GAMC #4 - Psylo

[Psylo]

Hi guys,

I'm entering the contest my first one here

Still in early beginning of modeling :

[Psylo]

Little update :

Triangles cap almost reached will have to do a few optimization to add more details in geometry.

[Psylo]

I'm done for the lowpoly subdiv time now

[Doolodes]

You have two more fan blades then needed. That's a way to cut back. I have 16 blades rotated 22.5 each blade.

[Psylo]

it depends on the width of your blades. Anyway I just have 18 triangles per blade, saving 36 tris won't help me a lot

I'm okay with the polycount, but thank for the com, it's always appreciated.

[Psylo]

High poly in progress, do not hesitate to c&c :

[urgaffel]

Not much to crit really, it's looking good. I'm guessing the little support piece on the right hasn't had any highpoly loving yet? Oh yes, one thing that stands out a little bit is the pipe that goes from the box on the top down behind the support piece. It needs a few more segments to make it a bit more curved if you have a few polys to spare. It's a bit too angular now imo

[Psylo]

first of all, thx for your com urgaffel. You're right I added a few segments to the pipe now it's fine

Now a little update :

high poly finished (will add a few more details to normal map directly in photoshop)



And my UVW layout (I stacked every fan blades and hope it will not be too ugly) :

[urgaffel]

Good ammount of detail and pretty good uv layout too. Will be cool to see the progress.

[Psylo]

After a lot of problems with normal map baking I re-did my UVW layout 2 times and also had to modify my high poly.

Baking is now done and I started texturing. Just diffuse and normal map here. Still a lot of cleaning and detailing work to do.

An advice for those who haven't started lowpoly yet : 1024*1024 map is very small for a big prop like this one. It's kinda hard with small details.