Biker Character - Realtime game art

fat_cap · 18-05-2010, 06:02 PM

A biker character which was a test bed for some techniques I wanted to try out.... and as such took a looooong time to finally get round to finishing!

The character is a realtime viewport capture from MAX using realtime shaders, AO, realtime shadowing and an anisotropic shader for the hair with the background and minor post work in Photoshop.

The polycount comes in around 14,000 for the character with full hair and weapon.

And a turnaround shot from 3DS MAX so you can see what it looks like realtime in the viewport

Marina Benites · 18-05-2010, 06:15 PM

Veryy cooll man! Nice details and proportion!

Fabio Brasilien · 18-05-2010, 06:20 PM

Perfect Job!!! This is how next gen characters should look like!!! Can you show us some textures and wireframe?

Is that a 2048x2048 texture?

gmagno · 18-05-2010, 06:21 PM

wow man! Great character, texture and presentation! There seems realtime, seems to render. Next gen total. Congrats!

tjerkotten · 18-05-2010, 07:25 PM

i say, Sick!. But you say the character looks like that in your viewport. I doubt that. The guy itself is awsome. This deserves frontpage!

fat_cap · 18-05-2010, 07:52 PM

Thanks for the replies guys- glad you like it

@tjerkotten - the turnaround shots are straight from MAX viewport as stated - no reason for me to lie! I used Laurens Corjin's Xoliul shader for the body and head and a proprtietary anisotropic shader for the hair. The first shot has had post work added in Photoshop though as stated.

The realtime AO, and shadows were turned on in the viewport and there were a few variations of the shader used on the body in one multi-sub material so that some areas could have reflection maps/ high or higher spec values than others and give a nice range of materials to the whole character - other than that no trickery

@Fabio Brasilien - Its using 2048x2048 textures for the head, 2048x2048 textures for the body and a 1025x512 for the hair - pretty intensive but I wanted it to hold up well for facial close-ups. It's not going to be used in-game so I didn't need to optimise too much!

shadowseve · 18-05-2010, 09:00 PM

Really nice. Work excellent detail and the mats are ace.

chunkymunky · 19-05-2010, 08:15 AM

Superb work of the character, especially the texturework, but is it me or is this guy short? If that's the way you intend him to be then that's ok, just wondering

tjerkotten · 19-05-2010, 09:39 AM

[quote=fat_cap;791315]Thanks for the replies guys- glad you like it

@tjerkotten - the turnaround shots are straight from MAX viewport as stated - no reason for me to lie! I used Laurens Corjin's Xoliul shader for the body and head and a proprtietary anisotropic shader for the hair. The first shot has had post work added in Photoshop though as stated......QUOTE]

I have never seen such a high quality model with shadows, lighting and everything in the viewport. If you say its looking like that with the use of some plugins, i believe you. Only i have never seen it like this in a studio or online. Great job!

poopipe · 19-05-2010, 09:56 AM

*cough* share the shader *cough*

it looks brilliant mate, the texture work is superb.

I was thinking his limbs were a bit short at first but actually I'm coming round to the proportions now.

ill give it some stars i think

fat_cap · 19-05-2010, 11:18 AM

Glad everybody is liking it - it's nice to get such a good response

The character is meant to look squat and powerful - the proportions went through many revisions until I settled on the final ones and is something that a lot of people had an opinion on!

@poopipe - The shader I used for the body and head can be downloaded here http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader - the page gives an overview of the effects and material slots it has - as you can see you can get some pretty snazzy effects with it! Turn on realtime shadowing, viewport AO and crank your videocard AA settings upm and you will get a similar setup to what this guy was captured in.

The hair shader is just an updated version of one of the meterials that come with ShaderFX - just tweaked to add alpha blending to the sorting and a diffuse slot as far as I can remember - nothing fancy.

chunkymunky · 19-05-2010, 12:14 PM

Thanks for the info about his size, you can tell alot of hard work went into creating him, love the style such a cool character

chris_solo · 19-05-2010, 01:40 PM

very nice project! I've already seen it on ZbC !

C2theG · 19-05-2010, 03:14 PM

Really nice model. Very rough and tumble feel to him. great work!

Romano83 · 19-05-2010, 03:36 PM

Really like this model. Your work on textures is excellent !!!

18-05-2010, 06:02 PM	#1
fat_cap Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 26 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	Biker Character - Realtime game art A biker character which was a test bed for some techniques I wanted to try out.... and as such took a looooong time to finally get round to finishing! The character is a realtime viewport capture from MAX using realtime shaders, AO, realtime shadowing and an anisotropic shader for the hair with the background and minor post work in Photoshop. The polycount comes in around 14,000 for the character with full hair and weapon. And a turnaround shot from 3DS MAX so you can see what it looks like realtime in the viewport Attached Images __________________ http://www.SamChester.co.uk Industry Experienced Freelance Character Artist

18-05-2010, 06:15 PM	#2
Marina Benites starting Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Florianópolis - Brazil Posts: 12 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Veryy cooll man! Nice details and proportion! Last edited by Marina Benites; 18-05-2010 at 06:24 PM..

18-05-2010, 06:21 PM	#4
gmagno Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 54 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	wow man! Great character, texture and presentation! There seems realtime, seems to render. Next gen total. Congrats! __________________ Portfolio --------- G.Magno

18-05-2010, 07:25 PM	#5
tjerkotten Knowledge must be free Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 851 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	i say, Sick!. But you say the character looks like that in your viewport. I doubt that. The guy itself is awsome. This deserves frontpage! __________________ Latest Projects: The Lost Jungle " In Progress " The Chamber Of Oceans " In Progress " The Sunflower Fountain Final The Sunflower Fountain " In Progress " Homepage: Home Of Tjerk Otten

18-05-2010, 07:52 PM	#6
fat_cap Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 26 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	Thanks for the replies guys- glad you like it @tjerkotten - the turnaround shots are straight from MAX viewport as stated - no reason for me to lie! I used Laurens Corjin's Xoliul shader for the body and head and a proprtietary anisotropic shader for the hair. The first shot has had post work added in Photoshop though as stated. The realtime AO, and shadows were turned on in the viewport and there were a few variations of the shader used on the body in one multi-sub material so that some areas could have reflection maps/ high or higher spec values than others and give a nice range of materials to the whole character - other than that no trickery @Fabio Brasilien - Its using 2048x2048 textures for the head, 2048x2048 textures for the body and a 1025x512 for the hair - pretty intensive but I wanted it to hold up well for facial close-ups. It's not going to be used in-game so I didn't need to optimise too much! __________________ http://www.SamChester.co.uk Industry Experienced Freelance Character Artist Last edited by fat_cap; 18-05-2010 at 08:21 PM..

18-05-2010, 06:20 PM	#3
Fabio Brasilien Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 24 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Perfect Job!!! This is how next gen characters should look like!!! Can you show us some textures and wireframe? Is that a 2048x2048 texture?

18-05-2010, 09:00 PM	#7
shadowseve Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 395 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Really nice. Work excellent detail and the mats are ace. __________________ Damien Tech Support Respower Render Farm

19-05-2010, 08:15 AM	#8
chunkymunky General Monkey Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Near Here Posts: 2,981 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	Superb work of the character, especially the texturework, but is it me or is this guy short? If that's the way you intend him to be then that's ok, just wondering

19-05-2010, 09:39 AM	#9
tjerkotten Knowledge must be free Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 851 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 5	[quote=fat_cap;791315]Thanks for the replies guys- glad you like it @tjerkotten - the turnaround shots are straight from MAX viewport as stated - no reason for me to lie! I used Laurens Corjin's Xoliul shader for the body and head and a proprtietary anisotropic shader for the hair. The first shot has had post work added in Photoshop though as stated......QUOTE] I have never seen such a high quality model with shadows, lighting and everything in the viewport. If you say its looking like that with the use of some plugins, i believe you. Only i have never seen it like this in a studio or online. Great job! __________________ Latest Projects: The Lost Jungle " In Progress " The Chamber Of Oceans " In Progress " The Sunflower Fountain Final The Sunflower Fountain " In Progress " Homepage: Home Of Tjerk Otten

19-05-2010, 09:56 AM	#10
poopipe conscientious objector Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: cambridge, uk Posts: 4,234 Thanks: 3 Thanked 126 Times in 120 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 9	cough share the shader cough it looks brilliant mate, the texture work is superb. I was thinking his limbs were a bit short at first but actually I'm coming round to the proportions now. ill give it some stars i think __________________ work pigs!! http://johnsarthole.blogspot.com/

19-05-2010, 11:18 AM	#11
fat_cap Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 26 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	Glad everybody is liking it - it's nice to get such a good response The character is meant to look squat and powerful - the proportions went through many revisions until I settled on the final ones and is something that a lot of people had an opinion on! @poopipe - The shader I used for the body and head can be downloaded here http://www.laurenscorijn.com/viewportshader - the page gives an overview of the effects and material slots it has - as you can see you can get some pretty snazzy effects with it! Turn on realtime shadowing, viewport AO and crank your videocard AA settings upm and you will get a similar setup to what this guy was captured in. The hair shader is just an updated version of one of the meterials that come with ShaderFX - just tweaked to add alpha blending to the sorting and a diffuse slot as far as I can remember - nothing fancy. __________________ http://www.SamChester.co.uk Industry Experienced Freelance Character Artist

19-05-2010, 12:14 PM	#12
chunkymunky General Monkey Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Near Here Posts: 2,981 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 2	Thanks for the info about his size, you can tell alot of hard work went into creating him, love the style such a cool character

19-05-2010, 01:40 PM	#13
chris_solo looking for job... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: France Posts: 1,369 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	very nice project! I've already seen it on ZbC ! __________________ always try to do better than last time! (sorry for my poor english!) ---> DW V - Deus ex machina Lightwave User Blender User

19-05-2010, 03:14 PM	#14
C2theG Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 128 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 1	Really nice model. Very rough and tumble feel to him. great work! __________________

19-05-2010, 03:36 PM	#15
Romano83 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: France Posts: 40 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Really like this model. Your work on textures is excellent !!!

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