The Life of a Sea Turtle - Tutorial by mrgrotey

mrgrotey

Hi guys, I've been working on this over the last few months and can finally release it.

It's a set of video tutorials explaining how to go from a concept to a fully modelled and textured low poly model, using Photoshop, 3DS Max and Mudbox.

It's completely free of charge and can be distributed as you wish (just please give credit where due

Here is a link to the model in a 3D viewer on my site (small plugin required)
[SIZE=+1]3D VIEWER[/SIZE]

This tut id also located on my site
http://www.mgrote.com/tutorials/turtle_tut.php

It was a heck of a job to get this all finalised and I'm really glad it's done

i hope it helps some of you.

Anyway here are the links...

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Eric Chadwick

The audio in the intro is lacking midtones and bass, so it's very hard on the ears, very "scratchy" sounding. You;'re a soft speaker as well, which means I have to have the volume up high, making the sound quality an even bigger issue. I would suggest equalizing the audio if you can.

The intro video would benefit greatly from showing more of the model while you talk. I would prefer to see it rotating around in real-time, and swapping between various versions (fully textured & lit, solid with wireframe overlay, full-bright diffuse alone, fullbright normal map alone, shaded normal mapped, etc.).

The intro has to sell me on the model, get me excited about how you did it. Right now it's not.

Design is a bit odd too, Never seen a turtle underwater with flippers sagging like this, nor shell bent way up at the neck (when he obviously can't bend his head up there).

Love the face though, great stylized look there.

Also have you thought about offering streaming vids, like Youtube or Vimeo?

Eric Chadwick

I was surprised that Part 1 had no voiceover.

It's a tutorial, so we should be hearing how you got the inspiration for this character, and how you proceed. Why do you make the decisions that you do? What thought processes are going on?

We should also see your thumbnails, silhouette sketches, your reference photos. What thinking went into this character? What's its backstory?

mrgrotey

Thanks very much for the crits, all taken into account.

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mrgrotey

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Eric Chadwick

Do the rest of the videos have voiceovers? After watching the silent Part 1, you lost my interest. Are the rest silent too?

Fryght

Part 2 has a voice-over.

Thanks for your effort mrgrotey! I've been meaning to pick up on the normal mapping pipeline for a while and this will help me plenty, I think.

mrgrotey

Pretty much all of them have voice over (if sometimes intermittent) apart from the first one. Mainly due to the fact that I recorded that first video then found that I could barely here myself when I replayed it and the sound was incredibly bad quality so I had to ditch the sound but there was no way I was going to re-record the video again.

I have now added a link to download the reference images (in between part 2 and 3) in case you want to model it but don't want to draw the images first.

Thanks for the interest guys.

Xoliul

You could always do a voice-over for the first video afterwards, that's pretty easy.

Jesse Moody

Xoliul wrote: »

You could always do a voice-over for the first video afterwards, that's pretty easy.

Yep exactly. Just watch the video while recording. Would take some time but would add a ton to the overall presentation.

mrgrotey

I might do that soon but for the moment im sick of seeing it


UPDATE:

I've just added the last part after re-recording it. It's the part about texture seam removal.

Enjoy!

Isocadia

I can only say: Awesome.

mrgrotey

Fanks

butt_sahib

Thanks alot for taking time out and putting this baby together!

Cheers!!