AuthorTopic: Ok, i'm REALLY struggling about making "metal things" look like metal actually  (Read 2540 times)

Offline victornecromancer

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The title says all guys, this is really breaking my mind :v here's the shield I'm trying to do (The yellow artifact in the center is already done):



And here are some references I'm using:

https://i.imgur.com/pZbDFhu.jpg and https://imgur.com/a/37aAe

Thanks for the help!

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Not perfect, but it might give you some direction:



Basically just give it a shine.

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it's not ideal, but hopefully you can get something out of this edit.

Some thoughts:
- Odedrt9 is right, shine goes a long way towards making it look metallic
- In general, metal is very high contrast, push those values up and down more
- Another thing that helps for metal is bounced light, you can see this in your references. especially useful on your raised details.
- You should work on a gray background rather than white, bright backgrounds distort how you see colors
- Try not to use interior outlines, especially on a piece this small. You need all the pixels you can get to make it believable.

I think that's it. Of course, there's lots of ways to make things shiny, stylistically speaking. Looking at it again, my edit may read more as plastic than metal. Experiment a bit to find a way that works for you.
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Thanks to all of you friends, I got a satisfactory result thanks to your tips



You guys are amazing