Keiths Polybook
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My dayjob goes a bit crazy this time of year so I haven’t had a great deal of time to work on this guy!
I have managed to get him all unwrapped and ready for painter now – I think😅 As is usually the case I needed to resolve a few issues here and there with the UV’s but I think that I’ve turned the corner now.
I also used vertex paint to block in some colours in Blender – this is really useful in Substance as I can then use the vertex colours to generate an ID Map.
I’ve then used that ID Map to block in some colours – hopefully I can start painting next!
A little update on this guy!
I’ve painted some colours onto his face and tried to capture the redness on his cheeks, nose and ears.
I didn’t do too much to the hair apart from colour it and added some AO. Also played around with the roughness here to add a little more interest.
Made a quick pass on the bowl and contents, I’ll come back and add something here – maybe it needs a bit more dirt or something to roughen it up as it’s quite clean.
I worked on his shoes a too – I tried to keep it quite simple and to the artwork style, I’m quite happy with the way they are looking.
I spotted a couple of problems with my UV’s 👀 One is on the underside of the sole of the shoe, there’s a tiny gap showing but I’m probably just going to ignore that given where it is! The other is on his pants – that shape is actually the pocket from the rear – how did I do that? 😅
So I might go back and rebake that texture set, or……. now that I look at it – I could use it to my advantage and turn it into a patch, as I do see that in some of Kjell’s art – will need to think about it.
Some more progress, I’ve spent a bit of time on the pants trying to make them look nice. I had to bite the bullet and go back to correct the UV’s, my lazy plan was not going to work! 😅 I did like the idea of patches though, so went ahead with that in a few places.
Shoes are still too shiny! I’m going back to those next, and wanted to add a little more detail there – possibly some stitches.
I’m not really loving the wool on the hat because of the way it twists near the top I think – but I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to make that look good – will have to experiment a bit more here.
It’s definitely coming along though, I think the overall look is headed in the right direction.
PS – if you’re following my thread I do apologise for spamming a bit these last couple of days 😃
Looks great already Keith!
The hat is indeed a strange thing; I have never knitted anything in my life, but I think one way to do this is basically knit a triangle:
practically, you’d probably use more seams, by the looks of it this one has 3 (or 4) seams, not going all the way to the bottom:
I’m still chipping away at this guy when I’m not at work and here’s a little update.
I’ve added more details to the knife and his little pouch – I tried to make that area more interesting. Also added some stitches and seams to the shoes.
I changed the pattern on the gloves to better reflect the artwork and also added a dusting of cinnamon to the porridge (Norwegians like that). I changed the texure of the hat too – I think it looks a bit better now.
Back in Blender I’ve added some basic lighting – I’ll try and improve that a bit more next time! Also added some fluffyness to his clothes, not sure if that will work on Sketchfab but that’s OK – I’m happy just having the hair on my beauty renders.
I’m thinking about adding some planks of wood for the floor? I know it’s straw in the artwork but I’ve got a deadline to keep here! 😅
in fact I might pinch some of them from my treasure chest project and see how they look.
Still some work to do but the end is in sight now I feel! 👍
Here’s the final renders from this project. I like to render them in Blender with a transparent background and then take it into Photoshopp. Here it’s nice to add a gradient with a contrasting colour. Also played with the colour/contrast to make it pop a bit and added a bit of dust and noise as finishing touches.
About the floor – I tried pinching the wood floorboards from my treasure chest project but I didn’t like how that wood looked against the wood I used on the stool. Also, that was taking me away from the artwork and I didn’t want to do that if I could avoid it.
I created a few pieces of low res straw and put them in a collection, then used a particle emitter to give me a random stack of straws. The only problem doing it this way is that I couldn’t find a way to bring that into Sketchfab as there are so many pieces of straw (“only” 20,000) or so 🤪 If I try to convert them to a mesh my PC cant handle it so not really sure how best to get around that! Can something like this be baked onto a low res mesh somehow?
Not the end of the world, but as Michael mentioned it would definitely be nice to have that in the Sketchfab version!
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