Test render

Using quixel, heres a test shot of the well with some materials. I want to dirty up the bricks a bit, and add some spacing for the roof. We'll so how it goes, maybe the cavity map will help with that.

Retopologizing this roof still...

So i've learned quite a few things on this Well that i'm constructing. Most notably that I dont think i need to soften my normals everytime. I'll have to check on that, but i feel pretty confident that is the case.
For a quick comparison, number 1 is the mesh unsmoothed, and number 2 is the smoothed mesh.

Well of an update

Ok, so I Tried to do a high poly roof, then Retopologize it. I think it turned out pretty well. Although the poly count came out higher than the one with duplicated Shingles. They both need a little bit of work. Personally I enjoy the previous one, but I'm going to rework this one before i give up and go back to the original shingled one. There some obvious changes that need to be made, but I think at this point I'm going to give it a rest.

Needed to do some zsketching

Doing some sketching in zbrush Because i needed to get this Well outta me. I feel pretty good. Probably not going to finish this but this was fun.

Low Poly hush hush

Tried something out working on the low poly version of this Well. I think this process turned out nicely. I made separate

shingles, and multiplied em for one part of the roof to see how it looked. I liked it, but I think i'm going to go back and make a high def shingle, multiply it, and retopo the whole thing like I did with the second portion of the roof. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime. Enjoy?!

Choo choo, here comes the zbrush train!

i had fun with this. It looks pretty nifty. I am SO READY to poly paint this.

Hi POly in progress

Someone told me I'd need to produce a hi poly sculpt of this well. So...That's what i"m doing, and until POlycount is back up. I'll just be here.

Re doing the well

The grey one is the newest version. I'm in the middle of UV unwrapping it now. I'm going to go to bed now before i burn myself out and finish it in the AM

Having a bit of an issue....NOT WITH A TISSUE

so i'm practicing some prop modeling as i'm modeling a car, and this issue keeps coming up. and i dont know what to do. Hopefully the wise sages at poly count can help a brotha out.