Door practise

nikita_nomad

Hi all! This is my first post on this forum, so not sure if that's the right category and format. But anyway, I am hoping this community is alive as it would be great to have some real feedback and interaction. I am a self taught artist with about a year of "experience". You can find some of my work on my art station, but here I will post progress of a new project I started. Something simple, but I hope to gain new skills like substance painter and working high to low( I think it's called baking?) Will post updates here and progress. Thanks for looking!

Initial block out

Hopefully this (roughly!) will come out at the very end )

I am more then happy to get any advice and critics!

nikita_nomad

A bit of progress. I'm finished with the high poly (I think). So it's going back to maya now and then to painter for baking and texturing. I have to figure out how it's done still.

HarlequinWerewolf

Hey, cool to see you're going to pick up substance painter. The texture you have on the wall is really cool so far. There are some more complex ways to layer materials so you can have the cement on the outside, then paint a mask to reveal the brick underneath but that's maybe a bit advanced for now. If you're just picking up substance, I would check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j27AS0VQOw    It's purely about texturing so doesn't cover baking but is a great starting place

nikita_nomad

Hey, thanks for input. I'm going through flipped normals course on painter, it's pretty basic and covers some fundamentals. I already thought about using different fill layers and just mask out parts to reveal details. Super excited, just a bit intimidating at first and I think will be a lot trial and error. But I feel it's worth it

nikita_nomad

First ever try in baking. I think it's not terrible...what do you guys think?

rexo12

There's a bit of a hard edge on the right side, and I'd like to see a little bit more contrast in the material, but looks good!

nikita_nomad

Thanks,that hard edge will not be visible at all so I didn't bother. And material still needs some love definetely

nikita_nomad

A bit more progress again, I did the low poly, uv's and color id for painter(i think that what you're supposed to do?)

nikita_nomad

Finished the bake and added the second door, now on to texturing

sacboi

Nice job, going nuts

nikita_nomad

Thanks

nikita_nomad

A bit of progress update. I'm slowly wrapping my head around painter..and oh my god. It's so much fun!

lyte

hey looking good ! Nice to de the progress
just a question, why are you keeping the steps so high density? I'd  keep some bevel at the edges but the faces can have just a couple loops, or is this for a closeup in animation? Same for the walls and floor, any loop not contributing to the shape shouldn't be modeled, unless you're going for tassellation

archie_garcia_27

Awesome work so far! 
I also agree with Lyte. The steps are too high in density for what it is. If you were to show the overall wireframe for a breakdown shot, everyone's eyes will go directly to those steps and wonder why they have so many loops. Those steps can be flat faces with just beveled edges. You will get basically the same result. And with a good normal bake, it won't even look flat. Any extra polygons should be dedicated to the door, as that is the "hero prop" of this piece. If you really want to show some variation in shape for the steps, you can do maybe 4 loops vertically and 2 loops horizontally along with edge bevels. Something like this image should be more then enough.

nikita_nomad

Hi guys, thanks so much for the input. very valuable! in order to reduce density on the steps, do i need to retexture everythig now? actually i can probably import lower steps?

archie_garcia_27

If most of what you did in Painter was procedural, like generators, then when you re-bake your high poly to your new poly, it should look mostly the same. If you did some custom painting and your UV's changed with the new low poly, which most likely they will, then those may not look right and will have to be repainted/adjusted.

nikita_nomad

yeah, it's a mix, some procedural and some custom painted, masks specifically. That's ok, thanks for advice!