Sledge Hammer + Breakdown
With this personal project I aimed to explore advanced material creation from scratch in substance painter and also bring a little realism to my weapon art.
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CONCEPT :
This weapon is based on a concept art by Black Hood.
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PROCESS / LEARNINGS :
- Made wood and metal smart materials which can be reused in my future projects
- Applied various advanced texturing techniques which I hadn't in my other projects
- Used Maya's MASH for procedural generation of some meshes
- Maya & ZBrush for Low & High poly modeling and Textured in Substance Painter
- Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag and Unreal Engine 5.
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In conclusion, I really could've optimized my UV map as there are a lot of repeating chain links. I used a 2k map but a 512 x 512 map would've been enough for an asset of this size.
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Original Concept :
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LW6NK
Black Hood's Profile :
https://www.artstation.com/achi_art
Unreal Engine 5 render
Unreal Engine 5 render
Marmoset renders (Scroll to the bottom for separate renders)
Turntable
Close-up
1484 Tris without Chains - Interactive 3D render
22k Tris with Chains - Interactive 3D render
Wood material
Metal material
UV Layout and Exported Textures
Using Maya's MASH network to create chains along splines
Highpoly Sculpting in Zbrush
Marmoset render
Marmoset wireframe render
Marmoset render without Albedo
Reference Board