Sketchbook: Mine

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Hello everyone,

I am a self-taught 3D artist with a BA in Fine Arts and a MSc in Computer Aided Arts & Design.

In order to push myself further, I wanted to start a sketchbook to share some work in progress.

Feedback and critique are more than welcome

Cheers,
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Recently I am working on a cemetery scene. When I am modeling headstones, I wasn't sure if I should use an alpha in Substance Painter to create writings on the headstone, or just carve it in ZBrush and use that normal map on a low polygon mesh.

So I made a little experiment.




On the left side, I used an alpha to paint a height map on a low poly mesh in Substance Painter.
On the right side, I carved the letters via Projection Master in ZBrush and baked a normal map.

I thought ZBrush version should have looked better, but alpha-height map one is sharper.

I have applied some materials in Substance Painter and finally used particles to paint the leaks.

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And more headstones

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For the cemetery scene, I wanted to create an old bench.

So here are my references;




And my bench;



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This is a screenshot from the cemetery scene in UE4.
For last a couple of days, I was busy with creating new headstones with varied names. 

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Since it has been a bit depressing going through all those cemeteries on google maps and making headstones of fictional characters, I took a break and modeled/textured another game prop.

Some of my references;







I have created medals and frame separately and combined them in UE4.
I also made 2 more frames for a certificate and a written oath.





I am not quite happy with the purple velvet behind the medals, it looks way too dark in UE4.

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Bozo bop bag!



Because it's going to be placed in a room, which is not used for years, I wanted to make it look a bit flat.

I used Maya for modelling the main shape, then Marvelous Designer and Zbrush for wrinkles and baking the normal map.
Finally Photoshop + Substance Painter for texturing.

robert.nally

The bench looks awesome.

Nice info from your experiment with Zbrush and Substance Painter as well.

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Thanks Robert, much appreciated

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I have imported the medal display, certificate and oath frames and bozo into my project and did my light baking.
These are the screenshots from UE4;

NYANNOVA

Your UE4 scene looks stunning with the lighting, really gives it this gloomy atmosphere that fits the scene. Great work overall for the texturing! About that, are these photographed textures? They look very realistic.

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Thank you very much NYANNOVA!

I have used/edited/created images to create bed cover, wallpaper, book covers, map, punch bag and certificate/oath textures in Photoshop, then played with them in Substance Painter.

The rest of the textures were done in Substance Painter.

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Hi,

Yesterday I have started working on a couple of jigsaw puzzle pieces and a box as a part of a puzzle in the game.

As the image, I used a painting from John William Waterhouse, he is one of my favourites.
These are screenshots from Substance Painter;



I've moved the pieces around in UE4.



And placed them into my scene.

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An old portable cassette player;

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These are screenshots from Substance Painter. 
I used Photoshop to prepare alphas for the texts and Substance Painter for material creation.

Since this is going to be used as a game prop, I've changed the brand name to Panasound

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I already had a cassette, that I made a while ago. I just created the second one and made this composition.

Rest in peace, George Michael 

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For some reason, I can't light my scenes properly in Sketchfab. But I think this one is looking fine.

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This week, I had some UE4 work to do, so I didn't have much time to create new props. 

However, I did some retouch.

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Thank you Shinigami, I'm happy that you like it

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Another retouch,

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Decoder glasses

A quick composition with decoder glasses

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I have tried some texture on the glasses.

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Ribbons

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Back to the cemetery scene,





These are the in-game screenshots from UE4.
I have been re-arranging the headstones, placing fences, creating a landscape material with multiple layers, making a path and so on.

On the landscape material, I used varied materials from Substance Source.
Here is my material,

Yedp

Very cool sketchbook, nice work on textures and details!
My only comment, which is more of a preference, would be to add a sheet of reflective glass on top of these frames with the medals and certificates, I think it would add a nice "depth" touch  (and if you like to keep things away from dust too ), but it is only to be picky, it really looks great already!

Looking forward to see more!

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I needed a path in the cemetery. Instead of painting it with landscape tools, I wanted to give it a try with the spline in UE4.

So, this is the mesh I've created 



And the path I made with the spline tool in UE4.



When making a path, road, pipe, etc. with spline tool, Zak Parrish's tutorial is perfect. He is very thorough. 
But if you are looking for a quick solution, I recommend this one.

I happened to try them both  

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Hi Yedp,

Thanks for your comment, you are absolutelyI right.
My main plan was using broken glass on the medal display, as someone got angry and threw something at it. However my broken glass material didn't look that appealing

But I will definitely add some glass on them. Thank you so much for noticing.

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Today I am working on a material with Parallax Occlusion Map in UE4.
I have been following this tutorial, it is fantastic! 

My current result is;



So, I used Substance Designer to create normal/height/AO/roughness channels.



And imported them into UE4 to create the material.

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The road rug with Parallax Occlusion Map in UE4.

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I really enjoy modeling interiors, furniture, random items, etc. But creating characters... I don't know, it's not my thing.
Anyways, I have started doing some tutorials from Michael Pavlovich to improve my sculpting. He is absulately amazing! 

This is my very first character sketch in Zbrush. It took about 3 hours to make it.

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We needed a basement for our game project.
After some research, the other day I've started building the basement with simple modular pieces in Maya.
Creating modular building pieces is super fun! 

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These screenshots are from my test scene in UE4. I just placed some lights to see the materials.

I used Substance Painter for texturing. And the bricks are from Substance Source, I directly used the material in UE4. They are not looking that convincing, I think I should make some adjustments in Designer.

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old water heater and pipes.

used maya, photoshop and substance painter.

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I am still working on the basement. 
As I have started importing the objects, the basement seemed a bit too big for our purposes. So thanks to modular building pieces, I resized it pretty easily  I also changed bricks, ceiling and floor textures. 

At the moment I am still creating objects to pile up, in order to make it look like an old, messy place.

I didn't have time to create new lamps for basement, so used my regular lamps for now.

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So, basement stuffs...
We needed an old typewriter from 1950s. Royal's Quiet DeLuxe was a great fit.




...and here is my "Loyal" Quiet DeLuxe   

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If you would like to spin it around;

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Meanwhile I was working on a house plant.

I scuplted the high poly mesh in Zbrush, baked texture maps and created material in Substance Designer.
And finally did some retouch in Substance Painter.

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Another house plant;

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I have been working on some low poly candles.

I used Zbrush for sculpting and zsphere+topology tool for creating the low poly mesh.



And the candles in the UE4 scene;

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I have started making a quilt in Marvelous Designer;

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I had to make the model all over again.
So far, I've used Marvelous, Zbrush, Maya, Substance Designer and Painter, and Photoshop.
The Photoshop part took longer than that I expected.  

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I am still working on it, but... This is my first "complex" material with Substance Designer. 

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Today's Substance Designer study, blue tiles;

Here is my reference,

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It is super fun to draw shapes in Substance Designer from scratch

Turquoise tiles;

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I worked on the wood parquet flooring and turquoise tiles a bit. 
Then updated my portfolio.

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I wasn't able to update my sketchbook for a while...

So, this is a scale that I made for our game, The Family Skeleton.
I used Maya for modeling and Substance Painter and Photoshop for texturing.




Another prop for the game, "Smith" says

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Wall calendar;

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My new Substance Designer material, Marble Floor Tiles;







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Working on a new material with Substance Designer.

For this time, instead of creating the whole material procedurally in SD, I've used a mesh to bake normal, ambient occlusion, curvature, height and color maps.

Afterwards I created wood texture and wallpaper pattern in SD and put them all together.

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New prop;

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Crayons and watercolor set