The BRAWL² Tournament Challenge has been announced!
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
It starts May 12, and ends Oct 17. Let's see what you got!
https://polycount.com/discussion/237047/the-brawl²-tournament
The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | November - December (99)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 99th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of November and December!
This challenge is a way for real-time 3D artists to test their skills and create a piece of work based on concepts provided. It's open to those of all skill levels and we do our best to provide meaningful feedback along the way so everyone can come away from the challenge with actionable points on which they can improve their craft!
- ENVIRONMENTS -
HARD SURFACE ENVIRONMENT:
Dungeon Stage - Foundations Course by Jose Vega
STYLIZED ENVIRONMENT:
Enviroment Art & Worldbuilding by Dardo Studios
- PROPS -
HARD SURFACE PROP:
Skyhaul - Karlsson house - chapter 01 by Daniele Gay
STYLIZED PROP:
Neo Cortex's Castle and the Toxic Tunnels concept art for Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time by Jeff Murchie
- RULES -
Please read all the rules before starting:- Try to post at least one critique for every post that you make. This will make for a better learning environment and help us all grow as artists.
- Try your best to finish as much as you can in the time frame provided, but remember even if you don't finish by the end of the challenge we encourage you to keep pushing and finish your piece!
- Post what you are working on in this thread so that way it's a more centralized place for advice and critique. Please avoid creating a new thread as we don't want to spam out the forums.
- It is recommended to use a game engine to present your work. Unreal Engine, Unity, and Godot are very common engines that can be used but feel free to use any alternatives that you want.
- 3D Viewers (Sketchfab, Marmoset Viewer, etc) are welcome, but please note that their contents can be stolen by those who know how. Please ensure you're comfortable with this potential before using one.
- Feel free to change up your chosen concept a bit if you want! Interpret these concepts to your liking, especially if your aim is to add storytelling elements.
- If you finish your project and decide to post it to something like Artstation, make sure you give credit to the concept artist in the form of a link to their profile. Additionally, it is recommended to ask a concept artist for their permission to post a 3D piece based on their work before doing so.
- RECOMMENDATIONS -
- When you are just starting out making a scene, it can seem complicated or imposing. Take your time planning and blocking out, it will set you up for success later on.
- Think about how you can re-use assets, re-use textures, break it down as simple as possible and plan it out. A lot of people will break it down in their own way when they start out their challenge. Gather some reference images as well for different parts of the scene, don't be afraid to make it your own.
- We strongly encourage you to go and look at other games and see how they make their assets as well as get concept art to give it your own feel.
- The goal is to learn and grow both artistically and in your ability to both give and receive critique, but don't stress about it and remember to have fun!
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Just simple modeling, controlling shading via hard edges, don't intend to do any highpoly/ sculpting. Rendering in Unity engine, baked lighting with Bakery. Next, I would apply surfacing, probably using a hand-painted trim atlas. Final result could be a web build with camera controls, would be sweet to have a pawn to walk around the scene.
Ah, wip on Sketchfab
model
Well, excited to see what others do with the concepts :-B
edit: Oh wow that yellow looks garish. Should have double-checked the color without f.lux enabled. Ok, updated renders
I chose the Hard Surface Prop, which in my head I said I would model in one go. But now that I've started, that doesn't seem as feasible. I'm thinking the thing that took up the most of my time was trying to figure out the scale.
In any case, I'm not trying to take too long on this one. I mostly want to get it finished, so I'm moving on even if things are imperfect.
My goal is literally to just finish a project (y'all know how it is...)
I'm using Maya to model and will be using Substance for textures later on.
Here is my blockout progress and then my started model:
The blockout was used to simply get an idea of the shapes and sizes in reference to one another (I'm telling y'all I was struggling with the scale).
If anybody has tips or feedback on the scale thing when you don't know how big things are, that would be greatly appreciated.
What I did use was the scale of the human on their artstation page, but it still seemed inconsistent, so maybe I'm missing something here.
Below is the model so far. Like I said, I thought I could get this all done in one go, but I lost momentum as the day went by.
Overall it took me about an hour and 20 mins to blockout. About 2hrs to get the model to this state.
Thanks in advance for feedback/tips! Good luck everyone!
I made progress on the canisters and have been UVing some things here and there along the way.
Minor changes, but I'm hoping tomorrow I'll do more re: the wires and affixing things to the frame.
Overall I did another 2hrs of modeling today + 20mins or so of UVs.
Here I have a wireframe as well^
Lastly, the progress on the canister:
On the left is what it was before and on the right is where I ended up today. Everything else I'll be doing within Substance as Normal decals and such.
I'm predicting I'll be working on this for another 3 days and call it finished.