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I saw these posted on AGDG the other day:

http://www.mediafire.com/?62mayh7us7jpgw9
http://www.mediafire.com/?q8ycy9m7zswv7ri
http://www.mediafire.com/?lrfxk4hth90clt3

I wish I knew the trick to modeling low poly characters. Making machines and objects and shit, that I can grasp, but organic stuff? I just don't get how you're even meant to start.

>>364641
Thanks. What is this exactly? a tutorial?

>>364641

Thank you very much! i watching the files

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>>364641
Nice! more please!

>>364641
I've found that making paper craft and origami has helped me with my low poly modelling. I often find it useful to imagine that I'm going to be building it out of planes of card and trying to think about how it would work.

>>364854
YES
Please tell me this is going into a game... I want to walk around in it.

not mine but relevant.
Low poly texturing is hard in my opinion.

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>>364856
Too amazing. I have to use this artstyle for my game

Any good tutorials on low poly?

bump for interest

>>364942

Depending on how low-poly, I generally go pixel-art for really small stuff. For larger low-poly, I generally up the texture resolution to 4x the final size. Normally scaling down muddles the textures but if you do some sharpen filters and/or up the contrast, it comes out awesome for the final size. This way in low-poly texturing all you have to do is use light and color to merely suggest the detail.

>>365004
http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm

Ignore the silly name. The tutorials are top notch

>>365871

what is this from? I've been seeing images from this for a while now. Who is the artist or which is the game for which these assets were made?

>>365871
needs some shadows and it would look great

>>365881
http://www.moddb.com/games/turbo-run

But it's look like they stop working on it ;(

How can I fix my model so that 3ds stops treating it like its inside out? Something happened and when I use the push modifier I have to use a negative factor to inflate it, otherwise it shrinks.

and the other problem with this is that when I go to bake my occlusions and cavity maps, the entire bake turns out black because it thinks every face is internal.

HELP??

>>366770
flip your normals

>>366771

turns out i needed to flip all my polygons on my high and low res meshes. thanks man

heres something I did for class. 500 tris, ridiculously unnecessary 1024x1024. Its bad

What is the cheapest, but not trashy software to do these models? I'm on a Mac.

>>367105
blender

>>367106
Thank you very much. I hope to post something soon.

>>367061
Only thing that stands out as 'bad' to me is the shoulders looking broken. The texture size is too large as well. It's not terrible really though...

>>367105
Blender or Silo. The latter has a price tag but it's really worth it if you want to get into modeling alone.

>>367121
Silo is on sale on steam now for $30 (windows only). I've wanted to try it but it seems everyone agrees it's unsupported and crashes constantly. Has anyone else had a good experience with it?

>>367761
Absolutely, it's my main weapon of choice.
For me, it actually crashes less than anything made by Autodesk so I guess the reputation is a little unfair. Of course, common sense dictates that you should set autosave to every minute anyway.
I recommend that you get the trial first to see if it's your kinda app, and if it doesn't have any issues specific to your machine. I was already sold after a week or so of using it, a month should be more than enough.

>>367105

Wings3D.

Very awesome simple interface, exports to .obj, rocks at box-modeled meshes and UV mapping. Not for animation.