Death-a-Matron's current WIP's

Death-a-Matron

Hey, I'm new to these boards. I'm currently working on my portfolio for graduation. I havent touched texturing yet, its not one of my strong points, and I'm going to try to get a better grip on it. After I finish with the cannon, I'm going to tackle texturing all of them, and then continue with the other props.
Wanted crits and comments on my work so far.

Chainsaw Concept:



High


Low





Sword High




Low



Cannon Concept:




High WIP:

mr_ace

high ply work looks great. now get to work on those textures!

KyleJensen

Awesome. I wanna see the wires for that sword!

tbaugher

Nice stuff man! the chainsaw low could do with a little more optimization though. especially the smaller circular bits

DDuckworth

Great hi poly stuff, my only crit so far is that the ring on the chainsaw would get caught in the teeth of the saw and rip off, you positioned it above them but unless it's not free-floating then gravity would get the best of it

disanski

Looks very tight and clean..

Firebert

Very very nice work! My only crit is on the chainsaw on certain parts where the edges are really tight (the cylindrical shapes on the side and the three cutouts on the top) and will most likely produce some baking errors. Other than that, great stuff man! Really looking forward to seeing this all baked down and textured with solid material definition.

Death-a-Matron

Thanks guys, texture work is coming as soon as I finish the low for the cannon.

@tbaugher: yeah, Looking back it it now, it is pretty high. I was really worried back then that it wouldn't bake correctly, but I could lower it some more.

@DDuckworth: Whoops, didn't notice that :P I'll have to adjust that.

@Firebert: Yeah, I've been trying to work on beveling my edges more. So far the chainsaw hasn't given me any baking errors with my edges. The only one I've spotted is near the top handle, right under the ring, but the was just the cage, already fixed.

High for the Cannon finished.

Oniram

i think the skull is sitting too low on the cannon. the fact that maybe the face is angled down when it looks like it should be angled straight out. in the concept it looks like the eyes/nose/mouth are looking at the bronze/copper piece in front of it. yours looks like its looking below. just something small, but you may want to make it more visible i guess.

Death-a-Matron

Yea I had a bend on it to try and have it contour more to the cannon. Took it off and rotated it a bit.

Cooljay

This is very beautiful work here. Keep it up

Death-a-Matron

Here's the cannon projected and kind of textured. I'm probably going to redo it.



Also here a mech I was working on. Still unwrapping it.

Concept:

Lazerus Reborn

That mech is so sexy ;o

martynball

:O How the hell did you do the wood? It looks really realistic, I couldn't imagine how you would get that look in Max

JacqueChoi

I think the diffuse is waaaay too light on the gold on the cannon. Looks like plastic.


Generally to do Metal, you make the diffuse REALLY REALLY dark (nearly black is acceptable). Then put a VERY high specular (and Reflection map) on top of it. with almost ZERO glossiness (aka spec power).

For gold, the Spec Map should be a VERY bright yellow-ish ochre.


Also push the edge enhancement values in your curvature map!


Otherwise looking very pimp!

Oniram

some of the edges need softening on the mech, even if they are hard cuts in the concept, it will still help when it comes time to project.

Death-a-Matron

@ martynball I made the wood in Zbrush :P

@ JacqueChoi Thanks for the advice on the cannon, I have very little experience when it comes to texturing. Also, I have no idea what a curvature map is

@ Oniram Yeah, Im' probably gonna have to go back and do that. I usually forget.

Death-a-Matron

Here's the low for the mech. Slightly above 22k tris.

Death-a-Matron

Here is the Cannon Textured. Using 3 Point shader. Big thanks to Oniram for helping me learn texturing in general. :P






Also, here's the high for a steampunk revolver.



And the textured version.

Oniram

no problem.

big improvements on those textures! the steel on the revolver is still looking a bit non-metallic, and the wood is still a bit too plastic-like. you may also want to grab the barrel of the gun and extrude it inward for depth, especially if you're going to be showing a turntable of this.

the cannon looks great. though the "gold" bits seem to be lacking detail. in general the entire thing seems also to be missing the AO. i had mentioned i noticed that only in the metal surrounding the platform, but now its hard to see it anywhere aside from underneath the back of the cannon.

Death-a-Matron

Finished texturing the sword, chainsaw is up next