Trekkers - A Texture Painting Exercise
polycounter lvl 13
Hello Polycount! I've been lurking here for several months, getting inspired to do some more art, if only I wasn't 400 miles from my PC with the tools I need, only 2.5 more weeks...
Well, here's something I "finished" several weeks ago. It was an exercise in texture painting, the base model was provided by Dabu, everything else was done by me.
It took about 3 weeks, I spent 1 week working on the designs and at least 2 weeks texturing all 7 characters, while doing work for three other classes. So, here it is, my Trekkers. (Based on the Kid Robot Munny Form)
At this time, these are thing I know I could improve: Define the Form of the Faces, Detail Ears, The hair could use some work.
This project had quite a few firsts for me. It was completely photo-source free, my first highly stylized work, and my first attempt at unwrapping UVs for a character.
This last image is a close up that really lets you see the shirt details, from an earlier stage of the project.
Oh yeah, bonus points if you can identify who each one is.
Well, here's something I "finished" several weeks ago. It was an exercise in texture painting, the base model was provided by Dabu, everything else was done by me.
It took about 3 weeks, I spent 1 week working on the designs and at least 2 weeks texturing all 7 characters, while doing work for three other classes. So, here it is, my Trekkers. (Based on the Kid Robot Munny Form)
At this time, these are thing I know I could improve: Define the Form of the Faces, Detail Ears, The hair could use some work.
This project had quite a few firsts for me. It was completely photo-source free, my first highly stylized work, and my first attempt at unwrapping UVs for a character.
This last image is a close up that really lets you see the shirt details, from an earlier stage of the project.
Oh yeah, bonus points if you can identify who each one is.
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they are so cute, I love the design :poly142:
Couple things :
- I don't know for what purpose are those characters or if you care about tri count, but 2000 tris per character seems to be very high to me... I'm sure you could down the tri count to 500, even less, without losing any details ^^
- I see on these uv maps that you did change the hair style, but why only hair ? You could have made variations of Tshirts too. It looks very repetitive on your screenshots (even with color variation).
- Your cloth textures are very clean whereas the hair seems a bit rushed (sketchy skin->hair outline)
Kinda reminds me the Wii characters but 100 times better ^^
Keep it up
need more of a sideburn look on the hair now most of them look like their hair is shaved up over their ears and does not look good, you may have it in the actual texture, i can kinda see it on spock, but it needs to be visible when viewing from the front,
the hair textures need a lot of work, looks like scribly straw, and the dark color near the hairline makes it look like a wig, maybe a more sylized hair would fit this look better,
not a fan of how detailed the shirt texture is and how simple the rest of the body is. the shirt textre is sharp and crisp, and i like that, but the ammount od detail in the cloth is overkil i think compaired to the head and hair,,
eyebrows are like furry catterpillers,, maybe more stylized?
paint some lighting in the characters or render it with some in the scene, they are way over fullbright,
neat idea tho and despite all my comments, it has promise to be a neat piece
regarding the 3d, same story for most of it, but i think the sulu lost something in translation, skin tone and hair changed for the worse