Category:Character - Revision history

EricChadwick: removing Category:Discipline

2016-05-28T00:11:35Z

removing Category:Discipline

EricChadwick: moving all content out of the Category page, to Character

2015-02-07T18:23:53Z

moving all content out of the Category page, to Character

EricChadwick: fixes

2014-09-25T01:39:31Z

fixes

Dustinbrown: /* Category Character */

2014-08-04T17:55:56Z

‎Category Character

Dustinbrown: /* Category Character */

2014-08-04T17:54:50Z

‎Category Character

Dustinbrown: /* Character Process */

2014-08-04T17:54:09Z

‎Character Process

Dustinbrown: /* Category Character */

2014-08-04T17:33:27Z

‎Category Character

Cheeseplus: 10 revisions

2014-07-29T08:36:36Z

10 revisions

EricChadwick: Character Examples

2014-05-24T15:45:55Z

Character Examples

EricChadwick: rem redundant link to CategoryTopology

2012-08-03T14:59:53Z

rem redundant link to CategoryTopology

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	Character art for games.		Character art for games.
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-There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't a vehicle, weapon, part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
+Character art for games.
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-__TOC__
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-== Character Process ==
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-Characters for games are usually created as a group effort, involving an Art Director, Concept Artist, and at least one Character Artist. Concept art is almost always used as the starting point because it's a more loose, fast, and efficient way to iterate and find the best character design than 3D.
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-For most modern game characters, a high poly model is first created using a combination of modeling and digital sculpting software. These high resolution models are later modeled over, or retopologized, into the game resolution, or low poly model.
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-The surface details from the high poly model are transferred to the in-game model using [[:Category:Texturing|textures]] and [[Shaders]] though a process called baking. This baking process can generate a variety of texture maps that help fool the eye into believing the in-game model has more modeled detail than it actually has. The most common of these texture maps are [[Normal map]], and [[AmbientOcclusionMap]].
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-== Character Examples ==
-* [http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117608 Testing the new DX11 features of ma2013.5], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fOwSmSaW8 Youtube timelapse] - Paul Tosca has released the source files for his Nyra character "to help others that might be on the road to becoming game character artists and want to check out the model/textures/psd layout".
-* [[:Category:Topology]] - Wireframes of meshes used in games.
-* [[BaseMesh]] - Low-resolution polygonal models that can be used as the starting point for [[CharacterSculpting|digital sculpting]].
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-== More Information ==
-* [[:Category:ReferenceAnatomy]]
-* [[:Category:ReferenceCharacter]]
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 There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't a vehicle, weapon, part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
-== Pages in This Category ==
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 == Character Process ==
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 For most modern game characters, a high poly model is first created using a combination of modeling and digital sculpting software. These high resolution models are later modeled over, or retopologized, into the game resolution, or low poly model.
-The surface details from the high poly model are transferred to the in-game model using [http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Category:Texturing textures] and [http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Shaders shaders] though a process called baking. This baking process can generate a variety of texture maps that help fool the eye into believing the in-game model has more modeled detail than it actually has. The most common of these texture maps are [http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Normal_Maps normal maps], and [http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/AmbientOcclusionMap ambient occlusion maps].
+The surface details from the high poly model are transferred to the in-game model using [[:Category:Texturing|textures]] and [[Shaders]] though a process called baking. This baking process can generate a variety of texture maps that help fool the eye into believing the in-game model has more modeled detail than it actually has. The most common of these texture maps are [[Normal map]], and [[AmbientOcclusionMap]].
 == Character Examples ==
 * [http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117608 Testing the new DX11 features of ma2013.5], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fOwSmSaW8 Youtube timelapse] - Paul Tosca has released the source files for his Nyra character "to help others that might be on the road to becoming game character artists and want to check out the model/textures/psd layout".
-* [[Category:Topology]] - Wireframes of meshes used in games.
+* [[:Category:Topology]] - Wireframes of meshes used in games.
 * [[BaseMesh]] - Low-resolution polygonal models that can be used as the starting point for [[CharacterSculpting|digital sculpting]].
 == More Information ==
-* [[Category:ReferenceAnatomy]]
+* [[:Category:ReferenceAnatomy]]
-* [[Category:ReferenceCharacter]]
+* [[:Category:ReferenceCharacter]]
 [[Category:Discipline]]

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 __NOTOC__
 = Category Character =
-There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
+There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't a vehicle, weapon, part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
 == Pages in This Category ==

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 __NOTOC__
 = Category Character =
-All about character art for games. There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
+There are playable and non-playable characters (NPCs). Hero characters, which are typically provided extra visual fidelity, and characters which are deemed less important. There are animals, invented creatures, monsters, minibosses, and final bosses. Basically, if it moves and it isn't part of the environment or the user interface, it's probably a character.
 == Pages in This Category ==

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	There are other kinds of [[Category:TextureTypes\|texture maps]] that get used, but normal maps are a bit unique in that they are storing information related to the shape, rather than the color or material. Since these are pretty much impossible to accurately paint by hand, as they're a mathematical representation of something, people usually use a high resolution model and "bake" or "project" the normals from the high poly (where each vertex has a discrete normal) down to a texture that can be applied to the low poly.		There are other kinds of [[Category:TextureTypes\|texture maps]] that get used, but normal maps are a bit unique in that they are storing information related to the shape, rather than the color or material. Since these are pretty much impossible to accurately paint by hand, as they're a mathematical representation of something, people usually use a high resolution model and "bake" or "project" the normals from the high poly (where each vertex has a discrete normal) down to a texture that can be applied to the low poly.
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		+	== Character Examples ==
		+	* [http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117608 Testing the new DX11 features of ma2013.5], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5fOwSmSaW8 Youtube timelapse] - Paul Tosca has released the source files for his Nyra character "to help others that might be on the road to becoming game character artists and want to check out the model/textures/psd layout".
		+	* [[Category:Topology]] - Wireframes of meshes used in games.
		+	* [[BaseMesh]] - Low-resolution polygonal models that can be used as the starting point for [[CharacterSculpting\|digital sculpting]].

	== More Information ==		== More Information ==