SketchBook: Samuraigun7

Samuraigun7

Hi there I student currently studying 3D animation and then going off to Game Development. It is my (Dream:\) to be in the game industry. I will post often and post different WIP i am doing. I would really like to get critque about my work i dont mind how harsh it is because it shows me a sign that i need to improve. Also if you have any tutorails that would help by all means tell me or show me.

Anyways I hope to hear from you and yeah I hope i get better:)
Thanks^^

Samuraigun7

Here is my first work

learning how to do hand painted textures

SimonT

Looks nice But the texture is way to big for a small crate and also for you current details. Also you should paint in some ambient occlusion.

Samuraigun7

Yeah i dont know what size i should do my maps so i need help with that

Goeddy

so this is okay as a baselayer.
imo for a crate a 1024² texture is far enough, so you wont get lost in details wich wont be visible in the end.
now that we got this settled you should start adding ambient occlusion and sctratches.
so ambient occlusion means that in all the inward facing corners of your model, your texture should be darker. http://wiki.polycount.com/AmbientOcclusionMap?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryTexturing%5Cb%29

next thing to add would be scratches.
normaly crates like this are in often reused and treadet roughly, so some lighter scratches at the edges should give this a more believable feeling.

theese are just the realy simple things, but its where you should start. there are a lot more techniques to learn.

Samuraigun7

Okay i tried doing AO map and i followed this tutorial http://www.game-artist.net/forums/spotlight-articles/1317-tutorial-ambient-occlusion-maya-alchemist101.html but i tried doing it with my maya version which is 2011 and now i got this now i know this doesnt look right

Samuraigun7

Here is the AO Map

SimonT

the ao map looks a bit weird...the 2 sides shouldn't be that black. but its a start. also you should give the wooden planks different colors and saturation values. Normaly you are using a lot of planks to build a crate and it looks more natural if the are a bit differnt.

Samuraigun7

Started learning zbrush a bit i tried a while back but i thought i might give it a go again here is a little dragon just pretty much testing the brushes and using zspheres. Tell me what you think

Samuraigun7

Havent posted anything on here for a while. Been busy with my course work. So i wanted to learn more in hand painted textures so i started making a low poly scene this is where are i so far.

Oranghe

Heya good job so far, i would recommend thinking about these assets as a whole also, since they are game props ect for instance your box would be a small part of your scene and often reused so a smaller texture like 512 or lower would be great for that,

Heres orb for some good stone reference i found this really useful when learning hand painted!
have fun and enjoy it

Samuraigun7

Okay so i havent posted up in a while i should really post up daily or weekly but i was trying to get int o 3d and game art I just did a box nothing fancy



Oh and i have a porfolio website up and running

http://samuraigunkid.carbonmade.com/

Check it out and tell me what you think

Samuraigun7

Here is a speed sketch enviroment i am trying to improve

Blaisoid

the crate looks very flat, i thought it's diffuse-only texture when i saw it.

also, there's probably no need to give each side unique uvw space, if you overlap some of them and cut it down to 4 sides then you'll be able to use the space more efficiently.