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.

Retrotech environment progress 2

More done! Getting rid of temp holders and pop in the real deal. Pushing out the structures from the front of the stone work.

Retrotech environment progress

Hello!  More progress on the current piece I'm working on.  Slowly building it up using repeating pieces. After getting the basic items in, I'm going to target areas where I stat putting in more high tech pieces of machinery and have a culture miss-mash. Currently rendered in maya.

Maya Layered Shader

First experiment with a layered shader. Diffuse only.

Next Project

The first draft of the look and feel for the next 3d environment project I'd like to make. Nice tall vertical elements and a mash up of old world/new world. Photoshop and found photos of Convington houses in England.

Marmoset Toolbag v2

I've been really enjoying the new shader functionality of the Marmoset Toolbag v.2.  It's huge step up from the original.

Here's a simple crate I made in maya and textures in photoshop.

Next we have in the render engine with a couple of warm lights and one cool light.