Week 14 - Neon Bar sign

It started off being a really slow week, I found it extremely difficult to stay focused on my work and I really felt like I hit a brick wall. I got fed up of all of the assets that were currently in the scene, so even though I wanted to focus on the stuff I had already started, I decided to start something completely different to keep my motivation up. This was the neon bar sign. I found this really helped as it was something that I've never really done before so it was interesting and fun. I found it also made me want to work on the bar itself once it was finished and in engine. The sign itself I modelled in 3Ds Max using splines. 


When I brought it into engine, I created a neon material and applied it to the model which gives the effect that the sign is glowing itself.


As I was now motivated to finish the bar, I added a foot rest to the stools got it, unwrapped and textured. Overall I am quite pleased with how they turned out, as I made them bright red which really gives the bar a hint of a retro vibe to it which was what i was looking for. Additionally I got the actual bar unwrapped and applied some temporary materials to it and created some wine glasses to hang from the top. I also created a handful of alcohol bottles. here is what the bar looks like with all of those things added in.









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Week 10 - TV texturing

Image
As I mentioned last week that I had started to unwrap my TV, I finished that  on Tuesday, then I brought it into substance painter to create the textures. I reused the wood material that I have on the floor but I made it slightly darker in substance so that it doesn't look too similar. I also used it on the speakers but took the normal map off and changed the roughness to give it some variance. I wanted to add some labels on the DVD player and the PS4 but I don't know if there is any need as I need to keep it simplistic to match GTA, therefore I will leave it for now. In Substance designer I created a link so that i could collapse the different material IDs onto one texture. I had Shane help me with this as it was quite complicated but if I was to do this in the future, I think I could manage now.
Read more

week 12 - Easter

Image
The beginning of this week I made a shelving bookcase for underneath the stairs that also has a seating area connected to it. I got inspiration from some images online that I gathered together of bookcases attached to stairs and others with benches. I decided to sort of combine the too different ones together. Below is a small mood board I made: It took me a while to get the size and the shape right but I finally came up with this sort of T-shape that bends round to attach onto the wall. I am going to add some cushions onto the bench and create lots of assets that I can reuse elsewhere for e.g. in the office and on the TV cabinet. Due to family circumstances I had to go home during the middle of this week so this was all I was able to get done. Hopefully I will be able to do some work from home next week.
Read more

Week 8 - Reviews

Image
This week we had to give presentations to our lecturers on the progress we have made so far on the project. My feedback was  that I have made good progress so far but need to start working on getting some textures in to make it feel like its not so unfinished. I was also told to change the wall modular pieces to just one piece for each side as I was getting a lot of lighting issues when baking. Down below is an example of this: I will take this feedback and turn all of the modular pieces into larger pieces so that there is only 1 block for each wall. I have already started to make a wall texture but it still needs a lot of work doing to it as it doesnt really match the GTA style. I think I need to make it a lot more plain so that it is more of a block colour. It also doesn't help that the walls aren't fixed yet. Here is a screenshot of one of the GTA 5 apartments. As you can see the walls are very clean and minimal, so this is what I shall aim for.
Read more