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

9skulls

qwerty wrote: »

@9skulls, presentation of your vehicle is just amazing

This looks so tasty it has to be illegal! :poly136: You've packed some really nice detail in such small scale. Great job!

Also @irmirx that looks so juicy! Looks like something from an iOS game.

Seehr

qwerty wrote: »

Awesome.

shaka

I know it goes a bit over the description of this thread, with the models being somewhere between 1200 and 2000/something triangles but this is my "go to" thread on this forum, they are made in the same spirit of this community, all the textures are hand painted and meant to look better unlit, and most of the detail they have was added because of the complex range of facial animation that was required from the project. Thanks for understanding.

JimmyRustler

@shaka
You really nailed the look of them. Cute, and i loved it.

shaka

JimmyRustler wrote: »

@shaka
You really nailed the look of them. Cute, and i loved it.

Thank you. It wasn't that difficult because i had all the references i needed from the movie team. Usually it's not the case, but i'm thankful this time i had all the help i needed and it made my life a lot easier.:)

Biomag

I did this for practice as I was inspired by the awesome Altair low poly model that can be found on the internet. Its not finished yet, as I didn't had the time for the textures, but at least the geometry for my Revelation Ezio...

spiritevil

Hello guys. Here's a model of a coffee shop for a game I'm working on. The textures need a little more work but I'm pretty happy with the overall result. The mesh has 206 tris and the texture is 1024x1024 (maybe a little bit overkill, considering it's for a top down-ish game, but I can always downscale it).

darkmag07

@Shaka: Those look great!

Edit: Here's an environment I've been working on the past few days for the game a few former classmates are collaborating with me on called Piggy Scramble.

87roach

shaka wrote: »

I know it goes a bit over the description of this thread, with the models being somewhere between 1200 and 2000/something triangles but this is my "go to" thread on this forum, they are made in the same spirit of this community, all the textures are hand painted and meant to look better unlit, and most of the detail they have was added because of the complex range of facial animation that was required from the project. Thanks for understanding.

Nailed it!! Great work!

Bombshell

Stills:
http://i.imgur.com/MgNx3a1.png
http://i.imgur.com/HRlcoWq.png

258 tri's, trying to get better, so I'll probably be making a few of these

9skulls

@Bombshell: looks really neat! Wish I could see him animated.

Bombshell

thanks, I just wish I was any good at animating! I can rig up fine but I am terrible at animating, especially with the staff being separate, I'll give it a go and see what I can get moving.
EDIT: as much as I wish I could animate it running, leaping, or helicoptering the staff, I decided to keep things simple.

9skulls

@Bombshell: everything can be learned, as does animation What software are you using? Why not just make the staff a child object of the hand bone which is "holding" it? I think in Blender parenting was done by selecting the two objects and pressing CTRL+P or something like that. I use it all the time but for some reason cannot recall the hotkey right now :P

Keep on trying!

Bombshell

I'm using blender but parenting does not fit my needs, I want the staff separate so it can move separate from the body, such as throwing, swapping hands, dequipping, etc.

darkmag07

@Bombshell: You can create two bones and use the copy rotation/copy location constraints to make the weapon bone dynamically parent to the hand bone (by "animating" the influence of the constraints) for when you want the character to hold it or when you want to throw it, etc.

shaka

Yeah, but that's why you need a dummy object that stays with the characters hand, to "remember" the position of the object in hand. So usually you create a dummy linked to the hand, and a dummy that the spear is linked to. Whenever you wanna throw it, you move the spear dummy, but when you want the spear in the hand, you move the spear dummy to the position of the hand dummy. I hope i was clear enough.

*edit: posted at the same time as darkmag07. Basically what he said. So either use extra dummies, or use the current rig.

Bombshell

So by the looks I want a CopyTransform constraint with 0 influence, when needed I set the constraint to copy (Armature > Hand) transforms then for the sake of exporting the animation I set Visual keyframes (visual applies constraints before setting the keyframe)
its a bit finicky but I guess its easier than manually setting the staffs position.

derugin.s

hello to all
reference by Zephyri

My model



in rotation :http://youtu.be/cvSNBEKXXgg

besieger1

Little something I have been working on, C&C welcome.
[SKETCHFAB]f86559a0f26849e2bce2713500108745[/SKETCHFAB]

ChristianWilliam

I made this guy wearing a pikachu pajama

Using blender Internal with freestyle


Sorry for my english c:

87roach

Nice work everyone.

I have been busy with another project but managed to get this little guy done this morning. I hope to do a few fall inspired ones

emperor bohe

hey everyone, there is some amazing work in here. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in making a single low-poly model? I've posted a thread in the unpaid work section:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139304

if this post is inappropriate, then I am sorry and mods are free to delete this post. if not, then I look forward to working with one of you! =D

tucho

FullBlast release is less than one month away

We've created a Facebook page and a twitter account where we are posting news regarding the project.

Stay tuned!

full thread of this project here.

Shudrum

I'll buy it, just because you rock !

tucho

haha, thanks shudrum, I hope that you will enjoy it, we're trying to give our best with this project

Shudrum

And you do it right !

I'm a developper, started a prototype of a game more like a bullet hell, like dodon pachi, but without artist ^^ So it never ended.

All I see on your project is all the rules of a good shooter : colors, dynamism, good patterns and beautiful art.

This is also why I'll buy it !

shaka

tucho wrote: »

FullBlast release is less than one month away

We've created a Facebook page and a twitter account where we are posting news regarding the project.

Stay tuned!

full thread of this project here.

pfff...you guys are from Valencia? I was showing your project around the office, but didn't know you are spanish. We are from Sevilla, so not that far away.

tucho

Hi shaka, I'm from Galicia and the Programmer is from Alicante. The composer/sound designer who we contracted to create the soundtrack and sound FX is from Andaluc

JRGarcia

Everything on this forum is so rad, I can't wait to really get started on posting here! c:

qwerty

shaka

pretty cool qwerty. Love the texturing on this. If i have to nitpick, the brown parts have ambient light predominantly coming from up (which i think you could exaggerate a bit more), but some of the silver/gray parts like the scope, have the lighter part on the sides.

qwerty

@shaka, thanks, redid it a little

shaka

awesome!

maaan, it's something about unfiltered textures, but i don't know if it's nostalgia, or the fact that it gives more detail, and yet less at the same time. It's like movie grain, dunno, but it seems alive even when static, and also leaves space for the viewers imagination to complete the parts where the aliasing fails. I think it's the same reason many old horror games told a lot with low fidelity, and now when everything is sharp, high res, in your face and clearly fake, they need to rely more on jump scares instead of atmosphere. It left space for your brain to fill the gaps.

jonathantopf

Hey there, Long time lurker first time poster here. I usually work in animation but I got a chance to work on a game recently so I made this to prove I could do it, luckily it worked and I got the job

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Could still lose quite a few polys and the texture could be packed further but I only had an evening to do it so I'm pleased how it went

jonathantopf

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Littlenorwegians

Based on true life events.

Inspired by some of the work seen in this thread, I tried my stab at this... style.
I don't even know what to call it. I'd love to know how some of you people have done this color-palette texturing. (Go through the thread and you'll see some amazing texture work on cars, Gameboys, etc.)

shaka

you're on a good path, but your texture seems resized, so to get a really sharp texture like some of the best ones on this thread, i'm afraid there's no other way than to paint it per pixel, or limit your color palette so it shows really clear with no gradients and blurry lines.

Littlenorwegians

You're absolutely right. I'll improve my methodology.

One small issue I had, also.
I was working with Paint Tools Sai and GIMP and they seem to bleed over the edges.
Even if is set something a 1x1 pixel. If I draw within that selected border it still goes off the edges.

Any good program to use for clean, perfect pixel or am I doing something wrong with settings in my programs?

Thanks

shaka

I usually use the classic photoshop when doing textures like this, but use pencil instead of brush.

danieru

GIMP's pencil tool should also be pixel exact from what I tested.

Obscura

shaka wrote: »

you're on a good path, but your texture seems resized, so to get a really sharp texture like some of the best ones on this thread, i'm afraid there's no other way than to paint it per pixel, or limit your color palette so it shows really clear with no gradients and blurry lines.

You can use the nearest neighbour algorythm when you are resizing your textures, but yeah, its better to paint them per pixel.

Littlenorwegians

shaka wrote: »

I usually use the classic photoshop when doing textures like this, but use pencil instead of brush.

danieru wrote: »

GIMP's pencil tool should also be pixel exact from what I tested.

I've been so used to using brushes, I neglected the pencil. Oops.
Thanks.

Will try and upload more as this is very exciting.

Snader

I use good old MSpaint for small pixel textures =P

urgaffel

I use graph paper, coloured pencils, a camera and a negative scanner to make pixel textures

(sorry, couldn't resist)

MattyWS

shaka wrote: »

or limit your color palette so it shows really clear with no gradients and blurry lines.

In photoshop at least there is the Index Colour option if that's what you mean?

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/customizing-indexed-color-tables.html

I wonder if there is an equivalent in Gimp..

achillesian

grats on page 500 brus

Amatobahn

Little lowpoly subway train car. 360 Tris, 256 diffuse/spec

Delko

Gotta post on page 500

Obscura

Amatobahn wrote: »

Little lowpoly subway train car. 360 Tris, 256 diffuse/spec

Nice! Disabled texture filtering, and no antialiasing would make it look even nicer.

arlen