Change that Spec!

I toned the spec down for the chair, it was originally leather, but I think I am going with that silk material. hmm..Might come back to this one later.

Updating the Killzone Gun

Lighting fixes everything! Aded more color to the gun instead of a flat gray. Might revisit this later for another color scheme.

Halo Prop Resurfaced

Added a bit more color to the Halo prop and fixed the muddy textures by hand...:P

Low Poly for Sci Fi Hand Rifle

A bit heavier on one end than I hoped, but I think this could just work silhouette-wise.

Re-textured Axe 2

Wanted a different feel for this weapon. Originally had a jaded green tone to it, but when rendered the lights zapped all the color out, so I saturated most of my stuff now...

Axe 1 Re-textured

More saturated colors and less gray-tones.

Axe update

Changed the shapes a bit as Dylan suggested. Added more geo to reduce faceted-ness as Rocky requested. Gonna have to redo the textures and normals. 

Defining the blockout

The Blockout is starting to take shape now...almost to low poly, but I need to add more geo...

Staff update

Hand painted some stuff...Thanks again to Dylan...I am learning his techniques as he was teaching Adriana...mwahahahaha...Not nearly as good, but it was better than before.

Blockout of Sci Fi Weapon

Super simple blockout...I wanted to change the silhouette nmore drastically, but it messed with the weight of the entire piece so I decided to maintain a more balanced piece and add more Sci Fi details to the sculpt or in the textures.

Chua Prop Update

Got that opacity to work...Finally!

Next item...Sci Fi Hand Rifle

Leaning towards the six in the lower left hand corner. I wanted to go with an old timey handle and trigger, but also with a sci fi flare to it. The others are just inspiration and a reminder on silhouettes, silhouettes, silhouettes...

Resculpted the column

Also put it into the Marmoset renderer

Went back and reworking the Asura prop

Got feedback about the cracks and the form, so I went back to make the cracks look more like cracks...at least I got reference to go off of...and I think they look like cracks...

Textured

I did what Collin advise to do which was the inflate tool. Thanks Collin, wanted to do that in the first place, but had no idea that the tool even existed. Thanks, it helped me more than you know.

Unwrapped

chair uvs

Added some trim detail

So hard to keep the hand steady...

Started Zbrushing

So I used a duplicate from the scene. Just that one where I tried reducing the polys was the one that got corrupted. Don't really know what happen, but gotta move on. So advice of the day...Even backups get corrupted as well so duplicate your progress along the way...at least something is salvage-able within the scene....unless its the whole scene for both files then its time to suck it up and model/texture twice as fast! 

Low Poly for Zbrush

Gonna sculpt in some details...

Bioshock: Chair blockout

Simple blockout of the chair...Gonna add more padding and those are just placeholder legs. The legs are most likely gonna surround the chair like trim/scroll work. This is gonna be interesting.

Added the rest of the details and in Marmoset

Trying to figure out how to make the material transparent in Marmoset...been researching all over, nothing seems to work. Anyone any ideas?

Chua Weapon Update

So I followed Dylans advice with some color adjustments...I also fixed some ao things added a few more maps and some bolts this time. Still got about a few more painting things to fix after I get a little help on how to paint certain areas. I'm doing it(painting)! Thanks to Dylan and Adriana for teaching me some painting techniques!

Bioshock Reference

I was gonna go with a more mechanical head, but I figured that it was towards character so I decided to go with a chair instead.

Second Axe Textured

Trying to go for a greenish type of metal.

Mental ray

Trying out the mental ray render....Changed some settings in mental ray. Still can't get the lighting that I want tho.

First Textured Axe

Tried a different rendering engine as well.

UVs and Bake for Axe #2

Here is the bake and the uvs for the second axe. NEVER share UV space while baking! Took me awhile to figure what is wrong. Checked my uvs and forgot to separate them. Only overlay after post bake...for future references...

UVs and Bake

I was gonna go crazy on the sculpt, but..I looked at the weapons in the game again and I find that most of the sculpts was pretty simple so I kept it at that, not too fancy.

Blockout for both versions

Put the scale dude in there to see the length and the size. I decided to make the blades bigger so that it seems like a good weight for the male character in the game. 

Change the silhouette

Exaggerated the blade more and shortened the handle a bit to create a more close combat/ one handed feel to it.

blockout of the first axe

Probably gonna go with a fire theme.