Tower - Japanese Arcade - Shadowplay

Shadowplay · Apr 2015

Im gonna work on a Japanese arcade, complete with all the things i love about em, arcade cabinets, fighting machines and ufo catchers

hand painted and pbr mix

Shadowplay · May 2015

some blocking out

jenninexus · Jun 2015

I love this concept - so cool!

Shadowplay · Aug 2015

I should be able to finally get more done on this soon

Shadowplay · Sep 2015

Was able to push out a few more cabinets + UFO machine and drinks!...Next up..crepes

Shadowplay · Nov 2015

Made a few scene blockout variations, still not feeling either 100% , i wanna get more open space, maybe ill remove the ceiling

garcellano · Nov 2015

Sweet! It's coming along nicely! Enjoyed the tour around Akihabara in the hangouts

Shadowplay · Nov 2015

Some more fun working on the starlight arcade

Shadowplay · Nov 2015

update

garcellano · Nov 2015

hell yeah, lookin pretty cool, Neko. I'm pretty sure I played a game on a machine that looks like that here, not in Japan. I forgot what it's called, though.

Shadowplay · Nov 2015

Thanks, figured id get one more thing done today. I think they are just a variation of UFO catchers.

garcellano · Nov 2015

that might be it, or one where there's LED's surrounding the middle, there's a light that runs around each LED, you have to hit a button the moment it's in front of you

Shadowplay · Dec 2015

Got the chair done, i used it as an experiment to come up with a hand painted/stylized pbr mix technique using substance painter that i wanted the whole scene to have.

Eric Chadwick · Dec 2015

Love this look!

garcellano · Dec 2015

Sweet! Thats looking pretty cool, man! Substance Painter is definitely pretty fun for hand painted stuff.

Shadowplay · Dec 2015

Arcade cabs 1/2 done

Shadowplay · Dec 2015

I am going to redo the marquees tomorrow to be more consistent with the style/ less noisy
Some games may be swapped out for others that i think fit my arcade better

looking into ways to make animated textures from gifs i made for the screens in substance, not sure sketchfab will even take those though

garcellano · Dec 2015

Dude, this is coming along pretty well. Yeah, I'm not sure if animated textures work on Sketchfab, but that would be perfect for this. The only other option I could think of would be having the animation sequences in separate planes and animating their opacity, might seem too wonky though.

Shadowplay · Dec 2015

only other thing i can think of is animating rotating cards..like a pinhole camera

Shadowplay · Jan 2016

Shadowplay · Jan 2016

model

Shadowplay · Jan 2016

Build test

garcellano · Jan 2016

niice, looking pretty cool, man!

Shadowplay · Jan 2016

setting up the wall and floors before i do anymore props

Shadowplay · Jan 2016

garcellano · Jan 2016

nice, I like those brick tiles!

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Eric Chadwick · Feb 2016

Ooh, this is coming along nicely. It's a bit heavy on the pink and purple color scheme, I wonder if you can pull it back towards the nice lighting you had in your January 17 test image?

Shadowplay · Feb 2016

The lighting is actually the same externally. The only difference is i added 3 internal lights. The pink and purple is actually what im going for with this as far as mood ( its a thing in japanese arcades). That being said the internal lighting isnt set in stone , it is more just so i can see things, I want to eventually get a bit heavier contrast with the light so it isnt as blown out but will have to balance it with the fact that japanese arcades are really bright.

The lighting is going to have to be completely redone for Sketchfab because of the light limitations ( i think its max 3)

Shadowplay · Feb 2016

Texturing this crepe stand will be torture.....the hunger

garcellano · Feb 2016

Niice, lookin awesome man

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Shadowplay · Feb 2016

Up Next..the outside neon Sign..and then lots of prizes for the machines

and then...maybe...characters

Will_M · Feb 2016

This is really nice

are you going to make a camera pan video for it?

n4uj · Feb 2016

I think that if you want a realistic artstyle (idk whether you want it or not) your materials are a bit flat, you might want to add more high frequence details. Also the 3d models are not physically correct sometimes: i.e. the lights cords are just embed into the ceiling. In real world you would probably have come geometry there.
The ceiling material is too glossy imo.
However I think it looks cool

it is a very creative piece, not just a sci-fi corridor. I really liked the Guitar Freaks arcade

Shadowplay · Feb 2016

n4uj said:

I think that if you want a realistic artstyle (idk whether you want it or not) your materials are a bit flat, you might want to add more high frequence details. Also the 3d models are not physically correct sometimes: i.e. the lights cords are just embed into the ceiling. In real world you would probably have come geometry there.
The ceiling material is too glossy imo.
However I think it looks cool it is a very creative piece, not just a sci-fi corridor. I really liked the Guitar Freaks arcade

It is only 50% done atm, more detail will be added later..that being said it is purposefully being kept simple
Going for the opposite of realistic, using lightly shaded colors with baked lighting and very little roughness noise for a very clean simple look to reflect japanese arcades
there is almost no gloss on the ceiling, you may be seeing the temporary blown out lights i have

Thanks glad you like the guitar freaks, i couldnt decide on GF or DDR so i just combined them into one new machine