Crusher
polycounter lvl 18
Done for today I suspect. Some friends might rig it up for their animation reel. Then I can pose it and add some SSS or silly stuff.
Whatcha think?
Whatcha think?
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It's funny how cartoony he looks in the maps!
Also you have unique uv space for everything, and everything is mirrored. You could re-unwrap this to a 512x1024 or whatever equivilant res you're using, mirror stuff and detatch/pack your uvs creatively and get more detail out of it than you currently have.
A little photoshop work says i'm wrong, and that you're actually wasting HALF(or more) of your uv space, which means you could re-arange to half, mirror and get twice the detail out of your textures at half the cost. Thus being 4 times more efficiant.
Luckily theres a very simple way to fix, and that is just to re-uv and bake your maps(rebaking normals of course), even if you dont want to mirror anything you could still be twice as efficiant just by doing this.
EarthQuake: The UV issue would depend on the engine. Not all handle mirrored normal maps. The goal here was the least seams and stretching possible. In that I've been successful.
Here's an example of tight UV's I've done in the past:
Zoe Screengrab
edit: looks like you tweaked your reply, fair enuff
Being that this is the only example of current generation texturing techniques you that have on your site and even worse the only actual example of your uv skills that are visible on your site, its a pretty poor decision.
Cool stuff man, I like what you've done with this. I'd echo the comment about the feet, if you wanted to toy with it a little, maybe try to add some variation there to spruce it up. Other than that, it's pretty
Word.
Gav
feet look forgotten
*me points towards the door*
now that I take another look, I agree the feet could use some improvement to be more anatomically consistent, if you're motivated to go back and make some revisions. it would be great to see some animations for this.
engine capable of normalmapping would have solutions in place to take that into account...
Anyway, I think it's a fairly cool model, but IMHO it's not up to the high standards of the other work I've seen you do. The design isn't really doing it for me, it seems very bland and, i dunno, doesn't make much sense to me... I'm not getting much of a sense of character, purpose or anything like that.
While the sculpt is pretty cool, I agree with firestarter that the texture doesn't seem to fit for some reason... and I also agree that the feet look quite strange and don't seem to fit or make sense.
I don't mean to rip on your work, because you've been a really inspirational game artist to me (I bookmarked your site and demo reel and checked them out from time to time to gauge my progress, trying to reach your quality
Don't take this the wrong way! Keep up the good work
I just did this guy in a week off an old mesh.
Back about the mirrored UVs - Unfortunately the console engines I've worked with don't support mirrored normal maps. I've only heard rumors of these ones that do it properly. I've worked mainly with two LARGE companies in the past few years that DO NOT have mirrored normal maps working.
Just out of interest, which game engines which support normalmaps don't support mirroring? I would have thought any
engine capable of normalmapping would have solutions in place to take that into account...
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Renderware
New image below...didnt care for this one.
Right now his center of gravity is pulling him forward like he will fall down.
Great work so far bro.
Despite working on many an engines for many large companies, do you plan on rendering this in one of them for your portfolio? I guess what I'm getting at is you mentioned using SSS which means it doesn't seem like you'll be limited by some engine's technical faults when it comes to mirrored normals. Why not push it as far as you can and mirror them so that you can get that extra texture res back.
As far as the feet go I think it would help to have something of a toe there. As it appears right now it's a really strong stump for the bottom of the leg and it doesn't look like it could move or bend very well, maybe even add some short toes with nails which could still keep that strong base for a leg.
When you're editing the texture think about adding some subtle shading to the skin to help define those broad areas like the pecks and such, you don't have to go really dark but you can shift the hue some as well and it'll help the forms stand out more.
Right now there's also the fact that there's not a lot of medium of high frequency detail in your highpoly mesh. This is fine but there IS a lot of that higher frequency detail in the diffuse which kind of gives the expectation that there should be some in the normals.
Any better?
But this is really a stylistic question, not a technique one. If you want my advice.. follow your heart!