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

Mauricio Cunha

Kitteh

Mauricio, I think he'd look better geometrically if he were less square (just the general shape of the mesh... his stomach should look more like a 6 sided cylinder from above) cause it's really sticking out at me how sharp the corners of his shirt are at the bottom.

Xaltar

Agreed with Kitteh. The mesh is looking way to boxy. The arms and legs also could be made better if you were to rotate them and reattach them like this <> instead of like this []. Same number of sides but the diamond shape gives you the ability to tweak a single edge to define the form as opposed to needing to tweak 2 to the same effect. What this means is that you have 2x the bang per edge and can define your sillouette much easier and more efficiently.

Hope this makes sense.

OzMa

Did this low poly guy today



tda - good work. like the style

Wendy de Boer

jonnyhr wrote: »

Its been a while since I've done any lowpoly stuff.
Here is one that is slightly above 500 with the body being 450 and the head 160
With two separate textures.

Awesome work! I would love to see the texture flats as well.

jonnyhr

DemonPrincess: thanks, Here they are:


Love your work by the way

MoP

jonnyhr, cool stuff, awesome work on your site too

iiimage

hawken wrote: »

iiimage - maybe more than 1 hour of work would be advisable.

it was more then an hour of work... I'm really new to 3d, and I use a program called anim8or, which I'm still learning alot about...

Alune

Mauricio Cunha You should freeze the virtual mirror so the shading is correct.

Japhir

iiimage: ah that explains it, i started out using anim8or to, and i must say it pretty much SUCKS compared to the other softwares around. try blender (even though i can't get my head around the interface) but it's a loooot better than anim8or.
i went the hard way, anim8or > milkshape3d > maya PLE > 3ds max and damn, improvement every round.

Baddcog

iiimage, try Wings (or wings3d?), guess I don't know the name exactly, but it's a decent freeware modeller, I found it easier to use than Anim8r, but it's only 3d view, I like the side/top views to work in most of the time.

Ah, heres the link
http://www.wings3d.com/

codlfuse

Hey guy's. the work in here is fantastic. Seriously good. I just wanted to ask a few questions however. When skinning your low poly characters, do you guys use blending weighting?! As far as i know when i have done low poly work in the past for platforms like the DS, its always been no blending when skinning just one bone per vertices. I just just wanted to know for others if this is still the case and the models deform beautifully the way they do.

LoTekK

johnnyhr, sweet painting work.

wanted to start getting my feet wet with a little bit of lowpoly enviro stuff, so I did up a stone wall (haven't done the end caps, though)
diffuse and spec, 90 tris (the shot is 3 or 4 wall segments lined up)

Zoid

well i said id try for under 500. and dropped the 512 down to a 256 and its still good enough imo
edit: old image removed

most current here

MoP

Cool stuff Zoid. Great texture work.
To my eye it could do with a tad more contrast though - just a few more pixels of black-ish in the really dark shadow cracks, and some brighter pixels for some nice highlight picking out here and there...

Japhir

yeah what mop said, but other than that it's awesome! great design and execution!

Zoid

MoP wrote: »

Cool a tad more contrast though

fair enough.

edit updated later post.

Tumerboy

I like it zoid! make more!

ptoing

Love this, Zoid, tho I have some small crits.

I think the colours could be pushed a bit more. Made this quick edit.


Also I think the first segment on his back (the "hawk") should be fully bright and not have the dark edges on the top. Looks a bit odd. And you could have a bit more highlight running down the sides of the back.

The middle of the back where the texture mirrors could be cleaned a little as well.

Keep it up.

Hitez

imho i don't like the brush over.. too much blue. looks like he is lit with the moon.

BeatKitano

Yep, i agree. Previous one was more moody, paradox i guess :>

rooster

aye Ptoing I think your version looks cool, but you changed the style of it too. The subtlety is the charm

Kitteh

yeah, it was like, really awesome without the paintover, the subtlety is brilliant

Zoid

yep, i played with color exaggerations HSV eidts, earth tones etc. i decided to stick to concept, keep colors subtle. needed to fix some seams, agree the top not fitting right, UVW mistake
so i like this more. final version. put the feet more block then paw.

(lol always the final 5% polishing takes most of the time)

ptoing

Came out nice. I agree the change I did is mainly a taste issue. I would like a bit more contrast, but it looks very nice in any case. Would be cool to have a bunch of slightly differing ones as a herd in an environment.

AimBiZ

Great work Zoid! I really like the colors.

Leech

That rhino is bad ass. Would love to see more animals done in that style.

killingpeople

Most excellent Zoid. Now make a whole game with that style and become a millionaire. I preferred the eyes in the concept, more angled and duller. They've gone too puppy eyed and pull away from the values of the rest of the texture (too dark and stands out like a sore... eye)

Hitez

this and the what are you working on, threads inspire me so much!

Jonas Ronnegard

great work everyone, btw would love to see the results from a LP monster competition

Zoid

killingpeople wrote: »

angled and duller.

Eyes got puppy from contrast/sharpen and UV alteration, good call. Updated

killingpeople wrote: »

Now make a whole game with that style and become a millionaire.

YES! but first i need a job,
step 2) ?
step 3) profit

Edit, other ideas ill just make a thread sometime

kwakkie

They see me ridiiin'

220tris only vertex colors no texture.
New project. More coming soon

LoTekK

schweet, kwakkie. From what I remember of your last project (le cube thing), i'm definitely looking forward to seeing what you've got cooking.

Disco Stu

patrolin basket holdiin

_Calix_

Some lovely work coming through here.

Just a little fun, filling a gap between some proper projects.

3 cookies to the person who guess's what game he's from. (forehead might give it away)

Piccys:



459 tris:



Thanks

Hitez

Time splitters?!?!?

kaptainkernals

Wooden box, my first real attempt at texturing: texture is unnecessarily hi-res - I will reduce later:



Blender says i have 232 faces - am i correct in assuming that is the same as 232 quads / poly's if i modelled using quads?

Hitez

blender just literally counts the faces you have. add a plane, thats one face. divide that quad into tri's and it will count now as two faces.

Jonas Ronnegard

kaptainkernals: texture size?

So i made a knife, too much red ^^; would love some crits, hard to make this one look interesting.

kaptainkernals

At the moment it's 2k, i'm going to size it down to either 256 or 512.

r4ptur3

Jonas-- not interesting?!?! I saved your knife to my inspiration folder ... the shape and texture job is phenomenal can we see wires?

ScoobyDoofus

Jonas: I think you just need some color variation now, and maybe try taking some of those blacks a little lighter and shifting the hue a little cooler for your shadows.

jmiles

ya jonas.. that knife is friggen gorgeous. very well painted.. my opinion would be to add some bright desaturated blues to your metals.. subtle.. as you've already got good metal highlights in there.. and they read well.. perhaps some dark oranges and red scratches for rust.. unless you want your metal clean.. which looks good as it does right now.. perhaps if the texture will take it.. a fabric over lay?... like i said.. it all reads well the way you have it now.. just suggestions.. bravo

Jonas Ronnegard

kaptainkernals:

i see well i think 256 is the better choice, i guess it doesnt really fit into the lowpolyness of this thread though, it do fit the requirements, but it has the same specs as a prop it's size in a now gen game, but good job

r4ptur3:

Thanks man always nice to get some positive feedback, but it can always be made to look better in some way, wire pic below.

ScoobyDoofus:

Hi there Scooby thanks for the crit, it's what i have been sitting with most of the time on this piece, feels like it would look better if i tone down the black, but ah when i do the change it doesnt :P, well ill do some more testing.

jmiles:

Thanks tried adding some sort of color to the metal, though i never got it to look good, well ill probably get there somehow. as for scratches and rust, one problem with this is that the texture very easily gets messy, so i think ill keep this one quite clean. but good crits


Could probably have cleaned up this one a bit more,

Andreas

kaptainkernals wrote: »

Blender says i have 232 faces - am i correct in assuming that is the same as 232 quads / poly's if i modelled using quads?

Select all the poly's, CTRL+T, then look up at the top right for the triangle count

pixelchaot

my first low poly experience...and also my first shipping title i`m working on.
a bad ass girlsgame :cool: jeahhh!
the characters have a trianglecount of 300
and a 64x64 texture with 16 colores.



i hate texturing a 64x64. its sooo boring after the first 10 chars.
but hey, the next project is in line ... 30 character, also nintendo ds :poly124:
also done by me...
but now for sure with a better texturing technic!!!

sorry for the german discription
and my excellent harvard english :poly129:

kaptainkernals

Blenderhead wrote: »

Select all the poly's, CTRL+T, then look up at the top right for the triangle count

Thank you for that, says i have 469 tri's, but that is because my box has an inside as it will open for what i intend.

Neox

daniel the final versions have come out really nice, only the presentationshoots look a bit blurred, but other then that good job man

pixelchaot

thx steffen!!!
no antialiasing and save for web crap...
thats no portfolio presentation, soo i think its ok this time :P

DanielAlexander