CodeBandicoot

Here’s a bit of my hand-painting process in Blender. I’m not an expert, so any advice is very welcome!!! I usually start from black and paint while thinking about where the light comes from #GameDev #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Texturing #speedpaint

Had a creative block, that’s why I haven’t posted. Thought I had nothing worth sharing… not true Been exploring the game idea and making rough sketches. Ugly, but very valuable for me and the process #GameDev #IndieDev #AIArt #3D #thinking

@rasiail991 Not in this project for sure 😭

@codeBandicoot When will peace come to UV?

Found something interesting 👀 #PicoBerry meshes had more vertices but fewer faces than #Meshy Turns out it splits the mesh into parts (not perfect cuts), that’s why Pretty useful for game dev PD: UVs are chaos :3 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Unity

@rasiail991 Thanks! Nothing too crazy, I'm just trying a different approach where I paint details directly on the model first, then soften and blend them into the overall look. The goal is to make it read well from a distance, with details being more secondary

@codeBandicoot Good luck! I'm curious what method you are trying.

I usually go from general to detail, but this time I tried a different approach. I started with the details and will blend them into broader changes later. Wish me luck 😅 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Blender

Not a big update today. I’ve been exploring ways to improve the textures and see if they fit my art style. Starting to wonder if I really know my direction… or if I should go back to planning #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Texturing #Blender

@mflscout Hi! The website is this: picoberry.ai I’m not sure if they offer subscriptions. I have an account because I previously bought UModeler on the Unity Asset Store

@codeBandicoot Do you have the website link and is it free to use?

Tried #PicoBerry today 👀 For a beta tool and my first low poly attempt, this is pretty impressive. Topology is better than most tools I’ve tried #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #LowPoly

#PicoBerry is by far the most accurate so far (based on the references). Great textures, solid mesh. I’ll check the UVs next, but I like that some parts come already separated. Very nice work @UModeler 👏 #Unity3D #Unity #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev

Fixing the textures now. UVs aren’t great except for baking, but for simple hand-painted work, it should be fine #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev

I’m continuing with the retopology of a character generated with #Meshy. At this point, I’m not even sure if I’m saving time with AI… or just spending it fixing things 😅 Maybe I just need to improve my workflow somehow #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Retopology

There are still some topology issues, like you can see here… Looks like I’ve got a lot of work ahead 😅 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #Blender #IndieDev #Topology

#Meshy also has an animation system… not great, to be honest. I’d still prefer doing animations by hand, but it might be useful for references. I’ll test it later once I fix the weights so I can compare results #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Animation

Still experimenting with my workflow. Tried #Meshy for retopo… not great. Then tested #Hi3D, is better, but still not quite there. Re-applied textures with #Meshy and now jumping into Blender for manual fixes. Wish me luck 😅 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Retopology

I think topology is one of the biggest challenges here. The mesh can look good at first, but the topology is usually a mess… even after remeshing Any suggestions? I’ll keep experimenting 🤔 #GameDev #AIArt #3D #IndieDev #Meshy

Been playing with AI for 3D… some generations are straight up garbage, others are surprisingly decent 😅 You really have to iterate to get something that matches what you have in mind. Not gonna lie, this is fun #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D

I ended up fixing it in Photoshop Honestly, I could’ve done that way earlier and saved a lot of time, but I wanted to push AI and see its limits. Turns out you still need technical skills or you get stuck pretty fast. interesting 👀 #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D #GenerativeAI

Still iterating on my AI game dev workflow. I'm building characters piece by piece (body, clothes, head...), but running into a scaling issue, even when I specify proportions, it just ignores them. Kinda frustrating tbh 😅 #GameDev #AIArt #IndieDev #3D #GamedevWorkflow

I drew this character a while ago, so I tried to recreate it using the same visual style 🦊 It’s not as simple as drag & drop, I had to rebuild each piece one by one and use them as references for the final version Pretty fun process to be honest😊 #gamedev #indiedev #AI