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

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Snader wrote: »

Chus, you'll want to change the teeth to actual geometry instead of alphamapa. It'll be better for performance, potentially save texture space, and the edges will look nicely clean and sharp.

if it is a good idea, it will look much better and will not go many more polys than they currently have the model, the trouble is that the opacity channel should continue to exist because the stem leaves have it, anyway I will use geometry true for the part of teeth because it is one of the best parts in the model should see
thank you very much for the advice!

Deoce

Handpainted axe from monthly noob challenge, joined late so only done this one.

Gungriffon Geona

qwerty wrote: »

full fledged tumblr nose goin' on right here!
Beyond that, the face is incredibly flat and weird looking. the whole model seems rather stiff and/or off proportion. makes it seem like it'd fall over at a moment's notice

auslander88

I've made something like this today. abou 840polys . Can someone coment this ?

monodrobe

at 840 polies, its acutally double that in tris. so above what this thread is about. Ignoring that Id say you need to brush up on anatomy and apply it. The pinching at the elbows jumps out at me first. Even with limited polies you can give a better impression of a bicep and the muscles that wrap around the forearm . Beyond that smoother edge flow. Look up stuff on topology

auslander88

monodrobe wrote: »

at 840 polies, its acutally double that in tris. so above what this thread is about. Ignoring that Id say you need to brush up on anatomy and apply it. The pinching at the elbows jumps out at me first. Even with limited polies you can give a better impression of a bicep and the muscles that wrap around the forearm . Beyond that smoother edge flow. Look up stuff on topology

Thank You very mutch. This is was first time with organics . But I will try to go down with tris. Can You say me how to set in 3ds max polygon count limit?

Spacey

Keep it up, everyone! Great stuff these past few pages. I really need to set some time aside and do more personal work.

auslander88 wrote: »

Can You say me how to set in 3ds max polygon count limit?

Click the "+" in the corner of the viewport > Configure Viewports... > Statistics > Tick "Triangle Count". Default hotkey is "7" to toggle the viewport statistics.

Neox

Spacey wrote: »

I really need to set some time aside and do more personal work.

hell yes, you do!

MattQ86

You might want to take a look at Samuel Sharit's basemesh. It has some great use of poly distribution and form for something so low poly.

auslander88

Thanks you guys . I have another question. In witch software do You texture? How do You do that? My texturing level doesent even exist. take a look at this simple shit.


and the texture made in PS :

stefano001

have you tried Mixamo decimator to create low poly characters? www.mixamo.com/decimator

cheers!

Calvin

auslander88 wrote: »

Thanks you guys . I have another question. In witch software do You texture? How do You do that? My texturing level doesent even exist. take a look at this simple shit.


and the texture made in PS :

3D-coat is really great for low-poly, hand painted textures.

TRDanaa

Here a coyote i made for a small project i'm currently working on (no lighting)

TRDanaa

A coyote with hand painted textures for a project of mine (shadeless)

Gungriffon Geona

mcunha98

GravityBwlast

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Kimchi by Gravity Bwlast on Sketchfab

Hi guys, here is a plate of kimchi I did in about an hour and a half.

MightyMorphers

yup its gr8...

MightyMorphers

oki its looks gr8

Nymbryxion

Made a transformable mecha fighter thingy for a mobile game project I'm working on.

Gungriffon Geona

Your robot is incredibly hard to read and Im' honestly not sure what I'm looking at. It seems you partly took inspiration from Knights of Sidonia with the thing on the back, but all the rest just juts off at strange angles and clutters the base shape you're going for all to hell. Like, why is there a strange assembly on the arm? is that a weapon? Perhaps it could all be fixed by simply varying the contrast and palette choice of your textures, because having a whole ton of grey and dark red makes it incredibly hard to see any details you placed on the texture. Add to it, it would also potentially make it difficult to see in-game, so you have that issue to look at as well.

shaka

Agreed with Gungriffon Geona, it would help a lot if you would add more ambient light in the texture, coming from above so your shapes read better.

Here's a quick sketch to explain better what i mean.

Saigo

Cross-posting from WAYWO thread - a game I've been working on lately. It's all low-poly models with no textures. I figured it would be fun to make something simple but (hopefully) pretty like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GPAyNaTdt0

It's already out, so you can check it out here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...com.bgdn.shmup

klamp

Started working on a low poly, hand painted weapon pack, just for funzies:





I painted the texture for the sickle after doing the swords, and liked the way it turned out way better. I'll probably be going back and reworking the sword textures.

Sanislov

Just some basic attack animations for my knight:) 495 tri

modebloggen

Sure hope this fits in here. An alien skull at 530 tris, with a 512 normal and occlusion bake=)

(for a full 3D view, https://goote.ch/f920a6eff1934fb38d91e305eea1389d.project/ )

Shendoo

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Bard91

nice

Aybars

Hello everyone. This is my first post on polycount forums. I hope you like my post. I worked on these characters and assets for a mobile game called The Glee Musketeers. Concept art by Bob MacNeil

https://www.facebook.com/theartofaybarsturan

I am responsible for characters and assets modeling and texturing.

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If you like them follow me on my facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/theartofaybarsturan

Littlenorwegians

Sanislov wrote: »

Just some basic attack animations for my knight:) 495 tri

Adorable. I'd have him on my computer desk, constantly looping those animations.

This is a sort of material test for some poly art stuff. (It's what I call that decimated, untextured, coloured, lowpoly look)

qwerty

PL-Fighter

Sanislov wrote: »

Just some basic attack animations for my knight:) 495 tri

Your Knight looks really cool. Can i see the Wireframe and Texture ?


Here some freetime work. who guess from wich game this is?

verts: 597 Textures: 7x 64² and 1x 32²

hedvix

Chus_Orgaz wrote: »

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Squirtle low poly by chusorgaz on Sketchfab

nice work! Is the head joined with the body or is it a separate mesh?

Geti

@PL-fighter: AoE 1. Looks pretty faithful though I haven't played it for ages, haha.

@Sanislov: really fun little guy; is he for anything or just for fun? Would love a large scale RTS with little low-poly pixel texture units

Kraken

900 tris))

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hedvix wrote: »

nice work! Is the head joined with the body or is it a separate mesh?

thanks dude, is a separate mesh!

Kosai106

A little something for the ladies~

328 tris, 256x256 normal and ao.
Might texture it for for both dynamic and static lighting.

Sweetangel0467

Kosai106 wrote: »

A little something for the ladies~

328 tris, 256x256 normal and ao.
Might texture it for for both dynamic and static lighting.

Cool stuff! I'm amazed at that low texture size. Mind showing the textures?

kaligraphx

This is my first post on polycount !

And i make handpainted models for the first time
i'ts for an RPG KIT for unity assets store !

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handpainted table lowpoly by kaligraphx on Sketchfab

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handpainted fence lowpoly by kaligraphx on Sketchfab

In unity :



In the future i add characters / monsters / tiles for floor/wall etc etc.. and all handpainted !

Kosai106

Sweetangel0467 wrote: »

Cool stuff! I'm amazed at that low texture size. Mind showing the textures?

Sure thing!
Now that I look at it, I can already see a way to optimize it even further, which I may or may not do.

Sweetangel0467

Thanks yeah I see you can optimize a bit further as well.
Mostly on the handle I guess.

Sanislov

Thanks PL-Fighter:)
Here is my Thread about this project:)
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140599

qwerty

manticore

swords with LoD

L4TF2

Anybody here know of any good tutorials on low poly modeling and texturing?

thinkinmonkey

Aybars, I really like your texturing stile!
It's very inspiring.

kaligraphx

It's my new handpainted models :



with wire :



and with TEST CELL SHADING :

Denny

manticore: Those are some fine swords! You should consider selling them on the Unity or UE4 marketplace.

JuanPulidoS

Hello everyone. This is my first post on Polycount forums.
This scene is to practice handpaiting textures.
I hope you enjoy it and I´m aware of any feeback.

Concept by Makkon's


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Kettun

Practicing my handpainted stuff as well.



texture's 512, could it be lower? maybe. I'l have to look at resizing it properly somehow.
tricount is about the same. maybe a bit more. didn't really look. really just here to paint it.