#synoptic project

For a while i’ve been working on the walls of the room, this has been done in both Mudbox, Maya and Substance Painter.

I started off in mudbox with a plane and began raising and flattening bumps on the plane to look like rocks. I used a few references for this of stone walls and general rock shapes, this really helped when I was making the shapes into the wall. When I finished the first wall I exported it into Maya to bake down.

Once i had the walls baked down they were quickly imported into Substance painter. I began on the texture from there. I downloaded a specific material i wanted from substance share and used that as the backdrop for the wall. From there i began painting a concrete material onto the pertruding rocks, this means that the rocks stood out from the background texture. I’m happy with how it came out with the lighting, as in Substance painter it didn’t look as good.

Currently I’ve been working more textures for the game. I got around to doing the grenade that was added. I had a few problems that I encountered as i was texturing this in Substance painter as the UV’s weren’t correctly done. However after I discussed this with Eden he re-uploaded the UV to the drive and I was able to start the texture again.

The tools in Substance painter really help with making a texture look better, by using something that possibly shouldn’t work as a grenade texture and modifying it to be how I wanted i managed to create the texture below, which i am quite happy with. 

After Cate finished her shelf model I took it straight into Substance painter to get started on the texture. 

The shelves were actually quite easy to texture considering they are just wood, however I wanted to add a bit more to it that just dragging and dropping a wood texture on it. I added some darker shading around the wood where it connects and in the cracks and chips. I also added some scratch makes throughout the wood to give a better look.

 We ran into some problems when the wood texture applied would only follow one path way to the right, so before when the texture for the legs of the shelves were facing vertical the way the wood was running was incorrect. I talked to Cate about this and we changed the UV of the model so that the legs were horizontally placed and this worked just fine. 

After a bit of discussion with Louis I decided to have a go at modelling too. I’ve finished a lot of concept art and i wanted to help with some models. I finished the Cauldron model and textured it using substance painter. There wasn’t very many textures i could use in substance painter that i thought would suit a cauldron. I eventually went with a sort of metal and edited the look of it so there would be some rust and scorch marks on the bottom. 

I only really used the concept art room design as a reference for how i created the cauldron because i found that it didn’t need much reference. I did use a few google images for the handles, I discussed it with Louis to find out which we both agreed on. In the end we chose the rings on each side of the Cauldron and personally I find it fits in much better with the design. 

I’ve been currently working on textures for models, experimenting with substance painter and how i can use it.

I started with my concepts for the Bogril and went from there into substance painter.

Using the smart materials i was able to edit a sort of black jar glass kind of texture on the main body of the model, then i was able to use a mask to put the cork texture on. I also made the texture of that have a bit more feel to it that it was a cork by using bump/normal maps. I also tested out using stamps for the Bogril logo. I made the logo in photoshop and turned it into a stamp to use in Substance painter. This worked quite well on the model and i’m quite happy with how it turned out. 

Currently for the project i’ve been working on getting the textures for the models finished so they’re able to be put in the game, Previously i had already designed an idea of what the Coffee bag would look like. 

However after some discussion with Cate we came to the conclusion that the bag was a little confusing as it mixed both a burlap sack and a paper bag together. In the end I decided to redesign the look of the bag to get a general idea of what the new bag would look like. 

This was the redesign, i used reference from general sacks and found some with coffee beans in them. The idea ended up being a less loose bag but it still mixed both the old and new designs in through the model. I then moved on to the Texture. 

I was talking with Louis as I began the texturing so I knew the general idea of what he wanted. I used the image of the devil i had made beforehand and refined it so that I could use it on the texture. I managed to get the texture done, though it took a few trial and errors to get it fit perfectly we managed to finish the model. 

I’m quite happy with how the texture turned out for the first model, however there’s lots more to go and I hope I can improve as I continue with the texturing and concept art.