WIP - Metal Greymon

bhong

Hey guys, been awhile since my last post. I started interning with one of my teachers for some extra experience and whatnot and my first assignment is to create a class example for one of the projects.

Its a low-ish poly fan art project. 2k tri max, 256x512 texture. Diffuse only. I'm probably going to do a sculpt of some kind to at least pull a nice ao.

I decided to do a Metal Greymon.

Here's the current low res cage, I'm mirroring as much stuff as possible. The shoulder where his mecha arm connects hasn't been thought out, I just mirrored the torso and hacked the arm off. I need to optimize a lot however I'm not used to doing stuff this low and its making me unsure of where to cut polys from. I'm guessing some more of the foot can be trimmed?

bhong

Hey long time no update. I've been working on a sculpt for him to get a nice ao and some normals. Not the assignment but I figure I can use them to help build a nice diffuse. Plus practice never hurts!

Any critiques or comments? Please let me know! Ignore the fact his mech arm is exploding from his chest plate.
Edit: Sorry for the weird collage, made it fast for a friend to take a look at so I figured I'd post an update here while I was at it.

Mitz

that's awesome dude! i remember watching digimon as a kid, remembering when that digimon evolved into this guy. here's looking forward to seeing this finished with all the various details added (ie: Wings, Hair, and bits of metal on his body)

Will Faucher

Ohhhhh god this brings back so many memories! Someone should model Agumon!

Visceral

I allmost forgot this series, but it was kickass

bhong

Texturing update! Looking for some critiques here. Size is a 256x512.
Edit: I've also got a few nasty seams on him I need to get rid of. Was planning on using polypaint but for some reason its not liking the file when I try to import. I'm using png format, anyone know why it might be bugging out?

Bishop

The eyes creep me out and the blue stripes don't look natural.

Other than that, it brings back memories...

Mitz

personally with the amount of polys you got on your model, i'd work with a bigger texture. and it'd be cool to have the metal bits actually look metallic rather than muddy concrete. other than that, it's coming along nicely

MattQ86

Actually, yeah, it looks kinda flat specular-wise right now. I'd throw a blinn on it to get some of the scales and of course the metal popping.

bhong

Thanks for the comments guys. The assignment I'm doing this for has an engine that doesn't support spec or normals so I've got to handpaint in all the highlights. I'll work on getting some more pop in the metal. Need more reference!

Any advice on getting the stripes to look more natural? Any reference I find of him just has the stripes there so that's not helping.

@mitz: Its only about 2.2k tris so I think the text size is ok.

ZacD

2k tris is still a lot (like xbox games), so a larger texture would be okay.

tga's are one of the more popular texture files.

There's a lot of wasted geometry on the feet and and his back.

bhong

Ah, I'll up some new wires Zac, he's been optimized a lot since those in my last update.

ZacD

Whats the tri count right now?

bhong

With those new wires I just posted 2368. I'm frankly stumped on how to lower it under 2k like I was told to.

Edit: I found out his hair got duplicated somehow. I've also started turning some of the places where his hair meets with the head into points to save on tris. Count is at 2222 right now.

bhong

Texture update.

Tried making the metal look more metallic. I also lightened up the muscle detail a bit. Seemed a bit too strong to me. Anyone think I should revert it back to how it was in the last update?

bhong

Woo thanks for all the advice Saso. I've gotta get this thing turned in by 9pm today (16 hours from now) so I'll try to get as much of that fixed as possible. I'm not sure where my red thing on the shoulder went, must of have not grabbed it when I combined everything to dup it for the screenie.

And yeah this was a ref I stumbled upon while looking for refs. Dunno why I didn't use it more than the others.

Ok, off to bed for me, I'll hit this as hard as I can when I wake up.

bhong

Update on textures, the instructor gave me a bit of an extension to see what else I could with him. Tips and critiques welcome!

Taylor Hood

This thread is awesome. Best anime from my childhood

Looks good bhong, its got a good likeness to it.

QuestGiver

Any chance you could post the reference pictures you used I'd love to try and model him