I’ve been practicing my low-poly/hand-painted techniques by
doing old RPG weapons recently. This is my first one: the longsword from FF10.
At 334 tris, It’s not nearly as lean as the one from the original game (173
tris!), but I’m happy with it all the same.
Just made this today, need to point out that I am not any good at modeling. But I quite like it, so what do you guys think about it ? Besides, I couldn't get glow in SP2, so I had to use photoshop. I do have a question, many low poly models, if not all, are using simple textures, hand-drawn, one color etc. I think this doesn't look bad with those somewhat to close realistic textures, so why people don't do low polys with these ?
My low-poly take on the Fenrir Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts 2. I ended up removing
the keychain, as doing the wolf motif is a bit beyond my skills at the moment.
Still, quite pleased with the rest of it!
Hey everyone I'm new to Polycount ,and this is my low poly scene based on the game League of Legends. Completed in Blender and Photoshop. It was really fun to do
Squall's "Revolver" gunblade from Final Fantasy 8, made with 242 tris. The original game provides very limited material for replicating the engraving on the side, but thankfully a user over on blenderartists.org by the name of ForsakenAcres did a stunning render of it, which I then used as reference!
The Sketchfab Embedder doesn't seem to want to work for me today, so here's the link: skfb.ly/66EZy and some renders:
First character done as part of my uni assessment this was something I
was very proud of last year looking back on it I see so much wrong I'd
love feedback on what you think about it and any feedback for
improvement is always welcome I'd love to better myself. The
following images are a walk through of my process working im Maya,
rigging and texturing, what I found really hard was rigging model and
weight painting I still now struggle with it if there is anyone with
some use full tips to help the rigging and weight painting stage easier I
would be very much thankful. It has been a long road with this
knowing Maya for only 4 months and managing to produce this was a great
achievement but now to me i know there are things i could really have
done better but that's the fun of learning.
Final Model Positioning and dealing with rig problems. Skinning not good and problems present with model deforming wrong and horrible Working more with rig deforms trying to fix errors with deforming skin Looking over the final texture map realizing there is no bleeding on the texture meaning i will have horrible lines showing. Playing with face texture, low poly cover up, beginning stage for texturing no maps applied at this stage. Ambient Occlusion Map applied to see where shadows hit and highlights shine, Finalized Model no smoothing applied UV stage nearly done unwrapping Final model done time for unwrapping Block out stage beginning of the adventure Concept stage rough idea of what i am looking to get in terms of my character.
This is my first model from VFS. The assignment was to create a
character from reference under 2500 tri’s. The final count for this
model is 2466. There are a lot of issues with it but I tried my best to
make it look good. Any feedback is very welcome!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
@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: 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.
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I'm making the timelapse of each object of the room:
I’ve been practicing my low-poly/hand-painted techniques by doing old RPG weapons recently. This is my first one: the longsword from FF10. At 334 tris, It’s not nearly as lean as the one from the original game (173 tris!), but I’m happy with it all the same.
I made this low-poly scene for fun. Crits are welcome
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I've made 2 swords today.
Screenshots were taken in UE4.
- Sword 1 (894 Tris / 629 Verts)
- Sword 2 (428 Tris / 445 Verts)
My low-poly take on the Fenrir Keyblade from Kingdom Hearts 2. I ended up removing the keychain, as doing the wolf motif is a bit beyond my skills at the moment. Still, quite pleased with the rest of it!
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546 tri's
Had this low poly model lying around and decided to paint it for fun, still wip. 800 tris
Hi all, this is my low poly model
(962 tris)
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The Sketchfab Embedder doesn't seem to want to work for me today, so here's the link: skfb.ly/66EZy and some renders:
The following images are a walk through of my process working im Maya, rigging and texturing, what I found really hard was rigging model and weight painting I still now struggle with it if there is anyone with some use full tips to help the rigging and weight painting stage easier I would be very much thankful.
It has been a long road with this knowing Maya for only 4 months and managing to produce this was a great achievement but now to me i know there are things i could really have done better but that's the fun of learning.
Under 2000 tris and under 1000 quads
My Art station for anyone interested
https://www.artstation.com/artist/mogyie
Final Model
Positioning and dealing with rig problems.
Skinning not good and problems present with model deforming wrong and horrible
Working more with rig deforms trying to fix errors with deforming skin
Looking over the final texture map realizing there is no bleeding on the texture meaning i will have horrible lines showing.
Playing with face texture, low poly cover up, beginning stage for texturing no maps applied at this stage.
Ambient Occlusion Map applied to see where shadows hit and highlights shine, Finalized Model no smoothing applied
UV stage nearly done unwrapping
Final model done time for unwrapping
Block out stage beginning of the adventure
Concept stage rough idea of what i am looking to get in terms of my character.
This is my first model from VFS. The assignment was to create a character from reference under 2500 tri’s. The final count for this model is 2466. There are a lot of issues with it but I tried my best to make it look good. Any feedback is very welcome!
I made a ship for BallisticNG. it was really fun!
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Make low poly man:) with 512 texture
I hope you like it )
1k tris!
Modeling: Maya LT
Texturing: Photoshop
Final Render: Marmoset 3
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LostUFO
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
Low Poly Sub
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rKgre
Hope both style matches..
Male 632 tris, Female 746 - 256 diffuse.
More images in my Sketchbook and a marmoset viewer on ArtStation!
2825 tris all together, but each island is between 450 and 972 tris, all duplicates included.
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Some around 1.5k tris
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model
Sister from samurai jack 5 season
Timelapse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhqv23j6Pk
More images in the artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/YEnKV
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.
Low poly face)
28 tris each...
Reference / inspiration:
@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.
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.
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.
Original concept by Alexey Kutyrev - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XdzKL
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