Welcome one and all to the 98th edition of the Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge for the months of September and October! 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…
Hey Darren, Skimming over the other replies here - I think I'm just echoing their thoughts: -You need to create a cohesive scene. It doesn't need to be a functioning level, but something to give context to your work. The props themselves are fine, I think they look good, but they're not standing out as big pieces of work.…
feels sorta bland. you're using a bunch of props to dress a boring shell. Put some strutural detail into the shack/cabin instead of creating a trophy room. you have all this flat surfaces with a small prop placed in the middle. the tiled wood texture doesn't help. Change up the textures used for the floor/walls/ceiling. I…
uuh so a bunch of travel and the ever magical christmas + new year period = no time/no decent computer for 3D. Plus I've been putting off posting because of 'uuugh nothing is good enough everything sucks'. Which may well be the case, but I decide I'm still going to post some sketchbook junk everynow and then. I've been…
So, I'm not going to really comment on the props so far as I feel they need a lot of work. What I am going to say is that I think you should drop the whole "one piece a week" process. You are going to end up with 52 mediocre pieces that aren't going to help your folio at all. I would rather you spend the whole year working…
Updates: dropped the pallet texture down to 512s (thanks to the harsh but fair assessment of Tor Frick) as they were way to high for a simple game prop, seem to have lost a lot of detail, which will teach me to not use unique textures for such simple props. Added oil drums, these do have modular textures and I've created a…
I still think a dynamic, render-target texture is the way to go. With a random timer and some random properties you can "stamp" as many water drops as you want onto the windshield normal map: (Notice the fringe of neutral normal map colour so when a drop falls on top of another it'll clear the one below.) Each time the…