phillip.bailey

phillip.bailey

I graduated from the Art Institute of Dallas and I'm looking to became a 3d modeler in the game industry. Just wanted to start a thread top post some work into polycount!:poly136: So here I go.

serialkiler

were is it xD welcome to pc ^^

EMC3D

That's some good optimization right there.

Cyrael

I've never seen such exquisite use of edge loops!!

haha jp.. looking forward to seeing some art.

phillip.bailey

lol. sorry guys.

My budget was 500 tris. Rendered in Marmoset with 1024 textures. Please... comment at will...


...the texture maps...


...the hiPoly...


... and the loPOly cast.

EMC3D

That's a handy grenade you got there, did you hand-paint those textures?

phillip.bailey

Yea, I painted the textures in photoshop using brushes and layer styles.

phillip.bailey

Decided to give this one a shot.(lol. no pun intended) It's a Victorian style pistol.
Starting off with reference...


...here is some progress on the hiPoly. One for the wires...


...and one without wires.

raul

Yo phil! looking clean dude!! Cant wait to the see the high poly finished!! I should have picked an eaier gun like yours..lol

struve

it's phil!

mLink

...1k textures for a grenade?
You should be able to get away with a 256 and it would likely hold all of the same detail that's in your diffuse map right now. A separate ambient occlusion map for such a small asset is really unnecessary.
Try collapsing every other edge on the bottom and top parts of the grenade, it could free up enough to model the rings on the pin. Then you'd be able to eliminate the opacity map as well.
Maybe reducing the amount of tris on the handle part.
It's a tad over-saturated for my liking, but it's looking good. keep at it!

phillip.bailey

mLink: thanks for the advice man, I shall keep the texture sized in relation to polycount in future models. I didn't really think of that while I was making it. I know now though! All great advice, thanx!:)

I found some time to finish the hiPoly on my next model. The loPoly shall come along quicker. On the subject of texture sizes and poly count, what should I shoot for on a gun like this. I don't wanna waste my time with another 1024x1024 if i shouldn't, so should I shoot for a 512x512? Let's say it's gonna be viewed as a first person shooter weapon.