What is everyone working on? #2 Thread

Agreed, I think he just needs to add folds to the clothing and the gloves. That should help finish it. Unless cartoony is what he is going for, if so it's great!

@SinKing: The Pillar looks interesting, I wish you would include a background on why it's important lol. The car looks pretty interesting too in a toy car kind of way. Imo the car needs more reflections and a better front bumper. Maybe it's just the render from the engine but I like it so far.

I don't think that's entirley true; I do like it when people do a good abstract model, though. Yet, good character modelers are experts at anatomy and sculpt muscles where they are supposed to be. It is very important to get these features right, at least if you want to make anything realistic/human. 

About my models:

the pillar didn't have the right smoothing groups, then. I fixed them (partly, sigh...), however I'm still not happy with the look of the texture. Trying something else with it, at the moment. 

what I learned from the car is to bake in parts next time. If I had kept the bumpers separate, I'd have a better baking result and more control to tweak it, now. Afraid all I can do with the car now is add some dirt splashes to the wheelcages and bumpers. I thought about adding an antenna, to enhance the RC look. Important for me is to see the import to UDK works well and there are no errors on the models.

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@ Jimmi
I like the mech, i think it will go well in your fast paced game, will it melee with those swords?

@Sinking
Your modeling is getting very good sir, the pillar is impressive, however dont go to heavy in zbrush unless you intend on modelling those heavy details into the base mesh. I like the car, the skin is low res but it doesn't put me off, i think the engine showing would have worked great and added some more character to the model.
 
Myself, i spent 4 hours today making a epic armor set for the bear shown below, however it was lost in a crash... boo.

MrHeadv1
So i thought i would have a go making a head and after watching this guy, Set to work, you can see a horrible WIP of the head in the bottom right.
Even though i have modelled for a long time, this is my first fully sculpted head, its not anatomically correct, but i think it has character and for a first attempt im pretty happy with it.

Hempie V4?
This model i showed before but i got bored so made him some rough clothing, this was all revamped today but lost in a crash.
If i become happy with this, ill try and export it into unity and test it out.

Scythe
Just a something i made when i was bored, thought it was interesting enough to post.

More stuff in mah bloog.

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I cant see a seam, can you post a wire.

Jimmy, I think what might look good is if you separated the characters more by means of their colors/materials. They seem a bit camoflaged in the environment. Their colors could be more saturated or have some detail that makes them pop out a bit. I only now realized these were animal themed Mech. The dog face is really quite interesting, but looks a bit alien on that body. 

@Tkaza - there are no seams on that mesh, because it is a fresh bake from a new loypoly. Apparently I got these seams earlier, because my LP model pillar didn't quite fit match up.
About the polycount: I think this pillar is okay, because you would only have a few of them in a map. I just didn't want to go beyond 1.9k polygons for the lowpoly.

I'll have to go back and switch the pillar's valve wheel with the one from the older bake. Hope I don't forget. Overall, I'm really happy to figure more and more out, almost every day. It's insanely rewarding to finally put these programs to use and see that stuff in-engine. During studying 3D was mostly dry to me and boring or annyoing. Now it becomes much more fun. Only took three years, lol...

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SinKing: They weren't meant to be animal themed mechs.. More like mech themed animals At some point I also thought that player character was a bit ghost like. Then I also thought of those self-transforming machine elves, don't know if I've ever seen any, more like the words just fit into this character.

TKAzA: That tree looks kinda like a cross between Bart Simpson and the aliens from the series. Just missing the tentacles or roots...

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Some changes to the player model. Fewer polys, bigger eyes, some thingys in the back. I think the previous details made it look too ordinary and that the different parts should have been connected together. The second pic shows some mockup colors that could be when it gets damaged or the team colors. But it probably is confusing if players and monsters get these same colors to show their health status, and if there were any player team colors with these colors. So I'm still a bit unsure how/if I should do the damage textures.

very cool stuff. here's something I've been working on:

Enjoy

There's some great stuff on here, it's great to see everyone progressing their art skills! The old destroyed pillar is on my to-do list of 3d learning, for now though I'm focusing on my 2d art skills, predominantly colour theory:

Heh, Lightflare. I like the helmet, but I don't think his head would fit in there ^^ Proportion and clothingwise I kinda thought it's a boyscout, or at least not a grown up. Is that about right? Remember the "S" shape of the human body. Giving the legs a bend now will make it easier placing bones and animating, later.

Been working on a rifle model, and now I make a piece of modular corridor (ceiling, walls, floor) to place it in. Hopefully, I'll have an update this week.

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@SinKing, haha that is the style, helmet was meant to be bigger than the head so it'll look kinda cute . He's a soldier anyway all the details would be in the texture itself i havent think about how would i texture it since i have no ref at all just something in my mind.  
For the bones, i'm about to use CAT though never tried it for non accurate human anatomy(in other word: cartoony) and yeah S shape would be great thanks for reminding me i'll try the best.
Btw, Nice rifle there

Very nice sir!

@Jimi, i think it needs more animation, seems to static, and you never replied to my pm...
RE: The bottom teeth are modelled and normalmapped, the top teeth are just the model baked onto the normal map.

@Sinking, im really digging that rifle, every time i look at it, i think how awesome it would look with some attachments.

Myself not me ranting about 3dcoats epicness, playing around with unity...
Here I was testing cloth physics with a tessellation shader, seemed to work in interesting ways, could develop into a game idea.

And here's a shot of a million polygon buggy in a model viewer I made in unity.
Its nothing special except the fact, unity can cope with this much data and render realtime shadows over a mesh, and it works on pc, android and web... simply fantastic program to take with you to a portfolio interview, why show static images when they can see your models in real-time, zoom pan and inspect them in detail.

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