Need Critique Plz! - 3D student

Ignas

Hi this is my first post on Polycount.

I just finished my second year of university, studying Game Design, and I would like get some critique and feedback on what I think are my best works that I have produced in this year.

Being new to this as well as being naturally biased towards my own work I find it hard to see my short comings sometimes and this is why I ask for your opinion :]

I would prefer straight forward answers instead of beating around the bush trying to not hurt my "feelings" or something.

My final university project - Tropical Temple:


Fly through video of the scene:
https://youtu.be/B656LdOcZ4s

My earlier project from this year:
model

My Artstation:
https://medis.artstation.com/

These were done quite a while ago and since then I have moved on to create other things therefore I'm not looking to continue working on them - though I still am very interested in what are your opinions are.

Thanks for your time!

Ashervisalis

Hey, good looking stuff

In the temple scene, you rely too heavily on edge masking for your texturing. The floor, ceiling, and walls all look like they are made the same way and it's a bit odd. The floor has such deep grooves you'd just trip all the time. Your video should be available in higher resolution. For a portfolio piece, it's also too long for the amount of work it shows off.

Perkunas looks cool. You should have a beauty render and not just Sketchfab. I feel your tri limit was pretty high. Still, really cool. If you want to show off your maps, combine them into 1, and also add a UV snapshot on top of them, to show your UV packing skills. Check out what I previously did (lowered the resolution for this post);

Ignas

Ashervisalis said:

Hey, good looking stuff

In the temple scene, you rely too heavily on edge masking for your texturing. The floor, ceiling, and walls all look like they are made the same way and it's a bit odd. The floor has such deep grooves you'd just trip all the time. Your video should be available in higher resolution. For a portfolio piece, it's also too long for the amount of work it shows off.

Perkunas looks cool. You should have a beauty render and not just Sketchfab. I feel your tri limit was pretty high. Still, really cool. If you want to show off your maps, combine them into 1, and also add a UV snapshot on top of them, to show your UV packing skills. Check out what I previously did (lowered the resolution for this post);

Thanks for your reply. Totally agree with the edge masking bit and the use of the same material for everything. What I didn't realize was when you pointed out that the grooves in the flooring are too deep to make sense to walk on them - which now that I look back on it, yeah they look quite puffy - in the future I will stick to creating flatter materials for tiled / brick flooring.

You pointed out that I don't have beauty shots for my Perkunas piece which was an obvious oversight from me so I will change that soon. And as for the presentation of the maps I will change that too.

Thanks for your time in responding to this