3D - Enviro pt.1 Tileable textures

For this section, I only managed to make 2 materials, with the 3rd still being a work in progress. Currently I have a; tiled rock path material, snow material, and a half-working dirt material for potential later use. I also wanted to aim for a Genshin-inspired style, as I felt that would be simpler to do given the overall time frame (and I also love the art from Genshin).

I utilized Zbrush for the tiled rock path material for the sculpt, here is what it looks like in Zbrush:


Here are my 2 tileable textures in Unreal:


Here are the maps for the rock path texture from substance painter:


For the snow material I utilized a tutorial I found on YouTube from someone named Poly Doorway. Here are the maps for the snow material from Substance Designer, as well as my node graph:




I also made a very bare bones blockout for my scene in Unreal, I've not added proxies for certain things yet as I'm unsure if I'll be able to do them.


I chose this as the scene to do for my project:

Additionally, here's some references for the rock path I had:

3D - Hardsurface pt. 3

For this last chunk of the project, I worked on making alphas and setting up some areas of the gun for the engravings I wanted to make. Unfortunately I didn't get as far as I would have liked with the engravings, so I likely will continue later on, ideally with some stencils of my own as well. For this section I utilized stencils of cybersigilism tattoos online, making alphas from images I gathered in order to save time. Additionally, I've fixed most of the shading/pinching issues I had in the last turn in.

3D - Hardsurface pt. 2

For this section I finalized some parts on the gun and added a couple of new ones, as well as added more detail to the cylinder. I then took it into Zbrush and used a mixture of creasing, subdivision, dynamesh, and polish to try and give it micro bevels. The alphas stamped on there are just testing to see if they would work, and what tweaking I may need to do in the future. I would like to do some form of a floral engraved design.

3D - Hardsurface blockout

For this project I decided to utilize a tutorial from a guy named Tim Bergholz (aka Chamferzone). He creates what looks to be a more tactical/modern version of a 357 magnum. I followed what he created for the most part, but kept some parts more basic in order to make sculpting on the gun easier. He also creates attachments for the gun in the video, such as a picatinny rail on the top, I also elected not to make that.

Here's how my blockout has turned out so far, some things are still a rough blockout, and the cylinder is still missing some detail, but most parts are solid.







These are also some of the references that were provided, with exact measurements as well:

3D - Textures/Final Renders

After learning quite a bit last week from Nitin's lighting workshops, I decided to apply that work to my renders of my wasp boio for this round. I also made a easy post process material for this round that creates an outline around the mesh. Here are my final shots:






Here's a shot in completely neutral lighting as well:


And here's a shot using Painter's Iray:

3D - Low poly/UVs/First bake

For this stage, I began by retopologizing the wasp. I first began by breaking parts of the high poly into different pieces, separating the main body into 3 chunks, as well as separating the legs, horn, wings, and eyes. After that I went in with the Retopoflow addon in Blender and created my low poly. In total, the low poly ended up at ~11k triangles. Here is the wireframe:



After I finished my low poly, I moved onto the UVs, and had to redo them several times, as I had to fix bake errors and texel density issues. These are how my UVs came out, with 71% of UDIM space utilized:



And this is my bake result:

3D - Creature full sculpt

From last weeks blockout I further refined the wasp, adjusting proportions based on critiques, as well as adding further details to the thorax, face, and legs.