[P&P] - What are you working on? 2008 Edition

[Sa74n]

nice work hawken :) always enjoy looking at your work.

pior: the wire i used looked pretty much exactly like on this photo (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1223752/2/istockphoto_1223752_wire_roll.jpg). to straighten it out i wrapped it around the drainage pipe outside the building and pulled the ends back and forth. works like a charm.
finished another study (made of wood) today but i didnt take my camera with me today. will post it tomorrow i think. these studies are fun to do :)

[Richard Kain]

I'm liking that vector work, hawken. Nice and clean portraits, they really take advantage of the vectors, while embracing the limitations.

[Spark]

Nick Carver, stop doing such kick ass pieces, you are making me depressed that I cannot build them, as I suck at hard surface work:P Haha, love the stuff your doing, and really looking forward to what you do next.

Spark

[Sectaurs]

decided to try my hand at making a dragonball for kotaku's contest.
my first time casting resin.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/2588598715_baf216d933.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2588480663_b51c5936ac_o.jpg

[Armanguy]

very sexy sectaurs!!!

[Lee3dee]

3DBuzz UT3 Mapping contest entry

http://www.3dwasabi.com/wip/OldSchoolContest/DecoPass03.jpg

http://www.3dwasabi.com/wip/OldSchoolContest/3DBuzz_Contest02.jpg

http://www.3dwasabi.com/wip/OldSchoolContest/DecoPass04.jpg

everything has to be using stock assets, but you are allowed to make materials & particles using those assets. Nothing can be used from an external program. Deadline is June 30th, I'm about 65% complete.

[Joseph Silverman]

Lee i see a lot of cool stuff in there but i'm haing an awful time telling what's what and what's where. -- just a mess from that angle, tons of visual noise. You planning to split it up a bit more with lighting, or what?

[Lee3dee]

SupRore: the warp environment is temp, making a custom shader that looks a little better :) and I have to do a lighting pass. yeah, its no where near the polish stages still adding decorations.

[Joseph Silverman]

Cool, make a thread or something, looking forward to updates!

[Klash120]

Armanguy, Unfortunatley no. Seems they've just got word of an 'Hiring Freeze' is in effect :| *shrugs* Continues job hunt~ May hit America's Army again within the week & see what's up.

[MachineMinded]

Since I'm currently away from my own computer and I got bored, I decided to install Blender on my brothers old computer and try my hands on some simple animation(another new area for me). The mesh is 380 tris.:icon60:
http://machineminded.kasikirja.net/misc/turret2.gif
If the animation doesn't show for some reason use the link below:
http://machineminded.kasikirja.net/misc/turret2.gif

[Super]

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/dagon/02.jpg

[Farfarer]

Klash120: Nice work. The black handle might be because the 90 degree angle on the end is just too big a change for the normal map to handle. Adding in a wee bevel at the end should allieviate that :)

Super: Nice work. Is it based off someone? He looks familiar but I can't place who/why.



Fixed up the major crits, I think, although the manly jaw stays :P I'm about ready to call her done, unless there's any major changes need done (or really small quick tweaks).

Screenies from HLMV (Ep2 Source engine) this time. Looks a little odd in it, I think mostly because the engine gives much more preference to the straight diffuse texture. I might put her into UE3 instead, see if the results look more polished.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6524/femalechar13vx2.jpg

Oh, and ignore the mip seams on the back :/

[MasteroftheFork]

Man I love looking through this thread, such good stuff.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/MasteroftheFork/seadogmadsen_wip02.jpg

[ironbearxl]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/f_03.jpg

[Neo_God]

Sectaurs, what kind of resin did you use? Polyester?


Progress on Tiny Attorney, still unsure about the hair.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/Neo_God/Tiny%20attorney/Tinyattorney2.jpg

[RazorBladder]

So Quato thinks he's Marlon Brando eh?

[Cody]

Man I love looking through this thread, such good stuff.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/MasteroftheFork/seadogmadsen_wip02.jpg

Nice Kill Bill / Reservoir Dogs dude. At least, I think so. Hope I'm not an idiot.

[Joshua Stubbles]

Nice Kill Bill / Reservoir Dogs dude. At least, I think so. Hope I'm not an idiot.

Michael Madson. :)
Pretty decent likeness so far. Like to see how it turns out.

[Sectaurs]

Neo - yeah, about three and a half quarts of Aristocrat Water Clear Polyester Casting Resin with some tint mixed in. Was fairly straight forward but I fucked up a lot, being my first time. Gearing up for round two.

[LEViATHAN]

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6524/femalechar13vx2.jpg


I think that adding some noise to the spec texture would help, along with more color variation and dirt (she is a hunter/survivor person, so I'd guess she'd get dirty after a while, especially the shoes and pants).

[urgaffel]

http://www.urgaffel.com/images/wip/mechguy/mechguy03.jpg

[GCMP]

Talon - your girls body is looking good but her face doesn't match, it took me a while to put my finger on it and then I did this paintover, hope you don't mind...
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l64/GC3D/femalechar13vx2.jpg
The eyes are too close together, the hair seems to have a seam line in a lighter shade when it should be darker around the hairline to the face skin + she should have little bits of fluffy stubble inbetween the braids to break up the perfect looking nature. Needs some depth, more shadowing around hairline, nose and mouth.
*Edit, just thinking, the prominent parts should be darker as the sun will hit these parts and her melanin will kick in giving her a tan.

[Klash120]

Sectaurs, you need to find those other 6 Dragon Balls so you can achieve ultimate powers!
Lol >,< Looking forward to your second attempt.

[Farfarer]

Cheers Leviathan and GCMP.

I'll have another pass at the texture tonight and make a few tweaks on the model itself.

[Justin Meisse]

Nice one Sectaurs, that cracked effect would work good for some faux amber

[Sa74n]

another anatomy study from uni

http://www.envart.com/temp/mu/workshop02.jpg

[ThatDon]

I have no idea what i'm looking at Sa74n but it sure is PRETTY!

Good job.

[Farfarer]

I think it's an elbow joint :)

These are really cool Sa7an.

[Swizzle]

It's a knee, baby!

[Sa74n]

heh.. time for all you character modelers to show what you REALLY know :)

[Joseph Silverman]

I think it's an elbow joint :)

These are really cool Sa7an.

I'm pretty sure that's a knee?

Awesome work, sa7an.

[Farfarer]

*slinks away in shame*

I'm half-cut after a Friday post-work drink... or something.

[Vitor]

God, that is not a knee, that is a ribcage...

[Super]

Looks penis related to me.

[Tumerboy]

Super, if your penis looks like that, seek help

Sa74n nice work!

[Funky Bunnies]

Much better, PolyHertz
and kickin' work, Sa7an.

slowly working on 'Dead-Eye Duck' from Bucky O'Hare.
it's 4400 polys at the moment with 1024 diffuse, spec, and normal
and how do you make awesome eyes? mine are always so lame!

here's a spin. click for bigger.

http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/3d/deadeye_duck/deadeye8sm.gif (http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/3d/deadeye_duck/deadeye8.gif)

[Marine]

whatever it is, it's too low poly

[BrodyB]

God, that is not a knee, that is a ribcage...
You're ALL wrong! That's a man cannon (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/16/man_slinger/)!

[leilei]

Trying to fix up my normal map (Blender inverts red and green channels ARGH) and making a flamethrower particle effect (purely of 32x32x32 particles)
doing both at once brings a funny unintentionally funny screenshot
http://openarena.ws/xdf/test/dp000137.jpg

[butt_sahib]

LMAO

goodoneSuper,youjustmademyday!

ItsDEFINITELYaknee.Icanseethepatella,thetibia,thef ibulaandthefemur:D


Sorryguys!butmyspacebarjustgavein:(
Kindafunnyifyouthinkaboutit:P

[Sectaurs]

Sa7an, that knee is badass. Have you made any other parts? I want one for me desk.

Time for another GA.org contest

http://www.iheartwells.com/Gallery/Personal/GA%20Mini%2014/WIP%2002.jpg

[Popeye9]

Sa74n thats cool. Does it hinge or is it pinned in place?

[Rens]

Bunny!!:O

[Cody]

fire crotch!

[Levus]

Funky Bunnies -> haaaa, awesome duck!

[Farfarer]

Jesus, that brings back some memories, Funky Bunnies. Looking sweet. I don't particularly see what's wrong with the eyeball you have there, other than it's not very glossy.



Ok, I think she's done. There's probably still a lot more I could do, but I think that's all stuff to bear in mind for the next project, I've actually learned quite a lot on this one. (Ok, so I might dirty the shoes some more before she goes in the folio, but shh!). Cheers for all the crits, guys :)

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/3961/femalechar17nn3.jpg

[Docm30]

Looks good, Talon; the eyes are kind of creepy, though.

[Mitch Cosgrave]

Just something i've been working on for Zombie Panic. Uses 512 Diffuse, Normal, Self Illum. Specular to come soon. Tricount is 764. I'm thinking of changing the texture behind the text to some some of plastic or painted surface.

http://goldenmonkeystudios.net/imagedata/hotelneon_wip5.jpg

[Funky Bunnies]

I'm glad you remember it, Talon :D

I was going to work more on the texture, but other things came up so I just threw him into a sloppy pose for now.

http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/3d/deadeye_duck/deadeye8_pose.jpg

[PolyHertz]

Looking good Funky Bunnies :)

Any plans to make the rest of the Bucky O Hare crew? Probably been about 15 years sense I last saw the show but If I remember correctly it had a quite a diverse cast of characters. A 1 eyed robot, a gorilla (Bruiser was it?), a rabbit with pink hair, some human kid, and of course Buck O' Hare himself. Not sure if I'm forgetting anyone, but would be neat to see the full cast in 3d.

[Funky Bunnies]

thanks, Levus and PolyHertz :)

You've listed about all of the crew of their ship, probably better than I could have. I had to watch some episodes with my nephew to jog my memory. It would be pretty awesome to do them all in 3d. Maybe I'll give it a go at some point. I was thinking about moving to another saturday morning cartoon next though - maybe I can even do an original character if I want to get really adventurous! haha

[Joseph Silverman]

Quit procrastinating, funky, you have a ridiculous fantasy monster to sculpt.

[Slum]

YES! now do bucky!

[Jaco]

Cool duck

[StJoris]

Nice work Funky, see, told you posting it on PC would be good! Post MOAR!

[Zwebbie]

No space marines or zombie mutants here...

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1231/83781187uj8.jpg

[Super]

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/dagon/03.jpg

[Ironwolf]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/deathelm/TANKK.jpg

[Swizzle]

Added a little bag around her neck for eye of newt and other sexiness. Still working on getting the robe to look natural. She's supposed to be wearing a shirt-type deal underneath the robe thing, so that's why she has two collars.

I need to work on making her look less manly.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2602397186_20504b4693_o.jpg

[Funky Bunnies]

That's looking sweet so far, Swizzle

after seeing boomz's chinchilla cannon (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=54067) I felt obligated to make a quick little rodent-ball of my own

http://www.funkybunnies3d.com/Work/rodentBall.gif

[DeathByChris]

haha...thats awesome

[Rens]

hahaha! thats awesome man

[Swizzle]

That's pretty sweet, FB.


Anyway, just trying to keep busy:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2604293687_123890d4ce_o.jpg

Smooth curves are so much more goddamn hard than wrinkles and shit.

[garriola83]

http://www.digi-wingz.com/freyahead.jpg

i moved the thread over the link below

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=820850#post820850

[Japhir]

very cool stuff going on here!
even though i have absolutely no spare time at all, here is a small wip :D
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/6553/knightwippy7.jpg
c/c welcome, though it's early.

[Josh_Singh]

garriola83, looking nice.

[garriola83]

thanks josh_singh

more coming soon

[Ironwolf]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/deathelm/tank11.png

[oidipusss]

Ironwolf try removing the smooth groups when doing poly work, save it as a last 'pass'. When modeling it only works distracting. You can also just switch the view to faced instead of smooth faces. Anyway maby you just gave it the smooth look just for posting, still i'm instrested in the topology, can you post a wire of your progress?

keep it up,

cheerz

[Japhir]

update, the tris-count is doubled because i wanted to make one image so i could past it in paint in stead of having to start up photoshop ;).
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5606/knightwipnr9.jpg

[CIgano]

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n149/CIgano_THE_original/21stcenturyinja.jpg?t=1214325946
(not my model btw, 2 512^2 and 1 512x256 for the mag)

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n149/CIgano_THE_original/edificio_scifi-1.jpg

[Vitor]

Aha, mais tugas para dominar estes panucas do polycount!!

English: Aha, more portuguese on this great forum polycount....

[urgaffel]

It's gone dark...

http://www.urgaffel.com/images/wip/mechguy/mechguy04.jpg

Really like that sketch CIgano :) Will there be more, a cityscape maybe?

[kio]

well did some sculpting - someone should hit me on the head till i start using at least some refs, such a dead end without gnah... stupid me.

1. i have no idea what it is..
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll213/ki_oku/ehmjo.jpg

2. some animal?
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll213/ki_oku/mumo.jpg

[Ironwolf]

Here is the wire frame

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/deathelm/tank2-1.png

[Campaignjunkie]

Source engine, single player environment. I wanted to make a Western-themed mod, but I don't have the resources / expertise to make a whole new set of assets, so consider this a creative cop-out. Feedback on color choice and stuff from artists who know what they're doing (i.e. not me) would be appreciated!

http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/4033/highnoon1train0000nr1.jpg

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/1304/highnoon1train0001ch3.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9941/highnoon1train0002tt7.jpg

(Also - apologies for breaking the forum layout. :P )

[CIgano]

i absolutely love those, I can't really think of anything to crit really, colours are beautiful. How exactly did you do that though? I was kind of surprised when I read it was in the Source engine

[ironbearxl]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/pk_1.jpg

[Vailias]

i absolutely love those, I can't really think of anything to crit really, colours are beautiful. How exactly did you do that though? I was kind of surprised when I read it was in the Source engine

It looks to be a gooch shader where the color is based off of distance from camera along the vertical axis, and some camera normal component as well.
Above camera = blue, below camera = orange.

also
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e28/vailias/Corrupt_WIP_06-24-08.jpg
Got some more time to work on this again finally. Not going to make the MSU phase one deadline, but gonna put it, and the complete set of faces and armors in phase 2.

[Sa74n]

great work cj! maybe the ground is a bit too even in those shots?

[Showster]

Hey all,

Just a small WIP model about 5000 triangles, still not finished with the shape and I want to make him transform so he'll need lots of tweaking.

I'm hoping to put him into Unreal 3 as a transforming planet using matinee and release a player character too.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj41/UKShowster/unicronrender5.jpg

Loving some of the sculpts in here :-)

[The Mad Artist]

Awesome start on Unicron. Lookin forward to seeing it textured. I'd spend some more time on those wings, make his hands bigger and remember that Unicron's fingers tapered into claws.

http://guerrerosdesingularidad.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/498px-unicron_dkug.jpg

[warby]

unicron !!!! ... best villain ever !

i just wished he never transformed into a humanoid shape but sticked to his piranha planet form ... so much more menacing

[rollin]

lil testmodel to get into tf2 editing

http://www.rollin.homepage.t-online.de/pyr0r/pyr0r_03b_1a.jpg

[IronHawk]

haha! nice one rollin.

[Ferg]

That's awesome rollin... now we just have to make an entire x-men team mod for tf2. Dibs on Rogue.

[Armanguy]

someone do night crawler he is the coolest xmen!!!!

[butt_sahib]

Excellent work rollin! always been a fan :D

Ok so guys, heres an update on my model! :)
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/1904,noghri3bB7H96.jpg

[hobodactyl]

WIP

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/viking_village_wip.jpg

[butt_sahib]

Where im at:-
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/1909,noghri3W3NCT.jpg

inspired by the low poly i did around a year and a half ago :(
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/1912,shardupdate4T3HNU.jpg

[Jaco]

Female base head, I'll post the sculpt later

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/Jacoh/Headwire.jpg

Nice rollin!

[Justin Meisse]

hobodactyl, that house is pure win

[ThatDon]

Very Cool Rollin

[DrillerKiller]

hey nice work Hobodactyl. another tank from me..going low..

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/drilllerkilller/skull_tank_1.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/drilllerkilller/skull_tank_2.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/drilllerkilller/skull_tank_3.jpg
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/drilllerkilller/skull_tank_4.jpg

[leilei]

Working on a generic anime babe (don't worry, man comes after) for skinning 'fortress classes' on, but right now i'm running into normal map issues :(

http://openarena.ws/xdf/dp000158.jpg

p.s. she's blue because the skin color can be changed in the console at will. this is NOT leilei!

p.p.s. the sling was like a second of work, i made it for the sake of forum modesty.

[Rens]

http://www.rensedeboer.com/sculptures/portrait01.jpg

[Swizzle]

Holy gigantits, Batman.

[leilei]

Large breasts are shaped as I intended. :) Going for a cleavage/topless mix so I can base clothes onto. I used to have it 'realistcally' flopping out sagging but that didn't seem right and anime enough (too real)

My issues are just on face, shoulders and abdomen/waist area :( i'm going to delete the head btw to start a new seperate head mesh

[flow3d]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3MWxQYN2U

did a lowpoly character yesterday, didnt turn out .. so I cut of its head and hands and put them on a character mesh which needed just that .. gave it a skirt, and it turned out to be some sort of techno nurse or something :)
around 800 tris, with a lot of waste :)

no real animations this time around Im afraid :(

[SHEPEIRO]

nice tank drillerkiller

[Popeye9]

Anti-Air Lav that I am working on still need to beat up the wheels, turret and work on the spec map. Its coming in at 5200 tris with 3x1024 diffuse, normal and spec.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/541/lavprelimon1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/541/lavprelimon1.ca64274315.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=182&i=lavprelimon1.jpg)

[seforin]

brining back a old model from the dead, decided to go full mechy with this guy, maybe do a sculpt of a face who knows, credit goes to arsh' for his base mesh guy (I feel its cheating but this is a full mech im making from it)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/newboots.jpg

[Marshal Banana]

That looks really cool so far, Seforin.

[Mil0]

The Oldschool contest at 3D Buzz has me very interested. I'm not sure if I am going to enter just yet.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/whippedcracker/DMPitUE3.jpg

[Marshal Banana]

More on that sword. I gave it a different central piece that's less boring.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l43/Marshal_banana/creednew1.jpg

The new piece opens like this
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l43/Marshal_banana/creednew2.jpg

[Racer445]

Just was screwing around today... practice models are fun.

http://image.fpsbanana.com/ss/wips/44287.jpg

[Enix]

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5999/lawlerag4.jpg

[hobodactyl]

Justin & DrillerKiller: Thanks! Driller, your tank is looking cool, I like the design.

More WIP'n. Any thought on how to make the thatching not suck? :P

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/viking_village_wip2.jpg

[ironbearxl]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k30/ironbearxl/pk_2.jpg

[Conor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMdCySSZ2I

Game's finished. Will be releasing it after the contest at eegra.com wraps up.

[hjd_uk]

Atom-based Bullet Hell - Cool.

[Japhir]

here's an update, gonna start the texture soon.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7963/knightwipnu9.jpg
ideas on a color scheme would be nice, i have no idea where to go yet... maybe darkred/steel or black/steel with a little gold? dunno yet.
crits/comments welcome!

[Levus]

hobodactyl: cool model:)

[LEViATHAN]

http://i32.tinypic.com/152dd2p.jpg

[Mil0]

Slowly coming together:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y202/whippedcracker/DMPitUE3-5.jpg

[praetus]

http://www.mikebarrington.com/images/Boards/Cthulhu001.jpg

laying out muscle work. I'm trying to make it into a bust similar to comic characters. All done in Zbrush so far. Probably add more tentacles to mouth area as well. Not enough yet I don't think.

[Popeye9]

spent an hour screwing around modeling this and putting in unreal for fun this morning. The model and texture was done in zbrush and then optimized and UV in max. Final model came in at 570 tris for the up close model The farther lod one will probably be just a box with chamfered edge. The textures are all 512x512 with the third one being emissive mask, Specular and reflection each in the RGB channel.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7648/cokecomplu7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7648/cokecomplu7.3194519080.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=50&i=cokecomplu7.jpg)

[rollin]

some sketches for spaceships.. want to model the last one for homeworld (1/2)
letz c...

http://www.maginot.eu/space/mgto/2d/sf_thumb.jpg

http://www.maginot.eu/space/mgto/2d/hw_fighter_01.jpg

[hobodactyl]

Levus: Thanks!

Starting to get some stuff in Unreal 3; using my laptop so I haven't been able to mess with shaders really, and it's slow going with the light setup.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/viking_village_wip3.jpg

[Blaizer]

Very Wip, Traditoinal Subdiv model! no Zbrush thanks :D

It's one of my multiple designs in 3d

http://www.blog.whiteblaizer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/test2f.jpg

I've got the body modelled too, still working in fine polygonal details! yeah :)

As always... Modo for all ¬¬

[Zephir62]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v650/Olliesworld/action-complexcopy.jpg

[achmedthesnake]

Blaizer -love the sculpt - i'm interested in what kind of render setup you've got (and the time it tool to render)...

[Blaizer]

Thanks a lot Achmedthesnake,

The render setup is the standard light in modo + GI activated, that's all :D, quite fast and easy (i didn't touch anything else than turn on GI). The render was only a few seconds at 800x600.

[BrodyB]

Wooo! A fellow modo user!

[The_Kozmonaut]

Awesome creature head Blazier. Top notch work

[seforin]

more PANTS!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/moreMechPants.jpg


Should hit upper body before Monday hopefully

[BrodyB]

Started working on an astronaut suit, loosely based off the Badge of Blood (http://www.badgeofblood.com/media.php) concept.

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9509/astrobodyah5.jpg

Just the base mesh right now, clocking in at 6066 tris. Going for a budget of 10,000 tops.

[butt_sahib]

greatwork,

Do you haver a concept on ya sef?

[Racer445]

http://sleekupload.com/uploads/am_i_a_game_artist_yet_1.jpg

stupid max wont bake aos right... when i use skylight and light tracer, it doesn't use my normals. when i use the mental ray setup, only half of the objects get baked for some reason.

any ideas?

[Jonathan]

Are the UVs mirrored? Are the mirrorved/overlapping UV island out of the 0,1 UV range for baking, if the UVs are mirrored?

Are you using the cage to bake them? We need more details for more help. :)

Also, see if the UV islands that aren't baking (assuming it's not mirrored) see if they're flipped, as that's something with Mental Ray, where flipped UV islands do not project correctly).

[Slum]

http://floatvoid.com/images/Eve1152.jpg

I saw WALL-E this evening.. I guess you can say I was inspired. Such an amazing film.

There's some stuff I need to fix yet..The model is not quite accurate proportions, and I need to nail the material a little better.. but I'm done for tonight.

[Nilium]

slum: Looks awesome. Might want to use a cube/sphere map though, since it's not very fitting of either area of WALL-E. Also, when you're done with that, can you get me a 1680x1050 of it? :P

[Target_Renegade]

@Racer445: This works for me - go into sub-object mode of the object you want to bake, select all polygons then hide them. This still leaves the projection mapping and lets you bake.

[GCMP]

No specular, glossiness or bump yet, still trying to decide on whether there should be more greenery, crits please :) Edit:UPDATInG...

[Japhir]

I think the texture sise and polycount on those flowers is way to high compared to the rest of the scene.

[MachineMinded]

GCMP: I agree with Japhir, you have really big pixel density in very small piece of the model.

You have a lot of space in the map where your stones are. You could easily throw everything those flowers use in that map(and scale them down while you're at it). And you should cut down the polygon usage on the flowers as well(and perhaps throw some of those saved polygons on the stone base thing). Again they're a minor detail and they have much larger polygon density than the whole stone thing(which is more visible).

With the flowers you could probably get away with a plane and a 3/4 sided cylinder. Or four tris in a X formation, if you want some shape there.

I hope this helps.

[nkoste]

Your stone textures also have a more sci-fi panel thing going on than a stone construction. I would remove those bevels entirely and create a base that look a lot more like stone. Maybe work with some rocks that haven't been carved out so meticulously and construct the grave out of square blocks.

[butt_sahib]

Racer445:
Everything looks great,
XNORMAL ;)

Here is where i am at, normal mapped. 3300 tris :D
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/1977,noghri232TL8.jpg
Pretty much everything is mirrored :)

[Japhir]

the mouth area has very cool shapes, but it's all pretty undefined still. It looks very good but i think it could do with some more sharpness and cleanness.
keep it up buddy!

[_Shimmer]

http://stephko.viranyi.de/folio07/personal/010_misc/001_SeaPirateLeaderSculpt01.jpg

random sculpting...

[Slingshot]

Great face Sculpt _Shimmer!

[Frozan]

yeah shimmer that looks awesome. maybe pinch on the necklace a bit so its not so much a intense vain hehe. keep it up i love the style and feel of this top bust. u gonna texture it in zbrush at all?

[ThatDon]

Very cool Slum :)

[Jaco]

Nice sculpt _shimmer!

[seforin]

Still Cracking At it, Will have upper body done soon

also concept is attached

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/newwwwwwwThing.jpg

[thefatladysings]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/skwuig/brute_01.jpg

wip of some ogre-ish model I'm working on.
not really satisfied with the way the head is heading (harhar, pun) right now

[seantree]

lookin good sef. I'm diggin the concept piece can't wait to see it finished up.

[Racer445]

i got the ao maps working right, i'll finish it tomorrow morning... way too grunged up right now. added a spec map too. need to bake my lighting gradient as well.

the label on the front is a photo, a poor one at that. i'll make the whole thing from scratch likely for fun later.

http://image.fpsbanana.com/ss/wips/44677.jpg

[Enix]

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/2015/rockleeedoneithinkwc8.png

almost done with fuzzeh

[Target_Renegade]

nice fuzzy eyebrows there.

[PolyHertz]

Lookin great Enix. using ink-paint/cartoon shader w/2048 (just assuming on the 2048 cause of the detail in the head closeup posted earlier)?

[Needles]

[QUOTE=_Shimmer;822744]http://stephko.viranyi.de/folio07/personal/010_misc/001_SeaPirateLeaderSculpt01.jpg


Holly crap!!!

That looks a lot like cousin of mines D: ... A much older/scruffier version of him ... Im extremely creeped out this right now ... O_o

[Empty]

Been busy with the NEW JOB! (Big Thanks to Low Odor for Helping me out with that). So this thing has been sitting on the back burner for a while . Heres my Zombie Cowboy.

http://www.emptyworks.com/Gallery/Zombie/ZombieBeauty.jpg
[Wires]
http://www.emptyworks.com/Gallery/Zombie/ZombieOrtho.jpg

[Frozan]

that is really cool Empty! i love ur texture work on this piece. as for the muscles on the back they look a little strange. I like ur pants idea also :)

[Vitor]

Well after too much time studying I got a few days off for the next exam so here is just a random head to get back on track and relearn the thing.

[EDIT]

Well just blocking the hair. The similarities with Johny's hair dress is astonishing....

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4428/02zq8.jpg

[hobodactyl]

Empty, I love that zombie, awesome style!

[rollin]

nice shimmer

[Japhir]

very cool Empty!

[Marshal Banana]

Looks nice, Empty, but the bullets on his belt are warping and stretching in some places.

[thefatladysings]

some more stuff, I really love the zbrush extrude tool :D

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/skwuig/brute_02.jpg

[Cody]

Sweet Zombie Empty! Solid texturing.

[Super]

Vitor, thats wonderful.

Early..
http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/ronnie/01.jpg

[SHEPEIRO]

nice zombie empty, great style

[Racer445]

finished my panzerfaust... got the aos working but i had to do a little shadow painting in photoshoop after i baked them

edit: updated... gradient is a little strong but oh well

http://sleekupload.com/uploads/am_i_a_game_artist_yet_copy_1.png
http://sleekupload.com/uploads/construction_sheet_1.png

[Ruz]

Empty - looks cool - shoulder blades look like 'ears' a little but great character overall

[MoP]

Vitor, thats wonderful.

Early..
http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/ronnie/01.jpg

please tell me that's Ronaldinho

[Super]

I'm doing a self portrait!

[BoBo_the_seal]

Empty: that cowboy kicks much ass! Very nice work.

[hobodactyl]

Hoping this is starting to look done :P

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/viking_village.jpg

[Cody]

1,800ish tris, 1024 Diffuse,Normal,Spec will fix those smoothing errors later i promise, just want to share
http://www.codywright.com/images/casket.jpg

[Slipstream]

Really cool work Empty!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/sculpt003.jpg

[Josh_Singh]

hobodactyl I really really like that!

[pliang]

Cody...how much normals are there ?

[Popeye9]

hobodactyl that is looking pretty sweet I love the style

[benclark]

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g237/goat987/Pilot_front.jpg

[Cody]

Cody...how much normals are there ?

Everything you see is normal mapped. Here it is in full resolution.
http://codywright.com/images/casketnormal.jpg

and here is wire frame of the casket
http://codywright.com/images/casketwires.jpg

Great work benclark!

[Smirnoffka]

Just came in my pants.

Fucking awesome!
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g237/goat987/Pilot_front.jpg

[Zwebbie]

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7061/hotd1lu4.jpg

I'm going to try to make such a head every day. The time to complete this one was just over two hours in total.

I think I'll start a sketchbook if it actually works out :) .

[thefatladysings]

more wipness D:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/skwuig/brute_06.jpg

[Vitor]

Well almost done, just a couple more things to fix. Was a good fun.

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/5559/03vx0.jpg

[Super]

Hopefully closer...

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/ronnie/02.jpg

[EricV]

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/9112/realtimesheeteq8.jpg

[hobodactyl]

Josh Singh & Popeye9: Thanks a lot, I'm glad someone else likes it :D
Ben Clark: Very clean, great work!

Really inspiring stuff going on! Here's more work on my environment, planning on several changes for tomorrow.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/viking_village_wipperoni.jpg

[seforin]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/moreSUIT.jpg

MORE POWER SUIT! (fixed some proportions, legs from original concept and started to add in the under armor rubbery thingy

[||Saker||]

Well ... i've started a new project with my friend ,,, you can call it a small advanture game with darkbasic ... " Sinbad : the forbidden island " ... it has a a short story line and all the design are being made on-fly ... if no body mind i'll put the progress of the project here "My designs only" ...

as the design goes on-fly ... i do't have any idea where to start with ... but finally i decided to start with characters and here is the first on " it took one complete hour to model it "u can see how am i a noob with max "
everybody say hi to "Zomourod" :-

[img = http://xs228.xs.to/xs228/08260/zamroud433.jpg ]

well .. you can see mu budget has 1500 tri's ... so i still have some tri's to play with ... i think i should add hanged wopean or a magician stick
i need your C&C ^^

[Jaco]

Use ['img']['/img'] without the '

[Racer445]

EricV: The FAMAS rifle is made almost entirely out of plastic, so I don't think it would edge up quite like that as it seems to give it a metal look. Model is looking good though.

[Japhir]

texture wip on my knight/judge dude.
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/1857/knightwipku6.jpg

texture sheet: click me (http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4656/knightwip1iv1.jpg)

[praetus]

http://www.mikebarrington.com/images/Boards/Cthulhu002.jpg

laying out muscle structure mainly...still trying to figure out how to lay out wing membrane in zbrush...may have to make that in maya. done entirely in zspheres and primitives.

[Pope Adam]

high poly practice on lamp post

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z105/williafx/lamp4.jpg

[EricV]

EricV: The FAMAS rifle is made almost entirely out of plastic, so I don't think it would edge up quite like that as it seems to give it a metal look. Model is looking good though.

by edge up you you mean spec im guessing? yeah i gotta play with it a little more, I was just getting a little fed up and wanted to get somthing out there already

[Ironwolf]

Not textured yet' but we are getting there.. one step at a time
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/deathelm/tank-4.png

[butt_sahib]

Excellent work bclark :D Love it!

Started texturing
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/1998,noghri5bUPKQH.jpg

[CoolBreeze]

creature i been working on.

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/7632/creaturefrontjh8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/4531/creaturebackel9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[JordanW]

sick design coolbreeze

[Sectaurs]

Praetus -any chance seeing his back? from this angle looks like you just jammed his wings onto his shoulders

so far everything is looking soft and noodly - everything has a soft curve and the same amount of mushy definition. get some hard edges in there

[snake85027]

benclark, very nice texture and model, you should post a shot of him with the helmet on.
Im still working away on this.
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l74/spawn85027/diffcolorforceiling.jpg

[praetus]

Sectaurs: Yeah they are kind of jammed in right now since it's still a sub-tool. Once I get some more definition and make sure the position is right I'm going to insert mesh so I can work them into the body a bit nicer. In the meantime I'll be working on less noodles as well.

[RazorBladder]

Coolbreeze - Wow :o

[Neo_God]

creature i been working on.

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/7632/creaturefrontjh8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/4531/creaturebackel9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

awesome design and good polysculpting there! I love the hanging skin on its neck. Although Why does it look like it's packing a tin of Skoal underneath the skin on its thighs? It seems like an awkward design choice to just throw in there.

[LEViATHAN]

I'll be practicing mah sculpting powers the next couple of days.

My second sculpt, focusing on the anatomy of el face and trying not to add too much micro-detail.

http://i25.tinypic.com/208k3ud.jpg

Brutal honesty shall be rewarded with a 'thank you'. :)

[Japhir]

here's an update. it's still missing something imo, so any ideas on how to improve the texture?
http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/5023/turnaroundag2.gif

[LEViATHAN]

There are only mid-tones on the texture, needs more black (shadows) and whites (edging/wear?).

[Nick Carver]

Great sculpt, Coolbreeze!

Here's some of my submission for the DEEP contest over at conceptart.org:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/oishiiniku/triton.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/oishiiniku/thumbnails.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/oishiiniku/CHOW_skipper.jpg

Head over to CA to see all the cool work (Robogabo's stuff is amaaaaaazing.)

Cheers, Nick.

[EarthQuake]

Nick: i always get excited when i see your name as the last to post on this thread, great stuff!

[Japhir]

those are awesome concepts!
and thanks leviathan!

[Tumerboy]

Squeee!!! New Desktop, Thanks Nick!

RoboGabo does have some amazing stuff, but you're the only other person that even registers on that poll LOL. Good job man!

[IronHawk]

Squeee!!! New Desktop, Thanks Nick!

haha yep! Nice one Nick

[hobodactyl]

Nick: I love the Skipper!

Got all this stuff into UT3, messing with lighting and stuff still.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/vv2.jpg

I have a few more pictures in my sketchbook:
http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=54069

[seforin]

still working on it, went back fixed legs/ proportions some more, goign on to the arms next and then upper chest/ head after
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/fixers1.jpg

[Joao Sapiro]

nick, im just speechless !!!!

[Super]

That Skipper is awesome.

My likeness may be well off but all but 1 person has asked 'who'. American forums..pfffft.

http://www.splitpoly.com/images/work/ronnie/03.jpg

[Pedro Amorim]

lolol
they arent into football. ahah
nice rendition of ronaldinho:)

[konstruct]

ronald who>??

[BrodyB]

lolol
they arent into football. ahah

No, no, we're into football. We're just not into soccer. :)

[IxenonI]

Nick, those are truly awesome! Great job.

[Rwolf]

dtxmania bootleg rockband skin...
http://www.trevortang.net/scraps/dtxmaniaskin1.jpg

[Needles]

Second time ive made this thing... i like how its coming out, im still working on the details.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/makina323/front.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/makina323/back.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/makina323/side.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/makina323/side-1.jpg

[Razorb]

Needles! fuckin love it :D akira is my fav anime ever! and one day im guna make this bike too! so its nice to see ur model.. i think ur doin a great job so far :) keep it up!

[Ruz]

ironically we used to call it soccer , its not an americanism for all you xenophobes

[odium]

Its called FOOT BALL. Heres the hint... You use "FEET" to play it.

That OTHER sissy sport you play called "football" is a big pile of pussy filled shite. Its called "Rugby". Real men don't wear padding.

[leilei]

This message is hidden because odium is on your ignore list.
I love this board software.
Anyway for the pro/competitive gaming community i have to WATER DOWN my game from near-scratch to satisfy that specific, picky vertexlit crapgraphics seriousgameronpoorass5200/7300 video card crowd :( doing 16x16 alpha test effects (http://openarena.ws/shots/ihtg/ihtg1.png) (with a lot of shared simple textures, still a long way to go (like redoing every model), looks worse than oa 0.1.0 atm)

[IronHawk]

Real men don't wear padding.

Go tell that to a pro hockey player please.

[Pedro Amorim]

settle down ladies, settle down.

[DKK]

ironically wouldnt football imply you use ONE foot just like in real mans football?

[MasteroftheFork]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v408/MasteroftheFork/madsen_wip03.jpg

[Joseph Silverman]

ironically wouldnt football imply you use ONE foot just like in real mans football?

Basketball has two baskets.

Baseball has four bases.

I don't follow.

[boomz]

http://www.roryjones.net/polygoons/competitions/barrel/barrelspin.gif
Just a barrel full of glorious, radioactive waste. Still kicking around ideas on it, probably will model some scene elements (plus emissive ooze!) and then get a better beauty shot of it.

SupRore: I am also not sure of what to say about that. Sports-talk and bickering be gone from SWAYWO!
Nick: Excellent conceptin'. Just another reminder that conceptart.org kicks ass
MasteroftheFork: Sweet sculpt. If it is a likeness of someone famous I don't know them (it looks familiar but I can't place it). If I knew who it was I could give you a better crit.

[Blaizer]

Talking about Football, we won the Eurocup, Yay!

[Japhir]

rugby is actually much more sophisticated and tactical than football ;).
i don't mind what you call it, it's still the same sport :P. i do like to play it with a couple of buddies but watching it is kinda boring, except when my own country is playing and winning hard against italy and france (the netherlands) (and then losing to russia)

[Smirnoffka]

The only type of football.
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r156245_564845.jpg

Anyway, working on some modular stuff.

http://i32.tinypic.com/nwfts9.jpg

[benclark]

Super - I think you have a good likeness especially in the eyes, but I think the lips are letting it down just now. Especially the top lip....

http://www.goalvideoz.com/player/Ronaldinho/

[LEViATHAN]

The only type of football.
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r156245_564845.jpg

Oh please, you hardly use your feet (as in kicking something other than your fellow players) in that game.

[Smirnoffka]

... The only way you can score is to kick the ball...

[GCMP]

Nice barrel boomz, I'd like to blow that sucka up with a chaingun!

[Pedro Amorim]

doing a melee weapon for cgtalk comp. hipoly done
http://edgesize.com/pics/Melee_Weapons.jpg

[butt_sahib]

looking excellent bitmap, all zb?

update on texture:
http://pinoshare.de/bild.php/2023,noghri5d4PP4Y.jpg

[Rumkugel]

Havent posted in a while.


http://www.abload.de/thumb/nubi_1kou.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=nubi_1kou.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/thumb/nubi_2dem.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=nubi_2dem.jpg)

http://www.abload.de/thumb/nubi_3ykk.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=nubi_3ykk.jpg)

She definately has some design flaws, but im not really feeling like overdoing this model again...
time to finish her up, do my best and move on :)


Cheerio.

[Pedro Amorim]

no sir. all modo

[IronHawk]

nice one bitmap. using modo eh? cool. I'm going to check out a demo of that and do that furniture comp with one of my viz clients.

[BrodyB]

She definately has some design flaws...

Yeah, like why are her feet backwards?!

But really, looking cool.

[Rumkugel]

She doesnt have eyes aswell o.O

;)

[Joseph Silverman]

Sahib, did you use Ben mathis' outdated and ridiculous noise clouds in r/g/b channels trick? There's some weird and bad looking colored cloudiness going on in your texture and it really isn't helping. Clean, well rendered details are always going to look better than unfocused blurry variation on skin. Some inspiration, maybe --
http://www.bobotheseal.com/portfolio/TitanQuest/IL_Dragonian_TQ_02.jpg
http://www.coronaleonis.com/3dShepherdL.jpg

[GCMP]

Just getting down some diffuse textures on this, crits would be appreciated.

Edit: Updated in work-thread http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=824849&postcount=18

Bitmap you go girl, don't hit me with that pipe as I turn around.
Rumkugel yeh the backwards feet is strange but not too hard to fix.

[hobodactyl]

GCMP: Those cracks don't look right. Try doing a search on Google Images for "khukuri" for some metal ideas.

Calling this done, but crits are appreciated (link to thread)
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa76/lordkhronos/vv2-1.jpg (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=54327)

[GCMP]

Hobodactyl - Wierd I thought this sword was purely Egyptian but seems like it is shared throughout alot of Asia too. Thanks man, some nice refs there :)

[Japhir]

calling it done, thanks again for the input!
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/mini/uploaded_minichallanges_images/14-character-603-1215351511-img.jpg

EDIT: oh crap, forgot to include wires :(

[butt_sahib]

ROCKs JAGPHIR! :D

[EarthQuake]

japhir: looks really unfinished, and looks like you could get the same resutls awith a 128 as well.