Diamond Icons

jose.fuentes

The above are 4 tiers of Diamond Icons that I made for a mobile game.  My Process was modeling, and basic lighting and surfacing the 3D models, which I then made a basic render from.  At that point I brought it into Photoshop and did some painting.

While these images are done and I will not rework them, comments and crits are always welcome, I can def use anything that I learn from your crits for future work 

Eric Chadwick

These are neatly rendered. Though diamonds are usually more defined by their internal reflections than exterior shininess.

One way I tackled this recently for a hand-painted asset (no reflections whatsoever) was to layer an interior shading as dark blobs on top and bright blobs on the bottom, then have the sharp reflections on the exterior as bright above, dark below.

jose.fuentes

@Eric Chadwick that sound cool, do you have an example of the diamonds you painted?

Eric Chadwick

Sure, here it is. It's for mobile, so you never actually see it this big. More like the little version at the bottom.

jose.fuentes

thanks!  its cool to see how you used the dark and light technique you talked about.

RN

I saw this gem item from Rayman Adventures and remembered this thread, but these seem to have been hand painted:

jose.fuentes

@RN

I really like the sparkles used in the image, its definitely something that i think adds a lot of life to it.