Myth Reimagined- JoroGumo

[KieranRees]

Hi everyone,

This is my first challenge and event that i am participating in. Cant wait to create my work and look at other’s work. I will be be creating Jorogumo which is a japanese Yokai.

[KieranRees]

I am currently making the base mesh of the sculpt.

[KieranRees]

Been busy but onto the anatomy work and the face.

[KieranRees]

Been busy creating the character.

[KieranRees]

Colours yet to be decided fully but thinking about staying true to the Joro Spiders.

[KieranRees]

Been busy doing the retopology and uvs for the character. Now onto Texturing

[JoannaHinc0Art]

Hi, did you optimized these UVs? Could use some in my opinion. And are you sure about using 6 UV sets? There is no confirmation from challenge organizations on topic of using more of smaller textures, so…

[KieranRees]

Thank you. I will be aiming to reduce the udims to 2-3 but more towards 2. I will go back and try to optimize the uvs.

[JoannaHinc0Art]

Ruls are giving you 2x 4k textures to use.

Someone said that as long as they are in the “budget,” it should be okay… that could give you 1x 4k and 4x 2k, but for now it’s just a guess (admittedly logical, but unconfirmed).

(edit: by optimization, I meant relaxing the points.)

[KieranRees]

I compacted the udims to 2.

[KieranRees]

Hi, i don’t understand what you mean by relaxing the points.

Also the mermaid you are doing looks amazing.

[JoannaHinc0Art]

Thanks

I mean places like this for example:

I see you use Maya too, so…
You can optimize these types of areas using the following:

A cool trick is to select the borders (you can find this option in the “Select” menu), then invert the selection with Shift drag, and then click “Optimize” – a small note, you have to be careful with areas such as eyes and mouths, because they can get messed up.

[KieranRees]

great thank you. I will try this out.

[JoannaHinc0Art]

Good luck, you’re doing great and your model is interesting

Can’t wait to see the end result.

[KieranRees]

Used the optimzied tool in Maya for the first time to help with the uv.

I will be moving onto the texturing and baking process.

[JoannaHinc0Art]

Hi, someone confirmed that you can break textures down into smaller sets, but your initial 6 would still be either below the available size or above it.
They’re much better now (but you’ll have the info for future use), and how’s your texturing going?

[KieranRees]

Thank you for letting me know.

first time using substance painter

I’ve encountered issues with my uvs but can easily fix it for

Base colour are applied.

[KieranRees]

in progress texture work

[emiliestabell]

Reminder that there are only 5 days left of the challenge Remember to post your final results here before the deadline is up: Myths Reimagined - Real-Time Game Character: Final Submissions