Landscape 2

landscape 2

Train and back to roots

Clicked render. Got bored after a couple hours and cancelled it. Dont really like the shot. I think im going to take a break from it for a while, then come back and revisit the idea. I like my train model. But hmm its just a bit shite over all.

Had some cool ideas of stuff coming through, so I figured its a good time to try and put these ideas to paper. Get some practice back into drawing again.

infinite

Not gonna sugar coat it. Today I've been playing Bioshock Infinite. Its brilliant.

Station progress and skybox

Painted a Skybox (no bottom required)

Added some lights. Dont really like the overwhelming brickwork in the background, so ill probably cut some of it back. Will bring out the train a little better again aswell. Think i may need to tone down some of the train reflectivity aswell whilst im at it.

wall

Sketched up some bricks and added a spec too.

Tilable brick wall

Tilable bricks

normal

Bricks

~Sculpting bricks, dododo

E-Cards

For my stepmother

For my Auntie and Uncle

I'm so cheap :(

Station progress

Textured up and added some details to the carriage, This thing needs some lights I feel. tommorrow I will add in the skybox and make some lamps

slow

tired today, didnt do much. Love the hobbit 

Station more

putting in more stuff, dodododo

Carriage

Nothing overly interesting today. Just adding bolts and stuff for a normal map. Oh yeah unwrapped the carriage too, but nobody wants to see that.

carriage

started the carriage. its big, and blue. silky smooth too, sorta.

TILES!

made some sorta tile texture today

Floor tiles

Made a tile texture but it needs quite a lot of adjustments and desaturation and some extra hues and variations to improve it.

girders and frames

Made some girders and frames, will build a monster from this. station... whatever

Dirunks?

Things are blurry. I blured the seams? yeeaaahhh thats a girder in the backl

Wall texturing

Getting there with this, almost finished up the texture seams. 

Wall

Just slowlying out some kit peices

wall

Most exciting thing ever, today I started a wall. so far its in zbrush. Will make some rivets and put them across the metal at the top tomorrow. texture it and make some metal girders

reflection mask

Finally figured out how to create a working reflection mask in max. easier than I expected, but took ages. 

Life drawing

Not a huge amount to show, did some life drawing. 20 minute sketch. Her hand is far too small, but damn the lack of real life photoshop means i couldn't lasso and enlarge it. never mind.

minor detailing

Just spent about 20 mintues adding in little details, will fill in some of the blank spaces with fluff so that I can build extra stuff onto the train to decorate it. 

back

So I did a Yolo. Ended up in Barcelona for 4 days.

Back now.

Today I figured out that the reflection map which I thought was defining what areas to allow to be reflective and what not to be, was just making a map to reflect. Which was why it looked completely wrong. So I spent hours looking around online to no avail how to do this. I'll just ask at work tomorrow.

Other than that, I doodled a few details onto the texture sheet for fluff details as I'm shattered and off to bed. no point putting up anything as its dull as fuck. Will show something tomorrow probably.

Backwards

I think my model actually took a step backwards today. stupid relfective maps.... MAKE NOSE SENSE. nose sense? fuck this. tired.

little progress

Started making the specular, but for some reason or other, my wacom uninstalled itself, then wouldnt reinstall, then after a restart started working. So weird. Anyways, didnt do muhc, sorted out some smoothing group issues though. We'll gave it smoothing groups full stop. it had 1. just group1. 

Zbrushing

Starting zbrushing this train up, didnt want to damage the train much, so i just sorta added some metal scratches and creases, raised the lines added in some rivets really. Basic stuff, but took a while as I learnt how to apply uvw textures and had to retopo the train due to the fact i made it low poly before and had triangles n shit everywhere. gg

Train progress

Progress so far, just detailing up stuff, though a friend pointed out I should have taken this into zbrush a while back and done it that way round. I'll look into it tomorrow as im too lazy tonight. Zombies have taken my focus too much this evening.

Darkeness and details

Bit more colouring, darkened it up a bit too as it was a bit bright. Tri count is uh... 5570 or something like that

Train

Bit more painting done today.

Train

These colours are dull as fuck, almost finished blcoking though, then i can brighten it all up and balance it out :D

Little more

Didnt do much tonight, got distracted by talk of tits, and vibrators.

Train

Just splogged some more colours on, another 30 minutes worth

Paint by numbers

Adding in colours, blocks and basic shades really, scratchy brush. no details yet. 1hr

Slowly goes the turtle

So sleepy, just plodding in more colours 1hr

Texturing begins!

Alright it may look like i've stepped back and its returning to its old grey form, i've mostly been turning the shapes form the uv's into blocks of colour so that later i can revist them and add in the details through tonnes of layers and such and it will make a little more sense. 1hr

unwrapped! mostly

I do my unwrapping at night, mostly.

Poo choo

Chugga chugga chugga, almost done. Then just some pipes to lay out on a seperate map as theyll repeat loads. and valla! painting time yolo

A picture

A picture because ive not posted one in days.

unwrapping

Unwrapping an hour at a time makes for a really boring blog. sorry

Yet more unwrapping.

Yet more unwrapping, im slow, I dont think it helps i get distracted by tv. Also runefest tomorrow, so i gotta get up really early to work Q_Q ah wellz.

more unwrapping

Sorry, another dull post tonight, just been unwrapping, more unwrapping, lots of unwrapping. well 30 mintues worth so not much. Everything is still in seperate elements really so i've nothing to show

bit more detail

Just added in a bit more detail and colour

Started a texture!

So I spent about 50 minutes more unwrapping, then blocked some colours down. I've not posted anything up recently, so i figured i should least put something. I've not made this completely tilable as once i've coloured it up a bit, ill endup merging it into a bigger atlas. I'll work that stuff more correctly later on.

Boring again

Sorry to disappoint, just more unwrapping today.  :C

started unwrapping

Just been unwrapping today, nothing interesting to show yet. The pieces are all separate elements still and its just a big mess.

Whoooowchoooo

Added some more pipes in, started unwrapping bits and a few more details here n there.

chugga chugga

Just adding in more details and fleshign out shapes. Not sure where to go with the front

Poochoo

choo choo :D another hour of work sorta