ive been working on a robot for 18 years now .. more seriously - pre-substance painter our outsource partners would produce a set of modular assets (average 10-12 pieces) mapped, textured and lodded (5-7 handmade lods) in 20 days with feedback. This was first-party AAA content for ps4 speed comes from making good decisions…
For instance hard surface automotive content e.g. Gran Turismo PS3, their vehicles we're generally 500k tri count so fairly comparable to budgets nowadays mitigating potential efficiency bottlenecks excluding evolving tech, remains fundamentally unchanged i.e. well thought out topology, uv's, LODS...etc As already shared…
It depends on the goals. If the main purpose is to learn and improve with the end product being a portfolio piece, time isn't the real constraint - it can take months or years to finish a project because part of it was to learn sculpting or grooming, or other core skills that themselves are adventures in their own right.…