What Are You Working On? 2010 Edition!

[JFletcher]

what the.. that was ages ago, got a finish coloured version on my site now. :)

...heh, but thanks i guess ;)

[Nicholasray]

http://www.gimmik.net/Gimmik/Images/AT-AT.png

For a Hoth map i'm making for source. Also I'm still trying to fine tune my modeling skill.

[sltrOlsson]

Lowpoly coming together (: i'm at 2439 ▲ for the moment. I guess i'll land on just under 3k. To much?

http://i43.tinypic.com/6f485l.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/dxegqv.jpg

[ScudzAlmighty]

new update:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/KED_FrankenMumm_10.jpg

[{scumworks}]

Statue for my udk level.

http://www.scumworks.com/images/3d/statue.jpg

[jmiles]

@ sltrOlsson-- I like the form actually.. and the poly count seems spot on. one thing I will say is that you seem to be using one smoothing group and some of the faces that should be noticeably on different light planes should be separated. another thing.. I dont think it would be necessary to have the holes in the chamber for your low poly.. I think your normals will take care of that easily.. and have to think.. besides attention to detail or presentation.. in a game, how often will we see the actual holes in the chamber up close?... I think you could kill those.. just my opinion tho.. still solid work.. keep it up!

[sltrOlsson]

@ sltrOlsson-- I like the form actually.. and the poly count seems spot on. one thing I will say is that you seem to be using one smoothing group and some of the faces that should be noticeably on different light planes should be separated. another thing.. I dont think it would be necessary to have the holes in the chamber for your low poly.. I think your normals will take care of that easily.. and have to think.. besides attention to detail or presentation.. in a game, how often will we see the actual holes in the chamber up close?... I think you could kill those.. just my opinion tho.. still solid work.. keep it up!

I guess by smoothing groups you mean the hard and soft edges? I have them like that so that the normal bake will work properly. I get a lot of waving and stuff otherwise. On everything but on the barrel the hard edges are just for "looks" so i can see what's what.. I may be right about the holes! Maybe should but some bullets their instead! Thx for the feedback! :)

[CactusFantastico]

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo220/CactusFantastico/Junk/shades_01.png

made some shaaaaades!

[Snader]

@Cactus
You don't need nearly that many cuts for the glass (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448525/keep/Polycount/glasses.png). That aside though, it looks nice. Have you considered throwing it into the team fortress thread?

@StrOllson
Naw you're fine. In fact, I'd add a few more tris to the front of the barrel, where it looks like boolean shapes. Are you not forgetting the long thin (matchstick sized) ting near the cylinder/chambers? Also there seems to be a selector of some kind on the ref.

[Muzz]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/cavedeer-1.jpg


:D!

[ander]

http://anderavila.planet.ee/meedia/maastik.jpg

Stroll at the countryside. God I love the lasso tool. Yeah, il stop for now, getting out of hand.

[man_o_mule]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4597673945_d80bcda61d_o.jpg

just got to fix some lighting issues, change the spec on some of the textures and figure out how to keep udk from blurring my textures as allot of the detail dissapears when i move away from the building.

[Sean VanGorder]

I am currently working on an indie project with some of my friends entitled "ECHO" Here's a sneak peak on the environment we are working on for the trailer. Once we have the trailer finished I hope to make an official thread on PC to show our work and explain more of the game. If you are interested in hearing more, check out the links in my signature.

This is without props or any other effects, which we will be adding later. The lighting is also just for promotional and test purposes.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/832936/ECHO%20Promo/environment_test_promo.png

[sltrOlsson]

@ man_o_mule I guess it's the mipmaping that kicks in when you move away. Don't know how to change it though. It looks a bit to clean and uniform, maybe try to blend some materials on the brick texture? Maybe try out that vertex blending technic?

@Snader Forgot to mention that this is a WIP (: It's like 15% lowpoly stuff left and 10% HP left (: Theirs not even a trigger on this one :)

[Raider]

Bit of a current WIP of mine, any crap that looks like it could use tweaking / changing point it out because i'm going blind on this thing now, prob some obvious things i'm missing.

http://brettholton.net/images/cv10_03w.jpg

[ohnomelon]

well i think the 1P view is pretty weak, the sights look awfully primitive and the hammer is kind of boring and small. personally i think the slide grooves are too big and deep :O

also im a little confused, you've modeled the chamber and the ejection port, but the slide isn't back... those details should be above the mag, but they are above the trigger group? the slide is right as far as i can tell. anyway idk it is a wip

[Kimono]

Solid modelling Raider, a few jumbled thoughts:

-The hammer looks incredibly weak right now. It's pretty thin and generally under-scaled.
-The edges around the grip area generally look too sharp. Main offender is just behind the trigger, looks almost as if there's no bevel there.
-Some rather obvious pinching on the metal base of the grip, I'm guessing that's simply a lack of geo.
- The rear of the gun is looking rather bland and box shaped. This could be a problem with the concept you're following (if there is one) but I'd say it needs something more there. I wouldn't advise following it 1:1 but this image perfectly illustrates my point:

http://pix.pixagogo.com/S5v0VPVpA4rCMzFj!mkDWrSEORj37678BWZ9XjnjL2WDKr1yiC XAylZtcnKOgvqDJ6bPWID0SfPg6qQYVbDkJo8hZqf4NojcCg/s-120.jpg

[Rang3r1]

Hoping this is decent enough to put here, sadly I am held back by my lack of texturing skills:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/ranger1129/glock_bake2.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e72/ranger1129/glock_bake1.jpg

[katana]

Man_o_Mule: i think you did a fine job.

[CactusFantastico]

@Cactus
You don't need nearly that many cuts for the glass (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448525/keep/Polycount/glasses.png). That aside though, it looks nice. Have you considered throwing it into the team fortress thread?


dam good point, i forget sometimes that the verts dont always have to be merged. but yeah good point it does seem pretty TF2 like. ill be sure to make a "Hat" with these in the future.

also big WIP
http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo220/CactusFantastico/Junk/D9_gun_wip_01.png

[ZacD]

Sexy toon style District 9 concept.

[swampbug]

Speed paint inside a coffeeshop.


http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2ag61Q76I1qbkg3po1_500.jpg

[kodde]

That vertex blending shaders looks sweet virtousic. Any chance we can see a screen capture of the vertex color animated? :)

[sltrOlsson]

Kodde, wouldn't that be something for your shader :) Couldn't be THAT hard? :D

[Harry]

Bit of a current WIP of mine, any crap that looks like it could use tweaking / changing point it out because i'm going blind on this thing now, prob some obvious things i'm missing.

[IMG]http://brettholton.net/images/cv10_03w.jpg[IMG]

try not to fall into the trap of thinking modern guns are "boxy" or easy to model, here's some ideas...

Pistols are all about back-end detail as kimono pointed out. You'll never find something that looks mechanically the same as what you have there - the hammer couldn't operate and seeing pistols modelled like that looks rushed or ill-thought out

Give yourself some chunky details not only for visual interest but more believability. Even to someone with zero firearms knowledge a more visible mechanism will seem more plausible.

Also your slide grooves are enormous and way too deep - theyre usually machined on relatively lightly to interfere as little as possible - remember their only function is to provide grip

The rear sights would in reality be really thin the way you've modelled them and probably be dinged up real easy, usually for pistols they just have plastic molded sights, quite thick for durability. Shrouded sights like that are usually only for adjustable ones, but even still, chunky plastic adjustable sights are not unheard of, so you could go that angle for some extra detail if you wanted it.

The left side looks totally bland, most every pistol puts safety, ejection and slide release levers there for easy thumb access.

I know this paintover is looking a bit MK23, but the shape of your slide kind of dictates that. The only way to make it look less MK23ish would be to simplify it grossly (as you have) or overcomplicate it (which in the case of a concept weapon isn't always a bad thing

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2411/pistola.gif

[odium]

AT-AT.png

For a Hoth map i'm making for source. Also I'm still trying to fine tune my modeling skill.

This isn't a terrible piece but you really do need to look at your scales again. This AT-AT is a dwarf :p


shades_01.png

made some shaaaaades!

Aside from being way too high poly with too many cuts, you really do have some issues with unwrapping and filling texture space. Remember you can use 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, 1:8 etc etc sizes for textures. In this case wouldn't a rectangle texture make more sense? Also, you could mirror the glasses right down the middle and nobody would ever know. The general rule with unwrapping is you are trying to use as much space as possible on the texture without having too much blank unused waste. Sometimes its just not possible to fill it all, but take another look at yours.

[Lonewolf]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4597673945_d80bcda61d_o.jpg

just got to fix some lighting issues, change the spec on some of the textures and figure out how to keep udk from blurring my textures as allot of the detail dissapears when i move away from the building.

light looks great :poly121:

[Rumkugel]

http://www.abload.de/img/kardinalwbj1.jpg

lunchtime doodle...

hungry iz nao...

[crazyfool]

Gonna call him done :)

http://tomparkersartdump.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/frankenstein_final_1k_edit1.jpg

http://tomparkersartdump.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/frankenstein_final_sculpt_1k_edit.jpg

[GCMP]

Bit more on this, not sure about the green lights, maybe I'm just being patriotic to Polycount :poly128:

http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu196/GCMax/Sci-figun.jpg

[Rumkugel]

As a gun nerd, let me tell you that the place for the light is chosen poorly,

the light beam/cone will smash the barrels silhouette agains the wall/object where the gun is pointin at, making it useless to an extend ;)

[woogity]

excellent stuff crazyfool!

[Raider]

cheers for the crit on the gun and yer harry like i mentioned it was a wip so still had a lot of those small but important details missing, i'll probably end up starting a wip thread for it to get the good feedback (it is modeled off a concept Kimono)

[GCMP]

ahh crazyfool, great render, f***'in love it!
Rumkugel, Ich bin nicht sicher was Sie bedeuten, Klicken ;)

[Josh_Singh]

Some crap I did over the weekend, might take it further who knows:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2583729/Guess_who_wip1.jpg

[Andreas]

Looks like Freeman :D I would work more on the lip...

[Neox]

nice start josh
i'd say also work a bit more on the eyelids, it seems like the profile is pretty off, looks almost like you just painted a claystroke one the eye socket instead of building up a real eyelid

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/advices/eye.jpg

[Rens]

looking at the stage of the model, i'd say it is just an indicator stroke, use em alot to get a quick idea of where things are going. So it is not really worked out yet, give em some time :)

[ScudzAlmighty]

- resized -

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/KED_FrankenMumm_12.jpg

[Ged]

whys the sculpt look so scratchy and blurry scuds? its a great sculpt but the presentation isnt helping it, are you doubling the size of the canvas for AA before taking screens?

[ScudzAlmighty]

I am not doing that, but I may have dumbly scaled up that part of the image in ps

-resized above-

[JFletcher]

They wanted a simple backpack for that guy i made, so here's progress on that:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2259/backpackwip.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/backpackwip.jpg/)

Almost done, not gonna spend too long on it. :)

[ScudzAlmighty]

doesn't look like you need to...

diff views:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b236/mrsunfish/KED_FrankenMumm_13.jpg

[JFletcher]

Cool stuff. :) I'm drawn to noticing the different hairstyles though

[bbob]

Some crap I did over the weekend, might take it further who knows:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2583729/Guess_who_wip1.jpg

Haha, that really looks like this Danish Actor:

http://www.radionyt.com/images/feed/s_ren_malling_150.jpg

[Psibat]

Gordon freeman? PLEASE LET ME BE RIGHT

[premium]

Psibat. :) All dark haired men with that kind beard and massive glasses reminds freeman to you too? Please Let Me Be Right, cuz I don't whanna be alone here :]

[JackBandit]

Dr. Frankenstein was terrible at hiding seams. Someone should send him a tutorial.

[BeatKitano]

Still working on my futuro-girl, I'm having trouble to find a face that is not "perfect" (in the sense, "mode perfect", i'm not that good), but still peppy.

http://www.beatkitano.com/up/headsearch-1273700383879.jpg

[paulsvoboda]

A Harley Panhead Engine I've been working on - still a Work in Progress

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1255/4601980078_47a6001f3a_b.jpg

[Harry]

They wanted a simple backpack for that guy i made, so here's progress on that:

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/2259/backpackwip.jpg (http://img697.imageshack.us/i/backpackwip.jpg/)

Almost done, not gonna spend too long on it. :)

that's awesome

[downarmy]

Redid my texture 4 times on this model now its almost done

http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv339/downarmy/stukaweb.jpg

[MM]

i started making gman as well

http://www.fx81.com/gman/gman_1.jpg

[brandoom]

i started making gman as well

http://www.fx81.com/gman/gman_1.jpg

http://pondstonecommunications.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/adam-savage-mythbusters.jpg

looks like a better looking Adam Savage to me. lol.

[MRico]

That would probably be Adam's Windows 7 commercial replacement.

(Hopefully most of you guys have seen the commercials)

[ScoobyDoofus]

Some crap I did over the weekend, might take it further who knows:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2583729/Guess_who_wip1.jpg

I dont know how to say it without sounding rude, so I'll just say it. I think this is the worst work I've seen from you Mr. Singh. Not the usual excellence we've come to expect from you sir!

The sunken cheeks make him look like lumpy Gordon Freeman...on heroin. I can tell you're going for a stylized rendition but it just seems a little sloppy and thrown together.

[larolaro]

Just a new avatar :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1439/4598739085_7e5a0fed97_o.png

[hawken]

Facemakr v1.2 should be in the app store in a few days, just waiting for approval. You can now save and re-edit creations. Buttons have been re-jiggled, after realising they were too close together.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1243/4602872585_edb09dab86_o.jpghttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1183/4602872559_32b529da11_o.jpg (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facemakr/id365878157?mt=8)http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3466/4603487032_66d79d99b9_o.jpghttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3317/4603487010_4cf945f8df_o.jpghttp://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/4603486966_5bc046c067_o.jpg

[gauss]

oh how I were to download that immediately, had I an iphone. nice to see it iterated, love the colors.


a little 3d mockup-photoshop-painter combo action.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/am_panopticon1.jpg

[hawken]

Ged, Izmojuki Industrial Divinities, by Junji Okubo, lots of great designs in it.
http://www.izmojuki.com/

The book is one of my treasures, I wish I had him sign it when he came to the office once. The designs in it are so far removed from the relatively tame game work he does now, this is probably to do with less creative freedom in Japanese companies.

(below quoted from http://www.gearsonline.net/designers/ )

Okubo Junji
Credits: Gundam: For the Barrel, Steel Battalion (video game), Appleseed: Ex Machina, Infinite Line (video game)

A relatively new mecha designer that has approached the task with an almost revolutionary zeal. Starting out on the brilliant Gundam re-make "For The Barrel" he later worked on numerous games such as Capcom’s "Steel Battalion". His designs are forcibly realistic and have a unique aesthetic when compared to other more contemporary designers. He’s also one of the first designers to identify elements of "keren" in Japanese mecha design. Recently he worked on the new Appleseed few, Ex Machina, designing many of the weapons and on the upcoming Nintendo DS game, Infinite Line, creating the numerous spaceship designs.

Famous Designs: Gunboy Wilbur (For The Barrel), Decider (Steel Battalion)

[HandSandwich]

Nice work throwing Greentooth in there, Hawken. App's pretty cool too. Looking forward to messing with the update.

[hawken]

oh how I were to download that immediately, had I an iphone. nice to see it iterated, love the colors.

(works on iPod touch too!)

Nice pic by the way, where is it going? I swear you are just revealing a whole fantasy steam punk city to us over the years, piece by piece

[gaganjain]

Finished Basemesh and start to sculpt
Predator
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1152/predatorih.jpg (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/predatorih.jpg/)

@JFletcher can post wireframe for backpack

[Jackwhat]

Moar doodling, this time mildly inspired by the awesome anime House of the five leaves.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1119/4603694108_54a3e5b243_o.jpg

[Spatz]

Gonna call him done :)

http://tomparkersartdump.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/frankenstein_final_1k_edit1.jpg

http://tomparkersartdump.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/frankenstein_final_sculpt_1k_edit.jpg

great work!... i like the untextured version more...can you please share the technic for making such beautiful bark?

[Marshal Banana]

He’s also one of the first designers to identify elements of "keren" in Japanese mecha design.

What's this 'keren' they speak of?

[Psibat]

Psibat. :) All dark haired men with that kind beard and massive glasses reminds freeman to you too? Please Let Me Be Right, cuz I don't whanna be alone here :]
Yep they do. It's hard not to think that way.

[crazyfool]

great work!... i like the untextured version more...can you please share the technic for making such beautiful bark?

thanks man, yea it was super easy and super quick,

- I made a nice tileable bark texture and then edited it into a bump map (keeping a full colour diffuse also).
- Next I made a simple tube (must have smooth/even topology like any other base mesh for sculpting) in Maya and Uv'd it.
- In zbrush I subdivided the tube til I had enough resolution and then applied the bump map style texture, masking>mask by intensity (masks by the rgb intensity),
- and then turn the texture off (should show the mask in place) and then deformation>inflate until it looks good.

hope it helps :D

[Mime]

oh how I were to download that immediately, had I an iphone. nice to see it iterated, love the colors.


a little 3d mockup-photoshop-painter combo action.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/am_panopticon1.jpg

WOW, would hang that on my wall anyday...

[catstyle]

i got two things here

first is this lunchtime project minotaur that im not really taking very seriously (yet) :)

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/messin.jpg

and then still working on the gunslinger at home

excluding the head, he's around 11,000 tris with a 2048 map (head and guns will be on seperate textures). everything is still WIP, and i'm currently finishing up his weapons then i'm gonna come back and go over all the texture work and shading/lighting for the final stuff :poly122:

(ignore the head/eyes in this pic btw, they are just placeholder) struggled a bit with the leather and metal surfaces so far, and still wanna look out to push em further

hit me up with any crits, cos i wanna do as good of a job as i can on this, and ill be coming back to refine everything anyway :thumbup:

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/WIP-1.jpg

he will of course have a pimp eastwood style hat :)

edit: realised i gotta add some AO and wear/tear around where the buckle is in contact with the belts. its lookin a bit "stuck on" atm :poly141:

[felipefrango]

Damn catstyle, those are both awesome! I love the folds on the gunslinger's clothes, they feel so natural.

[Cap Hotkill]

Amazing catstyle, It Feels Very natural! and the model looks so clean and perfect! I love how you work!

[Spatz]

thanks crazyfool :) for sure helps... i´ll give it a try...

catstyle - gunslinger looks great...have you a thread for him...i would like to see more ...

[crazyfool]

great work Catstyle :D cloth work is lovely

[Josh_Singh]

I dont know how to say it without sounding rude, so I'll just say it. I think this is the worst work I've seen from you Mr. Singh. Not the usual excellence we've come to expect from you sir!

The sunken cheeks make him look like lumpy Gordon Freeman...on heroin. I can tell you're going for a stylized rendition but it just seems a little sloppy and thrown together.

yeah maybe I showed it too soon. thanks fer the crit!

[Kewop Decam]

looks great Catstyle. I think his neck might be tad too long. I'm talking only like 10-15% too long. Everything else is awesome and coming along.

[Neox]

crazyfool, very nice work man!

updated my ashitaka a bit
http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/a_03.jpg

[Stutts]

Catstyle the gunslinger is awesome the only thing I would say is too add some wear and tear on the holster were the gun has been drawn the gun

[woogity]

wild work catstyle!

neox are you going to do the hood that he wears and the red elk as well?

[GoSsS]

Wow ! Many awesome stuff these last days !!

A lil' something I'm working on for now :

http://gaetm.free.fr/3d/2010/Casque/armor4.jpg

[Ged]

very cool gosss I dont like the ear things looks like a strong design without them but that might just be me.

[jmiles]

@ catstyel-- wicked work man on the minotaur and the gunslinger. I think the leather on the belt works great and the folds in the jeans look and shirt feel natural.. on the other hand, what time period is he from?.. He looks a bit like something more modern than something out of a wild west film. I donno what you're going for here, but possible suggestions could be a pancho, cowboy hat, boots w/ stirrups.. anways.. technically.. it's beautiful man.. keep it up!

Edit: oop.. shoulda read further about the Clint Eastwood hat, and shoulda noticed the boots.. my bad.. great stuff dude..

Here is one of my final pics for my sword, I believe I'm calling finished. Crits and Suggestions still appreciated.. and you can see the other pics in my Frostmourne thread..

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=72169&page=4

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5527/frostmourneangles.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/frostmourneangles.jpg/)

[StefanH]

super awesome catstyle and gauss! i love that stuff.

I'm actually working on finishing my old dominance war character. Here is a quick peak, part of the kneeguards.

Zbrush screengrab.

http://www.stefanheinrich.com/pics/render81.jpg

[Neox]

neox are you going to do the hood that he wears and the red elk as well?

i'll probably do yakul as well, not sure yet, fur is just a pain in the ass to render, but i'm not gonna make his straw cloak/hood, otherwise i'd have to model the rest of the outfit differently and i liked the version when he was in the ironsmelter helping the ladies on the bellows

[BradMyers82]

Neox: Looking great so far. I notice you came back and blurred it in that one spot. Heh.

JMiles: I really like how that sword turned out! What did you render that in? My only crit really is with the presentation. I think it looks a little random currently, it would be better if you worked out some sort of order imo. Anyways, great work.

[Neox]

Neox: Looking great so far. I notice you came back and blurred it in that one spot. Heh.

same image everywhere and didn't want to mark it as nudity for deviant art ;)

[Medestruit]

Jmiles, I would honestly. The yellow really ruins the mood of Frostmourne, where as a blue light gives it the "cold" feeling it has in the game. Possible a little bit of blue glow in post too?

[jmiles]

@ BradMyers82-- Thank you sir! The presentation in this pic is a bit random, I admit, but I wanted to show the sword at extreme angles, where I thought the light hit it the best so you can see some of the major details, especially in the hilt. And my shots are actually real time screen grabs w/ the textured/colored background doctored in PS.

@ Medestruit-- I understand what ya say about the yellow light and the mood. It comes from my original rim lighting setup. The Key light is the blue color you see of the middle image, but I found that the extreme of the yellow light of the backside created a great opposite contrast to the front, and because of that, the blue light became a great under tone light when presented on the yellow side. It also brought out a lot of great colors in the metal, as well as the leather, imo... I do however, have the sword presented on the blue side for my layout sheet in my thread. I wanted a balance of both and tired not to limit myself to one side of the sword because there are details that are asymmetrical to the front. And yeah, there is a slight blue glow around the sword pics, as a means to pop them out.. tried to make them subtle enough not to take away from the sword itself. Thanks for the crits!

[rollin]

gauss: this is soooo cool!! maybe a bit more contrast but thats all I would find to crit

catstyle:

very very nice man

imo the folds on the pants go a bit over board , too sharp and imo also a bit too much for an jeans like material.. the shirt-front on the other hand looks fantastic, the back also is a bit too sharp folded.

love the head too

[Nelis]

Here's another concept for another RTS game, hope someone can guess which game and which unit it is supposed to be.

The wheelbase is completely whack but i just couldnt work it out. Ill take another stab at it at a later stage. procrastinating!

http://i44.tinypic.com/21vogp.jpg

[brandoom]

Here's another concept for another RTS game, hope someone can guess which game and which unit it is supposed to be.

The wheelbase is completely whack but i just couldnt work it out. Ill take another stab at it at a later stage. procrastinating!

http://i44.tinypic.com/21vogp.jpg

Command and Conquer, Brotherhood of Nod, Dune buggy. Amirite?

[Nelis]

DING DING DING! wow that was fast, good job. I guess the markings give it away anyway but im glad i reads well.

[catstyle]

cheers for crits/comments guys, very helpful to hear what ppl think. btw all the pattern work/engravings for this guy are my own designs, apart from this one on the tip of the barrel (thats out of the book which this guy is based on, the dark tower)

finished baking up the gun tonight (fuck that was a long evening...) still got a bit of tidying to do, and hopefully itll look much nicer once the dif/spec maps are on the go

here's a quick grab with xoliuls shader

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/Colt_fps2.jpg

bit pricey with the tris seeing as he is having 2 of these, but i wanted to keep it functional and nice for close ups (and its not like he's goin in a console or anything, so might as well take some liberties :P)

[shotgun]

catstyle - while this bald dude is looking mighty fine, u might want to consider ur detail spread. what is important, where should the detail go, and how to keep it consistent through-out the model.

otherwise all i can say is add some bump-wear into the shirt (its too silky smooth!) and look into his neck being too high, might be the view angle.

[Ruz]

nice character work catstyle. gun is coming along nice too.
http://www.mikerusby.com/images/manwalk.gif
http://www.mikerusby.com/images/maledefault1.jpg

naked dude waking. toes are spaced out to make baking easier. have to morph them
back in to shape

[Massbot]

Nice as always Ruz. The whole Ken doll thing creeps me out a bit, but I guess that's better than a wang flapping about in the animation :P

Jmiles - Looks great!

[Ruz]

cheers Massbot.
yeah i was thinking of giving him a fig leaf as a laugh. I might add some boxers though instead.

[aesir]

hey guys, it's pretty rare that I get to post something I did at work, but we just released a little flash game to help advertise for the upcoming prince of persia game.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/aeson/300x250.jpg

I was responsible for some of the art/animation and overall design, although design wise ubisoft was far more in control of the final result then I was. We were trying to target a pretty young age group, hence the lack of difficulty. (I wanted to make it a lot harder and more complex, but blahblahblah)

Play it here:

http://www.gamespot.com/promotions/princeofpersia/index.html

[katana]

Ruz : Just terrific...well done.

[felipefrango]

cheers for crits/comments guys, very helpful to hear what ppl think. btw all the pattern work/engravings for this guy are my own designs, apart from this one on the tip of the barrel (thats out of the book which this guy is based on, the dark tower)

finished baking up the gun tonight (fuck that was a long evening...) still got a bit of tidying to do, and hopefully itll look much nicer once the dif/spec maps are on the go

here's a quick grab with xoliuls shader

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s295/Dryn87/Colt_fps2.jpg

bit pricey with the tris seeing as he is having 2 of these, but i wanted to keep it functional and nice for close ups (and its not like he's goin in a console or anything, so might as well take some liberties :P)

This is insane, seriously. I'm doing a wild west character myself (although in a different style) and while this is inspirational it also makes me wanna scrape the whole thing. :poly141:

[Skamberin]

catstyle: I would really really love some insight into how you got your normal bake working with the shapes on the barrel and the hammer as well as the top of it.
Fantastic work on the entire thing too man, really good.

[paulsvoboda]

@jmiles - Fantastic job on the sword - I really like how it turned out and it looks a whole lot better than some of the darker versions you posted earlier. Well done.
@catstyle - Looking Awesome - really, just a great job on the gun - some of the patterns are a bit hard to make out but with if you seperate them through the texture I'm sure they'll turn out fine. I look forward to seeing all of this finished.

I think I'll call the HP done:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4605657796_69aae462e2_b.jpg

[SasoDuck]

Huge sci-fi Carrier Ship I'm making as a portfolio piece

http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp3/SasoChicken/Ship11.jpg

[ohnomelon]

Paul: your work blows my miiiiiiiind


i've just changed my portfolio quite a bit, it's still really rough :/ tcurryart (http://tcurryart.com/)

[Ferg]

ferg make robot, it WIP

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/lamebot.jpg

[sltrOlsson]

ferg make robot, it WIP

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/lamebot.jpg

hehe sweet design!

[Sean VanGorder]

High poly of a weapon I'm doing for our project.


http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv281/sXe_Seany/tigris_presentation_01.png

[FAT_CAP]

Catstyle - That is looking amazing already! What shader did you end up using? I love the details on the shoes - it gives for a really nice, believable aged leather look.

RUZ - Your animation stuff is really coming along nicely :) and the new character is looking cool so far.

[multidarek]

Nice gun :)

[DKK]

ferg make robot, it WIP

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/lamebot.jpg

you call this a lamebot.jpg? this is a coolbot.jpg, respect yo self.

[DAONEDATDOES]

Bring. It. OOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

2009 had even MORE posts than 2008.
2009 thread is available here (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=59196). So much goodness!

Some admin sticky this please ;) If I keep this up I might be labelled as the what are you working on thread bitch.

Happy new year polycount!

Cool work..Dude you stay busy, Tha'ts what I been doing for the last 3 years...Stay Cranking.

[catstyle]

shotgun - thanks for the advice, will definitely consider the detail spread once all the chips are down, i think the main problem atm is that a couple of his main focal points aren't in there yet, which I'm hoping will be his guns and his finished head. good call on the shirt being too plain, will try roughen that up

skambarin - i made seperate bake files for each piece (took longer to bake, but was cleaner and more flexibleto change stuff that way)

fatcap - thanks man. using standard one with scanline atm, but I think im gonna sort him all out with xoliul's later, the little effects like fresnel and cubemap reflections are really cool on that thing. was also planning on putting him in unreal too

thanks to everyone else too !

Paul - that is some amazing high poly work

Ferg - awesome design

[multidarek]

Nice Gun

[multidarek]

INDIANA MOUSE :)
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2165/indianamouse.jpg
http://yfrog.com/10indianamousej

[Zack Fowler]

Paul - Very nice high poly work and presentation.

Ferg - Great design. The layering and facial shapes are totally making me think of Thane from Mass Effect 2.

[mikezoo]

Haven't been up on the threads lately; some really cool stuff happing around here:)

[Kenny]

http://62.149.5.84/i5/65/47/104765/porrum2_2_logo.jpg

[EricV]

finally got around to texturing this thing. I still have some more things to do with it, and spend a lil more time with the spec

also going thru the last few pages, lots of nice work in here

ps. Gauss, I noticed your AK as well, sweet modeling man

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/marmo_wip.jpg

[CactusFantastico]

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo220/CactusFantastico/Junk/Murdoc_wip_01.png

low poly murdoc.

[Neox]

did i say i hate rendering?

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/a_03b.jpg

first hairtest

[mikezoo]

what'cha rendering your hair w/ neox?

[Pedro Amorim]

YO Eric! Sweet gun dude!! Looking really tight!


I recently made a all star shoe model. and then decided to texture it and make icons out of it. Doing a pack of icons with diferent textures/variations.

Icon 1: Converse All Star Red Clean

Save link as:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Converse_All_Star_Red.ico

Looks great on windows vista / windows 7.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Converse_All_Star_Red_Clean.jpg

Icon 2: Converse All Star Burberry Dirty
Not in .ico format yet. I need to render the other resolutions to create the ico.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Converse_All_Star_Burberry_Dirty.jpg

Icon 3: Converse All Star Grafitti Dirty
Not in .ico format yet. I need to render the other resolutions to create the ico.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Converse_All_Star_Grafitti_Dirty.jpg


btw..
Here are some images of the model.
http://www.edgesize.com/crap/072.jpg
http://www.edgesize.com/crap/074.jpg

[ZacD]

Awesome work with the shoes, I thought they were photos at first.

[Devin Busha]

Warming up for some Torchlight mod texturing..

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/134/d/c/You_have_gained_a_level_by_Devin_Busha.jpg

[EricV]

ha! Pedro, nice. you always put so much detail to the simplest of objects. impressive modeling as always

[Pedro Amorim]

HIHI.
updated the post with one more variant that i will try to convert to ico tomorrow :)

Will bake the sole to a plane so i can paint on it. Cause right now.. that sole is pretty much unpaintable.. so its so many geometry lol.

I baked the front rubber thingie to a normal also. so i ccould paint it on heheeh
weeee

[CactusFantastico]

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo220/CactusFantastico/Junk/Murdoc_wip_02.png
just head now and i can start texturing. woop woop

[vcool]

HIHI.
updated the post with one more variant that i will try to convert to ico tomorrow :)

Will bake the sole to a plane so i can paint on it. Cause right now.. that sole is pretty much unpaintable.. so its so many geometry lol.

I baked the front rubber thingie to a normal also. so i ccould paint it on heheeh
weeee

I thought they were pictures too!

It seems the shoes are of rather small size. Mine are overall longer and the white latex patch is larger.

Can you make black leather ones? :D

[Neox]

what'cha rendering your hair w/ neox?

max hair&fur + mental ray with the muhhair shader

[Asteric]

High poly of a weapon I'm doing for our project.


http://i692.photobucket.com/albums/vv281/sXe_Seany/tigris_presentation_01.png


Got more shots of this?

[achmedthesnake]

thought i might get around to finishing this, I swear!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4704618/lobgaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg

[FAT_CAP]

Last post of this guy I promise - complete with overdone DOF and chromatic abberation!

http://www.samchester.co.uk/welcome6.jpg

[brandoom]

Nice Fat, verrrry nice. :)

[vreza]

@FAT_CAP awesome render! nice chromatic abbr on that right hand

[paulsvoboda]

@FAT_CAP - Wow, amazing work man. Overdone DOF and abberation? Not at all, I think its just right. The small details you put in really make this one for me. Well done.

[AimBiZ]

FAT_CAP, that goes straight to my inspiration folder! :D

[Ruz]

Nice result FAT_CAP. I just noticed the fag packet under his sleeve. nice touch
Background really bands on my monitor. bit distracting

achmedthesnake - looks great so far. you should finish it

[Sean VanGorder]

Asteric - I'll try to render out some more shots of it when I get back to my home computer.

FAT_CAP - Probably one of my favorite 3D characters to date

[felipefrango]

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo220/CactusFantastico/Junk/Murdoc_wip_02.png
just head now and i can start texturing. woop woop

I think you should make some adjustments to your topology, I'm not an expert when it comes to this, but this looks like you'd have trouble animating, it doesn't have enough polygons on the knees and elbows to support a bend, for example.

[CactusFantastico]

I think you should make some adjustments to your topology, I'm not an expert when it comes to this, but this looks like you'd have trouble animating, it doesn't have enough polygons on the knees and elbows to support a bend, for example.

well the back of the knees have a Double V bend thing although the arms don't i almost forgot haha. i really need to start to learn rigging and basic animation.

[felipefrango]

well the back of the knees have a Double V bend thing although the arms don't i almost forgot haha. i really need to start to learn rigging and basic animation.

Hah, yeah, me too. Also, if anyone knows of a good tutorial or just an overall example of good body topology for low poly characters like this, please share.

[ParoXum]

FAT_CAP: amazing character. ;)

WIP, lots to optimize yet. And to model.?

http://uppix.net/9/6/9/ad88619552bcd28c1f47d2b773bcd.jpg

[katana]

Fat_Cap : what a long journey for that one, but that's definitely the way to do it...great job.

[catstyle]

awesome job fatcap! you should make a turntable vid for him

[Vitor]

Slowing progressing my entry for the cghub challenge:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7113/wip08.jpg

[gauss]

Vitor: Excellent detailing especially around the mouth and teeth. Looking at the missing tooth and scar make me flinch a little, nice work.

finally got around to texturing this thing. I still have some more things to do with it, and spend a lil more time with the spec

also going thru the last few pages, lots of nice work in here

ps. Gauss, I noticed your AK as well, sweet modeling man

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/marmo_wip.jpg

hey thanks man, means a lot coming from someone who had the chutzpah to tackle a way more complicated AK model than me :) material read looks very solid on yours, and despite the low light level i'd say the colors are good, too. you've got the all important blued metal/plum plastic dichotemy going pretty well. can't wait to see it finished, what a monster

[Kitteh]

finally got around to texturing this thing. I still have some more things to do with it, and spend a lil more time with the spec

also going thru the last few pages, lots of nice work in here

ps. Gauss, I noticed your AK as well, sweet modeling man

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/marmo_wip.jpg

I think your rough edging around all the parts of the gun is too uniform and noisy. Otherwise, it looks real nice :)

[felipefrango]

Slowing progressing my entry for the cghub challenge:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/7113/wip08.jpg

Nice! I love his shapes, especially his face. I'm not a fan of the circular patch stiched on his right pec though, seems kinda out of place.

[EricV]

yeah for sure I agree Kitteh, I just did some quick automated edge scrapes around the whole thing and am in the process of removing any unnecessary ones now, especially around the grenade launcher which are sticking out like a sore thumb

[premium]

Dunno what I'm going to do. Texture it or overpaint.. hmmm...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_faKTw5SuxJk/S-8i1_s8rdI/AAAAAAAAAHI/Oh-9aNcxbys/s1600/adog.jpg

[chris89]

decided to do a quick model since i haven't done much personal work lately.
Used this concept as a ref, the goal was NOT to get as close as possible: http://www.eveonline.com/tyrannis/images/conceptArt/pi_concept05.jpg

Forgot how long the model took. Texture is entirely done by hand, just 1 photo for the super ugly bright metal lazyness thing on the side. Texture took ~5hours


http://i41.tinypic.com/24n4kqq.jpg

(oh god why did i add that photo.. so ugly)

[moof]

premium> woof!

Vitor> agree with filipe, those chest stiches are odd looking. They don't ring true. Shouyld find a stich pattern that makes sense in a storied sort of way.

[Av7xrocker97]

Chris89 - I like the detail in the texture, but I think the grunge and scratches are just a tad overpowering...

[Pedro Amorim]

Final icons :) yay :)
Will post the zip with the icons later :)
http://edgesize.com/crap/ConverseAllStarCleanIconPack.png


http://edgesize.com/crap/ConverseAllStarDirtyIconPack.png

[Pedro Amorim]

Here are the download links

Clean version icons:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Shoes/ICO/Converse_All_Star_Clean_Icon_Pack.zip

Dirty version icons:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93793/Icons/Shoes/ICO/Converse_All_Star_Dirty_Icon_Pack.zip

[gauss]

ughhh ok finally finished out the hipoly (wait: maybe a detail or two on the magwell). thank you racer and everyone else who has encouraged me, now to tear out all my hair for the bake.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10_wires.jpg

[Sneekyazn]

@jmiles - Fantastic job on the sword - I really like how it turned out and it looks a whole lot better than some of the darker versions you posted earlier. Well done.
@catstyle - Looking Awesome - really, just a great job on the gun - some of the patterns are a bit hard to make out but with if you seperate them through the texture I'm sure they'll turn out fine. I look forward to seeing all of this finished.

I think I'll call the HP done:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4605657796_69aae462e2_b.jpg


Man I love how that looks, what all did you do to get that? just an AO w/ some adjustments in PS?

[zenarion]

robot make face: õ_õ
looks really cool. any chance there is a timelapse video of you making it?
ferg make robot, it WIP

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/lamebot.jpg

[Holi]

http://62.149.5.84/i5/65/47/104765/porrum2_2_logo.jpg
niiiice

[sampson]

just udk'ing an old piece.
http://i41.tinypic.com/6pry2x.jpg

[obeyurnapster]

lol awesome Leek Kenny :)


http://nsa14.casimages.com/img/2010/05/16/100516012558468465.jpg

[Vitor]

gauss and felipefrango, thank you ;) I forgot to add that the concept is not mine, the challenge is to everyone follow a single concept art provided by Adrian Smith.

[butt_sahib]

yeah vitor really loving your rendition of the character... thumbs up :)

http://i44.tinypic.com/rroaa0.jpg chaayeah

[dfacto]

Like the wall sampson.

Took me over a year, but I finally "finished" this stupid robot.
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/6240/speedbot.jpg

[EricV]

ughhh ok finally finished out the hipoly (wait: maybe a detail or two on the magwell). thank you racer and everyone else who has encouraged me, now to tear out all my hair for the bake.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10_wires.jpg


look at that! :)

[tda]

catstyles- im totally blown away by that character/gun. i've been staring at the guy for the better part of the last 30 minutes. proper sweet work mate, wouldn't look out of place in the new red dead. any chance of some wires? :D

vitor - that dude is awesome, but i echo those comments about the circular scar

gauss - that gun is hella tight, i love it.

just about finished the highpoly of this wheellock pistol now, needs a zbrush pass still. also started work on a face for the guy who'll be using it.

http://i40.tinypic.com/20trsyx.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/wk1anm.jpg

[Neox]

bitmap: really nice, dunno what it could be used for but its looking nice :D

@vitor: cool stuff!

ok worked further on the rendersetup and genereal proportions, didn't tweak the eyebrows that much, dunno why they don#t render right, will look into that later

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/a_03c.jpg

[Asteric]

A SCAR, just playing around a bit, have a lot to do.

http://i42.tinypic.com/nz3vvp.jpg

[eld]

This thread just needed one more bald scarred guy.

was a blender-sculpt test, performance went quite bad though when it became dense.

http://i40.tinypic.com/zveryw.jpg

[Sandro]

Haven't posted anything in this awesomo thread for a long time :)

Anyways, I got chance to mess around with vray.. Fun fun fun...

http://cghub.com/files/Image/063001-064000/63628/848_large.jpg

And I'm making my own scifi-ish version of doc zoidberg from futurama :)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_e01ceLJIFv8/SmYyNV_5kCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/iZ4ZpI4fPA0/s1600-R/zoidberg.jpg

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5987/docalpha02.jpg


http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5898/zooe.jpg

[Cap Hotkill]

wow, Love the Zoidberg Model! I cant wait to see it finished!

[{scumworks}]

Nice stiff' people!

UDK wip sh1t.

http://www.scumworks.com/images/3d/ruin_wip.jpg

[Pedro Amorim]

bitmap: really nice, dunno what it could be used for but its looking nice :D

@vitor: cool stuff!

ok worked further on the rendersetup and genereal proportions, didn't tweak the eyebrows that much, dunno why they don#t render right, will look into that later

http://www.polyphobia.de/public/pictures/3d/speedies/sculpts/project10/a_03c.jpg

lolo
you can use the icons on the desktop for specific folders ahah.

check my desktop
http://www.edgesize.com/crap/089.jpg

i have Clean Up folder with randon shit that needs to be cleaned and a To Do folder..

Also.. that pedobear icon (which i also did) is for lulz related material.

[brandoom]

very cool Scum, veryyyyyy cool.

[TheBlade]

Hey people, well im workin on a famas, ive only just started and got a basic block model, nuhting too impressive, but im now going to start adding alot of detail so it will look very good when im done with it. too ye..
http://i42.tinypic.com/w9b6u0.png (http://i42.tinypic.com/w9b6u0.png)
i will keep you guys posted....

Blade

[paulsvoboda]

@Sneekyazn - Thanks - It's a Normal Render using Maya Software with AO over it and then a Sharpen and slight colour adjustment in PS.

[Rapante]

nice Icons bitmap!



this is the first basic tileset of my newest personal project. it's basically a modular system of road tiles (so far) which will allow me to build up a city fairly quickly. :poly142:

it is rather low poly (694 unique tris, but 122 when instanced) as my aim would be to get this running on devices like iPad or similar spec. I also aim for a rather clean simplistic look.

Atm I am still working on the textures for this set, but I thought I'd share what I got done today.

will do another 2-3 basic tilesets with different base style (so I can make different zones - eg. commercial, residential areas etc.) once that's done I will start making buildings

let me know what you think

http://multivitamin-graphics.de/i/minicity01.png

[DKK]

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5987/docalpha02.jpg
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5898/zooe.jpg

You are my hero.

[sltrOlsson]

@ Sandro Love the style on the renders. The doc is looking REALLY cool. Looking forward to see how it turns out :)

@ bitmap haha, how is the selling going? :D They look really neat!

I'm done with the UV mapping. Maya's packing function REALLY sucks. Spent like two hours of just packing by hand. And i'm done with the bake's, and some detail work. Some text should be there to soon.. Landed on 2966 tris.. i think i'll aim for a 44 tris bullet to (:

http://i43.tinypic.com/ab2tk8.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/2elbaqh.jpg

[LEViATHAN]

Revolver

Should've kept the holes in the cylinder IMO.

[kite]

cool take on zoidberg sandro!

[MoP]

Very little progress :(

http://www.greveson.co.uk/dump/ibanez_wip_08.jpg

[Nilix]

http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/711/dolfosreferences.jpg
By nilixdelnori (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/nilixdelnori)
That's the reference. I'm also going to put scales on its body. I just didn't want to draw them on the ref.

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/5302/laprasturtle.jpg
By nilixdelnori (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/nilixdelnori)
Progress so far.

[Harry]

ughhh ok finally finished out the hipoly (wait: maybe a detail or two on the magwell). thank you racer and everyone else who has encouraged me, now to tear out all my hair for the bake.

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10.jpg[img]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10_wires.jpg[img]

Good fucking boy! (Y)

[Joopson]

God, just call it Lapras and be done with it.

haha.

Really, though, should be cool! Zspheres are a mystery to me, but they seem to work well if you know how to work 'em.
Let's hope you do.

[EarthQuake]

ughhh ok finally finished out the hipoly (wait: maybe a detail or two on the magwell). thank you racer and everyone else who has encouraged me, now to tear out all my hair for the bake.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/ak74su10_wires.jpg

loads of inaccuracies dude, i dont see the Dare Dicks logo anywhere

[Ferg]

robot make face: õ_õ
looks really cool. any chance there is a timelapse video of you making it?

nah sorry, I did it over the course of a couple random doodle sessions.

@sandro - That zoidburg is great, the bust is also sweet

[Sisqo]

Havent had much time to work on this.. slow progress

still lots of inaccuracies and missing pieces but I will finish it soon I hope.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3208/benellim4wip2.jpg

[Slaught]

Awesome work guys!

@dfacto
I love it.
Goes right into the inspiration folder!

@Sandro
Haha sweet!


Wip:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y106/Dropkick60606/catwarrior02.jpg

[Zack Fowler]

There's been a lot of great stuff in here lately!

I've been working on something more along the lines of an illustration rather than concept for once. Gotta say, I struggled a lot with this one. Need more practice!

http://www.zackfowler.com/files/zf_mech_final.jpg

[DKK]

it was worth the struggle man, it looks great. I really dig the shapes on the body.

[JasonLavoie]

I second DKK, I wish I had those 2d skill you have buddy, one day I need to start cracking down on that, you da man zack!

Oh and mop... natural finishes are icky :P Looks nice though!

[commander_keen]

nice Icons bitmap!



this is the first basic tileset of my newest personal project. it's basically a modular system of road tiles (so far) which will allow me to build up a city fairly quickly. :poly142:

it is rather low poly (694 unique tris, but 122 when instanced) as my aim would be to get this running on devices like iPad or similar spec. I also aim for a rather clean simplistic look.

Atm I am still working on the textures for this set, but I thought I'd share what I got done today.

will do another 2-3 basic tilesets with different base style (so I can make different zones - eg. commercial, residential areas etc.) once that's done I will start making buildings

let me know what you think

http://multivitamin-graphics.de/i/minicity01.png


Looks good, but if you want to use it on a portable device like iphone/ipad you shouldnt care much about instancing geometry. Your better off making it a single mesh/material for less draw calls. Also do you really need that much geometric detail? Where is the camera going to be? maybe you should just bake the entire block down to a single plane, maybe a plane with a bevel at the sidewalks.

If its for something like a GTA game where the camera is only about 100 feet above the ground and always facing mostly down then what you have should work great.

[rollin]

MoP: I've never understand your love to these strange machines which makes these scary noises but the modeling is nice!
more closeups next time though!

Zack Fowler: love it! only the tube looks to flat in two dimensions (roundness and depth)
and these pillars that hold the tube are way to simple and boring looking for using so much screen space.
in short, tube - bad ;)
but except that its looking really nice!

gauss, nice :) paint it pink and call it finished ;)

Slaught: nice proportions

dfacto: !!

[Szark]

Love it, Zack! I agree with rollin's comments. :)

[Harry]

still need to bake mag fff
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/7294/bakeroo.jpg

[gauss]

Damn Harry spot on

loads of inaccuracies dude, i dont see the Dare Dicks logo anywhere

HATERS CAN HATE BUT DARDICK 4 LYFE

I really liked finishing up the AK high poly, and before launching into the whole process of the full bake I thought I might just relax on Sunday afternoon with a little more sub-d, cement the new skills into place. Well, my complete inability to budget or estimate time meant that "the afternoon" became "all night."

but now at 5am i have another completed weapon in high poly. so there.

The Dardick 1500 pistol is a really odd duck. (Read up about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardick_tround) it's special triangular shaped trounds, twenty round revolver that cycled from an internal magazine and fed from clips. What?). It's an engineer's delight, and the market proved it a gunhaver's general horror, all wrapped up in looks only a mother could love. These days it's the essence of a rare collector's item/esoteric ammo collector's honeypot.

Anyway I think I might wait to tackle the AK and just bake the Dardick first, since it's much simpler.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/dardick15k_1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/dardick15k_2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/dardick15k_1wires.jpg


The Dardick 1500 will be featured in my upcoming game. I invite you to do the same.

ref: http://i42.tinypic.com/2hqs10j.jpg

[Harry]

that thing is all kinds of funny. Reminds me of ummm

some kind of rifle from the 50s that actually fired tiny rockets

ah here we go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet

not REALLY similar at all but like, similar level of outlandishness


PS. developing erection for Gauss

[Lonewolf]

@jmiles - Fantastic job on the sword - I really like how it turned out and it looks a whole lot better than some of the darker versions you posted earlier. Well done.
@catstyle - Looking Awesome - really, just a great job on the gun - some of the patterns are a bit hard to make out but with if you seperate them through the texture I'm sure they'll turn out fine. I look forward to seeing all of this finished.

I think I'll call the HP done:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4059/4605657796_69aae462e2_b.jpg

im gonna steal the round part details for my project, is that ok?

:o

[MightyPea]

Harry: You've got some normal errors, and I'm curious whether the backside of the grip is meant to curve inwards in the middle? It seemed strange to me, but might actually be correct, I can't be sure.
Also, it looks like you have to turn some edges, look at the specular highlight on the safety (I think? The thing on the back, up top?)

[sltrOlsson]

@ Harry I think it looks good besides some inaccuracies. Hope you don't mind a paintover (:

http://i39.tinypic.com/10wmv6t.jpg

@ gauss You have a smoothing error on the hole at the front. A really cool weapon :D

[Harry]

Harry: You've got some normal errors, and I'm curious whether the backside of the grip is meant to curve inwards in the middle? It seemed strange to me, but might actually be correct, I can't be sure.
Also, it looks like you have to turn some edges, look at the specular highlight on the safety (I think? The thing on the back, up top?)

It just looks like that cause of the envmap i carelessly slapped on. Some of the errors are probably aggravated by that too... But I know there are a couple. Im not sure what you mean about the safety, but the thing IRL is a pretty bizarre shape,
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/3888715693_6166b7f992.jpg
does that confirm whether you're seeing an error or just a weirdly shaped object?

sltrOlsson, The logo and checkering i'm putting on in photoshop, the grip grooves are on now and i'll probably put the trigger guard grooves on in photoshop.
I see what you mean with there needing to be a curve at the bottom of the trigger guard, its kinda too late to be worth fixing now buttttt i'll see if i can just fudge it by shifting polies around
I'll post an update when i have enough done to warrant an update, don't wanna keep spamming beretta pics with minor edits

[Snefer]

Page 158: MAJOR gunwank. :P

[almighty_gir]

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/1764/swordr.jpg

[ParoXum]

http://uppix.net/a/1/4/85a01b37280b13f37891737100b63.jpg

[DKK]

Oh and mop... natural finishes are icky :P

YOU LIE!

[sltrOlsson]

A sneakpeak of our second game project (:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2B02jGhMZw

[almighty_gir]

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2006/swordt.jpg

[Ghostscape]

It just looks like that cause of the envmap i carelessly slapped on. Some of the errors are probably aggravated by that too... But I know there are a couple. Im not sure what you mean about the safety, but the thing IRL is a pretty bizarre shape,
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/3888715693_6166b7f992.jpg
does that confirm whether you're seeing an error or just a weirdly shaped object?

sltrOlsson, The logo and checkering i'm putting on in photoshop, the grip grooves are on now and i'll probably put the trigger guard grooves on in photoshop.
I see what you mean with there needing to be a curve at the bottom of the trigger guard, its kinda too late to be worth fixing now buttttt i'll see if i can just fudge it by shifting polies around
I'll post an update when i have enough done to warrant an update, don't wanna keep spamming beretta pics with minor edits

Harry his comment on the safety actually referred to the hammer - in your rear view you can see your spec highlight is at a slant instead of going straight across, just means you need to turn some edges in the low poly to get that working correctly.

[snake85027]

http://i41.tinypic.com/24n4kqq.jpg
Great job Chris, Looks dead on with the concept.

[paulsvoboda]

im gonna steal the round part details for my project, is that ok?

:o

:) - please man - go ahead.

@ Zack Fowler - That's Beautiful man - all you're paintings show a beautiful use of Greens. Awesome stuff

[Spatz]

Haven't posted anything in this awesomo thread for a long time :)

Anyways, I got chance to mess around with vray.. Fun fun fun...

http://cghub.com/files/Image/063001-064000/63628/848_large.jpg

And I'm making my own scifi-ish version of doc zoidberg from futurama :)



http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5987/docalpha02.jpg




COOL STUFF! more please...

[MightyPea]

Harry, Ghostscape's right. I'm the furthest thing from a gun-nut you can imagine, hah!

So yeah, the hammer's got skewed highlights.

[Ruz]

nice renders sandro.
this is a warning never to animate when drunk
http://www.mikerusby.com/images/tard2.gif

[Snader]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/448525/Glofiish_viewport.png
mah fone. 200 tris and a 512²


edit: Ruz:
Why not? Animation looks fiiine.

[Vrav]

Ruz, that's hilarious. :P

[katana]

Ruz: omg thats awesome...a little more swagger it would be gold.

[Harry]

Harry, Ghostscape's right. I'm the furthest thing from a gun-nut you can imagine, hah!
So yeah, the hammer's got skewed highlights.

OHHHHH ahahahah


nice renders sandro.
this is a warning never to animate when drunk
[IMG]http://www.mikerusby.com/images/tard.gif[IMG]

lm*f*ao no way thats a real product of drunkenness, you purpousefully made it hilarious

[Ruz]

lol pleased you think its funny.I am a serious artist here:0)

[MartinH]

your experimental animation is growing on me Ruz! i think you updated it recently, it's got some nice marching while completely blitzed wibe now that i can really appreciate!

what makes it even more hilarious is the totally straight face on the character which totally works, since most drunk people try their best to look sober, esp in a sober crowd.

[ZacD]

COOL STUFF! more please...

Finish zoidberg please.

[Harry]

can't really fix the bottom of the trigger guard but i'm more or less done with all the baking stuff
http://harryart.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/bret.jpg

[ohnomelon]

mag is soo nice harry, also the internal details. nobody spends the time on them.

[Harry]

gotta model a 9mm and follower for the thing now bleblebleb

[woogity]

ruz: gotta be honest thats one of the finest drunken walk cycles ive seen, and back in school we used to like the walls of the lab with empties...probably why nobody from there is pro yet haha

[Ruz]

cheers for the encouragements guys. yeah I am still finding the arm swing the hardest to get right. Its a real bitch. looks ok on the silly guy, but its harder on normal looking cycles.

Gonna start looking at more reference I think.

Nice gun harry, though perhaps the presentation could be improved a little. It kind of reads as white on white right now

[Harry]

true, i always was more of a screengrabs guy than a renders guy

[EarthQuake]

Harry: whats with the seam on the pistol grip?

[EricV]

hey Harry, thats a pretty nice bake. Im not really familiar with that pistol so I cant really give accuracy feedback, but it looks convincing enough to me.

as for this thing, I am done with it. I want to move onto something else already and quick. Going to look for mod work so if any1 is looking for an artist and thinks I would be a good fit then give me a shout. For the AK I just shortened the barrel a bit and put the fire selector down. I also know some people don't really dig dark models on black backgrounds but personally I really like it, especially with this piece. Thats just my preference

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/normalMapped.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/AK_103.jpg

[Kewop Decam]

tad bit too much random color. I'd say lower the opacity on that layer a bit. The random color should be very subtle.

other than that, I like it.

[EricV]

Harry: whats with the seam on the pistol grip?

theres a seam?

[Harry]

Harry: whats with the seam on the pistol grip?

i knew some jerk would spot it. And i kind of suspected it'd be you if anyone :D

yeah.... i forgot to separate the islands, i'm a retard. dunno how much i can be bothered to go back and fix it now. I might see if i can detach and just scale it down rather than move it, maybe then i wont need to rebake AO

[Unleashed]

starting something new for practise and hopefully a decent portfolio piece
http://wip.thelebaron.com/female.JPG
currently redoing the hair, why does hair have to be so hard :(

[thorisle]

ericV : awsome looking AK

[sltrOlsson]

Looks really nice harry. Clean bakes - but i have to say, that little seam will disappear when you'll have a diffuse. Some cheating is ok! :P I have a beretta lying about to myself, maybe try to finishing that one up :P

[bejkon]

Animateeon


Edit: Link fail. Thanks for the headsup Gauss. I'm a drop-box noob, thought I just could link it :poly136:

[gauss]

EricV: looking great. I disagree entirely about Kewop's comment about "random color", one of my biggest complaints about gun modelers is that they fail to capture the wide range of hues you find in a good metal finish on guns. Lots of deep, rich tones--purples, blues and on. Really an impressive piece and I agree with your personal preferences in presenting it, but couldn't we see it in other lighting environments too? :)

Unleashed: I really like what I see so far, keep it up. Face has a lot of character. Skinnier anatomy on women is tricky. In life drawing I found that all women have curves, it's just that on the skinny chicks the curves are way, way harder to capture. You look on track to do a good female model with low body fat.


bejkon: link doesn't work for me, 403 :\


As for me just a little more work tonight, built the carbine adapter for the Dardick. Just further cements it as a unique weapon. This was harder since I could find all of two reference images for it that were not all that detailed.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4726438/AM/dardick15k%2Bstock.jpg

[ZacD]

<- I made a new avatar

[Harry]

Looks really nice harry. Clean bakes - but i have to say, that little seam will disappear when you'll have a diffuse. Some cheating is ok! :P I have a beretta lying about to myself, maybe try to finishing that one up :P

i went back and fixed it up anyway. Damn earthquake shaming me into it

edit: whoa gauss, could i see this fabled ref pic? the structure of that thing just looks bizarre

[gauss]

Yeah it's a weirdo add-on
http://i44.tinypic.com/nmyiyc.jpg

[Harry]

yeah that's just plain dumb

[e-freak]

http://www.abload.de/img/stereog50b.jpg

[woogity]

working on a Dragonborn for the folio mostly wanted to mess with the anatomy of the character, because as they are commonly depicted now they dont look like they are descended from something that could fly...nerdwank... anyways in the interest of not giving tmi here ill start a thread in a bit for wips.

the sculpt is super rough now and im going to retop it before i refine anything so please keep this in mind:)

unleashed: looking pretty good, but take another look at the hands please the thumb placement looks painful.

http://www.mattdavis3d.com/photos/Speed-Sculpts/CharacterStrip-DB-01.jpg


-Woog

[Muzz]

Nice job unleashed. Though you should watch the boobs, they look like they could be latexed onto a flat chest right now.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e305/muzzoid/40.jpg

[Zack Fowler]

EricV - That looks pretty sick man, nice clean work.


It's a couple pages back now already (wow!), but...

rollin: Thanks for the crit man! You're definitely right, I need to do something better with that foreground pipe and supports. Some parts of the mech could use more definition too, I think, and more linking between the colors of the env and the mech.

DKK, Jason, Szark, paulsvoboda - thanks dudes :)

[arrangemonk]

@ ruz, this animation looks like it could fit onto a zombie

[EarthQuake]

i knew some jerk would spot it. And i kind of suspected it'd be you if anyone :D

yeah.... i forgot to separate the islands, i'm a retard. dunno how much i can be bothered to go back and fix it now. I might see if i can detach and just scale it down rather than move it, maybe then i wont need to rebake AO

=D

Yeah these things are killer to me, some may say you wont spot them, but they break the HP feel and cause aliasing(as you can see in the shot) that no amount of diffuse work will fix. Anyway, looks great otherwise man. Next time force on AA in your video drivers, i probably wont catch it then!

[MattBradley]

New developments on Spectrum with Pior's character. She changes colour based on what light you're standing on (even though she isn't on any light atm). It's much more consistent now than it was. All dynamic, in game.

(Hope you like what I've done Pior!)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2973221/SpectraWireframeGun1.jpg

[brandoom]

hey Harry, thats a pretty nice bake. Im not really familiar with that pistol so I cant really give accuracy feedback, but it looks convincing enough to me.

as for this thing, I am done with it. I want to move onto something else already and quick. Going to look for mod work so if any1 is looking for an artist and thinks I would be a good fit then give me a shout. For the AK I just shortened the barrel a bit and put the fire selector down. I also know some people don't really dig dark models on black backgrounds but personally I really like it, especially with this piece. Thats just my preference

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/normalMapped.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/AK_103.jpg

Great work man, the gun looks awesome!

Would you mind posting you textures? I'm in the midst of a gun, just about to start textuing, and would love to get some ideas from your work. :)

[EricV]

hey thanks Brandoom, its not perfect, still some work to do but sure. (I posted the flats also in my thread btw)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5559441/Maps.jpg