The Monthly HANDPAINT ArtJam | July & August 2015
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Noobs and Character Artists can have their challenge, so do we! However we've decide on keeping it simple and friendly, and instead of making it a challenge, we're making it an Art Jam. A place where Handpainter can exchange technique, critique and tricks.
We welcome any cartoon concept artist that would like to join us too !
- There's no restriction on the software or technique you use. You're a free to use brush and bake map. Our goal here is to get better and share workflow. We won't accept any war between oldschool and newschool and what is handpaint.
- The use of photo is strictly forbidden.
- The use of heavily photobash brush is also forbidden. Remember the goal here is to PAINT.
- The final output should only use diffuse, alpha and glow map. No Normal, spec or bump is allowed on the model itself. However using those map as a base for your painting is allowed.
- This is an Art jam so don't use existing stuff, there's no point in it. Re-using asset is tolerate to a certain point, use your good sense.
- Everything have to be your work, no stealing. Collab are allowed as long as your teammates are part of polycount !
- You have to post WIP of your work, the main goal of this, is to learn, so no final product only.
- We encourage you to post your texture map as well as the model
- If you participate, you have to post at least a critique on someone else work.
Ah summer, this time of the year where you either in a crunch time, away on vacation with your loved one or just too lazy to do anything except laying in a sunchair, so this artjam is going to be double month theme so you have all the time to enter! And our theme will be... The Sea, Under the sea, Over the sea, On the sea, Near The Sea, Whatever that makes you think of the sea is fine !
This theme is super free you can do mostly anything but here's some example if you find yourself in lack of ideas !
A pirate, a mermaid, a kraken, a fishman, a rich dude on his yacht with his sexy lady, a big dude at the beach, a crab, etc.
Boats, island, beach, coat, etc
a fish net, a trident, an icecream, a beach towel, an umbrella, etc.
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Even if those months are over you can still participate in them !
- March 2015 [ Ireland ]
- April 2015 [ Easter Fantasy, The RPG ]
- May 2015 [ Space Garden ]
- June 2015 [ The Carnival ]
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i didnt get much time myself but stared working on it
a lazy screen grab and a texture experiment
I'll probably jump on this soon. been quite busy recently
I wanted to make a boat this summer. So this art jam is perfect. See you!
he is not so cute now xD
worked on the kitty
want to work more on her fur
oh my gosh that crab is adorable!
Got started on my pirate ship!
Progress booooooaaaat!
Running into some issues with the UVs, and possible AO opportunities. Not sure what to do, but I'll be messing with more UV stuff as I paint.
You could bake the AO into vertex colors. (I've never tried it, but I hear it's a popular technique for environment stuff.)
I'll have to look into the vertex painting thing. Not sure how to do it right off the bat. Thanks for the suggestion!
I'm new here and still getting used to 3d modeling and painting digitally, but hopefully that's alright. Here's my sketch, blockout, and paint-over so far:
I guess the only thing that stands out to me is how the incline with the small chest sitting on top of it is not apparent at all in the textured version.
Also, some simple AO on the ground will help make your chests feel more grounded
I start a similar concept but my own head stop me.. I really wanted to do a super shiny treasure chest with many shiny treasures in it at the bottom of the ocean (because i want to do seaweed) but my sense of " IF IT'S IN THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA IS SURE WON'T BE SHINY JUST DIRTY AND FULL OF CRAP GROWING ON IT" So yeah, should i follow my heart or my head. Meh this is starting to be a bit too much disney haha.