Ethics Be Damned! - Year 3 University Project.
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EDIT: Please go to the last page for recent updates! I love hearing ANY feedback/ideas you guys have to offer!
Hey there, just started my 3rd year and Im currently working on a 2.5d "horror" game, I can give details if theres any interest but I mainly plan to use this thread for feedback. Im the only artist working on the game besides animators so if all goes well Ill be flooding this thread with related work.
And of course, feedback is greatly appreciated/encouraged! please dont hesitate to ask for sheets/better pictures etc.
Main Character (current WIP)
Replies
-Gramophone presented slighlty better (and still a WIP)
-Wood Panelling
UDK
Also, calling candlesticks done unless anyone notices any massive flaws I havent
If you have to fill an entire game with assets all by yourself, painting at this crazy high resolution will also just take unnecessary time. I would consider creating these textures at a much lower resolution to begin with. If you paint a texture at 2k and scale down to 512, you will just waste a lot of your hard work.
Just some context, its set just after WW1, the character you play as is a doctor whose wife falls into a Coma and he tries everything to revive her but eventually turns to more occult stuff when he finds his fathers book in his library (he is well off) - he starts sacrificing his patients, stealing limbs/organs etc and even performs experiments on his servants.
started sculpting, plan to retopo in 3d-coat. This is very much a work in progress, any critique is more than welcome!
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The low poly head is 512x and roughly 800 polys, no specular yet (using Diff as a palceholder)
Id LOVE some feedback on this!!!
I love the exaggerated coloring in the face. It's one of my favorite parts. Have you tried a more blueish hue for around the chin? It might be worth testing out. It's really green at the moment and I kind of wonder what it would look like if that green was tinted a little more blue? Anyways, please post more
As for the head, Ive tried to draw from a style of classical painting, I remember they used colour to break up the different parts of the face and these colours would correspond to blood flow in certain areas ie. redder areas = high blood flow. However I think Id be better off sticking to the red/blue side of the spectrum for he diffuse and then possibly hinting at some greens in the specular.
Again, thanks for the crits, always appreciated
Ive been racking my brains on this for a while now and Its giving me a headache xD this is where my inexperience in character modelling becomes obvious with my lack of planning.
Im not sure whether I should just bake it all onto a fairly low poly mesh or try and add some geo to the detail ie. the edge of the waistcoat - ANY help will be so appreciated you wouldn't even believe =P
"Only when we loose everything are we truly fee to live
-Tyler Durden"
@Uohm I guess hes a shrewd man, he tries to keep up appearances to avoid looking suspect, his recent unkemptness is because hes literally just escaped a collapsing building =P
@Frizztank, Thanks for the kind words! means a lot
And of anyones interested/wants to critic wireframe etc hers a Sketchfab (just wanted an opportunity to use it as its awesome)
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I just quickly drew over your head to show you what I mean.
It gets a little complicated with the moustache on there though. You might want to make it a separate mesh?
There arent plans for much facial animation apart from the eyes/brow, as for the mustache, I made it part of the face for ease of painting mainly but I tried to keep the topo as close as possible to what you advised.
I really dont have much experience with facial anim but do you think the brow etc would still deform properly?
Once again, thanks for the time taken.
I'm just a student too but that's sort of my thought process.
Definitely both valid and relevant advice though :P
Some picture frames, mostly modular (I have some space on the UVs for additional pieces. the round frame and the "flourishes" are all just alphas on a flat plane. (1st image UDK, 2nd Marmo)
Some tiles - this variation is for indoors ie Pantry/Cellar but there will be an outside variation with moss/weeds etc.
And current progress on the character model - still very much a WIP but I have plenty of time to go back and work on this whenever. Im not very happy with the collar area atm.
As always, give me your critiques! tear my work to pieces!
Just one question, how did u get texture like this? it's handpainted?
@Medochrea - Yes, it turned out that it did, I had to go back and cover that up by filling in the crack with dirt etc.
Started work on a clock tonight, there are still fittings etc to be done - The wood is very flat and Im not very pleased with how this is turning out but I must battle on.
Thanks for the comments so far guys!
Wires if anyones interested. 504 polys. 1k map
@Azzamat, I totally get what you're saying but the wires dont show the geo inside the clock, the chains are just alphas but the weights have geo so it all looks fairly 3-d.
Started work on the female character