Final Project Post

Stylized Cannon

High Poly

Low Poly

Final Res: 13.1k

Textures

The Yamato

Low Poly

High Poly

Final Res: 37k

Textures

Final Res: 37.1k

A Phase

  

In-Engine

Asset Zoo

Some Tri Counts

Textures

Substance Designer

Checker Tiles

Wood Floorboards

The Texture that Got Away

Photoshop

Substance Painter

Reference

Perforce:

Final Thoughts:

   There it is. The Penthouse. I'm sure if I had more time I could've made all the props even more awesome, but I am pretty happy with what I have now. Studying the Spider-verse style, I learned more about how careful the movie goes when it comes to the different surfaces. Metal and shinier hard surface objects don't use too many hard paint strokes and tend to airbrush and blur colors while low roughness objects like fabric and wood would (aha) tend to use the more comic-booky strokes, hard rectangles and rake linework. I tried incorporating that and updating the existing assets to follow that line of style and thinking and am happy with where that went.

   In addition to updating the assets, I also may have been influenced by both Cyberpunk 2077 and Expedition 33 when it came to research into penthouses (as can be seen in the Reference board). Turns out a real obvious sign of wealth is just gold accents because why not? That, and I paid more attention to how I was organizing the floor and wall textures. That bit was tough since I do not possess an interior decorative bone in my entire body. I had to modify the UVs of the whole room and add a bit of relief to the downstairs to make the transition of the wall to the floor not super jarring.

    I learned a lot on this project I can't deny that. This was my first time making an indoor environment and it really makes me appreciate the work that our level designers did for the project let alone having it as a job. Holy moly, to say the least. 

Stylized Cannon Pt6

 In-Engine

Wireframe

Textures/UVs

Texture Reference

Stylized Cannon Pt5

UVs

B Phase

Texturing Workflow: Painted Normals

    I found a few articles talking about the painting and animating methods that were used in Into/Across the Spider-Verse and found they actually created their own tools and plugins to make the process seem seamless. Skills and time that I did NOT have... but one article on 80LVL had a pretty similar method of painting that emulated that style really well, along with some cool comic brushes that  really brought everything together to give the cool, painterly, printer error look. 

    It took some time painting on the normals because of the plug-in I used called "Very Normal Paint" on ArtStation that allowed me to paint on the World Space Normals. I had to color pick from different areas of the baked mesh and do the strokes individually, then paint on top of it. Very fun! Took a long time haha.

In-Engine

Painted Zoo Round 1:

Substance Designer

Floor Tiles

Wall Textures

       Found a real neat tutorial for making the floor texture and modified it a little to be nice and fancy but also blend in with the shading in-engine. I had to use a color overlay, otherwise the shader would make it bright like a light.

Spiderverse-ifying Realism in Painter

     For the next week, I'll be touching up the wall textures to look less realistic. Adding some rake marks and pencil outlines.

Reference