Final Project: Ebony and Ivory

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Substance Renders

Unreal

UVs

Final Polys

Ebony: 14k

Ivory: 15k

Final Project: Finishing Ebony and Ivory

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UVs

Primary/Secondary Details WIP

Final Project: Finishing Ebony & Ivory

 Ebony & Ivory Polish, Texturing, Prepping for 3D Printing

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High Poly

Ebony @ 14.2k tris

Schedule

Week 1:

• Retopologizing High to Low: Ebony
• Clean up High Poly meshes of Ebony & Ivory meshes
• Beveling edges

Printing:

• Reducing final High Poly for 3D Printing

Week 2:

• Retopologizing High to Low: Ivory
• UVing both meshes
• Bake Meshes in Substance
• First Pass on texturing

Printing

• Sending mesh to Printer
• Stretch: Starting secondary texturing

Week 3:

• Tertiary texturing
• Implement in Unreal
• Sanding Print

Alchemist's Brew Part 4

The Whole Thang

Unreal

Base Colors

Wireframes

Final Thoughts:

    Definitely learned a few things about the stylized painting technique with this project. I did end up learning a bit about 3D Coat while doing this project but regret only using it minimally since the pipeline I chose ended up highly reliant on getting base textures in Substance Painter, then comfortability set in and I ended up hand-painting everything else in there. 

   I think I will need to go back to the Potion to fix up the actual liquid texture since it definitely looks a little more bland compared to the cauldron. That and the slime I thought I could texture it in-engine but it didn't come out how I wanted. Once I have more time, I will troubleshoot this in the future (soon).

Alchemist's Brew Part 3: First Bake

 Cauldron, Pedestal, Roots, Scroll

First Bake Pass

Base Colors

Week 3:

• Retopology where necessary on Cauldron and Branches
• UV
• Make n Bake Leaf Cards >> Move to Week 4
• Base Colors in Substance Painter

Stretch:

• Finish painting in 3D Coat >> Week 4
• Work on VFX >> Week 4

Week 4:

• In-Engine implementation
• Finalize VFX

Alchemist's Brew Part 2: High Poly

 Cauldron & Scroll

High Poly

4-Week Plan

Week 1:

• More detailed blockout from previous section layout
• Blockout of bone
• Research more about mist and bubbling VFX 

Week 2:

• High poly boolean of the Cauldron
• Redoing one of the roots
• Polishing root details
• Making alphas for the scroll

Week 3:

• Retopology where necessary on Cauldron and Branches
• UV
• Make Leaf Cards
• Base Colors in Substance Painter

Stretch:

• Finish painting in 3D Coat
• Work on VFX

Week 4:

• In-Engine implementation
• Finalize VFX

Alchemists Brew Part 2

 Alchemists Brew: Cauldron and Scroll

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4-Week Plan

Week 1:

• More detailed blockout from previous section layout
• Blockout of bone
• Research more about mist and bubbling VFX 

Week 2:

• High poly boolean of the Cauldron
• Redoing one of the roots
• Polishing root details
• Making alphas for the scroll

Week 3:

• Base colors in Substance Painter
• Finish painting in 3D Coat
• Work on VFX

Week 4:

• In-Engine implementation
• Finalize VFX

Blockout

Alchemist's Brew Book & Potion: Pt4

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Renders

Texture Maps

Notes:

I will say the best part about this part of the project was the handpainting parts and learning the different techniques for adding depth and spamming the hell out of ambient occlusion and gradients. Some things I wasn't able to get to, like VFX, will have to be saved until the end of the project. Additionally, I should also be able to work more in 3D Coat as I was only able to handpaint the lock since the other two meshes simply refused to cooperate in 3DC and crash the program immediately.

Surely this next half of the diorama, finishing the branches, pedestal, cauldron, and scroll, won't bring as many issues this next go around *gulp*.

 

Alchemist's Brew: Book and Potion Pt3

 

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First Bake

UVs

Week 3:

• LowPoly and UV
• Bake in 3DCoat Substance  <yes (need to watch more troubleshooting tutorials for 3DCoat baking errors)

Stretch: Experiment with Potion VFX (small fog and bubbles) < no

Week 4:

• Finish Texturing
• Unreal Setup
• Potion VFX
• Lighting/Emissives where needed