Daily Sketching Experiment

This week I challenged myself to do a sketch a day. I succeeded and it was a lot of fun! Unfortunately I  can't keep it up for the entire semester because there's still a lot of 3D to learn and produce, plus this semester is going to be big for working on painting/layout. At least I got some experimentation out of the way and I learned anything is possible if you have time + sacrifice everything else in the present moment to get it done. A valuable lesson which can be applied anywhere.

Revolver - Texturing

This is my first time going in-depth texturing hard surfaced objects. On my previous models I sorta cheated by not making proper high/low poly models for the normal maps and polypainting the diffuse map. But this time I did all the steps (that I know of). It took a long time because I encountered a lot of problems, mostly from some mistakes in the modeling stage. I fixed them the best I could and finally I got the gun into UDK without any artifacts! The texturing itself could still use a lot of work (not even finished), but this model served it's purpose teaching me the workflow/ solving common issues so I think it's better to move on (plus I can re-texture whenever I want anyway).

If your computer can support it, here's the model in 3D (uploaded to p3d.in):

Diffuse + Spec + Normal Maps + model in Maya Viewport 2.0:

Wireframe:

Working in UDK:

Revolver High Poly Model

One of my new years resolutions is to make more 3D art and force myself to post it online. So my first modeling is a revolver because I want to learn how to create basic hard surface forms and texture metallic surfaces before getting into crazy full blow environments. There's some mistakes I didn't notice until I posted the picture so I'm going to clean up the model some more then hopefully get it textured before the end of the week.