Lear's work thread

Lear

Hi, my name is Lear Darocy and in this thread I will post things I am working on for review and critiques. I am currently getting help from various artists such as Spark and CG Struve. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Lear

here is a blaster that I did for Spark's class.

Lear

Here is a M4-A1 I made with the help of CG Struve and some critiques from Spark. This was a side project from Spark's class.

Aldo

Cool looking guns...I think it gets a little noisy but still cool.

maybe if they didn't look so 'used' with scratches and rust...it might take away some of the noise.

bluekangaroo

sweet....you should embed your images next time...its a little more convenient for ppl lookin at your stuff. Nice work on the M4...no joke, that is EXACTLY the same M4 I made in my first semester of college. Same grenade launcher, same stock, carrying handle, barrel guard ...everything.

The textures really work I think and so do the textures on the solo blaster

My only crit would be that you could have mirrored your geometry so you could really maximize your uv space but it looks good from a distance. nice stuff

edit...oop nevermind u already did...the 2 handles on the m4 threw me off

Flewda

Hey Lear,

I agree with Aldo, specifically about the blaster. There are a few parts that really cause my eyes to jump around. I don't know what the blaster looks like (aside from it being made after an old broom handle Mauser), but there are some pieces that just feel weird to me. For example, the front box piece that is corrugated metal. Just feels weird. And overall a bit rusty feeling imo.

Also, why the alpha planes in front of the muzzle and scope? I can only guess that you were trying to fake the barrel/scope being a perfect circle and hide the segments in your barrel, but I can't tell what they are for.

Also, I noticed you have razor sharp edges. Are you using many smoothing groups for your low poly? It's usually a good idea to use as few smoothing groups as possible and let your high poly and normal map do the work to get those hard edges, that way its a hard edge, but still has a nice subtle bevel to them. Otherwise it looks like you could slice an apple on the corners.

Anyway, overall, really good looking stuff. Not too shabby at all.

Spark

Hey Lear, you know the crits that I have given, some good points from Flewda that I think you should bring in and just wanted to say some great overall work. You have come far.

Spark

Lear

Thanks: Aldo, Eric V, Flewda, Spark for your comments

After getting some of the pointers I made some changes to my over all process. Here is a lantern I did.

Lear

Here is the high poly layout of the lantern.

Lear

here is the low poly

Lear

and here is my low poly casted

Lear

here is a revolver I did.

Lear

here is the high poly

Lear

here is my low poly and unwrap

Lear

and here is my high poly with NM

Slum

You don't need to add a new post for every new image. You can just edit your previous post.

Lear

thought i would give some more renders of the revolver. These are all out of max.

Lear

here is a closer look at my maps

OP, NM, DF, SP 1024x1024

Target_Renegade

Nice revolver! I noticed on your first post that there are lots of ray misses on your normal map...but I guess you've sorted that by now....

Lear

sorry about having my images in separate posts I am use to being limited to one image per post. I will do it right next time.

struve

You have shown great improvement over the past few weeks! Great job mang!

Talbot

I like the humor behind having a huge scope on a magnum. Keep up the great work!

SubPablo

These look great, but there's a little typo on your single "actionin" army. Shalashaska does not approve!

Lear

good god I can believe I didn't catch the spelling.... Well i guess not a whole lot of sleep does have its down sides.

Flewda

Lear, these are looking great man. Keep it up.

Flewda

Something I saw last night but didn't have time to post, was that the bullet isn't right. You have it as all one material, but the bullet itself is going to be different from the shell casing. The bullet would be likely be lead, especially back then (now there are a few different types of bullet materials). Anyway, I would make the tip a dull gray with some little (very small) chips and irregularities. I think that would look cool.

Other than that, it's looking great man.

Josh

Ged

really beautiful revolver, I especially like the way it looks in ut3

bluekangaroo

thats some real fine work. Great job on that revolver!

Lear

Here is a prop based off a war hammer concept

IxenonI

Looks cool. You could get rid of the vertex in the middle of the drum...

Xenobond

I'd also tone down the contrast on the drum skins. The seam and stitches look too dark and stand out a lot more than they probably should.

onionhead_o

Lear wrote: »

here is a closer look at my maps

OP, NM, DF, SP 1024x1024

how come the specular has a bluish tone to it. I see it in lots of ppls spec maps. does it enhance it?

almighty_gir

you should re-think the texture on the warhammer drums.

the skins would be made out of human skin, so give it a bit more of a gory look. similarly, the "Mork" symbol on there, would probably have been painted on with blood, so it shouldn't really look that sharp.

Autocon

Fantastic Modeling and texture work. The lap and the revolver especially really looks and feels like actual metal.

Lear

Well here is another prop so please comment. Also thanks for all the comments on my previous props and I am planing to fix the skin on the drums.

EarthQuake

Looks like some steady improvement happening here, keep at it man.

Ged

really cool range murata bike nice work.

onionhead, the blue in the specular is just to give some colour to the shine, people often use blue on skin as specular seems to work like an additive layer in photoshop and makes a more white/natural looking reflective shine than using white/gray does. There is a thread where we dealt with this question of specular colours heavily in the technical section I think.

Paul Pepera

I really like that Range Murata; though I think you posted slightly too many screens of the hi/low-poly. I think you used too many polies in the front headlight, among other places; it could probably just be flat and still look just as nice with a good normal map.

The texturing and material is top notch, good work.

struve

You go richkid!!

killer works

JasonLavoie

Hey Lear, awesome awesome work man.

I was just wondering if you could post your shader setup in unreal, I'm really liking how your in-game screenshots turn out, more so the spec.

Awesome job man

Lonewolf

pretty good work man

imb3nt

Awesome stuff! :thumbup:

dbreak

How do you texture so good?

Lear

Hi Its been a while since I have posted due to the unearthly challenge. Here is my thread

http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5511

I have also been workin on this plasma riffle which was concepted by the Struve!

rooster

nice riffle
looks like you got some cool details visible from first person view

Nizza_waaarg

nice. cool progress and that last rifle is looking good.
can't wait to see the textures and a first person shot would be cool too :P

also kinda curious about your ut3 mat setup, really sweet render (and gj on the materials too :P)

struve

You did a great job capturing the concept on this model.

struve

i did a paint over



hot rod red!

killingpeople

Cool work. On the most recent, the gills on the front of the scope bother me because they are not evenly shaped and spaced and this makes it seem like a toy gun. but other than that, I like it.

JohnnyRaptor

its a really nice piece of work dude, but 5x1024 textures for one weapon is pretty insane.

garriola83

LEAR: you probably did your reserach and everything but i forget if its the colt SAA is with the detachable tumbler or somethign else. cuz if it is detachable, then your model is correct. if its NOT detachable, there should a groove on the right hand side of the tumbler to slide the cartridges in. that is if it IS non detachable.
i have a non working revolver myself (remington) and mines the ball and cap revolver. and its not detachable. so i was wonder what reference you were using