, sandals, the like. I was thinking I could get away with having the straps on the sandal one-sided strips, but I'm going to go back in and give it some dimension.




Finally, and unrelated, a stone texture I was practicing on.

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Blegh, i've still got a couple problems that need fixing, but I'm in the homestretch for this one.

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Aaaaand we're coming along nicely! I finally also ditched that pink floor. Like wtf man. UVing and texturing is almost done. Then some polish.

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Got a flythrough video of the scene here.

pablohotsauce

Came out nice. Cool to see the fly-through. :thumbup:

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I'm reworking that outhouse texture a bit. Here's where I am right now:

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I was doing a lot of perspective sketches of books, so I did one in Zbrush and then decided it needed a material pass. I found this triplanar marmoset shader to help me along.

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I drew this on my lunch break last year and went and modeled it out pretty recently. I'm going to get a few more of this style in before i decide which one I take all the way to game-ready.

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And here's the one I just started blocking in, also from a sketch last year.

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I had a few minutes today, I think this is as far as i'll go before double checking proportions.

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Here;s a speed sculpt I made a few months back to 1) do the head thing and 2) try out skin & hair rendering. Very interesting stuff, I think I'm going to do more like this!
I put him up on artstation so check out the marmoset view there too --
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nQ8rRo

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I scanned a rock! I did this like two years ago but never quite cleaned up the bake enough. But hey, at least I learned here that Marmoset is definitively better at some things that Substance.

Baking, it's baking, guys.
Artstation link

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Now BACK to this factory! I'm done unwrapping and packing my mesh and have gone over to my beauty render model from earlier. GoZ is an unwieldy beast but I really enjoy the results I'm getting when it works. More updates soon!

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Here's how the bake came out. Next stop, substance.
 

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Wrapping this up, and here it is on artstation -- 
https://t.co/XvYmjZSOAQ

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adorable

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I absolutely adore the Galarian Weezing that was shown today!

Started the sculpt over lunch.

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Just checking in!

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This one looks ready for its own thread!

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i started this during my winter vacation. Aiming to do more, smaller scale pieces after Gadgetzan x Fortnite.

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Cleaning up this bad boy before I'm back at work tomorrow! Finished, not perfect. =D

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OK so I did have to polish it up a tiny bit more.

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Hand-painting!
get it?

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Here's a breakdown: I was inspired by the workflow from this Substance Designer tutorial -- I based my UV layout from a tilelable texture Eric Wiley creates here: https://youtu.be/fCEscPQ9mq0

So I modeled it as a tileable mesh.

and I blocked in my colors on this mesh.

Later, I duped + skewed the mesh to make it feel more natural, and painted this part inside Substance to get around painting seams.


For initial posing, I created a "Torus Knot" polygon primitive, and created a spline from one of the edge loops, and applied a series of tentacles to it using a Path Deform Modifier

(i don't have good screenshots from this phase)

I nearly called it done here, but the cluster of tentacles felt too square, so I went around and janked it up a bit more and stretched out more tentacles

and yeah, downside is that the end of the tentacles have a weird taper and a weird seam. I tired collapsing it with a negative displacement map but results were REALLY bad

"I should post more as I go instead of all at once" -- me, every dang time

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I haven't posted here in a while, here's some recent substances materials!

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A mech that I drew last year, I've been modeling lately in off hours using zModeler. I like modeling with a tablet this way!

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hold up, foot pic

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Starting polypaint! I'm not taking this one to low poly at this time but am excited to get more colors on it!

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polypaint update!