What Art Style is this?

Cnc96 · May 2015

Hi all,
I'm looking to create a 3d top down shooter and I've been following a thread on here for a while as I love the art style being used.

Does anyone know what the art style used to create the enemies would be called, or what I should search for to find similar art styles to this?

AtticusMars · May 2015

Flat shaded low poly

Edit: this is just what I would call it, I don't know that there is an 'official' name

Those models actually don't look shaded, but it's close enough imo

Cnc96 · May 2015

Ok thanks

I'll just do a couple of searches on the net, cause I want to use a style similar, but if I use this image, I'd feel like I was copying it too closely :P

Zack Maxwell · May 2015

This guy does a lot of similar art.

Blond · May 2015

I have a similar question regarding another art style.

We should haave a thread called'' Help me define this art direction'' or ''what's the process to achieve this shading''.

I'm currently texturing a character that I wanna export into Unreal 4.

I wanna have this exact kind of shading (Wildstar- cinematic):

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I see hand-painted, yeh sure, but I can't define what is baked and what is dynamic.

Should I bake the AO, should I paint the specualr hightlights and the reflections or let the engine do the work for me?

I also see that rimlight shader mario galaxy effect and wondering how to do it within UNreal

Need help.

JordanN · May 2015

Blond wrote: »

I also see that rimlight shader mario galaxy effect and wondering how to do it within UNreal

Need help.

Create a fresnel node.

lotet · May 2015

JordanN wrote: »

Create a fresnel node.

haha, I remember when I first saw Mario Galaxy, and my immediate though was:

pixelb · May 2015

@Blond You and me both! Looking at Carbine artists portfolios makes me think theyre baking AO from sculpts and painting over them pretty heavily. The diffuse textures still contain a lot of AO and edge highlights.
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WildStar_Hong_Johnson_Smuggler_Armor-e1370299086759.jpg

The real problem with getting it to look right in UE4 is that theres no easy way to get colored specular reflections on non-metallic surfaces, so your colors end up getting washed out by the scene light. Let me know if you figure that one out, okay?

And Cnc, "flat shaded low poly" is what I'd call it, too. Check pixelatedcrown.tumblr.com and simplecg.tumblr.com for good examples.

Cnc96 · May 2015

Pixelb: Thanks for the links I'll check them out now

Blond · May 2015

pixelb wrote: »

@Blond You and me both! Looking at Carbine artists portfolios makes me think theyre baking AO from sculpts and painting over them pretty heavily. The diffuse textures still contain a lot of AO and edge highlights.

The real problem with getting it to look right in UE4 is that theres no easy way to get colored specular reflections on non-metallic surfaces, so your colors end up getting washed out by the scene light. Let me know if you figure that one out, okay?

And Cnc, "flat shaded low poly" is what I'd call it, too. Check pixelatedcrown.tumblr.com and simplecg.tumblr.com for good examples.

Glad to see another one trying to achieve this shading.:D

I'm also going to try a shot at Unity since it's way more straightforward for shading like this.

pixelb · May 2015

And it supports a specular workflow...good idea.

RN · May 2015

On the original question, the artist that made those robots seems to have smooth shading on the barrels of cannons and other obvious cylindrical forms, and faceted parts have a fixed directional lighting "baked" into them -- with different materials per part or just vertex colouring which is much cheaper when rendering.

Taken from: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151751

You could also try sending a private message to the artist, maybe he knows of more references to this style.

CordellC · May 2015

mega man legends

it's low poly with low rez texture size with point/nearest neighbor filtering.

What Art Style is this?

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