low poly project

tucho

Hi there, here you can see some pictures of a new project wich I'm working on, project is still in its very early stages, so I don't want to tell many details about it at the moment. If everything going to all right I'll keep posting updates here.

gilesruscoe

The normal map doesnt seem to be achieving much, Looks like a 100% self lit character using defuse only with some heavy AO painted onto it. Don't get me wrong, it looks fantastic, just that i dont think the normal map is pulling its weight, might have more use once you get it into a scene i guess...

tucho

thanks for your comment gilesruscoe

Model has just diffuse, project is a mobile game, so models must be ultra low poly with simple shaders, this model is about 1k tris with just a diffuse texture

EDIT: BTW, lighting is flat

gilesruscoe

Just a difuse? What was the highpoly for? Just conceptual purposes or did you bake out an AO from it? Either way, difuse only makes alot more sense.

ali31

1000 tris is a little over what I would consider "low" poly but the model looks great. What platform are you developing for?

nordahl154

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PHArt

what is the size of that texture? I can't imagine it to be smaller than 512x512 considering the sharpness of the shapes you were able to put in?

tucho

Thanks for your comments guys

What was the highpoly for?

I baked all details from the high poly one, occlusion, vertex color, etc, in fact, I only paint on texture the shine in his eyes and some color variations, the rest is baked directly from the high poly mesh. I make it in this way because I love to sculpt on Zbrush and like the result of this technic. It also has some other advantages such as completely seamless textures.

1000 tris is a little over what I would consider "low" poly but the model looks great. What platform are you developing for?

Well it is low poly for nowadays... I'm developing for iPhone, I think an Iphone will run without any problem some of this models on screen.

what is the size of that texture? I can't imagine it to be smaller than 512x512 considering the sharpness of the shapes you were able to put in?

yep it is 512x512, but it is because I normally work textures at least at double size, ingame they would be 256x256 or even 128x128, characters will looks pretty small on screen.

Here you can see the first animation... I'm not a good animator but I hope to can make animations for this project, most of them will be just cycles so it musn't be too difficult.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5KV1EC3VI[/ame]

Alberto Rdrgz

I love the style, I also, think and this might have been mentioned but it's missing a specular map, you don't have any normals without specs. The specs help to make the normals pop!

PHArt

I agree with Alberto Rdrgz. If your game supports speculars I'd definately throw in a bunch.

As for the animation, try and get some more momentum in the upperbody, maybe a little more sway in the right arm that's holding the weapon and kick that left arm a little farther from the body and curl it at the end. Maybe a little less headbudding.

Low

Some spec would be nice, but he said there was no normal...

For the animation; make that weapon bounces! And his mass center needs to get lower since the character moves lot of weight while running (He's kinda...fat).

Computron

OOH! I love it! Cool concept.

For your animation, maybe try and move the cloth around more realistically instead of keeping it moving along with the legs.

tucho

thanks for your comments guys, I take note of your advices about animatin to improve it.

Here you can see another couple of animations, idle and die:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L71tmjSLrwM[/ame]

Tenchi

Haha awesome character!

Cexar

Push the holds on the idle and make the explosion rise and fall a little more snappy!

letronrael

agree with Cexar, the character doesnt fall correclty after the bomb...

tucho

Thanks for your comments and advices about animation, as I said I'm a horrible animator. I'll wait to have the models ingame and I'll try to fix a bit the animations depending on how they work ingame.

Here are a couple of pictures of the tank, I hope you like it, as always crits and comments are welcome

Tom3D

I feel that the colour scheme of the tank doesn't suit the character style well and could possibly be a bit more saturated. I'm loving the character though.

gilesruscoe

baking high polys for AO maps must be so time consuming considering you could get a very similar effect by painting details yourself, especially as most of the details on the tank are just rivets and bolts

tucho

hi gilesruscoe, thanks for your comment, maybe I spent more time on modelling but I save a lot of time on texturing as well. Moreover this technic has some other advantages, like simulate roudness of the cilindrical parts on the low poly model (much harder to get it with painting).

Moreover in this case I didn't make a concept art, so the high poly model is also a 3D concept.

ez_jamin

I think it'd be quite a useful workflow for characters if combined with poly paint. Especially if you're someone who's more comfortable with zbrush.