Afklamer's Environment Art

Afklamer

Hey everyone,

I've just started learning 3D this February. I had some awesome support from Peet Cooper and Warby getting into things. I really love it.
I felt like sharing at this point. I'd love to get some feedback on where you think I should improve on.
I'll be posting everything chronologically so the first stuff is the oldest around end of February I'd say. And the last I reworked after GDC.












Let me know what you think!

Cheers

Jakob Gavelli

This is amazing!

moose

This stuff is pretty awesome! good job!

I think the wooden barrels & tables in the first environment (on the right, close to camera) are pretty weak compared to the rest. They look blobby and undefined, and could use their own unique texture - or a new tile that has a highlighted edge so you can shape the models better with the texture.

It's pretty clear that World of Warcraft would be a goal, my only other comment is that it would be cool to see some unique design as well.

Obscura

This february... If this is true then you'll work at a very good place really soon, because then you are a really big talent. Your works makes me feel like I should stop trying to make hand painted things...Please reveal your secrets! Anyways, I was really impressed during looking at your stuff, keep going!

SaboR1996

These hand painted textures are flawless!
Say, would you be willing to share some tips and tricks on this kind of stuff?

Clark Coots

incredible! some of the best hand painted textures I've seen.

killnpc

wow, great work! very talented mentors you have there.

KyleJensen

Incredible work. Well done!

DWalker

Your lit surfaces feel too constant and yellow. The temple is better than the tavern - especially the bit of orange around the doorway. On the lanterns especially, however, there should be a distinct 'hot spot' directly over the light source.

Note that Blizzard had similar 'hot spots' on some of their lit windows.


Have you considered using projected textures from the windows in the first scene?

The gray walls, path, and mountain all tend to blur together in the temple. Lightening the walls would help.

Adding a blue shift to the mountains would help to indicate their distance.

StrangerDanger

wow, man that's really good for just starting. Hope i can learn that fast

Kbrom12

you sir can paint, nice work :thumbup:

Jeff Parrott

Nice work! The lighting looks a bit soft in areas. Be nice to hard sharper shadows. Like kp said that's some great mentoring you have there too!

ZacD

DWalker wrote: »

Your lit surfaces feel too constant and yellow. The temple is better than the tavern - especially the bit of orange around the doorway. On the lanterns especially, however, there should be a distinct 'hot spot' directly over the light source.

There's actually a nice trick they do with that effect for certain looks http://simonschreibt.de/gat/world-of-warcraft-balloon/

Gannon

This is really nice, could we get some wires of the big Asian temple? I'm curious how you put the background together.

Some of the value adjustments between the exterior ground and walls of the temple could probably be adjusted to help separate the two also.

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Noren

Looking awesome!

evilblah

Wow this is great stuff and you are already improving over the first few images to the large temple. Keep it up and post more things!

carlobarley

love those textures, they look sharp and have good form *straighttt to my ref folder

Iciban

wow this is some great work! loving them handpainted textures!
Mind sharing on what kind of workflow you used on creating the textures?

deolol

Wow this is amazing.

People always say its practice and not talent. I guess its not true, this can only be the result of natural talent pure and simple... some people are born for this

Meloncov

Please say you had extensive experience with painting before starting in 3d. Please?

Because otherwise I'm gonna be very upset.

0cme

This is great stuff, stylized isn't easy and it looks like you have a natural grasp of it. Really nice.

The last shot is a little busy and unclear in its composition; the temple seems to be equally important as the tree in the foreground and the mountains in the background... maybe play with their values to help the temple pop out?

Ehsan Gamer

AWESOME .

Keep it up .

Fenyce

Wow, these are awesome! Loving them. You did a great job. This is some really awesome handpainted stuff. I'm looking forward to see more like that!

romy

Excellent handpainted stuff, very good job Afklamer

Nobelsix

nice work keep it up !

rino

that looks awesome, well done man!

Shashank

awesome handpaint ,super work

LSheridan

Inspiring stuff. I agree about the lights needing a little variation/bright spot. Geometry and textures are super awesome though.

Afklamer

Oh boy , I'm really humbled by all the Feedback ! Thanks for dropping by!

I've Been a 2D artist for quiet a while now. I've also some game dev experience. .
I've been Artdirect0r and only 2D guy on this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DncYk8zIh8g so I have extensive experience in tiling and painting.
But I always avoided the whole 3D issue.

I'll try to record how I paint my textures soonish maybe this will be helpful. Still need to learn tons of stuff myself though!


Moose Thanks for the feedback. I'm currently tinkering on a new Scene this time it's my own design I'll be much more focused on the props on this one. Great fan of your textures! WoW would be !

Obscure, Don't say things like that! Go paint more stuff! Painting is awesome!

Dwalker, thanks for the input! I'm still struggling with this but I see what you mean I'll give it a try on my new scene. A stupid question but what do you mean by projected textures ?

Hey Gannon, thanks for dropping by! The background is more or less the same technique I used for beatbuddy since I knew I'd only do the screenshot from on direction i diddnt want to spend too much time on that! =P Here's a screenshot: http://www.the-rogic.com/PIX/Polycount/Unity_Temple.jpg
the snowy mountains are part of the Skybox

Hey TeriyakiStyle. My monochromatic textures were also one of the biggest critique points during GDC I'll try to tackle that next!

Deolol - trust me it's always a lot of practice! You just read February but you don't know how I've spent this time ;P nor what I did prior. I'm known for obsessing over things and work till my fingers bleed =D

0cme, Thanks! I really love stylized stuff. So much fun! I think The chaos also originates from my poor lighting I really need to spend more time on that !

Thanks Jeff and killnpc! Peet and Warby are the best!

And everyone else Just thanks for dropping a line!

I've started a new scene recently. I'm currently visiting My sis in NYC so I'm constantly struggling between 3D and exploring the city
That's how far I got till now but I think I'll do a major face lift on it next week.




Cheers

Fenyce

Wow, that new one looks promising, too! But you should get some more color variations into the floor tiles and those green parts. Also the oven could pop out a little more (lighter value, maybe even stronger highlights) atm it's getting lost since it's pretty close to the color and value of the ground.

Afklamer

Haha that's about "next week". Well, finally got around working on the scene again I tried to get more color variation into the textures. Still not done but slowly shaping up.

Hey Fenyce thanks for dropping by! I do hope it looks less monochrome now? Oven will get re haul next


Feedback is more than welcome!





cheers

luge

i feel like you should have kept those pipes orange, it just has a better look to it than all green does.

Neolight

radical