Polygon density and map resolution for an AAA Game creature

theForp

Hi friends!

I need some help, I want to make a creature and would like to achieve the Evolve / Gears of war creature result.

The problem is that  I'm mainly a commercial / movie artist so I don't know perfectly the game restriction and pipeline.

My idea was to model in zbrush then retopo, texture in substance and render in.... dunno  at the moment.

The questions are:

° Do you know how much is usually the resolution for such a creature? both in polygon density and texture resolution? I can't find anywhere lowpolys or textures to have an idea.

° What software do you recommend for the real time rendering?

° Do you know some tutorial that covers this kind of pipeline?

Thanks for your help, Alessandro.

Eric Chadwick

1) http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polygon_Count

2) Marmoset Toolbag is one of the best real-time presentation tools, and has a nice web browser setup. Sketchfab is also doing a great job, though the setup is a bit more limited, which can be better depending on your needs.

3) http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Character

theForp

Thanks dude.
Unfortunately on the character section there aren't tutorial on this level neither models with such high topology, or I didn't find them

Eric Chadwick

I'm not really a character guy, so there's not much on characters on the wiki. Check the examples section though, some good stuff there. http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Character#Character_Examples

Like this: 
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Roguedevelopmentdiary

Also some stuff here http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/CharacterSculpting

What part exactly are you looking for tutorials about? Retopology? Some on that here
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/ReTopologyModeling

Nico0307

I'm not an expert, but you could have a look at what the guys in The Witcher 3 were going for by extracting some models from the game (or download them). You will usually get 3 different objects for different LODs(of course triangulated). Diffuse, Normals etc. are available somewhere as well. As a beginner I found it extremely interesting to play around with these in Maya.