Knife Block Out.

Starting the knife assignment. I chose to make a 'next-gen' version of the classic Counter-Strike knife.

Reference:

Maya block out:

Maya block out of booleans to be used in Zbrush:

Zbrush screenshots:

Cannon Final

Here is the final images of the cannon before the first industry review. This was a very fun project to work on.

Cannon on Artstation.

I uploaded the cannon model to my website: https://www.austinlabarbera.com/projects/w8dq09

Here is the current render in Marmoset:

Wireframe:

I also uploaded a web viewer of the model to be inspected.

Cannon Texturing

This week I am continuing to work on the cannon. This time focusing on the textures and rendering.

Here is a render of the cannon with its most up to date textures:

Original reference image:

Side ortho view:

Here is some process renders as I was texturing:

Marmoset Render:

Getting some issues with the lighting, and roughness values.

Cannon inside of UE4:

3 Point Lighting

This week we were assigned with a task of taking a photo of a subject under a 3 point light setup and trying to replicate the lighting results.

Here is the original photo:

Here is my attempt at recreating this light setup:

Cannon topology/UV clean up. Baking maps to prepare for texturing.

This week I looked over what was causing some of the baking errors from earlier, and needed to get the polycount down. I got the triangle count from 14k down to under 10k. I also relayed out the UVs and solved most of the errors.

Wireframe:

9,655 Triangle | 5,092 Vertices

UVs:

Post baking:

World-space normals:

Curvature bake:

AO bake:

Color ID bake: