Props and what not..

Jeremy Lindstrom

running through a bunch of 3d tutorials from folks going to make a bunch of props in the next couple months trying to learn better and more improved workflows from all these wonderful tutorial places. Going to eventually put them all in a scene. Figure I'd start off with my first finished piece a crappy ol' dumpster. And yes I plan on 'telling a story' eventually just don't have enough props for that just yet.

Crits/Comments appreciated. Been quite a while since I posted new work here at PC, been so busy making low poly stuff at work I need to start working on my current/next gen skills as soon as possible so I'm starting up a new prop as soon as I finish one. Hoping to fill out my portfolio with this thread.

698 triangles with a 1024 texture, can probably still resize it down again if not going to be the main asset in my scene.

Will Faucher

That looks pretty darn good! What I like the most is the fact that it's not TOO dirty. It's not completely plastered in grime and grafiti. And it's not too clean either. The sticker on the front could look a bit more worn though. That's just my opinion however!

Keep it up!

DarthNater

Looks good man. Iom looking from my phone though so its not huge haha. Looks like you used up ur texture space perfectly. I think the texture size is ok, shouldn't need to downsize.

crazyfingers

Not bad, looks just a bit oversaturated/ contrasty though. An environment asset like this you want to make sure will be able to show the general lighting and "feel" of your scene.

Now get this sucker in UDK!
http://www.udk.com/download

Good luck on the future scene.

PredatorGSR

Heh, dumpsters are a boring prop, but this is one of the best ones I've seen. Not liking the way you showed the textures though, I'd like to see the spec and normal maps. Maybe add a little more variation in the spec?

Jeremy Lindstrom

Here ya go, little bit better presentation for the textures.

marq4porsche

This thing is looking sweet, you might want to show other angles of it in your previews though. I love the detail and variation that you've got as well. Keep it up.

PeterK

Nice work Dek, It looks like the thing it should be, and not a model of the thing it should be; which is great.

bbob

Looking good mate, I like how you didnt go over board with scratches and mayhem. However I am a bit weary about the text, it looks more like it is faded chalk and not as much as chipped and dry smeared paint.

BeserK

Really nice looking piece, you could probably stand to lose a third of those polys though, and the cuts along the front are probably not needed, normal map will take care of that without a noticable difference since you can't see their profiles.
MORE!

Tom Ellis

From here right?

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3ds-max/how-to-create-a-video-game-dumpster-the-complete-current-gen-workflow/

Looks awesome, better than the original in my opinion, especially your texture work. It looks more real.

Snefer

Really nice texturework. I think you hit that sweet spot of not overdoing the dirt while still keeping it interesting and unique

Jeremy Lindstrom

Thanks, I wanted it to look nice without looking overdone like most dumpsters less is more in my opinion. Looking at it again I could of squeezed some of those little handle wheel items a little more to get rid of more of that empty space in the top right. And if I'm not really going to add different details on the lid I should just mirror that. It's not really different enough to warrant it's own UV space at the moment, and I think my spec is off on that plastic-type lid.

@bbob: Yeah the text bothered me too for faded chipped text. I'll probably work on that a bit more when I get a chance.

@BeserK: there isn't a cut on the front, that's the high poly. The front is a single plane. the whole asset is less then 700 triangles.

@creationtwentytwo: yeah as I said in the first post I'm working through a bunch of tutorials this month trying to pick up some new workflows trying to find quicker better ways of doing things. I picked up a few things from this one. Going to hit up racers in a few days.

@everyone else: Thanks, as always.