Revolver status: done!

As always I left the blog to the flies and forgot to post stuff here. Well, the revolver I was working on was completed many months ago but I failed to post it here like the lazy man that I am.

Anywho, here are some nice pics from the revolver. The tricount on these beauty is 5417 tris and 3 2048×1024 maps.

Wireframe

Textures

This is a new piece I am working on at the moment.

In between 3d works, I managed to make this revolver. So far I only made the hipoly. I plan to make the lowpoly soon and then the textures. Hopefully the textures will look like the the render I have going on now.

So, some info about this piece. This model is based on a concept revolver by concept artist Timur Mutsaev (Principal Concept Artist at Crytek). The concept for this revolver lacked some ironsights so I decided to model a laser pointer that you can get in stores and tape it to the barrel for some added looks.

Hopefully it will look great when it’s in gameart form.

Some videos of the modeling process of the Paintgun Flametrowher.

This isn’t a tutorial or a tips and tricks video. I just like to record my modeling process because later on, when i’m viewing these video myself I catch little things that I can modify in my workflow.
But you know… if you catch some tips while watching these, well, great

Final product here

Note: Somehow, when I encoded the video I set the width to 1266*738, which means that vimeo won’t show the video in HD.
So, you might want to download the video to your computer to watch at a better definition.

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Since I to upgrade to Vimeo Plus I decided to post here some videos I recorded.

The first one is an oldie. It’s the video of the clothespin I made for my first post.

Final textures of the portable flamethrower.

After a few days off, I came back to this and finished it. Below is some screenshots taken inside 3dx max viewport using 3pshader. The final tri count is 5484 and is using textures with 2048*1024 size. More pictures bellow.

Wireframes

Textures (Difuse, Specular, Gloss, AO, Normals)

Hope you like it as much as I did doing it. Will post some more new stuff in a few days.

Just wanted to post the current status of the homemade paintgun turned flamethrower.

Just in case you’re wondering i’m still working on this piece. Learning tons of new things as I go along.  Right now, I’m on the texturing phase of the model. When everything is ready I will post lots of pictures. Wireframes, texture sheets. You name it.

As a little tease, here is a bigger version of the frontpage image.

Before I go, I’ll just leave here some model infos.

Currently the model is using a 2048*1024 normal map and sits at 5368 triangles. The shot above was taken inside 3ds max viewport using 3PShader. If you can, buy the paid version of the shader, it really is worth it.

Current status of the hipoly – Done! As always, more after the jump.

So, the hipoly is done, and now it’s time to create the lowpoly version and then baking time! Probably gonna bake it at 180º so the normal maps come out nice and crispy.
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Wireframe

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Detail shots

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So this is my current work in progress… More infos after the jump.

Here’s a render of the above model. Click the image for a bigger version.

So, this is suposed to be a portable flamethrower. Basically it’s a mashup of different tools mixed together. Since this is a work in progress obviously there are some stuff that is missing, like the CO2 tank that is going to be attached to the grip, which will act as the power supply for the gun to be able to spray it’s gasoline.

Anywho… Here are a couple of detail shots of the model. Hopefully in the next update I will have this badboy all done.

Any questions about the model, feel free to ask in the comments.

Well hello there! Welcome to my blog. This is the first post I make and I’m gonna show some tips I used to make the image you see after the jump!

Two years ago I was asked to make a poster for an event that was to happen in the country’s capital. This is all nice and sweet but that’s not the point of this post.

The point is that while revisiting this poster I tought that there would be a better way to present it rather than just show the poster image. So I created a virtual clothesline in Modo that would allow me to display my graphic works in a more organic way.

Render Image

Now, here is a brief breakdown on the project.

Breakdown

Here are some wires of the clothespin model.

The clothesline.

For the rope I used a displacement map created in Photoshop and added a little bit of fur in Modo to simulate the stringy bits that come out of the rope. The trick here is that I rotated the UV’s of the rope 45º in order to get that pattern of rope you see in the image. Sure I could make the pattern directly in Photoshop, but this way it’s way more simple to edit the texture.