Hi Guys! Would love feedback on a couple of videos/Models I have made.

Shoes2k

Hey

I have recently started streaming my games development. From these streams I have time lapsed the development process from start to finish. 

I would love feedback on how to make these videos better, or if they are complete garbage. 

They can be found at the following links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmYqkwG9gLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQtXc8XZthE

Thanks in advance for any feedback you have!

megamawman

I am not much of a modeller so no advice there. However, you did not bake a normal map from a high poly. Other modellers may correct me, but you should create a normal map 99% of the time ^^.

Your texturing workflow is something I can comment on though. Pasting pictures onto a UV map won't get you very far. Try to learn more about texture theory and PBR by going to the following websites:

https://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory
http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice

and of course, good old Racer
http://oesterkilde.dk/racer445.html

Those are all great reads. If you want to check out a great video as well. Feel free to check out Racer's video for texturing in Photoshop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnh01WJOK8o&ab_channel=Kevin%C3%98sterkilde

These videos are old and although a lot of people still love photoshop, I tend to use a combination of photoshop and Quixel Suite which work perfectly together. But, you might want to get used to pure photoshop first. ^^

Shoes2k

Hey man, thanks for the reply. 

I added a normal map after this video adding in the detail for the wood but beyond that I didn't see the point of doing high poly then baking down as we are aiming for a simple cartoony feel. It does also have a specular map on, but I did that and the normal map later onon. 

I am extremely new at this and could be wrong so any input is valued. 

My texturing definitely needs work I agree. Thank you for those links I will have a look and try to improve!