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

DavidCruz

Who nice work all i did a thing today:

Saw a concept and fell in love and everything else went on hold.
I miss the lowpoly mc loving, i have to get back to it and drop everything else so much more fun.

hamstocks

@Delko How exactly did you achieve that holographic effect on the card?...

enceer

Something I made for an Illustration class I took last year.

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Har

DEElekgolo wrote: »

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Trying it out on sketchfab

You can also put that animated version on sketchfab :thumbup:.
(somehow my reply button doesn't work any more )

proxyorgasm

character just for fun)

Mark Skovrup

Hey, I made this dagger.
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230polys

ftsmith

A handed painted knife I worked on. The model is 236 faces/418 tris.I used the concept by FirstKeeper from deviant art, here is the link to the concept: http://firstkeeper.deviantart.com/ar...pt-04-284014517.

DEElekgolo

Har wrote: »

You can also put that animated version on sketchfab :thumbup:.
(somehow my reply button doesn't work any more )

I triiied! 3ds max kept exporting the fbx with the cat bones as geometry no matter what I did. I'll fix it some day.

MrWolf

Working on this furry soldier.

Littlenorwegians

This one's an experimental quickie and in a different style than what I've done before.

Mr.Tobi

This thread is awesome! Really cool stuff in here!

This is my first model on sketchfab. It is supposed to be the main spaceship in my upcoming mobile/browser game.
What do you say?

[sketchfab]4efcfdc7eb8e453b8b5b0b90948a5c25[/sketchfab]

DavidCruz

rough,low shake and bake.

The Dark Shadow

First post here as well as first low poly/pixel texture thingy, felt kind of weird coming from 4096^2 textures to 256^2.

Nothing much compared to the average quality around here (been reading most of this thread for the last few days) but at least it's a start I guess!

Thanks for the inspiration!



659 Tris / 432 Verts for the whole scene, 280 Tris / 172 Verts just the car with the 4 wheels.

Here a small turntable video of it.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWxDk-qT2g[/ame]

Chunkey

I am loving the Skyline The Dark Shadow! Really enjoying the crisp look to it I want to see more now like the Silvia or an old school 80's Supra

Can you show the textures and wires for the scene please?

The Dark Shadow

Chunkey wrote: »

I am loving the Skyline The Dark Shadow! Really enjoying the crisp look to it I want to see more now like the Silvia or an old school 80's Supra

Can you show the textures and wires for the scene please?

Thanks! I've seen your Skyline and Escort while browsing the thread, one of the reasons I tried a pixel car.

Here are the texture, please bear in mind that "ground", "sides" and "shadows/stuff" could have been done in a single texture.



I started with a different idea in mind, mainly having the ground/sides mapped 1:1 to make unique features without adding decals/planes and having more objects and a more detailed under car shadow (the big rectangle on the left of the shadows map) but I felt that they didn't fit with the rest of the style so I cut them out but left the UVS and maps like that as this was more of a test than anything else, whew excuses excuses!

As for the ramp I used it as a gradient map in Photoshop with just 10% opacity to give the final image a bit of color grading.

Here's the wireframe, as you can see I made the fender cutouts with a texture, I wanted to see if I could match the rest of the pixelated style instead of having them modeled as I would have on a more detailed car, I must say I'm pretty happy with the result.

Basically I wanted it to look as much as a 2D pixel car as possible.




Sorry I always write too much!

DavidCruz

Nice work peeps.
Texture progress #1:
(fixed derp.)

fongx

Hi

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

Daneder

Hey guys,

Here is my first attempt at hand painted textures. Definitely a fun challenge! Still a lot to learn though, so I would of course appreciate some critique.

344 tris.

leilei

Actually made this last year in 2 to 4 hours. For typical fixed function renderering a voodoo could do. didn't post it until now*



highest lod 576 triangles, lowest lod 32 triangles. 512x256x24, which is rather high for this thread and it's only high to be consistent with the other high textures in the game. The texture also has special UV areas for the LOD version so not the most efficient thing.


*possibly posted before, but too forumnesiac to check.

Lhorta

Started praticing painting this week (had to use my mouse..anyway) also extremely low poly attempt for 1024x res lol, plan to try much lower resolution next time.

BrightBit

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel wrote: »

Awesome! Can you show the wires?

87roach

I got this done a while ago but forgot to post! A friend asked me to create him in a low poly/ps1 style, it was fun!

Lhorta

Another one, 336 tris 256 texture.

Could've used 128x128 if i weren't so lazy and actually did the UV mapping manually this time.
Still, glad i finished it!

Edit: still messing with colors, wish blender had some kind of layers for painting.

Ok, time to move on.

Wakefield

Hi guys! I saw really god jobs here!

This is my collaboration to the thread, a lowpoly Double Bass.
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Littlenorwegians

Cropped because it's about commissions. :shifty:

Awesome stuff, guys.
Really like your dude, 87roach.
(Really lovely, but there's a little window that pops up in the GIF turntable)

Filcomet

Some models I made sometime ago.
Art Station

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

lalala

BrightBit wrote: »

Awesome! Can you show the wires?

sure, tho it's pretty unoptimized - http://i.imgur.com/QFb1B6H.jpg

i think if the hammer wasn't merged and stray symmetry lines were gone it could probably get down to like 225-250

Bummer6

Carissa Rousary wrote: »

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I usually just scroll past posts like this, but I have to ask... Why is it so difficult for some people to judge for themselves what counts as "low poly"...? All they need to do is look through literally one single page of this thread to realize that this doesn't really belong.

PolyHertz

I assume its because they have multiple tabs open in their browser and accidentally post it to the wrong one while thinking its another. There's really no other excuse I can think of since the thread title itself (no need to even read the first post) says it's for models that are under 1000 tris.

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

Xelioth

A more finalized version of the character in my game, Lux. (and for the record, she weighs in at about 1500 tris with the accessories and such all together, but I still feel like it's low poly enough)

mjeruzal

@Xelioth
Really nice. It reminds me of the Emperor Kuzco from animated movie The Emperor's New Groove

St4lis

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, I normally disapprove of normal maps in the lowpoly thread, but those are some legit dope guns. Are they for a project of some kind? Do you have a thread where you collect them all?

Bummer6

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel wrote: »

I just gotta say... I have an insane amount of respect for you because of these low-poly guns. Getting something that low to bake properly is HARD, and your models look freakin' amazing. Great job! I'm loving these.

jaminx24

Hello there. I need some feedback I'm modeling a low poly jeep, I just want to gather everyone thoughts to help improve my modeling skills. I'm still in the modeling phase by the way.

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

St4lis wrote: »

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, I normally disapprove of normal maps in the lowpoly thread, but those are some legit dope guns. Are they for a project of some kind? Do you have a thread where you collect them all?

thanks they aren't for a particular project, i've just been experimenting with the spec and trying to see how fast i can make the process (no need for a real HP with such low res maps means it can be pretty quick). i'll probably make a thread for it sooner or later.

i did another series sorta like this a few years ago, i notice back then they were taking 3 hours, now it's down to a lunch break for the model and a lunch break for the texture. gonna try some stuff other than guns soon.

krz

EDIT: I messed up and posted something that wasn't lowpoly at all, so let me fix that mistake!

A somewhat lowpoly model of Ms Pauling from TF2 I made a month ago. There are a few things I want to fix, but I'll get back to it later.

Chunkey

The Dark Shadow wrote: »

Thanks! I've seen your Skyline and Escort while browsing the thread, one of the reasons I tried a pixel car.

Here are the texture, please bear in mind that "ground", "sides" and "shadows/stuff" could have been done in a single texture.



I started with a different idea in mind, mainly having the ground/sides mapped 1:1 to make unique features without adding decals/planes and having more objects and a more detailed under car shadow (the big rectangle on the left of the shadows map) but I felt that they didn't fit with the rest of the style so I cut them out but left the UVS and maps like that as this was more of a test than anything else, whew excuses excuses!

As for the ramp I used it as a gradient map in Photoshop with just 10% opacity to give the final image a bit of color grading.

Here's the wireframe, as you can see I made the fender cutouts with a texture, I wanted to see if I could match the rest of the pixelated style instead of having them modeled as I would have on a more detailed car, I must say I'm pretty happy with the result.

Basically I wanted it to look as much as a 2D pixel car as possible.




Sorry I always write too much!

Really loving the clean look you've achieved, it's about where I thought it would be tri-count wise, it could work well as an art style- might be worth exploring how far you can go with it i.e. buildings, characters etc

87roach

Littlenorwegians wrote: »

Cropped because it's about commissions. :shifty:

Awesome stuff, guys.
Really like your dude, 87roach.
(Really lovely, but there's a little window that pops up in the GIF turntable)

Oh wow that is such a fail from me.. haha. Thank you for pointing that out and I'm glad you like it.

Great work yourself too!

87roach

Here is Fish from The Boxtrolls:

For more please go to My Thread! <-Click

Prominent

Just a little scene I made to demonstrate some features in Crocotile 3D...

MrWolf

WIP of German army German shepherd

Bummer6

Made this little guy from Undertale earlier today.
Here's the texture!

Littlenorwegians

Thanks @87roach

And man, that is one awesome boxtroll! Spot on. Love it. Great work.
You others as well.


Got a sort of (silly/stupid) game concept in the works that's sort of an RPG Punch-Out type game with a Pok

Computron

Prominent wrote: »

Just a little scene I made to demonstrate some features in Crocotile 3D...

holy shit, i just saw the youtube video for crocotile 3d and this looks amazing. reminds me of old DS games like the final fantasy remakes. I love the swamp environment too

[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Mxoofks_Y[/ame]

I wanna play whatever this is so bad... Any games out for PC that look like this? I dont have a DS any longer.

Prominent

Thanks Computron!
One of my goals is to make a game and create the environments for it using Crocotile 3d. I haven't played too many games lately, so I'm not sure what is available. I'd be interested in knowing too, because then I could show the developers this tool. I imagine more indiegames using this style.

Fuiosg

That's fuckin dope, it's like an NES game came to life. Do you do all your texture painting inside of the program, or do you import it?

_

Casly

Prominent wrote: »

Thanks Computron!
One of my goals is to make a game and create the environments for it using Crocotile 3d. I haven't played too many games lately, so I'm not sure what is available. I'd be interested in knowing too, because then I could show the developers this tool. I imagine more indiegames using this style.

a rpg would be very nice

im curious, would a orthographic camera work on this?