Visual Arts

[DANMATUS]

What’s the progress like now, Jass?

I’ve been working on some papier-mache catfish heads for a project I’ve been asked to be a part of. It sounds all fun and games but I’m going away for work soon so I’m running out of time to work on them and I may have to make a third when originally I thought I’d only need to make two. I’m fluctuating between massively stressed and serenely calm at an alarming rate lol

Here’s a pic of the one that’s at a state of near completion which may end up being scrapped and having to be redone:

Oh god you should really do a Kerotan head!

[tr0nic]

Just dropping a small update since I'm quite proud of myself:

Wanted to see if I had the skills so far to make a low-poly arsenal for myself to use once I get somewhere farther down the line in learning Blender. Just finished my first attempt at putting together a Portuguese-style AR-10 Carbine:

AR-10C:

Kind of amazed I pulled this off as nicely as I did. For reference, I'm trying to make some guns that look similar in style to GTA III/VC guns, so there's some acceptable roughness that I can lean into with my limited skills. Here's III's M16:

GTA III M16:

I'm gonna model the AR-10C's mag separately of course, maybe put together a little weapons crate with a few guns n mags in there soon. Having a lot of fun ripping images to turn into 256x256 textures, which is WAY higher than GTA III's weapons textures were (64x64!!) but I just love the look I've got going right now. I think next up I'm gonna try to make an MP5 chambered in 10mm:

MP5/10:

That 10mm straight mag will come out really great I think.

[Jassassino]

Just dropping a small update since I'm quite proud of myself:

Wanted to see if I had the skills so far to make a low-poly arsenal for myself to use once I get somewhere farther down the line in learning Blender. Just finished my first attempt at putting together a Portuguese-style AR-10 Carbine:

AR-10C:

Kind of amazed I pulled this off as nicely as I did. For reference, I'm trying to make some guns that look similar in style to GTA III/VC guns, so there's some acceptable roughness that I can lean into with my limited skills. Here's III's M16:

GTA III M16:

I'm gonna model the AR-10C's mag separately of course, maybe put together a little weapons crate with a few guns n mags in there soon. Having a lot of fun ripping images to turn into 256x256 textures, which is WAY higher than GTA III's weapons textures were (64x64!!) but I just love the look I've got going right now. I think next up I'm gonna try to make an MP5 chambered in 10mm:

MP5/10:

That 10mm straight mag will come out really great I think.

That's banging, Tron. You've kicked off to a great start.

Did you downscale images of the guns and use them as textures? If so, if you wanna get a crunchier look, in the shading tab change the texture sampling from Linear to Closest, that way it won't use pixel data to blur sharp edges and you'll see every pixel.

[tr0nic]

Appreciate it, brother. I don't know why I didn't sit down and dig into Blender sooner.

Thank you for the tip! And yes, I downscaled a really quality image of the actual AR-10 for this but I got lucky, right now I'm trying to create a texture set on Shoebox for the MP5 and it is definitely tricky with these more obscure lower res images.

I actually did have the shading on "closest" but this was an accident and I had no idea I had already done that, now I actually know what I did lmao so thank you. 

Now I am torn. "Closest" gives me the crunchiest look by far, but "cubic" gives it a distinctly smooth, early 2000's PC game look. Looks like it could be a model from Max Payne 1.

Cubic:

Probably sticking with the "closest" one over this "cubic" variant, but man it feels so cool to be learning this stuff.