Lancaster & Son Instantograph camera
1. First shape and size blockout. It was difficult to find the exact dimensions of this camera, so I had to match everything to the references as closely as possible while making sure that the individual parts would fit together without intersecting
2. Materials for ID Map.
Before creating the final high and low poly, I assigned materials for the ID map. Some smaller parts were merged with the body to bake them onto flat low-poly surfaces.
Materials for ID Map
Materials for ID Map
Clay render (I find them strangely nice)
Clay render
Clay render
Final ID Map Colors
3. High poly model & low poly model
I sculpted some details in Blender and joined meshed together to have a nice HP/LP structures and naming convention
High poly model
High poly model
Low poly uvs, ~75% occupied space
Sample grid texture view
4. Texturing - Base Color
All baking and texturing was done in Substance Painter
Texturing - Metallic
Texturing - Roughness
Texturing - Normal
Texturing - Opacity
Texturing - Ambient Occlusion
Texturing - Material in Substance Painter
5. WIreframe
Final low poly after a few changes
WIreframe
Wireframe
6. Beauty renders - Cycles, Blender
Beauty renders
Beauty renders
This antique camera was created for the Sierra Division Antique Prop Contest. I made both the high poly and low poly in Blender, using a mix of hard edges and weighted normals, and textured it in Substance 3D Painter with a 2K texture set.
The contest limit was 25,000 tris, and my final model came in at around 24.7K. I’m also sharing some progress shots to show how the prop developed throughout the process, from the early blockout to the final result.
And as always, I hope you like it. :)