Sketchbook: Moonshank

Moonshank

Well I thought it was about time I started one of these been saying I would for ages just haven’t gotten around to it. Ill probably mostly post 3D stuff as I haven’t drawn anything for months but maybe ill rectify that by maintaining a sketchbook on here.



First order of business, I am doing the infamouss splash damage art test for the LOL's (and to learn Max which I now )


Just a few GREY shots at the moment. I've made the low poly and made a composition of the props for my scene but ill probably change it around some more. Still got tons of detail I want to add for the normal maps but ill get that sorted soon. At the moment the low poly sits at just over 18k tries





Pretty new to Max so any way of changeing or rendering the wire shots a diffrent colour or more clearly would be much appreciated.

aesir

Good start man. I always like seeing how everyone does this one differently.

Those metal ribbed panels look placed a bit haphazardly atm though

Moonshank

There are supports on the back of them but yeah I agree ill probably add some sort of bolts to them to show what there actually attached too. I probably did just plop them about with out much thought. Ill probably wrap up the High poly tomorrow and start unwrapping it so should have some more progress in a day or so.

Wikivic

Interesting work so far! I don't know about anyone else but what I do for my Max wireframe shots is

(save off a copy of my file so I don't have to change it all back)

Set the model(s) base colour to black and set the models(s) material colour to white, which gives me a light coloured model with black wireframe outline. Then I just take viewport screenshots...

Moonshank

Thanks for the tip ill try that out when I show wires next time.

imyj

Hey man, I think this is a good start. Seeing as you're new to Max having used Maya before shows that you've learnt it pretty quickly. I look forward to seeing how this progresses. Keep this updated!

Moonshank

Yeah Ill have an update either tonight or tomorrow depending on how the bakes go. I need to learn how to bake in max, I would use xNormal but think for learning sake ill just use Max unless its not as good as xNormal but anyway.

Just packing my UV's now, was away at the weekend so I am a tad behind where I should be.

Moonshank

Ok so like I did the Global game Jam so figured id post a link to the game i made here ill be posting some more work on the environment soon just need to rest after the 48 hour marathon. First time trying to do hand painted textures and I didnt have xnormal to bake AO with coz I was on a Mac.

http://globalgamejam.org/2011/chinthrilla

Moonshank

They changed the art test so I started it a few days ago iam at the texturing stage at the moment. Ill finish off the old test that I was working on once this is finished. I just had to model this FU CHA BARREL it was a nice shape to model.

(diffuse, normal map) no spec just yet

Iam just messing with the colour scheme at the moment so it might change. The mesh is around 7.5k tris cant rember the actual number off the top of my head.

Moonshank

new colour varation with some added extras

SaferDan

This is looking awesome! I too am doing that same art test!

I like what you have

Moonshank

Thanks dan.

An update to this model the spec still needs love and probably could do with tidying up the scratches ect. I re-did my uvs as I realised that they werent all that good. Iam going to re-bake the vents as there a bit small and not really comming out that well.

aesir

Hmmm, I really liked the bright colors/style you had before. Try to bring some of that back!

Moonshank

Is that better the diffuse is still the same colours as it used to be the only diffrence is the render settings.