I'm glad you're posting this piece by piece. It's really awesome to see what Champlain alum are doing for work still (I'm graduating this year), beautiful work. I second the gumroad tutorial! I'd love to see how you work through these. Or even if you just did a timelapse.
Thanks for the answer. I would have never thought on unwrapping it this way. I really like your model and im looking forward to see the finished version. Btw. Your tutorial on how to create a knife was the first thing i did in 3d and its what got me into game art :-) Thank you very much for that :-D
Im confused , I was watching Tim Bergholz tutorial on his AK and he said that you want to keep lines as straight as possible when unwrapping. Normally I would have done it like you just showed but after watching his tut I would have straightened it ? He said that straightening the lines help get a cleaner bake ?
Very interesting technique, working with blockouts! I've noticed here that the actual inside of the loop is just planar. How did you make that look so good? The sense of depth you added looks amazing. Pardon me if this is a newbie question... What I learned in school about normal maps just never gave me such good results!…