Unity Community Art Challenge - March 2015 - Nature's Shield

Wait what?! You say 5000 verts only?

...BRING IT!

 

Ok, now registered to sketchfab! now to come up with an awesome concept...

 

Here's what I have so far (about 5 mins modelling time, i.e. not much at all):

This will definitely get better! And where to put the shield? That crystal's the hint...

 

Here's a new shot:

EDIT: Had to insert image manually...

 

That's a nice idea and start there!! Let's see this finished!

 

Hmm...I might enter this. Seeing that I still have over a week left. Although I doubt I will win, I am not the best at modeling...lol

 

Can not hurt to try. I am learning as I go.

 

Ok, got more of the shapes refined, now onto adding the details and then texturing and retopology!

 

WARNING : THIS IS WIP #2
I'm so happy i finished this,and i am really pleased with the result,i hope you will like it and enjoy it as i did.
Once again awesome theme for this month,and excellent work on the new features of Sketchfab 100% amazed.

 

My submission. Had some problems with getting the alpha to look decent. Got it to work though. Might make minor texture changes but here it is:

 

Already posted my submission but just wanted to show this. Imported my shield into Unity using Lars' Custom Tree Importer. So it is using tree creator shaders and the branches bend with the windzone.

Here is a webplayer: Nature Shield (14mb)

Here is a webplayer with less image effects: Nature Shield02 (14mb)

 

Hi guys, I now have another WIP shot! Courtesy of Art class...

True, nothing's textured yet, but I just finished an assessment, so now I have a bit more time to work on this. Have yet to finish geometry modelling!

 

Hi everyone, when i saw this contest i couldn't stop thinking about the theme, so i decided to participate. its rather symbolical approach..

already started modelling, 5000 verts should be just about enough

 

@chromatofor: Interesting concept!
Wondering what the fox is planning to do...

 

It's finished!
https://skfb.ly/DBtC

 

Hey Benzy,i like your concept very much .
Would you like to share your uvs?I have spotted some seams across the mess on some places that there's no need for them to be,and your topology seems to can handle some good uvs.
Once again cool job

 

Hah! Sure. I'm pretty crap at UV unwrapping and did a VERY quick retopo on this guy but I'd be happy to send the model and see if you wanna take a crack at it. I'll warn you though it's a bloody mess.

 

Sure thing Benzy.

 

Great project.
You done so much stuff in 5000 verts .
It inspired me alot

 

Aw, thank you so much!

 

Nice work there @Benzychan1 and everybody else here! There are about 6 days left in this challenge which is plenty enough of time for people to still join! Come on

Thomas

 

Hey Thomas,is there any problem helping Benzie fixing some issues with her uvs?
I'm just gonna fix some stuff all the art is still done by her...so is it allowed?

 

Team work isn't really allowed here in this case. Every should try for themselves. You can help indirectly but the work has to be done by herself. In essence, she should show her UV layout and take pointers. We're here to learn along the way

Thomas

 

here is my wip...

already learned two important things in this contest-
1,dont forget to look at the concept often (even if its yours)..
2, share the stuff as you go and dont wait(now i have some highpoly finished and already doing textures, its kinda hard and time consuming to go back and make changes)

 

Hi all,

and just great entries again! I started directly with a high poly model. Wanted to go for something different and since I saw very vew character art in the previous challenges I decided to give it a try. It's amazing how many already had a similar idea this time xD

I'm not an expert if it comes to characters design or anatomy at all, heaven forbid, but that's exactly why I wanna give it a try now I only ever did a male bust of a drawf before and some smaller practices, so if you notice any anatomical weirdnesses in my entry feel free to tell me so that I will do my best to correct them

I tried myself at a female character, kind of a mage who's using the elemental forces of the nature to protect everything.


You can see she's using earth and water to shield herself currently. Gonna let her do something fancy with
fire and air, too, of course

 

I see and understand your point Thomas . I will try to explain her,and show her how she will do it Thanks again.

 

@essimoon2 That looks awesome I can just imagine the fire and air effects there too

Do you texture before you do retopology? Does that distort the textures at all? Never really tried high poly sculpting before

 

Thanks, glad you like it and hope to finish it in time^^

It really depends, I guess. Normally if you start with a high poly model from scratch you don't have uvs for that since the topology is a mess In that case you can texture using for example vertex colors to later bake them to a texture which i occasionally do to get a base texture. in this case I guess I'm gonna do it like this:
1. Started with High Poly model, so no uvs are available
2. Painted some base colors to vertex colors.
3. Gonna export it when it's done, do a retopo and bake vertex colors to uvs.
4. Blend ao and cavity maps into the base texture to get a more interesting look.
5. Refining "final" texture by hand in a 3d painting program (e.g. Mudbox).

I like to paint the base colors in an early stage. It helps to get a better impression of how it might look in the end

 

I would suggest load the cavity map in sketchfab,it now uses it to occlude light according to it,it worked pretty well for me

 

Oh right thats a good idea! Gonna try it, too
Though I think you mean Ambient Occlusion. Cavity shouldn't change when lighting conditions change as far as i know.

 

Well it will occlude the light,the curvarture or cavity map can be used to drive this effect(Besides don't forget that it's a map defining the hard edges or in general the negative space into your model,so it can be used for furthen info on the lighting. & of course like you said you can add the AO map into your diffuse.

 

I hope we can tweak the models further untill the deadline even if we have said we're done with them right Thomas?
I'm enhancing my normals quality and scaling up the shield as you had told me Thomas

 

Here's the WIP for my entry. I hope I can finish it by deadline, but I don't really see why I wouldn't be able to. Anywho, looking good everyone!

 

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Here is my final version.
I scaled up the shield a little,as Thomas has advised me to(Thx Thomas ) and since i seted up everything again i improve ground's quality,improved just a little bit the textures of the shield and last but not least i added some nice butterflies over there to enforce the nature style even more...
Hope you like it

 

I just had to go back and edit basemesh, highpoly and now im working on textures..

 

Just blocked this in tonight - my initial WIP



Going for a medical take on the theme.

Wish me luck!

 

Here's mine some kind of sorcerer or witch or what.. (have no idea) being attacked and nature magic protected him/her
not sure if i can finish this on time, i just start making this yesterday and it's still need uv and textures and i also need to prepare for exam on wednesday -_-
it still need some fix, scene blocking and polycount reduccion

what you guys think about it ?

 

Hey try to upload the image somewhere and post the link,it seems the image is corrupted or something...

 

really ?

try this :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_HNsPbdnZczREdWd2twZFJWN0U/view
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ljf64q1ivkczjm/shield_nature_wip.JPG?dl=0

 

Little update on the texture.

 

Great both of them , just make sure to hurry up guys,you have 1 day left it will be pitty to not complete your pieces,so make sure to block out everything you can today so you can have them ready by tomorrow before 11:59:59

 

Good luck to all the participants.

 

I am pretty late on this but I'll try it anyways. Here is what I have so far, still have to do the materials. The big mushroom creates an energy shield to protect the closer area ...

 

Cool work on the hand painted textures @BurnTheHorses ! I always admire work like that! Looking forward to seeing the final!

Here's some more work on my injector -



Moving on to a little hi poly modeling and texturing now! Must hurry to finish tomorrow!

 

Pretty much the finished article, just need to do some slight changes.

 

Finished..

 

Very cool stuff here guys! Hurry up everybody as there is only little time left!!

 

This is my final version. As a sketchfab newbie I had to do some manual work to make the materials work with sketchfab because I used some procedural materials (bake them to textures and so on). I've learned a lot making this little scene.

Thanks for the contest and good luck to everyone

 

here's my shield
Nature Wall Shield that quickly formed to protect this sorcerer from spear and arrow attack behind him

i stay up night just for finish this on time. and i started this 2days ago with my limited free time
i'l do my best, have no time to optimize it and i also new in using sketchfab so.. maybe it's look's bad in your view

 

Nice job. Like the arrows. Make sure to tag your model with UCAC7.