MeetMat 17' Ultima Forsan entry
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Hey all,
I've just finished my entry on the Substance Painter competition, and was recommended to share my workflow here as well
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Soo... This is a catch-up of the last couple of days progress (as I didn't actually have time to write up what I was doing) towards my entry for Ultima Forsan.
As a texturing exercise I was already looking into how I could model clock internals, and was already thinking of doing something steampunk-like when I found out about this contest.
I found images of clock internals online, and picked something less complex but with more variation in colour. I wanted to paint this onto my model, but the lines were not coming through cleanly.
I started with the modelling phase in Maya. I was determined to create an alpha texture to then use as a brush
Then finally completed model;
I then used the Zdepth renderer (first time ever) to create a height map
When trying to place the mask correctly onto the model I was not happy with the placing, so decided to scale the height map to the actual UVs
This was the output once I made an ID map as well.
I did not like the colours the ID map came out with, so instead, I decided to use the ID colour mask to create colours. Sadly the program did not like it too much
So I went ahead and started painting in the textures by hand. In a way I felt this was more true to the guidelines and rules as per the competition
At this stage I wasn't 100% with my colour scheme, but in my head I was creating masks which I could change later, so kept working on
After the head was complete, I started thinking about the body;
Whilst trying to figure out how the end result would look like, I started re-watching Firefly for the 1001th time, so that greatly influenced the outcome.
I found this awesome material on substance share named couch, which was on the model for over 80% of the process.
Next was fixing up the arms and adding small details to the coat, boots, etc... The details were all painted onto the model
At this point I was quite happy with the outcome. But I still felt that something was missing. After seeing some other entries where the talented artists used heightmaps to create creases in the textures I started experimenting as well, and finally ended up with the following result (sadly, I did not document the steps).
And eventually, the final result;
Once all texturing was done, I was thinking of a good quote to put on the pedestal. That is when I came across the Latin phrase "Ultima Forsan" which is a memento mori ("remember that you have to die") - a medieval Latin Christian theory and practice of reflection on morality. Public clocks would be adorned with motto such as "ultima forsan" which translates to "Perhaps the last" (hour).
When I found this motto, the project grew a bit closer to my heart, as we lost a dear family member in the last years, who was a clock maker, so in a way its paying homage to the trade.
Well that was my turbulent week of no sleep and learning Substance painter! I'm pretty sure all SP2 users will have a collective heart attack on the amount of layers used (I love non destructive processes), but in the end it worked out.
And the final submission
Hi Res images and sketchfab model is on my artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OkkKg
I've just finished my entry on the Substance Painter competition, and was recommended to share my workflow here as well
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Soo... This is a catch-up of the last couple of days progress (as I didn't actually have time to write up what I was doing) towards my entry for Ultima Forsan.
As a texturing exercise I was already looking into how I could model clock internals, and was already thinking of doing something steampunk-like when I found out about this contest.
I found images of clock internals online, and picked something less complex but with more variation in colour. I wanted to paint this onto my model, but the lines were not coming through cleanly.
I started with the modelling phase in Maya. I was determined to create an alpha texture to then use as a brush
Then finally completed model;
I then used the Zdepth renderer (first time ever) to create a height map
When trying to place the mask correctly onto the model I was not happy with the placing, so decided to scale the height map to the actual UVs
This was the output once I made an ID map as well.
I did not like the colours the ID map came out with, so instead, I decided to use the ID colour mask to create colours. Sadly the program did not like it too much
So I went ahead and started painting in the textures by hand. In a way I felt this was more true to the guidelines and rules as per the competition
At this stage I wasn't 100% with my colour scheme, but in my head I was creating masks which I could change later, so kept working on
After the head was complete, I started thinking about the body;
Whilst trying to figure out how the end result would look like, I started re-watching Firefly for the 1001th time, so that greatly influenced the outcome.
I found this awesome material on substance share named couch, which was on the model for over 80% of the process.
Next was fixing up the arms and adding small details to the coat, boots, etc... The details were all painted onto the model
At this point I was quite happy with the outcome. But I still felt that something was missing. After seeing some other entries where the talented artists used heightmaps to create creases in the textures I started experimenting as well, and finally ended up with the following result (sadly, I did not document the steps).
And eventually, the final result;
Once all texturing was done, I was thinking of a good quote to put on the pedestal. That is when I came across the Latin phrase "Ultima Forsan" which is a memento mori ("remember that you have to die") - a medieval Latin Christian theory and practice of reflection on morality. Public clocks would be adorned with motto such as "ultima forsan" which translates to "Perhaps the last" (hour).
When I found this motto, the project grew a bit closer to my heart, as we lost a dear family member in the last years, who was a clock maker, so in a way its paying homage to the trade.
Well that was my turbulent week of no sleep and learning Substance painter! I'm pretty sure all SP2 users will have a collective heart attack on the amount of layers used (I love non destructive processes), but in the end it worked out.
And the final submission
Hi Res images and sketchfab model is on my artstation:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OkkKg
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