Crates and Barrels (Game Res Meshing)


For this assignment I remade the low poly mesh in Maya, and tried to fix up the UVs. I haven't done a lot of UVs and have never been particularly good at them, which has always made baking a pain. But here it came out a bit better than usual, so I'm pretty ok with it.

Here's my first shot at test baking the crate.

Crate (High Res Mesh)

I decided to remake my crate in order to get some of the details on the sides more accurate, and overall, I'm pretty happy with that decision. I used the orbs brush set in order to get some of the finer details as well.

 Crate Block Out

This is the block out for my future crate, I wanted to go for a slightly rounded cartoon-y vibe for mine. I plan on further exaggerating it as I continue to work on it. I first created the basic shapes in Maya, mostly using the extrude and bevel tools, and then I threw the model into Zbrush to push things around to get them exactly how I wanted. 

These were rendered in Unreal, in which I spent over an hour trying to get the wireframes to cooperate.

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