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

Ktron8

369 tris, 128x128 texture.

B_Korth

Studied handpainted wood all day yesterday and I think I'm finally starting to understand it a lot better.

Hyohnoo

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Redczech

model444tris - no sculpting. I just used the grayscale diffuse as a heightmap and did some masking in substance painter. It's a fun way to liven up old stuff :]

JuanFe995

Obscura said:

One more. 40 tris:


Reference / inspiration:

Hello! Great job! I'm really new at the field, i just wanted to ask if it's better to work on tris? i see you tend to model on tris and not on quads, is there a difference on the workflow or something? What are your feelings about it?

Thanks!

marmitaTH

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First post in this forum!

Frankienaitor

That's a cool lookin Sonic you got there Marmita
This is my first post too :d

I'm (almost) completely new to 3d modelling, but I want to get better at it, so today I made this low poly pick up truck
Ugly as hell, but I still like it Constructive critisism is more than welcome.
(I found the UV unwrapping part the most difficult. Anyone know of some good tutorials out there?)

224 tris
126 verts
64 x 64 res

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Koromo

Just a quick and dirty triangulate lowpoly test:


Not focused on the custom vertex normals and shading, only triangulated faces to achieve a low poly look.

mophs

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A little molerat, 828 tris.

Obscura

JuanFe995 said:

Obscura said:

One more. 40 tris:


Reference / inspiration:

Hello! Great job! I'm really new at the field, i just wanted to ask if it's better to work on tris? i see you tend to model on tris and not on quads, is there a difference on the workflow or something? What are your feelings about it?

Thanks!

Hi. Sorry for the slow reply. The controlled tris is to better control the bake of the normal map, and the silhouette. . I also applied a few custom normals here and there.

Also, eventually they are all going to end up as tris. And there is this basic baking rule when it comes to normal maps, that you make sure the baking and displaying triangulation is the same. On such a low poly mesh, you can improve the shading a lot by carefully moving those verts and normals.

Savannakhet

A Saab 900, from a larger scene:

http://polycount.com/discussion/186966/low-res-street-scene-wip

Savannakhet

I also did a Tuk Tuk.

Daniel_Swing

My last asset for a 2 week long game project! 731 tris!

Savannakhet

Did a bus for the scene, based on old Soviet models.

Ktron8

496 tris (shadow is a separate mesh), 128x128 texture. Used Kenneth Fejer works for reference to paint wheels.

Chidambhar_Swaroop

College Assignment...
More Screenshot - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4LZyL

Enviromist

Hey guys! I've discovered "low poly" shader for UE4 terrain. So I did this quick scene and I hope you like it:)  

More screenshots - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EDDb4

A_GAME

Here's my attempt at making a hero's sword in a colorful hand-painted style.

pawchaw

Was working on a low poly game, Railroad Tycoon meets Idle Clicker.... Tappy Trains!

TechLevel

Sci-fi toonel (with baked normal), texturing in substance painter
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this contain 420 tris

Obscura

Some texturing and shots...Needs more adjustments.

keyreal

Hi! My first post here. I'm a hobbyist game developer, I do programming, music and art. I've been experimenting with low poly pixel art recently. Here's a Halloween themed one:

A_GAME

Doing some basic universal assets here.  2 chests.

Eepox

Great stuff in here! Revisited an old low poly model.

mephi100fel

hope its still acceptable as lowpoly )
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/amlqz

entropia

756 tris, more here

Mique

Spaceships! Going fast! A few models I found on my drive, maybe someone likes it
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Fitblood

Low Poly chemical vat from the Sonic Chemical Plant zone. I always thought these looked super cute in the background of that zone and would suit a low poly model.

more images here  https://www.artstation.com/artwork/DJ9Pe

PraxisPixels

Hey guys! First post here. This is for a school project I'm currently working on. I'm designing a Magical Plant Store. I'll be uploading more as I finish more props.

This model has 494 tris. 
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1stAnd10

This guy is just a smidge past 1,000 tri's. 

Wendy de Boer

@1stAnd10 : Looks like you are counting quads, not tris. 1000 tris is not enough to model a character with full five-fingered hands and 8-sided limbs with a fair amount of gridding on them. More likely, you'd end up with 6-sided limbs and the middle finger, ring finger and pinky finger merged into a single box with only the forefinger and thumb separated.

algoru

So I've made a knife.
Blender and 3D-Coat. (1024px texture and 362 tris)
Need critics.

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universe

Hand-painted Thrall portrait. This is my  first approach at hand-painted asset. I hope You will like it!

*Ops, It' has more than 1k poly. Sorry for that!
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Ktron8

576 tris, 128x128 texture. Borrowed some colors from Kenneth Fejer.

chemikhazi

I'm not too sure how many tris this is, 128x128 texture. I used vertex colors for this as well!

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CraigSnedeker

Frankienaitor said:

That's a cool lookin Sonic you got there Marmita
This is my first post too :d

I'm (almost) completely new to 3d modelling, but I want to get better at it, so today I made this low poly pick up truck
Ugly as hell, but I still like it Constructive critisism is more than welcome.
(I found the UV unwrapping part the most difficult. Anyone know of some good tutorials out there?)

224 tris
126 verts
64 x 64 res

model

Honestly, that's good! I really like the style. The only thing I have to criticize is the white line on the wheel and seam on the hood. 

Azhrak

Its been a very long time since I did any modelling, did these for practice.

I'm aware the 1860 Henry could be optomized a bit more.

algoru

Cartoon gun. Nothing to say more.
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Evidale

Hello all,

368 Tris and 1024x1024 texture.
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robofoxchan

Hi there! It's my (WIP) female character for indie game called "world_null". If interested u can see more info about our project here > indie-games.rocks 

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victor_fl

Hey there, folks.
I recently started working on my modeling skills. I've been making pixel art for games for the past 5 years. I really like the low poly + pixel art texture look so I started working on that with some simple geometry. Still struggling with UV distortion, but here's what I achieved so far. Any tips?

MrQuetch

victor_fl said:

Hey there, folks.
I recently started working on my modeling skills. I've been making pixel art for games for the past 5 years. I really like the low poly + pixel art texture look so I started working on that with some simple geometry. Still struggling with UV distortion, but here's what I achieved so far. Any tips?

Hi, victor_fl. You've been doing pixel art for the past 5 years? That's crazy cool! I've been doing art for the past few years, and have tried doing different styles. Actually, your low poly model is coming along well. However, I do think that you could use less texture space for the top of the mushroom. There's a lot of unnecessary repetition in the texture. Same could be done for the face, there's a lot of tan - you could squash the faces to the left... Unless you plan to do extra shading or other details that need to be there.

For the most part, it isn't a bad start - and again... It's coming along well.
Maybe you can improve it and re-post your progress?

Lysæna

I'm impressed by the quality of this cute little mushroom ! Your pixel art textures are great !

victor_fl

MrQuetch said:

victor_fl said:

Hey there, folks.
I recently started working on my modeling skills. I've been making pixel art for games for the past 5 years. I really like the low poly + pixel art texture look so I started working on that with some simple geometry. Still struggling with UV distortion, but here's what I achieved so far. Any tips?

Hi, victor_fl. You've been doing pixel art for the past 5 years? That's crazy cool! I've been doing art for the past few years, and have tried doing different styles. Actually, your low poly model is coming along well. However, I do think that you could use less texture space for the top of the mushroom. There's a lot of unnecessary repetition in the texture. Same could be done for the face, there's a lot of tan - you could squash the faces to the left... Unless you plan to do extra shading or other details that need to be there.

For the most part, it isn't a bad start - and again... It's coming along well.
Maybe you can improve it and re-post your progress?

Sorry for the late reply! I'm currently working on modeling more organic stuff and also learning how to translate cool pixel art textures into a nice render. I completely agree with everything you pointed out and I might make another mushroom soon. 

 Lysæna said:

I'm impressed by the quality of this cute little mushroom ! Your pixel art textures are great !

Thanks a lot, Lysaena! I've been honing my pixel art skills for some time. I hope I can put them to good use.

In the meantime, here's one of my attempts to make a nice pixel art render in a 3D space. I call it "ImpossiBox". (but it was actually quite easy to layout the UVs!) I feel like I'm getting close to the render quality I want, but I'm realizing it requires a lot of planning in the modeling phase. I'll keep working hard on that.

flowpoly

Started and finished this one today, from concept to texturing! 952 Triangles!

Here's the Sketchfab in case anyone wants to look at it in 3D/take a peek at the texture map or triangle count etc!

robofoxchan

Another hello to community! I'm still working on my character for indie game called "world_null" c:

spncrbghmn

Hi there guys! I'm going to school for Game Art and my 3D animation professor wants us to upload finished projects for outside critique here. I have a background in more physical media/art so this was the first 3D model I spent any serious time doing and I had a really good time with it! I found the whole experience very relaxing. We were tasked with modeling a chest and this was my result
My final poly count clocked in at 920. I know it's slightly rough around the edges but any feedback is more than welcome. Thanks!

MrQuetch

spncrbghmn said:

Hi there guys! I'm going to school for Game Art and my 3D animation professor wants us to upload finished projects for outside critique here. I have a background in more physical media/art so this was the first 3D model I spent any serious time doing and I had a really good time with it! I found the whole experience very relaxing. We were tasked with modeling a chest and this was my result
My final poly count clocked in at 920. I know it's slightly rough around the edges but any feedback is more than welcome. Thanks!

Hi there, spncrbghmn!

I hope that someday I can work on making art for video games as a job - very cool that you are already well on your way. That's great that your professor says to post your projects outside of class for critique; gives a taste of the real world. I believe that your model is good for the most part, but I can see some excessive amounts of triangles where they ought not to be used - unless you have a texture that repeats itself or needs to be flipped. Depending on the style of your overall game that you plan to make, the direction of the chest could be completely different. This looks like it is going to be meant for more of a high poly game. You could easily make the same chest at below 500 triangles and have it still retain the same amount of detail. I hope this helps.

Reynaeric20

https://skfb.ly/6vQRx

Hey all, i am also working on a chest for my Intro to 3D class with my pal spencer here and this is what i got!

msaab

Chest I made in 3dsMax for my 3D-Animation class. The look I was going for was on the left. I have a cap on how many polys I'm allowed to use, 1000. What are your thoughts on it? This is only the second model I've done on my own, go easy on me ^^