Gem Mine-WIP

ivanzu

Hello,as I need something new for my outdated portfolio I decided to model a small Diablo 3 environment.I still need to decide if I should good with completely hand-painted look or with mix of sculpting and painting? Environment currently has 4000Tris.

GOALS:

• Improve on Hand-painted textures
• Improve with sculpting in Zbrush
• Get better at lighting the scenes
• Updating the portfolio

IMAGES:

Thomau5

this reminds me of the gold mines in Warcraft III. it looks really good!

ivanzu

Small update
Modeled a tree base mesh,a tutorial for fantasy trees would be helpful if someone knows one pls post.

Drav

I would sculpt as much as possible on the bits that deserve it, like the rocks and trees, and then handpaint to get it as close to the ref as possible.....

Looking at the ref, id also work out a strategy to get the grass looking gorgeous and 3d, as thats a large element of the scene.

ivanzu

Here is a WIP of the tree sculpt.Should I make creases a bit softer and smaller?

ivanzu

WIP sculpt on the tree.
It just quick ao and normal bake applied onto low poly tree.

letronrael

it has already been done just so you know...but keep up the good work...maybe it can help you to compare your work with somebody else.

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Jalcober

Noooo. comparing your work to someone else usually isnt good.

ivanzu

I know that its been already done at least like 3 times but I don't really care much because I think that every artist has its own way of doing things and that its better to have some competition because that will make work more challenging and rewarding.

I still need to model the top part of the tree and fix the AO map in some places.
Does anyone know how to compress the gif format too sizes like 1mb as 4.5mb is a bit too much for internet.

letronrael

two thumbs up

ivanzu

Here is the textured tree still have some problematic areas on AO Map which I need to tweak.

ivanzu

Tiny update
Branch and leaf texture.