House in Max!

Nothing like relearning a modeling tool!  For the next few months I'll be working in Max and thinking about various workflows. Here's the WIP I have for a house I'm modeling.

Golem Complete

After a lot of work and tweaking the fellow is complete!

Here we have the process:

And a close up of the final result

zBrush sculpting

Making a Rockman! Environmental Asset or character: you decide!

Original concept:

High Polygon Model (chose to reverse the symmetry)

Low Polygon Model

The Final, and moving on.

Here's how it turned out!

While it's nice, it's just a good start. Lets think about improving the piece by taking a critical eye to it:

Very liener. Not enough play with the depth moving into the street.
Not enough variety of the windows.
More attention to details needed.
More signs of city life- pipes, planter boxes, vehicles, etc.
More personality to the buildings
A little more grimier.
Castle needs to be stronger. More gothic.
Buildings are too bulky and square. Need to be thinner.

More to come!

Meat

Experiment with spec, gloss and displacement maps in Marmoset.

Other experiments 

Castle Complete

Last parts of the top towers are complete. Lots to unwrap... lots to texture!

Greek Items

Experimenting with some textures in Marmoset Toolbag. Most of the patenia was put in the specular.