Modeling Project 09/03/2017

So today I have been trying to get the High to low poly bake to work but so far my normal map that comes out of it doesn't look right, the first was using surface normals and the second was using geometry normals. This is the first two attempts of normal maps that I attempted myself using the powerpoint slide Matt gave us to help us in learning how to create normal maps.

Surface Normal Map:

Geometry Normal Map:

For my first two attempts it wasn't too bad but I need to find out why it comes out so weird in the normal map with the colour.

After last week it seemed that I was still getting black mars appear on the model when trying to bake the high poly onto the low poly which I still couldn't figure out. I don't know if it has anything to do with the UV itself or an error between the models when they try and bake.

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Sculpting a Character in Mudbox

So today I have been using Mudbox to sculpt a character. The character itself is a turtle with its shell on. So to start off I decided to work on his skin first and within this I was using two main tools the first being the imprint tool and the second being the smooth tool. I started off with a stamp that comes with Mudbox and I would just stamp the area I needed to give it a bumpy area on the skin. I would then smooth off the more harsh areas so it doesn't have any major jagged lines on it. After doing this for a while I started to notice that it was giving off quite a stone texture to the skin which I started to like after a while. However when it came to the feet I changed it up a little as I smoothed the toes a lot more than the other parts of the body which makes them stand out more and when it comes to texturing this guy I can add more detail to it by changing some of the colours around. Next I started on sculpting on the shell which I made look very unique as I made some v...

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