COLAB2021 – WIP – lexicolopolis
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Was crazy busy at work this week so I haven’t had any time to really work on this until today, and I’m crazy excited to get this ball rollin’! After contemplating water wheels all week I started blocking this morning with the paddle shape that I felt seemed the most reasonable.
The concept art has chonky paddles, but due to their dimensions in comparison to the other items I broke them down into a frame of boards with a thinner veneer style face. This seemed to be the most logical way to have wood sizes that weren’t arbitrarily sized to meet the art, while still preserving the proportions.
For the outer wheel rings I initially didn’t separate them out into boards, but as I started to write this I realized that they probably should be. When it comes time to texture, I think it will get awkward painting wood grain for something as large and circular as these rings without them being separated into boards. Meanwhile the core axel could probably be made from a tree trunk, or metal if the wood gets weird looking in there. But the outer ring certainly would look very untrue to the concept art if made metallic.
If you look at the concept art, you cannot truly see completely through the wheel. It heavily implies that there is wood on the back face, so I filled the one side with boards. I also think this gives it a lot more character.
Basic Cobbles blocked out.
Going to start busting up the silhouettes and pulling a bit more geometry out, bevels, etc. Going to try to get this submission ready tonight, but if all else fails, by tomorrow evening.
I was sad that I didn’t really get time to work on this earlier in the week, so I’ll end up with less feedback to work with, but, any feedback is welcome and would be greatly appreciated!
Houston, we have bevels. Time to break up the uniformity. Currently 4800 verts when everything is converted to single users.
Got most of my tweaking done. Just some work left on the bearing/axel and cobbles. Possibly rivets, but I feel like that could probably be done with bump and painting. They’re not really visible in the concept and I think giving them geometry might be too much. They’d also be really easy to add later.
Did some low poly sculpting to make the cobbles less uniform. Going to take a break until tomorrow and assess what more I should do. I’d like to pull the center bearing out into wood planks as well, but I don’t think I can afford the verts/tris.
My Vert count is higher than I would like: 11.8k if Single User, but only 4.4k if we’re keeping Data Linking on. I can probably remove maybe 5-10 percent once UV is done as there’s a lot of hiding faces, but with data sharing on I need it all still.
Homework Submission – Week 1 – Water Wheel
@theluthier Here’s where I’m at for this week’s submission:
Vertex count is at 4,477 with shared data; 14,745 if made single users.
Once converted to single users there will be a number of hiding faces in the paddles that can be removed.
I was going to do the nails in the boards with textures, but wasn’t sure if it was okay to make maps for metalness/specularity.
I’ve been saving along the way and can revert any of my shapes to their base blocks pretty quickly if you think normals would do the job in places. Specifically the disc of wood planks has no silhouette and could probably be normal mapped instead. I’ve baked normal maps before, but baking high to low poly is something I haven’t done much of, so making these kinds of decisions is not my strong suit.
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