So satisfying. Doing things with group instances is my new jam in Maya.
Finished with the modelling.
Time to wrap up some uvs and start putting him together in unreal already!

But here I found the original asset... so not sure.

Some decimated meshes I see.

Sorry about the HDR blow-out. But these hinges look like they have been left out for the texturing! Is it me? or is the metal painted that way? I do not think so, because the handle looks right. The colours look like material map IDs.

I have finished the sculpting stage of my chest!
Next is preparing a low poly version with some UVs to pass the detail across.
This is a few millions of polis so it is certainly not game ready yet.

I got a hard surface model ready to sculpt some details in Zbrush, Pretty excited! I have prepared this chest for a high poly to low poly excercise to use with Marmoset Toolbag to teach how to bake using bake groups.

I have thankfully just discovered #Indika And it is such a bold, unique and beautiful game. I have only played a few hours and I do not want to spoil too much about it.
That said, you do play as a Nun, that has a voice in her head, and travels in the world. However there is a little bit more.

I wanted to showcase some of the work that my students have been doing in the past few years at AIE. It is so nice to see after a couple of years what these amazing people can achieve. Link below!

www.artstation.com/paco3dart/co...

It's working well Jack. I know that you might not want feedback. However,
try to have more quad (square like topology) across the mesh with a consistent topology size. The neck is too narrow You can always do bucket topology to increase the density when it gets closer to the facial structure.

Also I am not super happy with the tree either. I might repaint it? but If I am going to sculpt it anyways, I might as well just jump right into that. I want to make a white bark kind of tree with a few leaves.

Be gentle as this is just to put some ideas together and I will do this in #Unreal5. I might stop with the concept art stage and do some more environment. I did do some block-outs but they did not sit well with me, hence why I did this.

I am doing some Pre-production. I was sculpting some rocks to do a rock garden, but then I thought I need something with story to gain better attraction. So I wanted to incorporate Pilgrimage. I did this thumbnail to think about composition and the golden ratio. I need to work a bit more on the tree

Oh, And one last thing! I also been pretty busy releasing some youtube videos about Maya intro techniques, however I will advance at doing more complex workflows in the future. I shall release a new video soon about the fill hole command in Maya. This is my Channel!
www.youtube.com/@Paco3dArt

Also, just to disclose my plan on what I am doing next with my portfolio. I made a video for my AIE students on how to plan for the future to carve a better portfolio.
These thumbnails are not my work, but an idea of the kind of portfolio id like to work towards my future.
vimeo.com/1022364140?s...

Hello everyone! I wanted to give my self an e-introduction! I am Paco, Just like Taco, and I have been doing 3D art for some time! Currently I am a teacher at AIE teaching Advance diploma and Degree for students. I am currently focusing at doing more Unreal 5. I'll keep you posted!
paco3d.art