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…
What jobs can I get in non-gaming industry space? I have a degree in 3D digital design and have done 3d environment art work in the past. Mainly right now, I’m a game designer that does gameplay and some narrative design. I got some programming skills but I’m not a programmer at heart, I’m actually pretty bad at it if I…
Hi all — looking for thoughts from experienced artists and technical folks on a workflow challenge I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been examining common pain points when moving assets between Blender and Unity, especially around: * Export pipelines (FBX/GLTF) and unexpected mesh transforms * Scene hierarchy handling and…
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 ran some render tests and some of the ambient shadows were too strong(the metal piece at the bottom of the sheath, for example), but that was just because the object weren't close enough to eachother. The rest of the model was fine, so I decided to move on to texturing. I also prepared an ID map to have an easier time…
Hello, everyone! This week, I've been working on a rig to create some simple animations for the moving object. Then, I implemented my prop in an environment in Unreal Engine. I've also started working on render tests and a first pass at cinematics. But there's still a lot of work ahead. https://youtu.be/rrXNSE5BU1k…
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…