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MatejMo — Cpt-Lowpoly
Published: 2012-09-05 07:57:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 8125; Favourites: 109; Downloads: 193
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This is the final lowpoly version of the "Captain of the Guard" project, textured, posed & lit for presentation. On the left side shots the character is strolling around with the shield in his hand, on the right side he assumes a more combat ready pose.It's cca 12.900 tris with 1024 px wide textures used.
Created with Blender, textures & postpro in GIMP, rendered with Octane Render
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Would you be interested in licensing this for an HTML5 Canvas Browser game? I'm using mostly OpenGameArt.com stuff but there are gaps in what I have.
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ya 
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In this case I used a male body reference ad designed the armor pieces around it. For the face I just practiced a bit. It's not very good, but good enough for a lowpoly model
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not very good!?! its awesome!!
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Hi. For this "productviz still render" Octane is an absolutely great tool. I could have rendered it in Blender, but because the whole project was visualized in Octane, I did the final low-poly shot with it too.
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looks great. Is this "captain of the guard" project a commercial game or a private project? How long has it taken to create this character?
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It was done for a competition (without results, I might add
I'm not sure about the time, but quite a lot (few hours a day for a period of a month). I first created a detailed hi-resolution model, which I have yet to post final renders of.
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Wow thats a really good looking lowpoly! I never knew they can be this detailed. Then again I'm new to 3D modeling. I just learned something!
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I guess it could be called mid-poly, since the max allowed number of triangles was 15,000 which is quite high. As hardware progresses, the limits of low-poly game characters also go up.
Thank you for the comment & thanks for watching!
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Would a "mid-poly" character be okay to put in a game? Cause I hear going above the low poly limit can make your game run slow, especially when there are a lot of objects, and characters.
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That would depend on the game (and how much exactly is "mid-poly"). Take for example Mass Effect: the player spends half of the gaming time in close-up dialogs with other characters, so the characters need to be of a higher quality standard than they would be in other games where you mainly shoot at things from a distance and don't really (bother to) look at them from close.
This knight here was done for a "low-poly model competition" but I don't think the organizer intends them to be used in (geometry intensive) games, but rather in real-time animations or pre-rendered animations, so the polycount was set a bit higher.
But usually when doing game characters, you will want to make them as low-poly as acceptable. Because the amount of geometry has the biggest impact on speed.
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Ah okay. Thanks.
Like I said before I'm getting into 3D modeling, and wanted to make detailed enough characters without abusing the limit. I saw a tutorial on blender cookie that said texture can detail where poly can't. Just enough anyway. I'm of course not trying to make graphics card killer of visuals, but I do want quality, and wondered if lowpoly would leave room for the stylization I had in mind. Just wanna know how much can I get away with.
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Usually you first make a hi-poly sculpt of your character and then you do a retopology to create a low-poly version. Then you bake (create textures) the missing details from the hi-poly one to the low-poly.
You can do several retopology versions of the hi-poly model, depending on your needs.
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Great job, agree with primantis, tough to tell that its actually a low poly !
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Quite impressive indeed, it doesn't even look low poly!
You did a great job on the armor texture, among other things.
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Thanks!
I tried to use the whole limit of allowed polygon count (ended with still 2k tris to spare). I could add some more loops on the shield border & helmet visor...
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Man this is one of the most impressive 3d moddels I have ever seen done in Blender and to that I take my hat off to you
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I love it..very very good...thanks for sharing...a tutorial someday ?
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Thank you. A tutorial could be possible someday, though I would have to pick a specific part to talk about, because the whole thing is a broad topic...
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Beautiful piece of work highly detailed and wonderfully crafted.
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Fantastic work! The mirrored textures on the cape and shield bug me a little, but not a huge deal.
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Thanks! With the mirrored UVs I was trying to save space, cause the texture resolution limit was set quite low. Actually the whole model is mirrored.
But two headed birds are quite common in heraldry designs anyway, so this should alleviate the mirroring problem a bit.
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Excellent job !
I'm so astounded, it turned out totally cool
Very good combat posing by the way. I'm a bit sorry there is no archery position through 
Hope to see more from you !
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Thank you very much!
The rules were mentioning a sword & shield, so I took it safe and didn't stray from this (I actually thought to give him a halberd & sword). Also I was limited by the polycount and no bow was planed from the start. But I can always give a bow to the hi-poly version... (depending on how much time I'll have to play with it)
Stay tuned
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I will, sorry that I disapreared all of the sudden by the way. Got entangled in many things and suddenly had to leave DA for a while.
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Don't worry. It's perfectly normal to "disconnect" a little form time to time.
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Thanks ^^
So now that you have finished, what will be your next move ?
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Right now I'm refining & rigging the hi-poly model (which is a bit more work to rig for posing, since it's more detailed). Then I plan to do some renders with it.
After that I'm (hopefully) joining a major project that will span a few months, but will start slow, so I'll be able to do other stuff too. If you are still interested in commissions we can talk through PM (or email me: mo.cgraphics at gmail.com )
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Will contact you by note I think.
Again good job on it all
Tell us if you did well for the contest !
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This is just brilliant! Really professional work, congrats 
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Thank you very much!
This was done for a low-poly char contest. I don't plan to use it in any game, but if the contest organizer will find it of good enough quality, they can purchase the rights to use it. We'll see. The contest only ended a few days ago...
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