Crowbar 3D (Blog)

4/07/26

Interviews with Industry Artists

Perforce proof!

Part 4: Decals and Final Touches

Part 4: Decals and Final

Adding some decals, and some finishing touches, still needs a bit more polish!

Decals n stuff

Reference

3/30/26

Part 3: Vertex Paint Materials & More

Part 3: VPMs & More

Chipping away at the next steps for the environment, started doing Vertex Painting Materials, specifically for the edge dust. I've got the system set up, now I just need to make more of them to blend more corners. Adjusted the lighting, started implementing trim sheets, and started laying out tillable materials. Looks rough, but Rome wasn't built in a day! (Note: This is not Rome)

Vertex Blending

More Blending

VBM HLSL Graph

Setting up tilling

Reference (Flagler College)

3/24/26

Part 2: Trim Sheets & More

Continuing, I went back and improved the trim sheet, giving it a second pass. I also made 5 (+1) materials in Designer for some of the textures in the environment.

Trim In Engine

Early GameRes

Dete Trim Tool Designer (Connects graphs and sections for trim sheets)

Materials/Trims In Engine

Trim Sculpt

Map Passes

Reference (Flagler College)

3/16/26

Part 1: Environmental Tiling and Preperations

Part 1: Env. Tilling & Prep

Starting off the environmental module, creating this scene from a picture I took while I was exploring Flagler College, in St. Augustine. Simple, but I want to capture the composition of the original reference.

In-Engine Scene Blockout and Lighting Blockout

Practicing making simple Trimsheets/Tiled Textures (1024 Res)

Blender Scene

Camera Match

Reference (Flagler College)

3/11/26

Mid Semester Resin Print

This is my first time ever printing resin, so I didn't want to do anything too complicated, just the Croc from previous turn ins. Shout out to Josh for helping.

Chitubox Viewport

Overnight Progress

3/03/26

Part 3: Final Sculpt

Final sculpt for the 625 S&W. All shots rendered in ZBrush.

Blender