Ghost in the Shell - Tachikoma

Nabes

Hi guys! First time posting here, but I wanted to show off this model I did for class of Ghost in the Shell's Tachikoma. This was our first time creating a hipoly model and projecting it with a normal map, as well as using CrazyBump for additional details if we wanted. After that we took rendered shots in UE4. Comments and crit are very appreciated! Thanks!

UE4 Renders:








Low poly wireframe in 3ds Max, ~33k tris


Album of UVs and maps:
http://imgur.com/a/9RqQq

Album of refs:
http://imgur.com/a/pRHmu

Ged

the model looks really cool! background and presentation could be nicer though. youre somewhere inbetween having a background environment and not having one, I would say either make a cool scene to put it in or keep the background simpler and just have blurred environment or a gradient to the floor etc

Nabes

Thank you for the advice! We actually had to use that particular scene for this assignment, but I went ahead an downloaded Marmoset.

Bummer6

Just a TINY thing that's really not even a crit, it's more just my opinion. I would PERSONALLY like it better if the blue was a bit more dull and looked like paint rather than a blue metal. Again, this is about taste. The model looks fantastic and seems really faithful to the anime. Great job!

Nabes

Trying to balance out the paint with the metal was kinda tough. I think one point of confusion I had was whether to have the blues in the metalness map or not. I understand that it's paint and not a metal, yet I've been told that metalness maps should be strictly black or white, yet setting the blue as a non-metal never gave me the sort of reflectivity I wanted even tinkering with the roughness.