Cartoony forest/jungle environment

Here is another update.

This here is a ropey bridge across a chasm with a river at the bottom.

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It is supposed to be a piece of interest. But I feel something is lacking to make it more interesting. Perhaps I have been staring at the damn thing for too long. C&C puh-lease!!!!

Guys, you are not helping much at all. You are supposed to say "it needs more skulls hanging somewhere" or something like that!

Kleinluka:

That is 900 tris. This is not so much a modelling exercise as it is a texturing exercise for me. So the mesh is not really something I am proud of here...

I was thinking originally of doing the wood in a more orangy saturated shade, but taking wind and weather it would soon loose that colour, as wood does. I know it is cartoony, but damn, it is a fine line to thread, because you also need to incorporate references to realism in there, or it just gets out of hand. But the "too much yellowish" issue is something that has been bothering me...

Good idea!

Hooo-kay. Next up is a fir tree. My fist attempt at trees actually. Man all that alpha stuff is hard to get right on the foliage. The bark texture took me a fair while to do, because I didn't just want to make a brown on brown one. Kept trying different things painting wise, that just didn't work out. Anyway, I am proud of the bark as it stands now.

Bombs away!

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C&C is wanted! NOW!

Yeah. :x How do you do that? :-? Texture geniuses to the rescue!

Hmmm. What it is, is roughly a low poly cone, with another smaller lower polygon cone inside it for another layer or foliage. Thanks for the comment Pericolos0 but I am still puzzled as to how to go about it differently...

You mean giving the vertices a randomizing treatment. Ok sure. But my main issue is more with getting the top texture to mesh with the wrap around one, which I don't think they really do right now, unless seen from very specific angles.

Thanks Dangerous one. I think I got an idea now.

Next installment. A shield to dress the set with; alluding to the inhabitants.

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C&C please.