Hi, I'm liz, and I'm using this thread to show some WIPs. Enjoy!

Welcome to Polycount, lizzzzz.
Unfortunately none of your images are showing up (or did you not post any?).

If you do, make sure you use an image site like Imageshack or Photobucket to host them. Then just link it from there.

no pictures... :/

I suggest you mess with the opacity a little.

Originally Posted by Moosey_G

I suggest you mess with the opacity a little.

Heheheh.. Good one

Welcome to the board, Liz.

too much burn tool

ahh yes that Casper character looks awesome ;)

p.s.: I see dead people O.o

Amazing rendition of the Higgs Boson!

Originally Posted by Skamberin

Amazing rendition of the Higgs Boson!

It exists I tell you!

oh wow, ok im here now.


The Subject:


So now to make the Hi Poly Version:
*using maya 2009*

Here was my first go around with critiques made while polycount was being slow to activate my thread...:P



In addition to those critiques, I also skipped out on some detail on the wooden base.. >.>
<.<



So here was my second go at it.





Ok so issues with the wireframes..
Using two methods there, PolySmooth (up one subdivision) and then Maya Vector Render in the first sheet.
Disadvantage: Can't render smooth without going up one subdivision

Then the second method I used Maya's High Quality display, slapped on a surface shader, and screen captured it.
It's not really working for me.

Any suggestions of how to Render a high quality wireframe in maya without MayaVector?

Hey! Welcome to polycount, liz!

ok now, no joking about her models not showing up. She is still waiting on her post to be approved.

WELL from what im seeing it looks great ;D

The model looks great, are you going to do a low-poly bake?

Also, as far as wires on a render goes I generally use Multitool for my wireframe renders.

yea, im gonna do a low poly of this model real soon

very nice Lizzz and welcome ;)

AAH Ok so my first low poly ever...

First draft:


Checking the silhouette:


Having major issues around the speaker at this point:


Some pointers from raul, thanks raul!!


So at this point, I've spent a majority of my week trying to just get normal maps to work in general rather than working on my real maps.

I made sure that my speaker lined up perfectly with the high res mesh, but still even in my "final" go, it doesn't look quite right. I noticed that even without the normal map, the light didnt seem to be bouncing off consistently around the edges... so if anyone has any thoughts on that...

oh, and yea, I gave my color map an alpha channel for the record, and also tried hooking that up in the transparency, and it seemed to ignore me, here's my alpha if anyone can see something immediately wrong with it:



With all that said...
Here are some sheets:


Color:

What I think what gives it the "not quite right look" is that your normal map looks really flat... looking at your highpoly model it seems like the floaters arent wideenough to get casted onto the normal map properly.

(exactly like it is described here http://wiki.polycount.com/Normal%20M...High-Poly_Mesh

Your diffuse is fighting against your seemingly hard work on the high res. Give it some love or it just breaks it entirely. gradients are nice and all, but it doesnt look like you are attacking the color in any logical manner. Beat it up! Paint with a bit harder brush and commit some color variation in areas where its actually tarnished instead of soft gradient over the whole thing.

I totally agree about the gradient thing... lol looks very CG. The gradient could be a starting point for colors... but needs to be painted over.

the current texture, looks like a good starting point to start adding detail. liz u need to do more props!

OK time to start something new! This looks fun!

You have a TON of wasted triangles at the end of the cylinder. You should be using more tri's to help your silhouette. If its not helping your silhouette then you should be doing more with less. 2924 is to high for an object that size. For an FPS at least.

I found another shot of the same phone... might help you out:

awesome thank you so much! I'm ready to get down and dirty into some detail!