Hand-painted Textures - Feed me critique!

Eliteabix

Hey guys, Worked on some hand-painted textures for a recent project and would love some feedback, Ill soon be starting work on a portfolio (just finished University) So any advice is gladly welcomed!

This was all done during my final year at Uni, a lot of it I dont consider portfolio standard but I think some of it is salvageable. Will upload some of the models soon

CarlK3D

everything looks great! I'd love to see some environments or some weapons

JunkieKong

Your details are awesome and you're really good at giving those rocks form, although one thing you may want to do is make the darker areas more saturated, which will stop the textures from looking kinda dirty - but it depends what you're going for. Not that I'm one to talk, but perhaps some more colour variation would push it that little bit further. Anyway, really nice work.

gamerjanne

Beautiful textures. Do you sculpt the textures in zbrush or do you just paint them?

Dennispls

ahmed mohamed wrote: »

a lot of rocks what the point ???

Your post begs the same question.

Ontopic:

The textures look great! As said by others the darker areas could definitely use a bit of color.

shotgun

I'll echo what the rest said and suggest making your ~75% darks a bit lighter first. Ur values tend to slope pretty radically from that point onwards towards black, even though some of them are meant as shadows rather than pure black. Sort the value first, then the color.

Eliteabix

Thanks for the feedback guys, greatly appreciated! I certainly agree that the darker areas are too black, Its something I had concerns with when painting them - I often worry that the texture becomes too washed out when I change the blacks, maybe I need to start with a defined pallet rather than just going for it and then trying to edit the hues/contrast etc after.

gamerjanne wrote: »

Beautiful textures. Do you sculpt the textures in zbrush or do you just paint them?

Some of them are straight up hand painted, some of them are from sculpts


Ill see If I can make some changes and then Ill upload what Ive got - will upload some of the models too.

Cheers again!

Some textures I forgot to upload -

atomander

Hey Eliteabix, really great stuff! In particular, I really love the foliage. One thing to think about might be to introduce some subtle color variations in your tiles between stones, planks of wood, tiles, etc. I would check out about half way down this thread; there is a pretty neat rock breakdown using a really nice warm palette.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89131