Trufflehunter - compiling textures...

Modular trufflehunter room

Trufflehunter - trees topo wip

Decimated my tree sculpt and brought it into Topogun. The first tree has been a challenge to retop with the hard-to-reach geometry in the branches. I've found that I've had the best success by drawing lines or points and then bridging them together.

Trufflehunter - assets wip

By now, all of the models should be modeled and UV'd... with the except for the trees. Here are a few screens of them compiled. 

Trufflehunter - trees wip

I set aside the most time to model the trees since they are going to have the most detail and likewise, use a good chunk of my poly budget. Here are some screens of its progress.

Started out with Zspheres to get the overall shape of the tree. I liked how flexible the Zspheres are in setting up a base to work with.

Converted the adaptive skin to a mesh.

The subdivision 1 was too low to do much of anything; A lot of my sculpting was on level six. Changed the shader to suit "tree" a bit more than the default shader as I worked.

The other side of the tree. At first, was not going to put as much detail in it as the other side would not be as visible, but I probably will end up re-using a few of the trees because of time... so it will need to look good from all angles.

Trufflehunter - assets wip

Working on the assets in separate files and then importing them into a master file as they are completed. So far, have models for the tables, miscellaneous cups, stairs, and the chairs by the fireplace. Combined the UVs for some of the meshes onto one UV sheet. Currently at about 2600 polys.

Trufflehunter - white box layout

Just used basic polygon primitives to lay block out the relative scale and rough layout for the room to have a foundation to start working from. I've been given a 15,000 polygon budget for this project; take a guess where most of them will be going.

Reference boards - dungeon and woodland themes

Next project: Trufflehunter's Sett from Narnia

Gathering references for next project, creating the Trufflehunter's underground home from a concept art from The Crafting of Narnia.