Sci Fi Diver

BluPanda

Hello Polycount,

My co-workers have finally convinced me to join this here forum so, Here's my latest completed work a highpoly sci fi diver, modeled in max, rendered in keyshot, post work in photoshop. Inspired by and with critique from Vitally Bulgarov.

Oh also this is my first post here so... nice to meet you

-BluPanda
-Env Artist

Valandar

Wow, some nice hard surface work, there.

1 - So this is only hipoly, no game level resolution version?

2 - Only a bust, not the whole diver?

Drav

Awesome awesome, I love it!! Great texturing, and a really believeable design, who did the concept? Thanks for posting.....

Ferg

Very nice work BluPanda, and welcome to the forum. As soon as I saw it, I knew vitally inspired it. The extreme light and dark contrasts on the body are bothering me a little, and I feel like your lighting isn't doing your modeling justice like it could. Minor crits though, overall its excellent.

aajohnny

Beautiful.... just Beautiful.

Sebeuroc

Greetings! ... and wow! Awesome work, mate. I have no crits, only the question: will there be more?

Dylan Brady

Super awesome. is dat dun with splines or with poly-modeling?
Reminds me of sphere, those suits were sick

roosterMAP

I assume this was plane modeled?

Looks amazing!


I would like to see a speed vid of you modeling a portion of your hard surface models. Im pretty bad a plane modeling, and I really wanna get better.

BluPanda

Woah! thanks guys! your kindness has made me feel obliged to provide you with some more info! so here's some of my behind the scenes work.

concept?! what concept! haha this was all hard surface modeling (except for the first image below, that was quick zbrush inspiration) I of course used splines for the tubes, that's it.

Below is some progress renders. It shows alot of my thought process working through the shapes and forms as I go, keeping in mind flow and never being afraid to delete and rework large portions. I started out not even sure what I wanted to make. This was really an excersize in designing and modeling, something I thought was cool. I was going to do dom war but we'll see what happens now, but it was sort of a warm up...

BluPanda

Ferg wrote: »

The extreme light and dark contrasts on the body are bothering me a little, and I feel like your lighting isn't doing your modeling justice like it could.

I'm glad you noticed that actually, I did that un-purpose sort of.. I wanted the final image to be more then just "here's a cool model" I wanted it to look cool on my wallpaper and have a bit more mood to it. That's why I like to show the occlusion in addition to the final product. Hopefully it was somewhat successful at that.

Envart

This is stunning. Love the details.

Mask_Salesman

Niiice, the first render reminds me of an imperial fighter pilot lol.

JGcount

This is really cool and surpasses what I have done, but I am really more thinking pilot than diver I have to say.

LRoy

You took the gnomon masterclass?

dfacto

This is awesome man, excellent bust!

BluPanda

LRoy wrote: »

You took the gnomon masterclass?

indeed

haikai

Great work! The progress is fun to see, and I think it came out right in the end.

Reverenddevil

I dig it panda! It would be cool if you did the whole body and treated the rest of the divers equipment like you did the mask and regulator. Take the fins and add a mechanical sci fi feel to them with a sci fi feel to the wetsuit also.. Keep it up man..

nfrrtycmplx

top row... oh wait

CJE

nfrrtycmplx wrote: »

top row... oh wait

Banner Rotation!

chrisradsby

great work man, really awesome looking.

Uly

i am in love with the texturing, lighting, and presentation of that mask, man. very nicely done.

KristianT

Sci-fi Rocketeer!

Love it and love the textures!

Maph

That's pretty freaking awesome!
Now, where's the rest of this guy?!

Spatz

nice!

GoSsS

I instantly recognize that you were inspired by Vitaly Bulgarov (which is a really good thing )
A little thing is bothering me though, some parts of the helmet seem a little low poly :



Nonetheless, this is an awesome piece !!

percydaman

really great stuff. My only crit is that there are places that are showing polygons that haven't been sufficiently smoothed/rounded. Like maybe it needs one more level of turbosmooth

edit: woops, didn't see the second page and the comment right above mine.

CandyStripes05

wow, i saw your work on the stairs in What Are You Working On? 2011 Edition! thread and now this.... deff keepin an eye on this guy - impressive : )

BluPanda

i concur on the smoothing, very astute of you folks next project maybe!