#36 - Bringing it to life - Vassago

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

I'm not going for a 100% authentic recreation with this. There will certainly be some changes here/there. I love Tuscan style and paintings. The form and color of this one just popped for me.

Emil Mujanovic · Jul 2007

It will be interesting to see how this turns out actually. Should make for a very nice piece. Hopefully you get this one done in time too :P

-caseyjones

Penzer · Jul 2007

Would be really cool if you could do your textures in Painter using one of the painting brushes it has, actually gives you that clumpy look to the paint.

Good Luck

Prs-Phil · Jul 2007

uuuuuuh sexy, looking foward to this

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

A bit of work on the streetlight hipoly

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Base w/normal map

I'll be adding a lot of extra detail to the base's normal map by hand, to save time.

MoP · Jul 2007

Very nice so far

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Nothing final, still detailing the normal map and fiddling with the base texture (specular isn't even touched yet):

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Finished up the light:

Carl Brannstrom · Jul 2007

Maybe you could add some bird shit on the top..

Xenobond · Jul 2007

Mmmmmm.... that lamp looks lampy. ^_^

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

lol, thanks.

If I have time, I'll go back and add some bird shit for ya, corv :P

Here's a little work on a wall sconce:

Jaco · Jul 2007

Looking good, nice attention to detail

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Thx, Jaco

Not much of an update. Spent a lot of time experimenting with path deform, so I hardly got anything done :P

Also updated the textures on the street lamp:

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Almost done with the high poly on the sconce:

MoP · Jul 2007

awesome, i love the twisty metal bits.

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Thanks MoP

I think it's pretty much done now. There's one small plate I need to affix to the back, and that's about it. There will be some other details I'll add in the normal map. Ignore the uber glow, it will not be that bright in the end.

indian_boy · Jul 2007

hey wow! nice work! street lamp is actually looking real neat!

RazorBladder · Jul 2007

These high-poly works are completely tits, looking forward to seeing how the larger elements pan out

Joao Sapiro · Jul 2007

this looks damn awesome mate ! keep it up , show more stuff !

Geezus · Jul 2007

man, awesome work so far vassago, more more moaaarr!

EarthQuake · Jul 2007

nice to see you getting back into a groove man, now knock out some modular pieces for that house!

bearkub · Jul 2007

those lamps look fantastic, Vassago. keep punching along.

Tulkamir · Jul 2007

Wow, that is some excellent attention to detail man. Mightily impressive. Can't wait to see more man.

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2007

Hey, thanks for the kind words everyone.

I'll probably knock out the normal mapped sconce tonight, but leave the texturing for the end process.
Now I just need to wrap my simple brain around making the modular pieces

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

Trying to resolve some issues with the normal map, that I can't figure out. I have max's sampling filter cranked up, but those twisted metal pieces get nasty aliasing on them when rendered out in the normal map. Any way to avert this?
I'll post a pic when I get home tonight.

JordanW · Aug 2007

have you tried rendering larger and resizing back down? or render using Mental ray and just set the min/max samples higher

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

Using xNormal with 4xAA fixed the aliasing issues. I don't see why max couldn't do it $:\$

Thx,

motives · Aug 2007

its cool stuff but i think the added detail on the streetlamp makes it look muddy from a distance. Maybe magnify the detail a bit so it reads or just keept it "clean"

nj sofar thought, highpoly bits looks yummy

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

Thanks

If it looks real bad when composed in the scene, I can easily remove the extra light details. Those were all added in photoshop after the fact, so they're easy to remove

jogshy · Aug 2007

Awesome work as usual! So are you going to model the full scene? House, trees etc? Btw, have you hand-painted that too? I like the color style!

Vassago, you have a PM

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

Yeah, I'll be making the whole scene, including foliage (if time permits).

Pedro Amorim · Aug 2007

Vassago: super sweet modeling and texturing.

nuff said

hope to see this come to life.

is that max?

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

Bitmap - thanks!
And yeah, I use max. The viewport DX shader stuff is courtesy of Ben Cloward & ShaderFX

Pedro Amorim · Aug 2007

sweet

i asked because i saw the viewport grid like super big and tought of xsi.
but yuou probably extended it:D

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

I don't think I'll be able to finish this by the 29th, but I'm certainly trying still.

Slum · Aug 2007

5 days...

either way, I want to see it finished

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2007

5 days too soon

I'm in dire need of updating my portfolio for next year, so I'll still finish this, contest or not.

indian_boy · Aug 2007

as long as u finish it, i'll be happy. it was really turning out great!
cheers

Joshua Stubbles · Sep 2007

I still won't make the proposed new deadline, which would end this week I think, but I'm still working on this. I'll post it in p&p when it's done. Here's a small update of the wip normals:

MoP · Sep 2007

monstrously cool

Pedro Amorim · Sep 2007

mucho caliente!

Joseph Silverman · Sep 2007

This entire thread is awesome, keep it up.

jogshy · Sep 2007

Awesome! Any picture of the house/foliage yet?

Joshua Stubbles · Sep 2007

There would be, if I started on it :P
I've been a huge slack-ass the past few weeks. Some of it has been out of my hands, but some has just been laziness.
I totally missed the comp deadline, but I'm still chugging on this in my spare time.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Means a lot.

MAUL0r · Oct 2007

I feel like I need some closure on this project... and I can't get it till you finish! don't you see what you're doing to us!?

Joshua Stubbles · Oct 2007

It's hard, man. Work has been insane lately. We've got about 300 projects going through. I'm personally working on a huge game for our show next month (basically E3 for casino game developers). It's all schnazzy realtime 3d, instead of prerendered movies. A big step for the company.
Hopefully I'll have more time after the show to finish this up. I WILL finish this.

EarthQuake · Oct 2007

LAZY BUM

Jesse Moody · Oct 2007

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classic...but yeah damn i want to see more of this. You are an evil man. You get me hooked on your product and now you wont give me any more...

Joshua Stubbles · Oct 2007

This is my last update to this old thread. All further updates will be on my site, and I'll posting in P&P when the project is complete. Our big game show is coming up in about 3 weeks, so it won't be done until after that at some point.
Here's a small update on the sconce. Working on the spec, then I'll make reflect/gloss/emissive maps for it.

danpants · Oct 2007

looking nice Vassago the model of course

#36 - Bringing it to life - Vassago

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