M.U.D.D. - Mechanical Underground Drilling Droid
Hi all, have been building this character for a game me and some other classmates have been working on, and here's what my progress looked like.
Lots of these images were just snapped real quick to share with my group for quick pointers.
This was the reference that I started with. I liked the overall design, but felt the drill needed to be a little more menacing if it was going to be the boss character.
These were just some drill variations. just trying to see which looked nicer.
Leg with UV test
Threw together a body and placed the parts to see how it was looking. Kinda blocky
Wasn't really diggin' the body shape so a bit of a reform was in order. The at st from starwars was what I looked at the most. Was also told to beef up the drill a little more, so I ended up stacking up, heh.
With 5 parts it seemed way too front heavy, so reduced it down to 3, and it felt like a good fit. The legs needed some bottom support and gave it a bit of a belly. We decided it wouldn't just be a combustion engine, so added some power cores to the back and pipes that would channel energy to the front end.
The top front seemed to bare, so played around with some ideas. ended up with a rock shield to deflect debrie away from the cameras (eyes)
Took the main body into Zbrush and added some wear and tear
Messed around with Ndo2 for some drill normals
Didn't really take pictures for a while after that, but then suddenly BAM, textures. Reduced the geometry on the drill a ton and it still managed to look rather fierce. The first one is a mental ray render, but the bottom 2 are rendered using marmoset, with a nice outline stroke to them. The way the look in marmoset is more how it will look once we get it in UDK.
Marmosets
So yeah, there it is. Hope you all like it. It's pretty much done now and I'm just working on the animations, but if you've got things too say I'm happy to hear them.
Lots of these images were just snapped real quick to share with my group for quick pointers.
This was the reference that I started with. I liked the overall design, but felt the drill needed to be a little more menacing if it was going to be the boss character.
These were just some drill variations. just trying to see which looked nicer.
Leg with UV test
Threw together a body and placed the parts to see how it was looking. Kinda blocky
Wasn't really diggin' the body shape so a bit of a reform was in order. The at st from starwars was what I looked at the most. Was also told to beef up the drill a little more, so I ended up stacking up, heh.
With 5 parts it seemed way too front heavy, so reduced it down to 3, and it felt like a good fit. The legs needed some bottom support and gave it a bit of a belly. We decided it wouldn't just be a combustion engine, so added some power cores to the back and pipes that would channel energy to the front end.
The top front seemed to bare, so played around with some ideas. ended up with a rock shield to deflect debrie away from the cameras (eyes)
Took the main body into Zbrush and added some wear and tear
Messed around with Ndo2 for some drill normals
Didn't really take pictures for a while after that, but then suddenly BAM, textures. Reduced the geometry on the drill a ton and it still managed to look rather fierce. The first one is a mental ray render, but the bottom 2 are rendered using marmoset, with a nice outline stroke to them. The way the look in marmoset is more how it will look once we get it in UDK.
Marmosets
So yeah, there it is. Hope you all like it. It's pretty much done now and I'm just working on the animations, but if you've got things too say I'm happy to hear them.
Replies
I would suggest to add different material for the drilling blades and much more damage sings for the whole drill.
Don't forget to share it with animations!