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

Wackimation

Here is a follow up to my previous post. Enjoy my White Sword! (That wasn't supposed to sound dirty.) :poly128:

D4V1DC

POFFINGTON wrote: »

Hey all just finished this today

I love the textures!

tucho

some updates of our project

full thread of this project here.

Some illustrations for the loading screens and the portraits for the dialogues





The last gameplay video

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Cs_Qc9E2k"]FullBlast_beta - YouTube[/ame]

Some screenshots

satrio

POFFINGTON wrote: »

Hey all just finished this today

WoW! Really clean work. I checked out your site and I saw some great stuff! Mostly I would like to see what´s behind the Darksiders2 banner. Did you work on that game?

Harry

forgot to post this guy up here



http://p3d.in/IAnIP/shadeless

POFFINGTON

@satrio. I did! My website is super out of date and will be under construction soon. I will more than likely be putting my DS2 stuff on my cghub sometime in the near future.

Wendy de Boer

Cute and nicely done, Harry!

Speed87

WIP of this steampunk style character for a day so far. I want to texture him next but I may hold off till I start work on the VG challenge.

terri

tucho wrote: »

some updates of our project

full thread of this project here.

Some illustrations for the loading screens and the portraits for the dialogues

The last gameplay video

FullBlast_beta - YouTube

Some screenshots

everything is really sweet, but I feel like the city doesn't match the action, looks too calm. It would be cool to have more chaos and destruction on the background

Obscura

A Minecraft figure.

mariomanzanares

Here's my Lowpoly version of Sora, from Kingdom Hearts, for the VG Remix contest.




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Oh, and you can find my thread here.

tucho

terri wrote: »

everything is really sweet, but I feel like the city doesn't match the action, looks too calm. It would be cool to have more chaos and destruction on the background

Thanks for your comments terri , there are 4 levels using the city tileset, in the first one the city is almost intact (there are cars and ships moving around, few destroyed buildings, etc...) and in the last one the city is totally destroyed (most of buildings destroyed, no signs of life, etc...), the 2nd and 3th levels have intermediate states of destruction.

D4V1DC

From the VGRemix Thread C & C welcome @ thread though:

I know It is Amon not diego lol but I'm too lazy to change it.

Aerial_Knight

I have been seeing your updates for this game for a while now and it looks better and better everytime I see it. Awesome work man.

tucho wrote: »

some updates of our project

full thread of this project here.

Some illustrations for the loading screens and the portraits for the dialogues





The last gameplay video

FullBlast_beta - YouTube

Some screenshots

Arctemple

Little cartoon building for a side project. Back polys aren't mapped due to camera angle in-game (in fact they should be deleted, hah)

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thebamboobear

Made this treasure chest for a Digital Tutor contest Since it's under 1k polys, I thought I'd post it here too.
It's at 988 tris with 512x512 texture. My boyfriend helped me with the render

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http://vimeo.com/71020914

ArtLearner

Working on a scene with Spinal VS Glacius


Will start working on the blockout for Glacius,any crits?:poly142:
My thread is HERE

vkp_number2

It's been awhile since i've posted here. Polycount is as follows... 430 tris 217verts. I'll post somemore pics once i get her flame animation going.

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OK, i got the flame going



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One more



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in Game

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnDwNzyU30I&list=UUOGNwek_RxLGzuZ6PJ1_ADA&index=1&feature=player_embedded"]ROLL vs FIRE [BOSS RUSH (PSX /ePSXe) -Homebrew Project-] - YouTube[/ame]

bohater13

old stuff, just for fun

Xelioth

vkp_number2 wrote: »

Seriously. What is up with those boobs?! Never in my life have I seen boobs move like that. And those are supposed to be encased in iron!

arrangemonk

Xelioth wrote: »

Seriously. What is up with those boobs?! Never in my life have I seen boobs move like that. And those are supposed to be encased in iron!

Breast physics!

achillesian

Xelioth wrote: »

Seriously. What is up with those boobs?! Never in my life have I seen boobs move like that. And those are supposed to be encased in iron!

get a load of the gay guy! GAAYYY

oxblood

achillesian wrote: »

get a load of the gay guy! GAAYYY

Lmao

Xelioth

achillesian wrote: »

get a load of the gay guy! GAAYYY

Lol, stepped right into that, didn't I? XD

Delko

Did this just for fun.


Also, Anamanaguchi used my Lotus turn table in one of their shows.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4TYMqONpYo"]Anamanaguchi Live Bosozoku GF Dallas - YouTube[/ame]

http://delkoduck.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/lotus360.gif

TelekineticFrog

X-Post from my VG Remix thread for Blaster Master. Sophia Tank model done and ready for hand painted texture love. Environment up next.

[SF]Three9

Figured I'd cross post this here!
Doing a personal challenge/study to go and reconcept a bunch of old wow weapons and remake/redesign them. Not trying to make them super overly elaborate epic loot; just focus on the shapes trying to be conveyed and making an overall "better" design I suppose. Trying to improve my conceptual and design skills, while practicing the WoW style, and working on increasing my speed
concept here






Would have liked to have finished it tonight; oh well...still more to do tomorrow

texture in this shot is 128x256, and about 3'ish hours of work
398 tri's

haZe

Crosspost from my VG Remix thread. My "high-res" low-poly Joel from The Last of Us.

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StormTheGates

I've done very little hand painted texture work, so this was a practice piece. I'm not entirely sure it's finished, but I'm quite happy with how it's coming along. Feedback and constructive criticism of course welcome, I'd really like to get better at hand painting textures. Model is 980 polys.

Delko

Outline is tearing because this a view port grab, 3dsmax wasn't cooperating with my flipped normals.

christermime

This thread is always a big inspiration!

Here's a little bat guy to go along with a spelunky fanart I've been working on. If you're interested with the rest of it, check out my WIP thread over here



He's 750 tris and a 512. Not the lowest of specs, but I think he fits in with some of the higher res stuff in this thread.

moose

Delko, I love that stuff! Colors are fantastic, love how youre doing shading by color blends. Had a comment on the train: the front of the train doesn't blend well with the sides and feels strange. The angled fronts could be the same color as the side and retain its shape. Seems a little awkward its a lighter color. The front highlight would be good, just think the angled sides hurt the overall texture.

InfectedSmoke

My friend was telling me about this post and I thought I would try posting my own stuff here as well, and try to see how low I can make some of my stuff! For this first post, I re-created The Combat Cross from Castlevania Lords of Shadow, using this as my reference image:


Still working on its spec, diffuse, and normal maps.
It is 572 Tri's, and I plan on making it's maps roughly 512 x 512 or 256 x 256.
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Obscura

Not from polygons, but this texture set is made for a very lowpoly sci-fi map, that I'm planning to make in the next few days. I want to use only this texture. Its a little hard to paint readable in this resolution, but actually I enjoyed making this. I'll show the map later, when its done


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Update:

What you think about it guys? I think I will go up to 256x128 or 256x256 and then it can be a big map.

mospheric

Working on my Silent Hill scene for the VGRemix Contest.

James Sunderland! 511 triangles, 128x128

Shadowstep

Crosspost from my VG REMIX thread: it's a dragon egg! 96 tris, 64x diffuse.
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This is my third model ever, and the first I've actually finished.

CougarJo

I don't want to create a thread just for this, so I post in the appropriate section.

I was aiming at a "washed out'', not too saturated style.

If you guys have advices for making it looks better , I'll take them

mariomanzanares

Still working on my Kingdom Hearts VG Remix entry! I just finished texturing Donald. What do you think about his 128 texture?

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TaylorMouse

[SF]Three9 wrote: »

Figured I'd cross post this here!
Doing a personal challenge/study to go and reconcept a bunch of old wow weapons and remake/redesign them. Not trying to make them super overly elaborate epic loot; just focus on the shapes trying to be conveyed and making an overall "better" design I suppose. Trying to improve my conceptual and design skills, while practicing the WoW style, and working on increasing my speed
concept here

That looks soo much better!

T.

Delko

Obscura wrote: »

Not from polygons, but this texture set is made for a very lowpoly sci-fi map, that I'm planning to make in the next few days. I want to use only this texture. Its a little hard to paint readable in this resolution, but actually I enjoyed making this. I'll show the map later, when its done


Edit:
Update:

What you think about it guys? I think I will go up to 256x128 or 256x256 and then it can be a big map.

Try the pixel art thread for better advice, but I think you should be s\using more contrast on your midtones. Try hue shifting

Wendy de Boer

mariomanzanares wrote: »

Still working on my Kingdom Hearts VG Remix entry! I just finished texturing Donald. What do you think about his 128 texture?

Very cute! The texture is very detailed for a 128x128, I like it a lot.

christermime

mariomanzanares wrote: »

Still working on my Kingdom Hearts VG Remix entry! I just finished texturing Donald. What do you think about his 128 texture?

This is super nicely done! Kept the great shapes and silhouette, and it reads really well even with a 128. If I had one nitpicky gripe, it's that the eyes seem a little bit too close together.

Awesome work!

Obscura

Delko wrote: »

Try the pixel art thread for better advice, but I think you should be s\using more contrast on your midtones. Try hue shifting

Hmm. Actually it would be for a 3d map, this is why I wanted to put it here instead.Thanks!

[SF]Three9

Glad you like it T.
Hopefully you like the finished version


Finished the sword
398 tris
128x256 texture
roughly 9 hours from concept to completion
I'm pretty happy with the final result

original model and my concept can be seen here
http://www.threenineart.com/WIP/amorse_1h_sword_concept_01.png

Torch

Hey Mario nice stuff, did you shrink from a higher rez texture or just work at 128?

Blizz_kathyz

[SF]Three9 wrote: »

Figured I'd cross post this here!
Doing a personal challenge/study to go and reconcept a bunch of old wow weapons and remake/redesign them. Not trying to make them super overly elaborate epic loot; just focus on the shapes trying to be conveyed and making an overall "better" design I suppose. Trying to improve my conceptual and design skills, while practicing the WoW style, and working on increasing my speed
concept here

Huge improvement!

Delko

Ribbit

CaptInfinity

This is just something I've been working on. Still early in the texturing process. C&C would be appreciated.

940-ish tris.

Wendy de Boer

CaptInfinity wrote: »

This is just something I've been working on. Still early in the texturing process. C&C would be appreciated.
*Picture snip*
940-ish tris.

I think your mesh is looking very solid. The only thing that stands out to me as a little odd is the hemline of her hair. Adding some asymmetrical taper to it could help.

The texture seems too early to really comment on. I do recommend setting the material to full self-illumination while you work on the texture. For a character this lowpoly, you really need to depend on painting in a lot of the lighting information yourself.

CaptInfinity

Thanks DemonPrincess. The lighting is actually baked in, I did a light map on a turbo smoothed version and just put it on something like 40% multiply over my diffuse. It was a quick way to not have a solid green shape for her jacket and boots, before I put it up there. I really just have a hard time with texturing since I only have access to photoshop at school. I was hoping to get some tips on getting decent leather for those areas. Also, I'm having trouble getting the self illumination to fully ignore lighting in the actual render. In the viewport I just switch to flat shading, is there a similar thing I can do in render settings?