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

bounchfx

that's insane JFletcher. How many tris? Wires? I'm assuming its a 512x

JasonLavoie

Jesus Fletcher, that is saved to inspiration folder

Turned out fantastic!

Pseudo

Jfletcher - That looks fantastic! I'd equip that shield for sure

The improvements over the initial concept are great as well, it turned out really nice.

StJoris

I dig your painterly style mr. Fletcher, awesome as always.

Red Handed Gamer

Holy crap, JFletcher!
Wow! (No pun intended.)
I thought I was looking at your concept painting for the shield the whole time, thinking to myself, "When is he gonna put the damn texture on his model?!"
Only to find out the masterpiece was the completely textured model.

Well done, man. :thumbup:

BlackulaDZ

woah. sweet texture fletcher; i really like that blue tint to the shadow too

JFletcher

Hah, thanks guys.

@ bounchfx

410 triangles, probably could've been less but i really liked those spikes on the front.

wire:



Yeah your right, the texture is 256x512

Anyways i saw a comp over at the TGC forums that peaked my interest, to create anything made of wood, i wanted to make a robot, so here's my awfully shit sketch:



Gonna get to work modeling him, again low poly. (sick of normal maps already, haha)

Its on!!

zhone

Great shield! By the use of shadow carrier, I finally understand where it fits to the soldier.

Razorb

thats really really really really nice fletcher!

JFletcher

cheers!

Basically done the low poly, wanna see how much of the character i can make with the texture:

Daaark

Fletcher, you just owned this whole thread.

morte

Jfletcher- kickass, dude!
hhuh here is my first try with sdk, a little plagiarism of a pior's model(hope he doesn't mind)

Cheers!

Tumerboy

he needs 20% more shovel.

JFletcher

Face is coming along nicely morte!

Texture so far:





EDIT:

image updated.

fearian

Loving your texturing style!

JFletcher

Thanks man,

I really enjoy texturing wood for some reason.

rooster

absolutely fantastic jfletcher!

GoSsS

Johny wrote: »

*sigh* people should check true good lowpoly work ( kenneth scott, Horribledeath , B1ll , etc etc ) , i havent seen a decent one in aaaages in this thread

I think JFletcher proves you wrong KP !
Your work is marvelous JFletcher.

Walking Fly

I want to eat his head... sick work as always JF

ptoing

Nice stuff JFletcher. Reminds me I have to finish my damn robot.

JFletcher

Hah thanks guys, i updated the image. Not much progress, just did a bit of the arms, turned off filtering and thought i'd show the diffuse how it is atm. Glad people like, i really enjoy making low poly stuff now and am gonna start doing more for my site.

Art-Machine

JFletcher wrote: »

Face is coming along nicely morte!

Texture so far:





EDIT:

image updated.

I knew he reminded me of someone!



I demand a bow-tie!

Awesome paintwork

seforin

fletcher: Im a big fan of hand painted stuff, I really love your painting of your textures, do you think its possible for this little guy if you can record how you are texturing your pieces of it? Im really interested how you painted the wood like that


even with no audio a visual ref would be awesome!


oh just to jump on the bag wagon like everyone else

"OH MY GODZ!!!!!One!1! AWESOME"

Spacey

morte: I think establishing the planes of the face would be helpful. And getting a little more aggressive with your values. Right now the larger shapes are just barely jumping off the texture at us because it's all the same tone.
Fletcher: Lovely colors, man! Great stuff.

The rest of you: GET BACK TO WORK AND POST SOME IMAGES!


UPDATED~!
Thanks ArtMachine and SHEP, that fanny pack did look pretty half-assed. Hopefully this reads a bit better...


wires & texture for anyone interested.

Art-Machine

Awesome. Though its a bit hard to read the fanny pack initially because of the rainbow colours.

SHEPEIRO

yeah you need more shading on that there bag

rasmus

Fucking love that woodbot, Fletch!

Pseudo

Ahaha, Optimus Pine. Well done.


Looks awesome JFletcher, I really love your shadows and the balance and contrast you have in your textures.

conte

damn you JFletcher)
Spacey- sweeet!

Daaark

For some reason, that Fletcher stuff reminds me of Legend Of Mana on PS1. Same style.

Joao Sapiro

love the shadow hues and overall "beauty" of your textures Fletcher , niiiice

StJoris

Such a lot of nice work, slaught, fletcher, spacey, top-notch!

Fletcher what are you doing with your lightbake to get these shadows to be cool?

JFletcher

Thanks,

Main part of the character finished:



i didn't have much space for the fuel thing on the back so im gonna create another 128x128 map for it.

@ seforin

ok, i'll make a video for this last bit.

EDIT:

oh, i'm gonna put a little leaf on the end of that twig on top of the head, case anyone thought that was a little random

@ StJoris

I like to think its the color, you can create a layer above with a color blending mode which you can apply to only dark areas of the texture under blending options.

DrillerKiller

nice work Fletch! love the blueish shadows!

Zylyx

Download the model pacakge here:
http://zylyx.quakeone.com/grunt.zip

The model comes in the following flavours:

Quake 3 .md3 (be sure to edit the QC file)
Alias .fbx
Collada .dea (not tested)
LightWave .lwo (for versions above 7.5, be sure to reweld all of the vertices, depending in what package you edit the model in)

Enjoy!

Minos

Nice texturing Fletch, love the pringles face!

seforin

JFletcher wrote: »

Thanks,

Main part of the character finished:



i didn't have much space for the fuel thing on the back so im gonna create another 128x128 map for it.

@ seforin

ok, i'll make a video for this last bit.

EDIT:

oh, i'm gonna put a little leaf on the end of that twig on top of the head, case anyone thought that was a little random

@ StJoris

I like to think its the color, you can create a layer above with a color blending mode which you can apply to only dark areas of the texture under blending options.

Ah fletch your the man!

Please let me know when its up!

LEViATHAN

As he is made out of wood, I think some more greens would make it look more lively. Could also add some more contrast by brightening the metal parts, ie. the screws in the arms and scratches on the shovel/claws.
Also I think the very strong blues makes it look... "hazy" and slightly flat, but that's your style so

larolaro

Fletcher very awesome, i must admit i'm really quite jealous! :<

JFletcher

here you go seforin, hopefully this will finish processing:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnIz-2Xyh4[/ame]

kinda crappy quality but you get the gist of it.

Thanks for the crit leviathan.

Firebert

JFletcher: did you get your tablet yet or did you do all that with your mousey mouse?

JFletcher

unfortunately no, the chaps i bought it from just contacted me today saying they cancelled my order because their supplier confirmed the item was discontinued and all out. (intuos3 a5)

I was pretty bummed, looked at other places and it was discontinued elsewhere (bad timing eh?)
then i found a damn fine limited deal at tablet4u and got an A4 for the same price!! this is gonna be sweet, i don't even know if i have enough room. (and i like that!!)

So in short yes im still using my mouse. For now at least.

Art-Machine

I have the wide screen version you wanted. and use regular size at work. I noticed no appreciable difference between the 2, so no big loss there except for the cool factor of having a 'limited edition' tablet.

That is if "A5" means the wide screen version as the first google result i found would suggest.

JFletcher

Well, i wasn't expecting much of a difference but put it this way, i got more canvas for the same amount of money.

also:

Eraser
Get rid of errors with a flip of your pen.

I honestly did not know about this, i can use the top of the pen as an eraser? thats just fucking insane.

Art-Machine

Yknow it's funny, i never use that eraser in photshop, i always just hit e for the actual eraser tool. But the cool thing about wacoms is you can probably make that eraser do just about anything else you want instead.

seforin

Fletcher Your awesome man! HA so stupid that I paint would the way I was before...seeing this makes it seem almost simple.next time I do a woody isk character I know the steps now

_Gr9yFox_

Beautiful texturing JFletcher!

Tumerboy

Hey JF, great vid. Couple questions though.

When you're painting the highlights and shadows, are you just working with like, 2 or 3 colors, and have a low opacity brush to layer them on? Or are you working in full opacity, and constantly picking new colors for exactly the one you want?

Also, after you paint the highlights on, you do something to tone them back, and I couldn't tell if it was just erasing slightly, or if you're blurring some too? or what?

Thanks man.

JFletcher

are you just working with like, 2 or 3 colors, and have a low opacity brush to layer them on?

This ^

Also, after you paint the highlights on, you do something to tone them back, and I couldn't tell if it was just erasing slightly, or if you're blurring some too? or what?

I was erasing them slightly.

Right, anyways, seems this one has been milked for too long, calling it done, gonna get started with something else now.

Zack Fowler

You made those textures with a mouse? That's wild. I haven't done any mouse drawing in ages.