The Phantom's Crash

PhantomCrash

Hello Everyone, I have been meaning to make a personal thread on here for eons, but I guess the wait is over! Please feel free to comment and critique any work that I put up here, I will do my best to try and include specific areas of feedback that I would like to receive for for each piece. Anyway, happy arting everyone!

PhantomCrash

Ok so here is a render of a cargo train that I built for a friend's VFX project.




Here is the Wireframe.




If you would like you can view the HD render by clicking on the link below:

TRAIN CARGO HD

So I would like to take this model and down rez it to game industry standards and then do some renders out of the Unreal Engine. Any feedback that you can give me would be appreciated.

Here are some additional renders with more info:

Mimic Kairatta

My first recommendation is removing any lines that loop around and doesn't contribute to any of the box's shape. I see about three loops you can delete right away.

PredatorGSR

The lighting you've got going on is pretty cool and the overall scene looks nice. For your portfolio I would add some sort of man made light source coming from the right at an angle so you could get some spec hits off of the detail on the side. Most of your detail facing the camera is in shadow which works for the vfx shot, but hides all that detail you have.

I don't have an exact polycount for you, but it would likely be around a few thousand tris. You can probably get away with baking the vertical slats and ridges to a normal map so you don't have to do them with geo. In general, try to remove any edge loops that don't contribute to the silhouette and aren't necessary for uving. In this case though, you'd want to have divisions so you can repeat chunks of the slats, and then apply the graffiti as a stencil/alpha.

How you use the textures is important too, so make sure to post your texture flats. To give you a guideline, while many game textures are created and displayed in portfolios at 2k, it is extremely rare for the final game res texture to be any larger than 1024 if you're making a game for the 360 or PS3, and most game development is geared towards those specs.