My first car… That was really hard but fortunately I’ve got a small-scale model of the Bugatti EB110, it helped me a lot !
I’m not 100% satisfied with this modeling though, but for a first attempt, I’m still happy I did this ! There are some proportion problems and I didn’t managed to make a hi-poly version and I think I could have used more triangles to do it. The problem is that I don’t know the common polycount for a car in a game such as GTA IV or NFS Hot Pursuit (more recent).
For the police version… it’s because I played Need for Speed Hot Pursuit a lot 😛

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Vehicles
Tags : bugatti, car, eb110, police

Here’s a special part of what I’m modelling this week, as you can guess, it’s a car ^^ My first, and wow, that’s difficult !
For the moment, here’s the wheel (once again, my first wheel), which has its own UV.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props
Tags : car, trim, wheel

I was very inspired by 100 Abandoned Houses and I decided to do this facade.
It uses several textures (diffuse, normal, specular, self-illu) and it’s 2,186 tris. 3Ds Max Default Scanline render.

Also a particular version of this facade :

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Environments
Tags : abandoned house, facade

Here is a page were you will find some little things I’m not satisfied with, abandoned stuff, etc.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Environments, Props
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As you can guess, I’ve seen Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete”, that was fun ! So here’s Machete’s machete 🙂
3Ds Max, Mudbox, Photoshop.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Weapons
Tags : Machete

Here’s another famous object from Back to the Future (with the Hoverboard I already posted). Enjoy !

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props
Tags : Amplifier, Back to the Future, Hoverboard

… unless you’ve got power !”
The first of a series of BTTF props I will model.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props
Tags : Back to the Future, Hoverboard

This time, something completely different from what I usually do : a “cartoon-ish” scene from Futurama, a reproduction of the Planet Express building !
It’s 16,634 tris, it uses several textures from 256 to 1024 (only diffuses and one alpha -for the antenna) and is rendered with Mental Ray using the “contour” option to have a cel-shading effect.
Hope you’ll like it 😀

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Environments
Tags : Futurama, Planet Express

To change from rocks, here’s a big old bomb !
Modeled in 3Ds Max and I painted the base texture in Mudbox to avoid apparent seams. And the rest of the texture is Photoshop as always.
2158 tris
1×2048 (diffuse, normal, specular)
Screenshots from 3Ds Max viewport with Hardware Lighting and Xoliul’s shader.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props, Weapons
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I was working on a little scene about Halloween, but I discovered Mudbox… so the scene is on standby for now.
So. Mudbox. Hmm, I already knew ZBrush but I’m not a very big fan of it. Not so user-friendly, very dark, not easy to handle for a beginner. So I tried Mudbox after having seen some good tutorials from Sascha Henrichs. First, I tried his tutorial about “procedural rocks” with 3Ds Max : the first part is about creating the rock with some modifiers, and the second part is about unwrapping and then texturing the hi-poly rock in Mudbox. Unfortunately, the third part is not yet available.
So here’s a preview of the rock in its current state (more than one million polygons…) :

I really like this technique because it’s more “random”, so more natural (because nature is totally random). It’s also very fast to get something looking good. The main drawback is the fact that you don’t entirely control the process. So if you want to create a specific stone (like for example the famous rock formation of “The Lion King” :p), you’ll have to sculpt it with ZBrush or… Mudbox !
I like Mudbox because it’s really user friendly, clearer than ZB and you can use it just by guessing how to do. So, here’s the second tutorial : this time we sculpt the stone directly in Mudbox, starting with a simple cube. When it’s done, we have to use a low level of polygons as the low-poly version because a major weakness of Mudbox is its lack of re-topology tool.
So, I unwrap this low-poly version of the stone, create the normal map in Mudbox, apply it on the low-poly model and then texture it once again directly in MB.
Eventually, I import the model into 3Ds Max, apply the textures, set-up a little lighting and use Xoliul’s Shader and here it is :

It’s not so “low-poly” (3072 tris) but I’m about to try a re-topology tool in order to get a 1000 tris or less stone.

The entire process :

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UPDATE.
I have tried a software named 3D-Coat for my re-topology test. It’s very efficient and easy to use. So, now my 1 million tris stone (procedural) is only 420 tris !
I will now texture this low-poly model with Mudbox.

UPDATE 2.
Here it is, the low-poly stone is finally textured and ready to be used in a game !

UPDATE 3.
Another “procedural rock” I did this afternoon. Sharper than the first one, and more detailed (1066 tris).

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props
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My latest scene. This is a render from 3Ds Max with default scanline.
I made several textures from 256 to 2048px, with diffuse, normals and sometimes self-illumination or alpha.
Smoke, fire and water are juste planes with alphas.
I’m not really satisfied with the appearance of the lights, but it’s always a problem for me (and with default scanline it’s hard to get something realistic).

24 900 tris.

Edit : I tried a little (a lot) retouching with Photoshop…

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Environments
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A quick prop to change from all these guns.
2749 tris.
Heater : 1×2048 (diffuse, normal, specular)
Wall : same

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Props
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This time, it’s not a gun, but still a weapon. I chose a “classy” grenade… unusual 😀

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Weapons
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Another pistol (I really like it !), but this time it’s a futuristic one : it is the M6G Pistol from Halo 3. A good old magnum I love using to make holes in aliens’ heads !
1 264 tris.
1×2048 (diffuse, normal, specular, self-illumination).

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Weapons
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Here’s a scene I’ve made with a friend (Aurélien Bayonne). For us, it’s a “tribute to Grand Theft Auto” because we are really big fans of this series of games, and we created the scene in a way it may be in a GTA : lots of objects with low details but various and colorful textures, to create a realistic scene with as few polygons as possible. Each object is individual, with its own textures (from 128 to 1024) for a total of 25 059 tris.
So, here are some “beauty shots” (=> screenshots from 3Ds Max Viewport with Hardware Shading and Ambient occlusion enabled, no retouching) and some views of the scene in the wireframe mode, without textures.

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By Michaël.
In : 3D, Environments, Props
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