All of this work is incredible... I admit that even if I know this is a 3D scene, it still looks much more like a 2D painting! Fantastic, I saved every screenshot for inspiration!

Really good work and very inspirational too.

nice!
banner well deserved, this is some super inspirational work

congrats, awesome work!

nice work

I was following this along the way, and love the end result and amount of work you put in. Great job, and it looks like all that hard work is really benefitting your most recent stuff!

This is absolutely amazing. I loved the render especially when you compared it to your concept. Great job. The cow is adorable.

If I have to give some suggestion, then: I love your close up shots more. I think for your big shot, you could work more on your lighting, either make your light more intense, or more saturated. I think the values on your concept doesn't have that much contrast, with hand painted textures, it is very hard to achieve the exact effect. If you have tried out your textures on your models early, you might find it easier to compare and adjust.

can't believe i'm only seeing this now
beautifull work and strong/readable silhouettes/style
very nice balance between colors aswell.

What did you use to sketch this?

Originally Posted by Jessica Dinh

It's nice to see the variation in the designs, seems your bridging two cultures?

Pretty clean and efficient model with a good uv to boot. Cant wait to see your texture.

to piggyback on what Haiasi said-knowing the technique he suggests you could paint the textures of the materials you need first and then UV the obect to fit those tiling textures.

:] Thanks for the congratulations everyone. Aminos - I appreciate the critique on my lighting, I have much more to learn about it! ivanzu - a pen and some gray Copic markers.

Thanks for the answer,really great and inspiring art!

wonderful

Jess, it was awesome seeing this all come together. Great work!

Congratuelations, you realy earned your reputation

I read through the thread a while back, but didn't have an account here yet. Now that I do I'd like to also like to compliment the production you have put a lot of dedication to. Just going through the thread taught me many things, and I really enjoyed seeing the progress shots of your texture work, including the colour palettes and reference material behind them.

Here comes another thumbs up!

This is a fantastic scene! Such style and quality

Originally Posted by Jessica Dinh

Thanks jimmypopall!

I'm glad you're enjoying my thread bbob, and thank you lots for your advice on style vs. technicality; I will keep it in mind

As for progresss, I know it's been awhile since I've updated due to drama with curriculum at school . . . sometimes makes me want to drop out -__- But anyway! Here is a tree. Planning to create a color variant of it, either bluer or yellower, not sure, and also a cypress sapling:

500 tris. This tree is on a 1024 x 1024, but only half of the map is shown here since the other half is currently empty, as I am planning to fill it with other things.



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The body of the tree here is split in 4 256 x 256 sections, of which the center two are tileable for extending the length of the mesh. The body is also tileable horizontally - thus the tree is mirrored in half with no seams. That little section of tree on the right side of the map is for the alpha cards sticking out of the tree.



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Critique and comments welcome,
Thanks! Jessica

Hold long did it take to paint this?

ivanzu, altasa, Sayanora, floon, Nina I., Teessider - Thank you all very much :]:]

frell - That one was fun! something like 12-14 hrs if I had to guess.

Sharing this with my class. What an awesome thread. You're an amazing artist Jessica, keep it up!

And thanks to everyone who's provided all these great tips

Dang, this thread made you famous!

great style, makes me want to paint more

Jessica Dinh, I knew her before she was famous [/hipster]

*Dons lensless glasses*

Really cool but i think this is a good example what computer gaphics lacks in: silhouetes. You tree looks awesome but compared with the diablo 2.5tree tech it's not close enough to a painting.