#captkiro

[kriscrash]

captkiro replied to your post: nicktrpkovski replied to your photoset: ...

you gonna take this into zbrush?

Nope. We don’t have the budget for a license, so I told my boss there wouldn’t be normal maps (other than for chainmail and stuff I can photoshop). The characters will be pretty small on screen, the 10K poly budget is actually overkill but I figured there might be victory animations or something else happening eventually, and 10K is around what I can do in the time I have ‘cause it’s a resolution I’m very comfortable with. So yeah, I only have Photoshop and Maya LT to work with. They also do not require the highest next-gen fidelity, because it’s their first game and they are happier with “good enough”, and “within budget” (near-zero budget). tl;dr Modelling it oldschool.

But if you were asking about that elf there, maybe I should! I really did get out of the habit of zbrushing things, didn’t I!

[kriscrash]

captkiro replied to your photo “I also really can’t decide what sort of poly count to work at?? Like...”

i work in zbrush a lot but usually try to keep my base model at around 40k

Thankss, but what about the final character? I think our Bäckanäcken nixies were around 80k but I suppose the manual topo work was only ever 20k.

At some point during rigging I asked the art director if I could use a higher subdiv and then we’d not worry about tessellation or displacement at render time, she agreed. But yeh I don’t really like working with characters that high res.

[kriscrash]

captkiro replied to your photo “I retopo’ed the face a few times, jeesh, rust really sets in when you...”

It looks like clean geometry

I’m glad you can see that without the wires showing! But you kinda can, can’t you

There’s some old versions. I still gotta add a bit of stuff and clean up those details.

[halehollowell]

captkiro replied to your link “˜Geometry - Bat’ by kerkopes”

Wheres the red bubble link?

its the top name but its here too

https://www.redbubble.com/people/kerkopes/works/32128635-geometry-bat?

[kriscrash]

Yep! Added about 5mm, just wanted to keep the seam as the fix point. What I posted was basically a UV unwrap, no idea how else to make this. Anyway, I should be done sewing it in a couple of weeks --b

[kriscrash]

captkiro replied to your photo “I was trying to 3D model thick legs thing but popped back to do a...”

yeah I wish I had better hardware to really push those polygons. I'm tired of crashing all the time.

Sometimes Zbrush is in the crashy mood! Thankfully my home desktop is fine, but the surface pro - while being OK in terms of plain performance - has no GPU which makes it a little janky and glitchy for 3D work. Additionally it’s not ergonomic or comfortable to use for it, so I’ll have to get an USB splitter so I can hook another tablet + keyboard to it to do that kind of work. It could be a lot worse, but the lack of hardware is slowing me down. We should hear back from our next application for funding in June.

[kriscrash]

captkiro replied to your photoset “Over 1000€ worth of IKEA furniture yields a lot of cardboard. No real...”

so much ikea

a PAX wardrobe system will take you a long way towards towering amounts of cardboard, since the customisation means every part comes individually wrapped. Also it stores a lot of clothes.