Ossian Studios Art Test
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Results of a well received art test I did for Ossian Studios
The budget was 250 tris and 1x512 diffuse texture.
The budget was 250 tris and 1x512 diffuse texture.
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Seems kind of strange to have holes/indents along the edge of the chair cushions.
Also some noticeable mirroring of the stones behind the torches.
Other than that looks great, hope it leads to something good for you
1. Mirroring as mentioned above is pretty obvious
2. The stone does not follow the top of the window arches (look at some reffs for how windows are set in stone walls.
Otherwise it looks OK
make better use of your texture space, the wall is mirrored so mirror the uvs and save the space, as with the ceiling the beams could use the same space and the ceiling itself could be.
and its worth spending a couple more polys on the arch to give it a propper point and yes as xalter says, make the stonework follow the arch, and tweaking the stone texture could hide the mirroring better
Cheers, yes the stonework could have been improved with more time.
I was considering insetting the leather on the chair but assumed this would make it harder to read at these kind of distances.
@Xaltar
Yep.
@SHEPEIRO
I'm presuming your either joking, or did not read the triangle limitation stated in the initial post. These uv's are already mirrored for maximum coverage. BUT if it's neither of these I'm calling you out! Please by all means try to keep under the 250 tri limit and get a better uv coverage, I can supply you with a uv map, if you wish:poly142:
I can do it with 8 added tris, and give possibly 25% of you t-page back, if the engine allowed for open edges (some dont or give artefacts then i can do it for less or mirror the window too)
It's foolish to assume every vastly more experienced artist who critiques you is talking out of their ass, maybe he knows something you dont.
That's a foolish statement, your saying that due to this one situation that now I assume every artist is talking bollocks! Hmm, I think you need to rethink that and be aware that my history here prooves I rely on criticism, as does every other true artist on this forum, regardless of how experienced they may be.
Hey, maybe it's my new avatar, do bald heads annoy you guys?:poly124:
Bald People are the spawn of evil. That is why I don't speak to my dad anymore :poly124:.
Anyway I like the overall scene and when I first glanced over this thread I didn't notice the mirroring behind the torches. The only thing that really annoys me is the chair. I think it would have looked better with some trim painted onto the cushions. I mean with more tris some extra geo would have make it look so much better. But I think you could have add some trim round the cushions in the texture.
anyway im enjoying the puzzle what was the tri count for the env. section?
SHEPEIRO no probs. yeh it was tight.
building section = 86 tris
chair = 128 tris
torch = 33 tris
247 total tris for the 3 components.
It was kind of fun having a budget, I was told to try and keep under the limit and at the end of the test that I could have gone over by a few tris, but I wanted the challenge and to demonstrate ability of keeping to specific limits.
Good luck.
You could have saved some tris on the chair arms by making them 3 sided instead of 4, from the distance it would be viewed no one would notice. Same with the torch stand, it could have been done with 3 sides with the back tris deleted to save you a little more. That would have given you about 22 tris to play with + the 3 you didn't use = 25.. Another small prop?
Pretty good for the limitations though, only the stonework lets it down a bit as I said before.
Just sent a message back to SHEPEIRO about this, good idea, it would be a mild little challenge that most people could sink their teeth into.