Hand painted stuffs

Slowtax

Hey guys, I love zbrush and all, but i REALLY love hand painting. I'm just going to keep updating this thread with props i'm making. If anybody is seeing something wacky please call it out!

I'll start out with this lamp, I'm texturing now

Noors

it's a bit dark.
sorry :poly121:

throttlekitty

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Good silhouette, but the cross post on the top could use to have a couple edges knocked out. Looks like it has the same profile as the much larger pieces, but smaller screen space. As well as the bevel at the top of the lantern, if one feels like being picky.

Baddcog

That lamp is wacky

In a cool way.

xXm0RpH3usXx

whats it supposed t o be?
a night elve lamp?

i'm gonna keep an eye on this, handpainted textures are the most gorgeous!

it would be awesome if you'd take several shots of the texturing stages for people like me who arent as good, to get the workflow better... (for learning purposes)

Slowtax

Hahahaha, Yeah I have no problem posting in steps:D!

heres the first one

Slowtax

Wells

it looks like you just planar-mapped the main curly piece from the side, without bothering to adjust the uvs. it'll stretch horribly on the sides that weren't facing the unwrap.

i probably would have unwrapped it as a straight piece, so that i could more easily texture it.

your rocks look good, but monocromatic

xXm0RpH3usXx

what i meant was iust save out a .jpg version of your texture every now and then, so one can see what color you applied first and so on..
u know what i mean?

i especially see problems in the lamp shade's unwrap, as they are overlapping.
if you gonna paint this you would try to add a fake ao map into the diffuse right away, i guess, so the upper edges of the triangle shaped thing would be lit and it would gradiently fade to the bottom...
if the uvs overlay they would start with a shadowier shade

Slowtax

Its okay for some things to overlap:)

Slowtax

Turbosmooth Operator

Loving that metal!

Slowtax

haikai

Looks cool. I'm kind of surprised where you put your polygons though. Looks like you have more than you need going around the pole (and the smaller rod holding the banners!). You could probably get rid of a loop or three in there and put those polygons to rounding out the spiral curves more or helping out the rock foundation.

The folds and wrinkles on the banner don't really make sense to me as there's nothing on the sides to be creating those stretches in the middle (unless the trim edge is causing it, but the trim itself is wrinkled the same way). Texture looks good though.

throttlekitty

Lookin' good! I agree on the wrinkles though.

vcortis

Looking great! I could stand a little bit more fine detail and color variation but looks like you cranked out a good bit of this in a day. My major crit is that the banners look way too small for the size of that lamp.

Nice to see the hand-painted stuff though, it's my favorite to do as well and I'm glad I get a healthy dose through work.

Slowtax

Awesome, Thanks for the replies guys, yeah it all makes sense, lemme see what i can do to fix it!

Slowtax

heres the revised polys and bigger banners with the folds painted outta the sides

Ruz

surely the base should be bigger to support the lamp. nice stuff overall.

Slowtax

oh good thinking! thanks!

Jeff Parrott

Texture is really nice on the rocks. I like how you're painting those. What is this from? Is there concept of it? Seems like you would need rope, a brace, or something where the poles meet. Otherwise it's real nice. I agree with you about hand painting.