Final School Project: Progress and Critiques

B_Korth

Newest Update:

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I am going to be posting my progress on here for my last school project in the hopes that with your critiques and my hard work I can have something nice to show when I graduate!

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A team of two others and I are making a 3rd person game made in Unity with a slightly cartoony feeling, where you play as a monster to destroy a city, one district at a time. (basically a 3rd person Rampage game)

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We are still brainstorming on the Aesthetic theme of the game but I have started on our first monster you will get to play as, Kaz.

This is my first time character modeling :poly122: so I REALLY appreciate any advice and help with form, process, edge flow, anything :poly121:


Here is what I have so far:







Concept by our 2D guy:





Bonus gameplay testing screenshot:

B_Korth

Made the heads topology today! Any critiques?

B_Korth

Basic form down and the base colors in. I still don't like his upper body but I think it will do for now. Critiques welcome!





Also I am having troubles with artifacts when baking in my simple AO map.. any thoughts?

ajester

Would watching this one, if you baking with xNormal. For your errors you need to use a cage or a blocker. Watch the video and you will understand.
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGszEIT4Kww"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGszEIT4Kww[/ame]

As for the Dragon i've would say that 11k tris is to much for this character. Here is a good example for what a character with your details should have. One thing you can do is start learning High Poly sculpting, its a kinda must in today industries pipelines. Program you can use are Zbrush, Mudbox and 3dcoat, maybe your school have a licence for one of the programs. Or you can use a student licence for Mudbox.





Here is two picture what detail a High Poly sculpt can give.

Hope some things where useful as tips, good luck with the project!

B_Korth

Thank you very much @ajester! I will check all those things out!

I am doing a low poly study on the side so I think all this will bring it together.

B_Korth

Here is my first attempt at low poly study without tutorials I did today. And now time to polish, compare, and make sure I'm doin this right... :poly122:



Probably going to be adding some more polys to get some more detail.

B_Korth

I'm happy with the low poly form study for now. Time to go redo that dragon (Kaz)

B_Korth

Here is some progress form today. I plan on finishing the low poly, and then taking it to mudbox and starting to paint in interesting normal map textures.