Some weapons

ToRuKMactO

hello guys, I would greatly appreciate feedback from you about some of my works, especially if I'm close or too far from realism

Render Maya, Mental Ray Plugin HD 1080 Production Quality

MDGM

your links are broken

ToRuKMactO

MDGM wrote: »

your links are broken

have you tried right click, open image in a new tab

ToRuKMactO

ToRuKMactO wrote: »

have you tried right click, open image in a new tab

Here we go

BARDLER

I would take a couple steps back if I were you. If you are aiming for realism you need to learn how to highpoly/sub-d model. You are not going to be able to get realistic edges and shapes with such low poly counts like you have. Assuming you want to do game art you will need to know how to make these sub-d models in order to bake them down to lower res game friendly models.

I would recommend 3D Motives maya modeling tutorials to start to learn sub-d modeling.
Intro-https://www.3dmotive.com/f105801
Advanced-https://www.3dmotive.com/f1014

Here is a great thread that is similar to what you are doing here. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118373

He shows his process, the basic steps, and even releases his files for you too look at.

The second part to achieving realism is texturing and understanding how materials work in the real world. I would honestly put this off for a little bit until you get use and a bit more confident with sub-d modeling. This is the best thread to start to understand materials and how the work in the real world: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136390

Hope that helps.

ToRuKMactO

Thanks for your attention BARDLER, I know a little of this process using the xNormal, but I'm inexperienced, I'm beginning to study character development now, but I love scenery and melee weapons, then summarizing I will not get a realistic result or near this only using 2D ART and mapping and I really need to use one mesh HIGHPOLY??

Cibo

Yes.
Sub-D Modeling or Highpoly Sculpting are common approaches. For plain surfaces like walls (no brick) some people prefer tools/programms for photoshop.

ToRuKMactO

Cibo wrote: »

Yes.
Sub-D Modeling or Highpoly Sculpting are common approaches. For plain surfaces like walls (no brick) some people prefer tools/programms for photoshop.

Thank you Cibo, I think you got my point, so basically what you saying is, for a decent work, I can use photoshop and mapping, however for a real amazing one(like beveled edges, realistic form,etc) I must have a HIGHPOLY meshe ???

Kimon

Basically you want a high poly to get nice edges, because that's almost impossible to paint yourself. For flat surfaces it's much less important with a high poly.

ToRuKMactO

Thank you very much guys, was pretty helpful, in a few days I think I'll be confident enough to create highpolys from my lowpolys meshes, and in the end I will compare the results to get a better idea