The Blue Door

aubergine

Hello!

I have been working on this little project for a few weeks now and I thought I'd post this up on here before I called it done. The one thing I'm really concerned with is the amount of dirt/chipping. Did I do too much? Not enough? Is there something else that really sticks out and I just can't see it? I've been looking at this for too long now to be able to tell anymore!

Any input would be greatly appreciated!


Referenced, but not copied:

silvershrimp

Yeah the dirt is too brown and overall the scene is too saturated. Modelling looks good but the texturing and lighting is letting it down. That gold letterbox is too perfect, and isn't reflecting anything. Is this realtime? Cubemap or reflection vector might help. Wear on the surrounding stone will help, and get rid of seam at top of lintel. Nice execution though.

luge

What I'm mainly not liking here, is your spec for the wood of the door. it looks like plastic to me.

Joost

The door is looking pretty good, but I feel a bit more work on the texture will make it look a lot better.

I don't know how much wear & tear you're going for, but for game art it's usually better to go with more than in real life. It's always easier to take away some of the wear than to add more.

Some things I'd add:

-More "edge wear", right now you have some chipped paint, but paint tends to chip away mostly at edges and flat areas that take a lot of abuse, like the bottom of the door.
-The chipped paint at the bottom of the door doesn't look natural. I'd make it go all the way down to the bottom of the door.
-more dirt/grime
-A trick I use for painted wood is to use a texture of wood grain to mask away some of the paint. Paint usually fades in the crevices of wood (not always though). And it makes the paint look less boring imo
-You can also use ndo2 on your mask for the chipped away paint to add some more depth.

Some reference to look at:

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-rustic-wooden-doors-painted-blue-29071406.jpg

loads of good reference on cgtextures:

http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=97827&PHPSESSID=jrinln4dgvag6a1ojdqembrf03
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=105571&PHPSESSID=jrinln4dgvag6a1ojdqembrf03
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=87509&PHPSESSID=jrinln4dgvag6a1ojdqembrf03
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=88021&PHPSESSID=jrinln4dgvag6a1ojdqembrf03

Some references and textures from my own "archives", appreciate this because it took ages to upload

Notice how the paint is peeling away upwards on this one, I'd try to simulate this on your door, though tone it down a bit if you don't want this much wear.
http://i.imgur.com/vdlGbjH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uFy8ckS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/MsN0rxm.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Rs11ZG1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DiYdBGE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LPZ5g4G.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/80phveA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BMVZ525.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BMVZ525.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4Z6Q17w.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aIAonYC.jpg

aubergine

I really appreciate this! Thanks for taking the time to give me some good feedback. I think I put it to good use. I desaturated the door and added a more varied spec map, as well as more paint wear/use.

I already had a cube map and reflection vector set up for both the handle and the letterbox, but tried bumping it up some more so you can see it. I also added some more dents/general deterioration to the letterbox to make it less perfect.

I touched on the walls a bit. I chamfered the edges and added some normal map work in there to make it look a little more interesting.

I also tried messing around with the lighting, but honestly I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to lighting! Any input with that would really help me out.

Joost

It's looking better, but I think you could push the edge wear a bit more. Depends on how new you want this to look though. I'd add some more dust in the recessed areas. And I'd overlay a bit of wood grain.

Here's some more reference:
http://free-images-etc.rb-d.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_9807.jpg
http://www.healbyrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/green_painted_distressed_wood1.jpg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/279/0/5/painted_wood_by_juutin_stock-d307oj7.jpg
http://psdmockups.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/old-peeling-knotted-pine-wood-green-painted-fence.jpg

luge

i didn't notice in any posts, so i'm not sure how you want to do this, but its kind of looking a little cartoony. not sure if thats what you want. it looks like you're lighting is causing that though.