Sketchbook : Kitblu

Kitblu

Edit: Please feel free to leave a critique. I know I have a long way to go, but I gotta start somewhere. The advice and pointers are greatly appreciated.

Modeling has never been my strongest asset and I have very little experience in it, but hawt damn~ there are some mighty fine artist on this website and they've inspired me to whip out my tablet and take a crack at it. Here's my journey through the battlefield of edge loops and poly faces.


First Mission: Trudging through the Mud...box.

Do you even face, bro? 2 hour "speed sculpt" where it felt like I spent more time figuring out to make eyeball spheres and setting up my tablet than doing actual sculpting. :T

Kitblu

1 Hour speed sculpt

Pulled out my drawing reference book and took a crack at facial muscles. I'm getting comfortable with the wax and smooth tool, but lips man.... they're a killer.

Kitblu

1 Hour speed sculpt

I found the monthly challenge thread and tried my hand at modeling the character's face. I really need to figure out how to make eyes. Also, how to build up shapes... hmmm, I'll google a few tutorials later when I have free time.

Kitblu

45 min sculpt

Kitblu

I got wrapped up in freelance work that I fell behind on my modeling progress. I found the noob challenge thread and decided to try my hand at a low poly shield. I struggled with uving, but it's doing what it needs to do so I count that as a win.

One of the rules in the noob challenge thread stipulates that I need to render the model in a real-time engine. Since I don't have one at the moment, I'll just keep my posts to my sketch thread.

Here's my progress so far:



I'm making my way through painting the textures. I'll update more once I can get another chunk of free time.

Kitblu

Got a couple more hours in today.



Edit: Somebody posted this awesome link so I'm saving it here for me to look at when I get home.

[Painting Process]

pmiller001

nice! i like your shield! keep it up

Kitblu

pmiller001 wrote: »

nice! i like your shield! keep it up

Thanks, man! c:

Kitblu

Finally finished the shield! I learned a lot though this little project. First time painting a low poly texture item and also the first time I used xNormal(sick program). Used it to bake out an occ map. Next time, I'd like to see if I can sculpt and make a normal map for something low poly.

Kitblu

For my next project, I'm modeling a simple skull, but I'm running into a lot of issues with the uvs. Ugh, uvs are the toughest thing for me to get through. I can't seem to get the numbers lined up nice and clean for texturing. I'll youtube some tutorials tomorrow.

Kitblu

My friend told me about Maya's Bonus tools and it's freakin' amazing... made uving soooo much easier. Welp, model done. Next is uving the body.

Kitblu

Freelance and work are sucking up all my time so here's a quick update of what I have so far.
Maybe I'll finish texturing this weekend.

Kitblu

Making progress on the textures. Not done yet.

Kitblu

It's been a while, but I got Lil Skelly rigged. Since unreal is now free, I plan on learning it and building a mini game for this guy. I want to learn how to take a character through the whole pipeline to get him into a game engine with some animations. Should be fun. I'll finish up the textures later. Right now I'm excited to get him in the engine.