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N E O - D Y N A S T I C   L O O T B O X

                                                                                                                          

HARD-SURFACE MODELLING

Maya 2018, Artflow, Substance Painter, Photoshop, Sketchfab

Packages:
 


To design a loot-box in both its open and closed states.
The texture size cannot exceed 2048x2048 (optimisation reasons).
The aesthetic is based off combining a Chinese jewellery box with elements of modern technology.

Project Brief:

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Stage One: Concepting Form & Functionality
 

I wanted to design an elaborate way of opening this loot-chest, and eventually decided on the compartments opening via player commands, using the corresponding buttons on their controller.

                                                                                                                          

Stage Two: Colour Theory & Theme

My next stage was to finalise the colours and embellishments on my chosen design.
Once again, I used Artflow to create these turnarounds and the emblem.

I painted these stamps using Artflow, and converted them into Height Maps in Substance Painter.

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Stage Three: 3D Modelling & Optimisation Process
 

Low-Poly Chest Model (Locked)
8000 Tris

Hi-Poly Chest Model (Locked)
78000 Tris

Low-Poly Chest Model UVs (Locked)
Manually Optimised & Stacked

Hi-Poly Chest Colour Map (Locked)
11 Material Colours Applied

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Stage Four: Baking & UV Space Correction

I have used Maya's internal baking tools and XNormals in past projects, but I have always found Substance's baking software to be superior. These were the results of both models respectively.

High to Low Poly Bake (Locked)
Ambient Occlusion Applied

High to Low Poly Bake (Unlocked)
Ambient Occlusion Applied

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Stage Five: Material Manipulation and Texturing

The last step was to apply textures using the colour maps from the High-Poly models as 'slots'.
This would ensure anything I have designated as 'Red' would show up as 'Steel', and so on for the remaining
maps.

Locked Chest Texture Maps:

Albedo Map (Locked Version)
Blue Iteration

Normal Map (Locked Version)
Used for all three Iterations

Ambient Occlusion Map (Locked Version)
Used for all three Iterations

Tiger Emblem
Blue Iteration (Height Map)

Dragon Emblem
Green Iteration (Height Map)

Phoenix Emblem
Red Iteration (Height Map)

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All Three Variants

Neo-Dynasty Loot Chest (Locked):

Neo-Dynasty Loot Chest (Unlocked):

Blue Variant

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© Benjamin T.S.Nixon 2019

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