Envrionemnts WIP

Smi7h1sH3r3 808

Hey all,

Here's a few models/environments I'm working on for my portfolio. Only got 3 so far, bout to graduate this quarter so gonna need to finish them up as soon as possible.

Looking for critiques on anything and everything, especially assets you think could be added in. Concepting is not my strong point and so could use a lot of help there. I'll post them in different "replies" to this thread for the sake of orderliness. Don't wanna confuse everyone too much.

It's gonna be a fun quarter. Fun as in, hair pulling, face smashing, gouging my eyes out with LCD radiation fun. O yea.

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Here's the first one, a "wizards cottage" type deal. The guy who lives in this house is a humble person, inventor/artist, attempting to bring free solar energy to everyone. still have yet to add the solar panels themselves haha. The area is supposed to be a bit rundown.

Would feel like Tekkon Kinkreet in a sense, rundown and grungey, but not ancient and abandoned. Power lines will be added in, but as a last item. I just don't wanna mess with curves at the moment. Ewww. Not hard, just a pain in the arse. Two base textures as well, trying to do some handpainting.

Saw the Tekkon Kinkreet thread here, that scene looks tight. Gonna try to add a few more buildings to get that same compact and tight feeling. The main guy/house will have a bit more space for a backyard.

Smi7h1sH3r3 808

o right, and the two base textures, haha

pliang

Are those the angles you plan on showing off the models with?

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Next is a palace in India called the Jal Mahal. Was looking for fort ideas when I came across this and loved the idea of a palace sitting on the water. What you do when the water rises, I have no idea, but thankfully, in the digital world, the tides rise and fall as we see fit. lol.

As of now, the left side of the building is basically "done" with the mid portion needing work, as well as the courtyard. No base textures for this one yet, or at least, none that I'd wanna post here but those will be getting some love soon. These ladies are more naggy than a overly clingy girlfriend. Sheesh. Or boyfriend, depending on your preference and/or gender.

Smi7h1sH3r3 808

WOAH! that was fast.

haha no, those are just angles for critique.

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here's the final one, putting this into unreal for my senior project class. again, working on the base textures for this, got one that i'll post here. not nearly done, but started working on a corner.

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er, small update. doing a lot of cleaning up right now. did a rough paintover but no...no i'm not posting that. haha.

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uh crap, wrong one, kinda cut off.

Ark

Some of your UV islands are really close to each other, when they get mipped, you'll get seems.

Also, the brick texture tiling is really obvious.

Smi7h1sH3r3 808

hey all,

paintover i've been working on. my painting skills are bleh, but practice here helps a lot with textures I've noticed. That and painting is just freaking awesome. In any case, any help would be much appreciated, jus wanna get better.

chug chug chug, the train keeps moving on

PixelMasher

I think your textures could really benefit from some photo sourcing, trying to make it look real with all hand painting is not only going o be time consuming but also extremely hard. check out cgtextures.com for some good base texture kinda stuff.

Smi7h1sH3r3 808

hey guys,

got some progress, much to do, much to do

some of the textures need more variety to it. don't want to hella grime things up, but have just enough to make it used, but not decrepit. please c&c.

EMC3D

Get it into the UDK / UE3 editor as soon as you can and set up a basic light rig. You'll get a sense of scale and see if there any scale issues at all.

Also i'm guessing everything is built to the grid? If you're gonna be putting it into the Unreal Engine, just checking.

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haha, actually, this one is going to be rendered. GASP. i know i know. stay calm. haha.

should be finishing this one up soon, next weekish, and I'd like to have at least a small level in udk by the end of the quarter. got that city one to work on as well, but both would be relatively smaller, so it should be enough time. we shall see i suppose.

ScottHoneycutt

I would definitely like to see it either rendered or in the game engine as it has such a bright ultra-clean feel to it without shadows. With this lighting it's hard to judge the textures which are looking like they need more variation to the color (more darks I think). Other than that I like the models and think it's coming along nicely.

Chemical Alia

The geometry looks really nice and simple, it's very pretty. But it's hard to judge with the textures so far. I'd also like to see it rendered with lighting and shadows, but I get the feeling that the textures are really repeated and uniformly noisy and evenly colored. If you use photo references as a base, you can do a lot in Photoshop to alter and enhance them.

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tried adding some darkness to it scott, think it came out a bit saturated now though. as chemical pointed out, there is a lot of repetition so patterns get noticed hella fast. however, thanx to zbrushery magic, i can create another tileable yellow sandstone. got two but i think 3 will pull it through. gotta get the other stuff done first, but the tweaks will be kept in mind.

here's a small update