LOW-POLY ART

hawken

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:

• Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
• Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
  

Some dedicated low-poly modelling tools now exist that make this art style a lot easier to produce; Crocotile3D & Blockbench

Here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in mainstream 3D software: Low-Poly Art Style Guide

Computron

Time for a 2012 thread?

vkp_number2

Jesus?

Baddcog

I think i9t's one of the Bee Gee's

zakhar2

Computron wrote: »

Time for a 2012 thread?

Lol, I'm pretty sure this isnt a yearly thread. The first post is from like 2006, so....

Snader

Sure, but on the other hand, this thread is becoming rather unweildy. And though it's not as fast as the regular waywo, there still have been over 100 pages in 2011. Whereas the first year was not even 10 pages. The amount of posts has only been increasing.

And what with smartphones and tablets becoming more prominent (most people still use featurephones) I can only see the interest in mobile artwork increase. At least for the next few years.

Leisure Centaur

Jesus pulled the BeeGees strings, I thought he needed a model.

It's this guy damn you! [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8"]Ulysses 31 intro - YouTube[/ame]

(He is a bit Jesusy)

Acumen

Some more defined obstacles for the UniBot game in Unity3d:

Baddcog

Leisure Centaur wrote: »

(He is a bit Jesusy)

He is a bit Beegeegy too though you gotta admit

I'd never seen that cartoon, but I read up on the Wiki that the Beegee's were used for inspiration.

Leisure Centaur

A quick, 2 hour model. One of my favourite baddies from Yoshi's Island, Boo Guy.

Akamo

Wood painting practice .. really had problems getting a good wood structure down!

Snader

The ends look pretty good, but you're missing the vertical woodgrain/veins on the sides. Less V, C O and T shaped stuff, more |||| stuff. he bottom also seems to lack wood ends.
The shading on the side below the hoop is too dark. It should be as dark as above the hoop. And you're missing holes for the handle. (you're missing the handle, too, obviously, but that could have been broken/lost)

9skulls

@Akamo Loving the use of space there Model + tx looks great.

lean

Leisure Centaur, I really like what you did with the boo guy! I love the texture style you used, so bright and cartoon shaded.

Akamo

Snader wrote: »

The ends look pretty good, but you're missing the vertical woodgrain/veins on the sides. Less V, C O and T shaped stuff, more |||| stuff. he bottom also seems to lack wood ends.
The shading on the side below the hoop is too dark. It should be as dark as above the hoop. And you're missing holes for the handle. (you're missing the handle, too, obviously, but that could have been broken/lost)

Yeah, I see your point with the vertical shapes, now that I look at it again. Looks gnarly. I also agree on the shading below the hoop. I didnt realize that this area is already at the point where the upper light source is completely gone and only environmental light is left. As for the handle, true again, but I really only wanted to paint some wood. Thank you alot for your detailed feedback.

9skulls Thank you alot!

Leisure Centaur

@lean Thanks very much, I love your work so that means a lot! My main concern was trying to reduce the SNES sprite down to as few tris as poss while keeping the character recognisable. I think one learning is defining the difference between vector style cel shading and pixel art style shading. The lines blur a bit on Boo Guy, ah well!

@Baddcog Yes I admit it, I used Ulysses as an excuse so I could do a Beegee!

gilesruscoe

Akamo

Haha, good point. I like to keep things centered on the screen and I did not want to display it bigger on the screen than you would look at it in a game in order to give the right impression of the asset. Thanks anyways

Jernej

Great akamo any chance that we could see the texture?

eld

Trying out some faux-AO shadow plane tricks.

osman

adds a lot I like small details like that in games.

achillesian

Noice Akamo! Good practice, but I don't think that asset would be very usable in a game, the shading needs to be much more neutral, as an asset like that would probably be used multiple times, scaled differently, and rotated onto its side, or put in environments where straight on lighting from the top isn't accurate, but you probably know all that already huh.

Akamo

Jernej wrote: »

Great akamo any chance that we could see the texture?

Thanks! Sure.. I also fixed the shadows that were too dark.



@eld Wow, love that scene.. works good.

achillesianThank you. Definitely agree with your thoughts. This would not work in a dynamic environment. I guess I would have to minimize highlights and even out shadows like you said. I do however still like some kind of 'artistic' painted in shadows and AO to some degree, depending on the shading of the engine/renderer. In this case I would most likely still keep the inner part of the bucket darker than the outer part.

mospheric

Woo, spruced up screengrabs. Another prop for the game I'm working on.

Gingerkiwi

mospheric wrote: »

Woo, spruced up screengrabs. Another prop for the game I'm working on.

Looks great, but surely that wheel wouldn't turn? Or would just fall out, I think the axle should go through the wheel. Great work on the texture though!

mospheric

@GingerKiwi Thanks for noticing that! Should be fixed now :P

redmond_david

Hope it's ok i can post this in here, meant to be ps2 specs (more or less).

Gingerkiwi

mospheric wrote: »

@GingerKiwi Thanks for noticing that! Should be fixed now :P

I'd be much happier to wheel that about, brilliant job

Chai

Akamo wrote: »

Thanks! Sure.. I also fixed the shadows that were too dark.

achillesianThank you. Definitely agree with your thoughts. This would not work in a dynamic environment. I guess I would have to minimize highlights and even out shadows like you said. I do however still like some kind of 'artistic' painted in shadows and AO to some degree, depending on the shading of the engine/renderer. In this case I would most likely still keep the inner part of the bucket darker than the outer part.

I really dig the style and colors, well done mate.
The bottom shadow looks a bit too strong, even if you were to only use it static on the floor, I would suggest tuning it down a bit.

rooster

nice work eld! i liked your ludum game a lot

Akamo

Chai wrote: »

I really dig the style and colors, well done mate.
The bottom shadow looks a bit too strong, even if you were to only use it static on the floor, I would suggest tuning it down a bit.

Looks good, thanks I really appreciate that. There will be more work soon, prolly some kind of outdoor stone+grass stuff. I will try this. I looked into some games with similair styles today and realized how much of a role the ambient lights play.

Snader

Redmond_david - I'm gonna say no. The texture is fine, but the polycount is rather high. Zombies in Left 4 Dead 2 are 2500-3000 triangles I think. That's a current-gen console game.

Also, the last time this thread got its rules updated was only about 15 weeks ago and it said

The 500 triangle "appreciation club" still exists, but for player models this is now somewhere in the sub-1000 triangle range.

1978 is definitely not sub-1000.

edit: I'm not saying this just to be a dick or anything, but it would simply fit better in the WAYWO. Heck, I've seen lower poly stuff posted there but not here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1492057&postcount=47

As for the model itself, It's nothing too complex, really, so I don't see why 1900 triangles are even needed. I think you could have it look 95% as good at about half that.

Baddcog

I agree with Snader, you could definitely cut him down and not loose much at all. Would be cool to see wires.
I like the tex, but I think the stripes/shadows in the pants kind of kill it. They are already pretty busy with the camo.
Everything else has great detail that reads well. The pants appear to be quilted, so I guess if that's what you're going for it's good. But maybe tone down the shading or just make them green?

redmond_david

Baddcog wrote: »

The pants appear to be quilted, so I guess if that's what you're going for it's good. But maybe tone down the shading or just make them green?

Ya, they are supposed to be similar to those russian WW2 winter pants, i tried it green but theres already enough green on him so it didn't look good. I'll goof around with it, i still have it on a psd.

eld

rooster wrote: »

nice work eld! i liked your ludum game a lot

I have a proper extended version coming up soon!, with some fixed up art and better gameplay, and hopefully at the end of the day It will have some audio too.

Neox

eld wrote: »

Trying out some faux-AO shadow plane tricks.

haha eld, man i was like

HOW THE FUCK DID HE DO THAT CHAMFER WITH JUST 4 TRIS

then i saw the corner ad was like

o_O

then i read

phew!

Helba

more Nails! Nails nails!

teaandcigarettes

eld wrote: »

Trying out some faux-AO shadow plane tricks.

Screw you Eld, screw you.

because this is just too awesome. Great job mate!

Just wondering, how does it look like from different angles? I know there is one in the background, but it's a bit difficult to tell.

eld

teaandcigarettes wrote: »

Screw you Eld, screw you.

because this is just too awesome. Great job mate!

Just wondering, how does it look like from different angles? I know there is one in the background, but it's a bit difficult to tell.

Haha, thanks :P

It does break in certain angles, but hopefully it shouldn't break the illusion too much.

Here's a work in progress playable of that area: http://www.eldpack.com/ld22e/

teaandcigarettes

Sweet, it looks awesome. Reminds me of MGS1/2 a little bit.

You should totally make a thread for this game if you haven't already.

xvampire

Chai wrote: »

I really dig the style and colors, well done mate.
The bottom shadow looks a bit too strong, even if you were to only use it static on the floor, I would suggest tuning it down a bit.

very simple object yet , done perfectly, sir!

Maph

Great stuff eld! Loved that little playtest level.

What are your plans for that game btw? If you're willing to share the information ofcourse.

Nix

Hboybowen wrote: »

eld what did you use for this texture creation and what exactly is this trick you speak of. An what are you working on this for. Also can we see flats of the textures. an is there any chance you could release your dithering brush you used here to the public?

I'm gonna guess he dithered it by hand.

Eld: It looks awesome, is it going to be used for anything?

Akamo

xvampire wrote: »

very simple object yet , done perfectly, sir!

Thanks alot!

Heres a new fast practice.. painting some basic foliage/grass..(Diffuse + Spec) Not very happy with the way Marmoset does Alpha. Had to take a screenshot (Print button) instead of using Marmoset Toolbag F12 because the result was that the 100% alpha areas of the grass would turn 50% grey. Does anyone know how to fix this?

renderhjs

eld wrote: »

Trying out some faux-AO shadow plane tricks.

That will be very expensive to render not to mention the alpha sorting issues you might get, or does it work ok with darken instead of alpha testing?

Computron

isn't alpha testing a binary transparency? Are you sure you don't mean alpha blending?

allaze-eroler

eld wrote: »

Haha, thanks :P

It does break in certain angles, but hopefully it shouldn't break the illusion too much.

Here's a work in progress playable of that area: http://www.eldpack.com/ld22e/

don't forget to add azerty keyboard please

cupsster

@eld renderhjs is true, if you owerdo it it will hurt (mobile especialy)

achillesian

if it were a comparable resolution to a lightmap, and all planes were combined at the end, wouldn't it be roughly the same amount of load on the processor?

cupsster

no if it is blended and unpotimized cutout shape [rectangle] like in curent screenshot it only help a little. if you still want to go with blending use mesh wich eliminates as much alpha as possible [tight elipse with more triangles] spending more tris in this situation is better [faster] than let waste time on celculation of transparent pixels. for iThings it is grail of performance along other tweaks.

fromegg

sorry but no one helps me((

who can gift/sell me low poly animated characters (150-200~ polygons)
contact liarshonesty@gmail.com
thx