I recently made this set piece for a desert level I was working on. Here is my work on it at various steps!
The first thing was to draw a concept-- this took a few iterations, but by this point I was pretty happy with it.
Next I built a base model to import into Mudbox. The base model is a very simple shape that just gives us a good start to sculpt from. A good base model uses quads to avoid issues with pinching that can show up while sculpting, so I fixed up some of the more obvious triangulated areas before moving on.
Here is my first stage of sculpting, where I try to get the larger features finished before moving on to the finer details. This is where it really starts to look like the concept.
Finally, after making the game-resolution mesh and "baking" down the details, I am able to put it in the engine. Because I intended this model to be the only one in the level, I didn't have to worry about optimizing it too much, so it was pretty fast and easy to make.
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Looks very good, nice work!
+1
love the final piece, very realistic!
Wow, it looks life like!
Nice weathering effects on it!
While your descriptions make the work sound effortless, I commend all the time and effort that we all know goes into it. Some wonderfully skilled work. Great to see the project progressing so well.
Optimizing it? I'm curious, how much do you normally optimize things? Your base mesh looks very low poly (which is a good thing), and is there that much you can do to optimize a normal map?
Just curious, because it looks amazing and yet still like it shouldn't hog too many resources.
He means he made a new model from the high poly mesh, or atleast thats what most artists would do.
the structure looks real!
Looks amazing, the statue that is.
Wow really nice!
is that the colour reflecting from the sand onto the structure?
From reading the headline, at first I thought this was a "Rabbit head-set" ;)
Why does the model look distorted in the ingame shot? Is it the camera view that does that?
Looks really realistic to me.
It's very very very cool! The way you made it look like its real - Keep that work!!!
ooo vair nice good work!
Amazing :D
Aww, that bunny face looks so cute ^.^
amaZING paralax ,i fisrt think that was photo
thats pretty gangster id say...
I think this game is a myth
good, love it
So real! Eyes... burning!!