Gilfor's Tales - 3D browser game char & env (image heavy)
polycounter lvl 11
Hi polycounters!
I'd like to show some low-poly characters made by myself and prerendered environment (created with my friend Mara in modeling cooperation) for unusual browser game, running on papervision engine.
The Gilfor's Tales is free for all, all you need it's registration and you can play it in your browser
via www.gilforstales.com
The game is published by sodigital.com and it is actually in beta stage, but its fully playable.
Any c&c are welcome!
Thx for watching, cheers!
I'd like to show some low-poly characters made by myself and prerendered environment (created with my friend Mara in modeling cooperation) for unusual browser game, running on papervision engine.
The Gilfor's Tales is free for all, all you need it's registration and you can play it in your browser
via www.gilforstales.com
The game is published by sodigital.com and it is actually in beta stage, but its fully playable.
Any c&c are welcome!
Thx for watching, cheers!
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-woog
edit: ninjas, I was thinking that at first, but I think it's produced a real consistency in art style that looks different than I reckon a hand painted approach would look. I likes it
Congrats to a job well done. I'll check out this game now.
About hipoly:
It's not too overkilled me, one day for a sculpt it's not too much.
And rooster, it's a good point 'bout style, I feel same myself.
Other thing is a fact, that I'm really not very good handypainter, haha!
AimBiZ - I like skeletons much, that's a last model:)
i´m very curious how this game will run
will there be a free demo access maybe?! or is it free?.. i´m not sure while reading the webpage
I was considering doing Zbrush stuff for baking down to diffuse-only too, did you have the same "baking scene" set up for all the characters so the lighting was all the same? Also, did you polypaint the highpoly sculpts and bake it all down, or did you do a lot of the colouring/texturing in Photoshop?
The game is already running, fully free. Will are just working to add some more playable content, more quests etc. You need to register an account and then you will able to play.
And thx!
g0th-> thx too!
MoP -> Thank you! Here my workflow for the models:
-making a high
-making a low:)
-puttin both to max, bake occusion with little stronger spread (than usual bake for diffuse used for normal mapped model). Stronger spread give to me more ways to mix layers in photoshop, for exaple a colored occlusion for faces
-baking a shading from grey colored hipoly model, lighted with 4 lights putted around the model. That simply give me simulation of light on the flatshaded model.
-all baked stuff mixed in photoshop with some coloring:) So, all the texturing is done on the lowpoly model.
Yes, that a good point 'bout tiling, thanks!
PS: oh, and sorry for my probably strange grammar in my posts:p
Really its just a matter of where you want to put the work. With textures this size, you can get away with some pretty simple sculpts. So you can spend a day tweaking every pixel and painting in all your lighting(and it will still be "wrong") or you could spend a day actually modeling your forms, then just bake all that down, and have a very flexible solution if you want to change your lighting as well, not to mention a very consistant way to produce assets with the same lighting, and style. Not that i'm saying either way is better, but making some simple sculpts has a lot of positive to it.
Like others have said very crisp textures, and very consistent. Really nicely done.
It's funny, I am actually working on a character (diffuse only) where I am following the exact same workflow as you did here. (btw, this is my first attempt at trying a character with this particular workflow.)
I'm not the greatest when it comes to painting in lighting, and I can sculpt pretty decent; so it seemed like a good solution to follow this workflow for me.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else would make high poly models for diffuse only characters and I guess I found my answer right here.
Again, great work; and if I can get the kind of quality you have here by following this workflow I will be very pleased indeed.
BradMyers82 -> So good luck! It's pretty easy to use this technique, show some to us when you done it, ok?
Lord Ned -> Yea, my fault:) Thx!
Happy Holidays and Marry Christmas everyone!
Loving the art though dude, fantastic work, very consistent and a very cool style.
Spark
The environments are great.
Thx for commenting, I appreciate!
Cheers!
Congratulations, your style is very beaultiful, and your models is very very lowpoly