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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the cannon have 782 Tris and 64² Texture... the UV Layout isnt createt for a low texturesize but ut works fine aniway.
tell me what u think about this small asset. krits are welcome
Cheers
I really wish the presentation for this was better; throw a quick self-lum material on it and composite a wireframe so we can get a better look at it. A few areas in his torso could probably be tried out. His shoulders seem very boxish too me and could be relaxed a little. That tri that makes up his armpit is a little concerning to me too (animation wise).
Not really sure where you're sitting at polys-wise but you have a lot of assets for the character that could just be painted on; the belt and the strap for instances. If that circle part of that belt is SUPER big to his silhoutee to you, leave it but have it set into his body more. Also I'd cut down the number of edges in your cylinders; those thinks are really killers of poly count. That belt bit probably only needs to be six-sided.
First off, why did you render this with non-uniform lighting? Or light it at all. In most low poly based games, there are no lights and all light info is painted into the texture (see "Dota 2 Art Guide"). For presentation make the material self illuminate to simulate in-game lighting. Also, I'd probably re-work my UVs if I were you. I see some very big blocks of empty in the top right corner, top left,and mid right that could be filled. You are doing a 64x64 so every pixel counts. Also looks like you need some more over paint (see your top left render's cart - far left). You're going to want to leave around 2-3 pixels for over paint so you don't get visible seams.
For this asset I really think you don't need that many loops for the cannon's cylinder; most CHARACTERS for low poly games hit around 1000 tris MAX (in my experience). You could lower that things loops to like 6-9 and still have the same silhouette as this version.
Back onto the texture again, be wary of putting your "light" for the object off to the side; it limits it's position in game by making the light source its right. Play it safe on that and make the notable light rims on the top with lighter accents on the sides if needed. It looks like you painted the info for the cannon portion, but why not its drop shadow on the cart?
The pallet is looking nice, but could have much more color variance in the smaller details; you're going to have to pixel paint a little more. Go take a look at some WoW/Firstkeeper's stuff and color pick it. Having maybe some brown, orange, red, gold, pink, and hell maybe some random ass color could help. I could really see those warn bits of the texture having some nice detail in them. By the way, what material is this cannon? Bronze, Iron, Wood, or some space/magic thing? Is this paint or colored material? If this thing is chipping paint it's either very old or very well used- maybe adding some straches or cannon fauder around the barrel could show how old it is? Or maybe someone re-painted but did it wrong and it's chipping? Think about that while painting. On another note, re-think your wheels- unless this is, like, a toy cannon, those wheels are pretty sketchy and could have more detail. Finally, why doesn't the red continue along the top of the cart's rim? That's really jarring for me. I mean if you made a IRL cart and was told to put trim on it, wouldn't you continue it?
Details:
-896 tris
I created three 1024x1024 texture maps
-Diffuse
-Normal
-ESPM map (emissive, specular, specular power, and a mask in one map via channels)
The cube map was an already existing map in UDK.
Oh, and the red rings between the plates pulse with time (if you can't see that from the material nodes).
http://imgur.com/a/dirTl
http://imgur.com/a/WbTO2
These models were created in Wings3d.
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As for ways to make it better, the uvs for the top of the car would probably be better separated. You're getting distortion on the front and back windows. Also, the side of the car looks warped inward. I'm guessing that's just how it's modeled, but a view with the wireframe on would be helpful to be sure.
thanks for the good kritiks.. i dont tink to continue it.
but u give me good hints i totally agree with.
... the mobilephones are that powerful to handle this things..
this isnt made for realy being Lowpoly but it works fine for me with this texture..
But i will try to do another LP Asset.. i realy enjoy this workflow
I should finish my explosions pack instead of making this.
I realized i did a shit job of unwrapping, so I'm re unwrapping it then I'll just bake the old textures over to the new UV's and continue.
Anyone interested in me releasing this as a sdk?
If you end up doing that I'll give it a go, not sure what I'll do with her but I guess we will find out when that time comes.
I like the colors your going with so far, can't wait to see her all dolled up.:thumbup:
I do see some edges that could stand turning. :poly121:
Can't wait to see the final texture!
Being a long time lurker on the forum, I thought it's about time to post something. I didn't want to use alpha (just for the kicks of it
edit: removed the pic
Finished up the door!
I love this thread, keep on posting!
looking good safer.
Thanks everyone for the encouraging words, keeps me going. Gotta see what's next.
No worries, it was only a joke
Here's some more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W_HAAfArgos
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Love your work Tennis!
Checked your site, some of it seems to be old (Max 7 :poly121:) but still I really like it.
I have two questions for you.
How long does it take to make those pixel art models, from modeling to texturing?
And secondly, how do you make good unwraps for those pixel art textures??
*fan*
and it isnt realy lowpoly with 616Tris for a regular woodn box but i thought it would give that box a little more "personality"
thanks for some crits.
Peace,
nice work on the crate texture rscmidt. I don't know that half of those side panel polys will be giving you bang for your buck but the overall effect is very nice
Inspired by the olmec heads.
Texture was made 100% in sculptris and I'm actually surprised how comfortable it is to paint in sculptris.. only if it had layers
rschmidt: the texture and shape is great! though I think that the extra polygons in the inner part of each face aren't necesary, specially for a diffuse-only shadeless asset. The rounded edges are also almost unnoticable. I think that if you kept only the detail at the edges of the crate, you'd get similar silhouette and overall effect.
really awesome stuff. +1 to all the requests for a tutorial
i almost always start out not knowing what i want to model, also the space left on the texture sheet some times dictates which details i'll add to the model.
jmiles: looks super cool
Vilmore:
an evening or 2, depending on how concentrated i am
i keep the mesh quite straight, that way i dont get any distortion on the textures, thats also why i also mostly do vehicles
I went a bit more realistic, not as stylized as you.
Loads of fun
Learned some stuff:
Mainly the unwrapping is done differently,
- if you have lines or strait borders on your poly, unwrap it in that direction
- there is not much problem with stretching as you are using lots of flat colours anyway.
Any tips and critics are welcome of course
Not real lowpoly style because of the normals and "realism", but anyway, this baby it's just 589 tris. Modeled in Maya, real time in Marmoset.
Cross post from here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118642
mcunha98
You could have done the texture like this attachment below.
Loving the updates all awesome stuff!
624 Trigs
Using 2 512^2 texture maps. One for just his face, the rest for everything else.
Looks great! i would adjust the levels to make the colors pop, it feels a bit desaturated at the moment.
A little update to my stuff!