Hand painted - Stylised Portal

Fleeting

Hey, just posting this up quickly for some crit. A friend oh mine at work painted a fantastic concept, which I'll post up soon, and I couldn't help trying to make it. Fairly low poly, working more on my painting.

Still trying to get a decent highlighted edge to it. If I smooth all the faces it helps, but then I get some funky lighting issues which is worse. Not sure if using a viewport shader plugin or putting it in UDK will help, I'll try that latter. Still early days, need to put in a lot of the detail from the concept.

Will post more soon, just wanted to start the thread. I'll add the textures and concept latter.

Rendered in max, just Defuse. 3469 Tris

gsokol

Cool. As for your highlights, don't be afraid to paint in highlights on the diffuse. It can help a lot.

Would definitely like to see the concept your working from.

Keep it up!

Jeff Parrott

Looking good so far. I really like the Prof Layton series a ton. This looks in the style. Keep pushing your painting!

Xelan101

I agree with gsokol, painting in your highlights on the diffuse can really help your forms read well. It makes the edges pop, try to put them wherever the lightest faces meet a darker face.

Wonkey

When you are hand painting, and using a normal map for higher poly pieces, do you need to highlight, or is it more subtle?

Fleeting

For this I'm still painting the highlights, and going to add a normal map latter I've left areas blank that are going to get in some extra detail. The normal map isn't going to be massively complicated, just compliment some areas, and add detail to the blank surfaces.

Sorry for the lack of updates. Just got a new job which required me to move city. All I've got is me laptop. Hopefully updates soon though!