Sci-Fi Fungi W.I.P.

Lazurah

Hey, Polycount. I decided that I had been lurking long enough and it was time to start a personal project to improve as many of my skills as possible.
My name is John Carter and I am a 2nd year Game Art Student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
My goal is to concept, model, and texture a current-gen game environment prop. Once created, I will import it into UDK and create an accompanying particle system.

Here is the progress that I have made so far, starting with reference material leading into concepts and the base mesh in its current state.






Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated. I am doing this in my spare time for fun, but I hope to improve as much as possible along the way. Thanks for looking.

ayoub44

i really like the concept i wish you use them in your progress .. for the base mesh look good
and good luck with this .. and wath color are you planning for this thing ?

Macattackk

i like the details on your concept. be sure to add some interesting color variation to it as fungi usually has that going on with it.

re.wind

tangentially related, this made me think of 'nausicaa, of the valley of the wind' with its fungal-esque, eh, fungi and things.

What that means is that your sketches have a strong style to them and that you should continue these.

Lazurah

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

I will try to make the final model more colorful than my original concept, although I will keep its basic color scheme.

Pictures of the high-poly are incoming as soon as I make some meaningful progress on it. A bit busy at the moment, what with it being the holidays and all.

Lazurah

I worked a bit on the high-poly sculpt today. I'm still relatively new to using Zbrush in practice so if anyone could give me any pointers, I'd appreciate it. I primarily used the standard, dam_standard, clay tubes, and noise brush.




The stalk is not finished and I realize that I need to get the cap looking more like my original concept. In any case, it's some progress but I'm not satisfied with the high-poly yet.

Lazurah

After several days of being out of town, I have returned home to finish the high-poly and bake the normals and lighting maps into the base mesh.


I increased the base mesh's tri-count from 992 to 3840 after realizing that I would lose a lot of detail in the bake unless I gave myself more tris to work with.
Next up, Diffuse and Specular textures.