LOW-POLY ART
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This is the sweet spot for your low-poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em!
Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:
Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide
Low-poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low-poly art style appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:
- Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
- Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide
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thus all digital composting was made with film to handle layers knowing things would need black to drop out to 0.. so it all kinda just developed from there and stuck
(in maya you can set your bg color in camera to w/e you want (default is black))
I certainly would never want that feature on, i think the tools of digital art have just refined to make it a bit obsolete,
so I often find myself shutting it off in Maya
Here's my wires, simple viewport capture (I don't know how to render wireframes):
I'm excited to see the detailed texture too, and DEFINITELY the chopper! Since it's more complex though I wanted to practice getting the rider how I wanted before I tackled it.
Edit:
No offense taken
set anti-aliasing however you like
open source?! just downloaded blender.. see this is what Google$ is for imo, should just hand those people $10 million and help distribute it as well and make it part of the google/docs arsenal
What, minor nitpicks you say? Coming right up!
And also the nostril area seems to have currently 1 whole poly + 1 additional tri on each side. I guess it'll make the end of the nose a bit rounder, but will it be noticed?
Thank you for the nitpicks too 9skulls. I'll get to work on those
Edit: Tris are down to 306 :thumbup:
75% of your effort should be the texturing though.
the mesh needs to be emphasized into the role it plays
1) only as silhouette to show off good texture work
2) just the vehicle to make clean+efficient UVs, so less distortion
3) joint complexity dependent on skinning quality, flexibility + range of motion.
remember it wont matter if you hard or soft-edge a 100% self illuminated texture
... if you need a nose to look like is sticks out from front viewing but not really from the side, there is no need to model it,
just paint it to look like it exists Trompe-l'il
same with any indentations
think a little less about texturing a model, think more like you are modeling + uving a texture
Tennis, has a great portfolio i like to show for people who like to be low poly inspired
http://www.kennethfejer.com/lowpoly.html
http://jim-art.blogspot.com/
One of the guys who got me interested in low poly, or better, 3d in general.
OH yai??? <cracks knuckles> lets do this!
HOW ABOUT PIOR!??
heh! even found my re-version of it
spent a few hours re-making his model to learn how it all worked and wisdom+1
not even chuck norris could fan boy like i can! /flex,
...and that is WIP so it is still on topic ;p
For the lowpoly workshop pumpkin carve
Alright, tex is almost done. 999 tris. 256 tex
I call it
Snow Time for Messin' Around (was the corniest title I could think of)
And here's my texture:
After looking through some examples I did a lot of re-arranging of the UVs. I didn't realize until now that when you're working this small the orientation of the pixels is as important, if not more than the amount of space allocated to the polygons.
Bonus image for barefooters:
Turntableees! \o/
What is going on with the right side of the nose? Is it black because of flipped normals or is the texture just stretched over it?
Do you use pixel snapping when arranging your uv islands? I recently discovered that option myself and it instantly made my life hell lotta easier.
If that was my texture, I'd work on the colors bit more to get them work together a little better. To my eye the greenish yellow of her shirt and the yellow in her loincloth are a bit off from the scale of what I call good looking colors. I'd make them both use the same color and try to find a tone that fits for the character, maybe something like this:
That smirk on her face is hot btw.
This is just wrong, but I couldn't resist:
:poly129:
Waiting for the bike!
EDIT:
And also what he said:
@Baddcog Your entry looks good! I'd add a bit more shading to the colors, to me they look a bit washed away now. Can you also post the wires?
still heavily wip 574 tris 256x256 texture
Well there goes my idea of cigar smokin' pumpkin :poly142:
Gloves should maybe have slightly more shading to help read it better? Also why is there seam running through the shoes? :P
Looks nice anyhow!
@Betty Hime Have you just simply tried deleting all the faces on that side of the object, and then making them from scratch? Because now those 2 tris clearly share some of their geometry because your app sees them as 1 single poly.
Might call it good, might come back...
Wires
I could probably lose a section height wise in the pumpkins, couple faces from the stems, one tri per snoflake.. Not too worried though, it's under budget
I still need to shade some parts more and fix some seams
Lowpoly Haloween Contest
edit:
I've reduced the texture size to 128x128 and I like it better this way.
On my biker chick, thanks a bunch guys
About the nose being black on one side in the wires... remember how I said I didn't know how to render wireframes? It's just a texture on top of the model. I'll make sure to find a nicer looking solution for a final render. It'd be nice if I could put this in my portfolio
I'm not sure I agree on the color critique, but I'm not very sure of my own eye either, so I made a couple of changes with different colors and I'm going to sit on them for a while to see which one I like. I made the texture completely modular though so color changes are no big deal
I'll refrain from posting more images until I've got something to show for the bike
» Tris: 282
» Texture: 128x64
Not very original, but hey, it has a stick stuck into his.. head, or body, or, something.
The texture's still a work in progress, but I really should be doing school work instead :X
Here's the wires, but there's still a couple extraneous triangles lying around here and there (and I need to redo the neck) (agh)
Thanks, and yer thats the idear, but animations have never been my strong point...
9skulls: thats sick! stick looks like stone to me though, think its the colors.
had tons of fun making it, and will do the rider soon, so it's a complete piece of work
and a turntable
I THINK I JUST CAME.
REALLY.
Seriously duuuuuuuuuuuude! IS THAT NOT THE MOST EPIC THING EVER!? :polytwitch: :polytwitch: :polytwitch:
It is so beautifully crafted that I could cry. It's so chunky but yet so streamlined, and it looks really "authentic" if I may say so. Shading and color choices are top notch and I can't see much of a texture stretch despite all the slightly curved shapes. Just awesome. And the most awesome thing is that you obviously had so much fun doin' it which really was the whole point in here.
Great job mate. If the bike itself was this cool, then the biker must be out of this world :poly142:
PS: Could these edges be trimmed away?
PPS: Talking about the smooth shading, did you use soft brushes there or is it baked AO that I am seeing there?
Nice ride.
But people, HUBS need to spin with wheels
yeah you're probably right about the top two edges, guess I'll get rid of them when I do the rider
The shading is a mix of two, it's both an AO pass (yeah, I know filthy cheap cheating
haha that literally made me laugh to tears for a few minutes now
Honestly I don't know anything about bikes, so I decided to make something completely ridiculous. Also I still work kinda slow
I did figure out how to render proper wireframes though! Turntable, GO!
It's 633 tris, and looking at the model that number seems a little low, could Maya be lying to me?
I've got a texturing and animation question for you guys too. Have you merged all the pieces into a single mesh?
- If not, how do you get all the UVs sorted so there's a single texture?
- If so, how do you go about animating different pieces of the same mesh, wheels spinning, body vibrating?
+10 points for the rockets
Well it could be true, if you are sure it is counting as tris and not quads?
Nope. In my bike I got the chassis, engine, fork and both wheels as separate objects. Mostly because of mirroring stuff and making it possible to animate steering and accelaration of the wheels.
It was a bit tricky, at least in Blender. I heard there was addons created to make the job easier, but I didn't feel like googling for them. So I went all McGyver with it: I unwrapped and cleaned up every object separately, then viewed the whole model in checker texture to make sure the texel density is about the same in all of the pieces. Then I took a screen cap out of every object's uv-layout, pasted it in photoshop and began to play around the uv-islands to make them fit together as good as possible. Then I saved that image as a reference texture to be used inside the modelling software for the actual UV-layout. It may sound ... well, McGiver-y, but it worked.
^ This, or, as the poster below said, if your model allows it, do the unwrapping first and then just slice it to pieces.
If one was to animate the bike as a one single mesh, I guess the easiest way of doing the wheel spin would probably be using shape keys (that's what it is called in Blender. You'll probably see something like morphing etc in other packages. Though if I remember correctly, at least in 3DS Max mesh morphing needed you to clone the mesh and add modifiers and stuff to make it work... In Blender, shape keys are just part of any mesh on the stage).
thanks
well for the texturing I had all of the meshes merged into a single object so I could do the UV layout easily, afterwards I slitted the model into the different parts.
as for animating, in 3dsmax you can simply link meshed to be a child of another, so I animated my wheels rotating and linked them to the main body which I then scaled to make the wobbly animation. all objects linked to the main body will inherit its scaling animation so it looks consistent without too much work.
9skull, I like the drill idea! I didn't have anything planned for the horn but that shouldn't be too difficult with texturing.
that's perfect! You know a fat guy couldn't ride it tho
so awesome! 9skulls is totally right, would look better wider and with a wider back wheel
@Rapante - Grat bike man, I really love it ...
Here's something from me ... It's still a WIP, i have to work on texture some more ... It's pretty blurry right now ...
Working on something new, WIP:
_______________________
Can you tell what it is?
Mercury is that for the Lowpoly Haloween Contest? cause if it is you also need to post it there.
PS. I don't know a lot about low poly stuff, so tell me if I'm being silly.
Puch Magnum
technically a moped but...it looks cool.
Made quickly (23 minutes) to replace a very ugly 310 polygon 512x512x24 torch someone else made. and then i got a sudden bad headache
My bike so far
9skulls: man you're pumping out assets like a squirrel on dope
wildmax: nice bike! keep it coming!
note: this is just my personal opinion, so don't take it as a definite in low poly modelling
I think it's working against the style using alpha planes for that as to make them really look round you'd need a larger texture than the single 128x128px diffuse. (which was my goal because 9Skulls kind of set the benchmark here
to make it look really good it would need to be a texture with soft alpha - which is a performance hit for most lower end devices; as a plus a soft alpha adds quite a lot of a memory impact for those devices (somehow not true for some PowerVR based chipsets :shifty:). so it'd both lower the FPS (and I had my fair share of shit coming along when doing UIs with alpha on iOS devices) and impact the amount of memory available for things more important than the wheel hub!
And now for the cake of the icing, I just like it better that way :poly121:
Heh I'm liking the bounce to this! And the scarf is looking much better. Spinning the hubs with the wheels might help to make them smoother, or you could go the DS mariokart route and place one quad over the sides with a circular texture on.
You most certainly might want to move the mudguards up a touch to stop them clipping with the tyres.
GIF seems a bit screwed to me, last frame is all garbled, what are you exporting them from? I tried fixing it in Photoshop; removed the first frame and equalised all the frames to run on the same delay, exported with no transparency, lossy to zero, lets see: (It may be because there's transparency in the original that the artefacts appear, or that there's a lossy setting on)
Nice work! (yes I have a soft spot for low poly motorbikes!).
You might want to reduce the cuts on the crossbar to make it fit in with the rest of the bike. Also a few other angles of this bike wouldn't hurt, the seat is most definitely too thin, along with the wheels, crossbar etc.
A very cool bike when they have been minimalised, much like the fixie of the moped world.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2690007295_d2c5a309c2.jpg