LOWPOLY (or: the optimisation appreciation organisation)

hawken

This is the sweet spot for your low poly models. Post 'em if you've got 'em!

[update 2020's]

Low poly hasn't really been a requirement in the games industry for a long while now. This thread is for low poly appreciation, so please take note of these rough guidelines:

1. Keep models under 1,000 triangles.
2. Scenes are fine, if all models are low poly.
3. The end! Enjoy.

And here's a handy list of ways to make your art look right in different software: Low Poly Challenge STYLE GUIDE

Offy163

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Make low poly man:) with 512 texture

I hope you like it )

1k tris!

FareedShoo

thanks

HDK1LL3R

Low-poly Shotgun (756 tris) 
Modeling: Maya LT
Texturing: Photoshop
Final Render: Marmoset 3 

AUDITORIUM

Here are some 3d assets from the simple game for android. Lost UFO





https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LostUFO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZbWT0M3s4

PaulMakesThings

mrawolf said:

Some more lowpolys from this weeks screen shot saturday. Player is around 1k  without weapon. Once again concepts for my new game, still all wip  thx!

This is so rad

Sooi

I made an axe called 'Faeries Fury' for my schools' 'fantasy weapon' assignment.
937 triangles + an extra plane for the effects.

Feedback is very welcome!
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More info here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/mK49y

Habit

Low Poly Sub
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rKgre

Lhorta

Hope both style matches..
Male 632 tris, Female 746 - 256 diffuse.

Daniel_Swing

540tris!

More images in my Sketchbook and a marmoset viewer on ArtStation!

Lukitscherie

Little mall!
2825 tris all together, but each island is between 450 and 972 tris, all duplicates included.

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Offy163

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Some around 1.5k  tris

JTHMin

I made Piccolo from DBZ a few days ago, 4x4 texture, 351 Faces.


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Offy163

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Sister from samurai jack 5 season

Xelun

A lot of potions!

Timelapse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhqv23j6Pk

More images in the artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YEnKV

Xelun

Lhorta said:

Hope both style matches..
Male 632 tris, Female 746 - 256 diffuse.

So many muscles! (Except in the legs, it's a little weird...) Haha

Lhorta

Xelun said:

Lhorta said:

Hope both style matches..
Male 632 tris, Female 746 - 256 diffuse.

So many muscles! (Except in the legs, it's a little weird...) Haha

You are right i'm so lazy! >.< haha

Lhorta

Trying out a toon-ish lighting style with GLSL.

Nothing special in the textures but the idea is to use the same greyscale map to both control specular level and set 50% to act as gradient diffuse above material just so the bottom of the character doesn't pop too much(Aiming for top-down view) color is set on material/vertex.

Update:
Decided to paint his body wanyway, still not sure if it's the direction i should be going.

Offy163

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Low poly face)

Obscura

Haven't made anything 3d in a while, so yesterday I decided to get back into it a little bit, so I made these ammo crates from Quake 3 Arena.
28 tris each...

Obscura

One more. 40 tris:


Reference / inspiration:

Ziv_iz

a lowpoly mesh of the Scout class from Team fortress , i've almost finished the Heavy class, Hope you like it

EEEnt_OFFICIAL

A few months ago I practiced making a low-poly human male. I used various DS models as reference for the topology. It has a total of 224 triangles. I think I could go lower though.

MrQuetch

I hope I posted this right, my first time doing a single post (rather than double posting like my last comments).

Obscura said:

One more. 40 tris:


Reference / inspiration:

EEEnt_OFFICIAL said:

A few months ago I practiced making a low-poly human male. I used various DS models as reference for the topology. It has a total of 224 triangles. I think I could go lower though.

@Obscura: Holy cow, that skull looks really good for being so low. The texture is terrific, I don't think it could look any better than that.

@EEEnt_Official: That's not a bad idea, actually. I usually just look everywhere for reference, but for some reason never considered the DS though that's a perfect source...

Practice? That model is not too bad actually, the topology is pretty good - bet you can get it down to roughly 200 triangles. What you could do is get rid of the extra geometry on the face, unless the nose is important. If it's longer, I'd keep it, but in your case I would just get rid of it completely. The base of the head could also go a bit lower.

Looks like the thumbs could also be a bit lower. The knees don't need that much geometry either unless the kneecaps are a key feature of the legs. Lastly, the foot could definitely use less triangles. If I were you, I'd just delete the bottom segments of the foot, and bring the vertices from the top of that down to the floor.

Other than that, great job. I look forward to your texture if you plan on doing that.

EEEnt_OFFICIAL

MrQuetch said:

I hope I posted this right, my first time doing a single post (rather than double posting like my last comments).

Obscura said:

One more. 40 tris:


Reference / inspiration:

EEEnt_OFFICIAL said:

A few months ago I practiced making a low-poly human male. I used various DS models as reference for the topology. It has a total of 224 triangles. I think I could go lower though.

@Obscura: Holy cow, that skull looks really good for being so low. The texture is terrific, I don't think it could look any better than that.

@EEEnt_Official: That's not a bad idea, actually. I usually just look everywhere for reference, but for some reason never considered the DS though that's a perfect source...

Practice? That model is not too bad actually, the topology is pretty good - bet you can get it down to roughly 200 triangles. What you could do is get rid of the extra geometry on the face, unless the nose is important. If it's longer, I'd keep it, but in your case I would just get rid of it completely. The base of the head could also go a bit lower.

Looks like the thumbs could also be a bit lower. The knees don't need that much geometry either unless the kneecaps are a key feature of the legs. Lastly, the foot could definitely use less triangles. If I were you, I'd just delete the bottom segments of the foot, and bring the vertices from the top of that down to the floor.

Other than that, great job. I look forward to your texture if you plan on doing that.

Thank you for the criticism! I have been experimenting and I've gone as low as 150 polys. As for the texture I painted one for it recently. But since the model is going to be seen from a distance it doesn't look that great, haha.

MrQuetch

@EEEnf_OFFICIAL:
Your welcome. Sometimes it sucks to have to tell someone if something needs a lot more work than it should. It was nice for me to only tell you some things that could be better. 150 polys!? That's awesome! Sometimes I'll make models like that just to see if I can make low poly even lower than it is.

Yeah, after having sketched hundreds of pictures and producing two art portfolios in high school, I've managed to make a low poly mesh for a character in as little as an hour. If I really want to touch it up, I'll take maybe 2 hours - sometimes 3. My meshes are good for the most part now, although I've got better at UV mapping and texturing, I think I could use more practice.

Practice makes perfect. Perhaps it sounds generic - but it's true.

Obscura

MrQuetch said:

@Obscura: Holy cow, that skull looks really good for being so low. The texture is terrific, I don't think it could look any better than that

Thanks. Its the normal map. It was done using the usual highpoly -> lowpoly-> baking method, and then it was "textured" in Substance Painter. The retopo was done manually. Maybe I'll make a few more after E3.

Piemaster

Heyo! Here is a handpainted lowpoly helmet, around 420 triangles.
Original concept by Alexey Kutyrev - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XdzKL

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Obscura

voidirium

My stuff tends to be... higher poly than it should be due to my texturing methods, i often cut into the topology for sharp color edges.
But I don't intend to use these in games so I can get away with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



938 tris ... could definitely be lower but i allowed extra geometry for its rig.
has a spread-wing model for flying but I haven't gotten around to rigging that yet.





428 tris... fanart of morrowind

Obscura

Pickup thingy wip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6mP6L2FEw&amp;feature=youtu.be

reference:

Obscura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91UHMA5ShiE

Obscura

Something different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtROlS8a9o

Hyohnoo

Hello! ヾ(・◇・)ﾉ

I'm New to lowpoly. 



ヽ(´･ω･`)､

Obscura

I'm not a fan of the smoke of the ship. Otherwise, nice start though you nailed it. Keep it up.

Aerial_Knight

LuvianBlue

A few months old, but I made a boxer.

Bombshell

@LuvianBlue That is adorably awesome, I love the design!

So I needed a character model to test a webgl rendering engine (hobby of mine) and I realized I drastically need to improve.
Here is the first draft designs, quick scribble ups, I had a series of them but cyclops girl was what I settled on.

Following this I made a refined design with a half-assed side on ortho to help start the model.


Old post
[spoiler]Finally here is the resulting model, which I am not all too happy with, poly flow wise and rigging wise, it works, it'll do the job for testing, but the UV mapping is subpar, the silhouette isn't poppy enough and the texture itself is laughable.
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256x256 size texture, I'm aiming for quality low demand graphics, I feel like I could work well with this as a texture size, but in this case my uv's are not optimal (though better than my uvs in the past) and my texture is kind of pants.[/spoiler]
So I was not very happy with that model atall, justly so as I managed to make a better looking model in a day with a far stupider simple poly layout.
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TL;DR? comments, criticisms and suggestions very welcome, hoping to revisit this design soon for a better model.

LuvianBlue

@Bombshell What a sassy cyclops.  I like your original model, though I like the hair on the new one better, mainly the way it extends further in the front

EEEnt_OFFICIAL

Obscura said:

Something different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTtROlS8a9o

Oooh I do like the PS1-esque portrayal of the graphics. Very nice!

Bombshell

LuvianBlue said:

@Bombshell What a sassy cyclops.  I like your original model, though I like the hair on the new one better, mainly the way it extends further in the front

aye I'm happier with the poly flow of the first model, always feels like a cop out to resort to boxmodel, I'm currently trying to make a scene to plop a redesigned version of the character in, something a bit more toony and befitting stylization

Hyohnoo

Moving out ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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Frut

Hi everyone!
Need to find a couple of hours of free time to browse all I missed here...

Lowpoly chest I made for Unity Asset Store:
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iLKke

Here's a tiny construction robot with all the essential workplace trappings

Texture in the corner

Offy163

modelRepainted my some old low poly model

Violet_n_red

hey now!
you're a horse guy!
get your game on!
go! play!

i have a bunch of other animal people, but i like the horse guy the most, even tho the others look a bit more elaborate.
instead of textures, i put on a bit more verts where eyes, mouth, chest muscles and other small creases should be. and i probably should've simplified lower part of the arms...

chemikhazi

A little sub and an attempt at making a turntable.


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chemikhazi

Fanart for Toppy Noppy's Thundremoar tanks, the texture is just 32x32



I made the pink variant too!


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esanany

Little low poly skybox houses for the Splitstone Quarry map in Paladins
more here - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Q6KN3

HolBol

Decided to post this up before I add a cockpit and it goes over 1000 tris. Here's my Eurofighter Typhoon at 964 tris, with moving flaps, landing gear, rudder and airbrake.

AfroCenTech

Here's a low poly ninja I did.

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Oh God why didn't anyone tell me I had to be Bob Ross for texturing?!     I mean  the model was tricky for me, since im still learing (then taking  way too long breaks) .  Nothing prepared me for how hard It is to visualize what you want  while looking at UV-islands.  Whats worse. I haven't used a paint program since high school.  trying Krita and Gimp.  Both of them may as well be alien languages to me. 

Im not even sure, if they even make tutorials on this sorta thing