Uberren's Alchemist Table

Uberren

Hi Polycount!

My finals started and I have to model a small scene based off of a reference of my choosing, the first of which is this alchemist lab (I think?)


I already have everything modeled and unwrapped and I've started texturing in base values.



Hopefully I can get some critique on my work along with advice.

Right now I would say I need a bit more contrast in my values, specifically the wood.
Haven't really gone into adding details yet.

hmm_rock

Great concept and start! Are you planning on making a base for it all to sit on?

Uberren

Thanks!
If by base you mean a simple sort of ground plane, then yes.
Still not sure if I should go with a wood floor or stone though.

Poinball

Nice work ! For the floor, you can do some nice shape like a circle or a lot of little triangle. Please dont make a regular square tile floor :P

Uberren

Of course A simple square is much too boring :P
I was planning on having a circular mask so the edges fade off or something of that nature.

Uberren

Bit more progress on the textures.
I still have to do the orbs and the liquid inside them. Also need to warp the symbol on the banner to be more in line with the folds.



I also just realised the concept is from Torchlight II, lol.

Uberren

Finished the base values, going to start adding colours now.
Still haven't done anything for a base yet.

Doomathon

I can see some cool lighting solutions for this! Looking great so far

Uberren

Thanks!
I've added the base colours in now. Looks like I'll be spending the rest of the time fixing and adding in lighting + details going forward.

Uberren

Current progress:


Painting in lighting.

Poinball

I like it !! Good job so far !!

Fenyce

Nice work so far and inspiring, too!

Poinball

Can you give us a tuto who explan how to start from the basic value ( Black and white ) and add color on it to have something nice like you ?

Uberren

Never made a tutorial before but here's what I threw together for you, hope it's useful

Uberren

Bit more progress on the lighting:

Uberren

Today, I worked some more on the lighting and added smaller details to the books and stuff.

Next thing I plan on doing is the base.

I am not sure what sort of floor I should do though, wooden planks or a stone tiled floor?

I plan on making it circular and just fading out with a mask or something like that either way.

Fenyce

I'd go for a stone floor, since you already have a lot of wood in the scene. You also could add a chalk drawing/circle with those typical alchemistic signs to the floor.

Uberren

Oh, that's a cool idea. I'll try that out once I have the basic floor tile finished
Good point about making the floor out of stone, looks like that's what I'll do.

Dragonar

hey dude I really like it continue !!

Snafubar7

Good job, matching the concept quite well

Stone floor of some sort, already lots of wood. maybe a rug to go with it.

Uberren

Thanks Dragonar

Ayy Snafu. Thank you.
I like the rug idea, I'll probably be able to mix it with Fenyce's rune idea as well, I'll see how it goes.

Just got my placeholder floor in this morning:


I quite like the gray scale floor, so I might leave anything else I add to it in gray scale as well.

Ged

looking good! it would be good if there was a few walls for the bookcase and scroll to stand against and the lighting doesnt seem to be affecting the floor at all, that would be a nice touch. Also some variation in brightness on the stone floor tiles would be good eg 1 tile every so often is darker than the others etc

Uberren

Thanks Ged.
I'm not sure about adding the walls but I do plan on adding more variation to the values of the individual stone tiles to break them up, like you said. I'll also paint in some light around the candles at the back

Uberren

The faked AO on the ground was giving me problems with the rug so I opted to just leave it as is, fix the ground texture a bit, paint in missing light details, and add few final touches.
Thinking of calling it done for now:

skodone

are you painting in ps or 3d coat or somewhere else?

Fenyce

Image isn't working for me.. "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available - imgur.com"

Uberren

Does this work, Fenyce?


@Skodone
I am using 3D Coat to paint everything, with a little bit of Gimp to do a bit of colour adjustment.

skodone

very nice

thanks for the response!
i think i have to explore a lot more of the coloring functions of 3d coat, since i cant figure out how you did some parts so crisp
but i just started my first hand painted model ever so... a lot will come up i think during paintin gmore

darkmag07

That image loads fine for me. Nice work Ren!

Uberren

Good luck with your first attempt

Thanks Ben