Adventures in Polypaint - Stylized ship

CodyBlack3D

I have been pretty out of practice with ZBrush, and never touched polypaint before, so I decided to do a stylized ship concept that I had in the back of my mind for awhile. Right now I'm working on the rear of the ship and probably going to take the rudder into Zbrush next, but I'm thinking I might revisit the door in the first image. Would love to hear any thoughts, suggestions or critiques.

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BARDLER

I really like what you have so far, and I like the colors, but the textures feel fuzzy and muddy. Sharper and more defined shapes in the texture will really make those textures really pop.

CodyBlack3D

Ok, I'll take the textures into photoshop and see what I can do.

Chimp

Yeah I agree, although I understand that the whole point was to work on ZBrush skills so I can see why you want to Polypaint it too But the quality of this is great enough to justify abandoning Polypaint I'd say, cos I really wanna see a top-notch version of this. Go full painterly-PBR and blow our socks off!

CodyBlack3D

I took your advice, and scrapped using polypaint. I re-painted the texture for the ship's wheel, and I do feel like it looks a lot better. Let me know what you guys think.

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Gannon

Looks cool!

Poly painting doesn't need to be scrapped completely. You can use it to lay down base colors, bake it in Xnormal and then detail in Photoshop/3DCoat. I do props like this pretty often. It helps reduce the amount of time I have to create masks in photoshop. It's also great for blocking in large gradients and manually tweaked AOs.

nickcomeau

I really like the paint over. Next thing I would suggest to do is add a bit of color variation all around because it's making your model look a bit flat. Think about complimentary colors in the shadows, not just blacks, to add some vibrancy to the scene. Very cool start though!

CodyBlack3D

And update. I blocked out the base colors with polypaint like you suggested for this and it was pretty useful for that, so I guess I will just use it for laying down base colors for now on. I tried to be more mindful of keeping a better color variation for the back part, and will go back and tweak the ship's wheel next. Let me know what you think![URL="[img]http://i.imgur.com/LJrLmJz.png[/img]"][/URL]