[CE3] Blimp WIP

Bigglesworth

Final



Hello everyone. My WIP.




And here is my little making-off:
Why blimp? I like weird flying transport like this:


Flying car - it's damn cool idea! (And Beyond Good and Evil is great game BTW ) Then I found good candidate to fly.


Flying "auto rickshaw" - I never saw it before. Good choice then.
Next step - sketch. Check out my 2D skills


Primitive in MAX


Hipoly




So far so good. Now I'm making low poly little by little and exporting into CE3



Thanks for watching!

Mr Smo

awesome! the whole ting has a great sense of weight to it, hanging from the balloon . looking forward to the rest

DWalker

You might consider having the support ropes branch before attaching to the envelope to more evenly distribute the weight. Also, consider adding some mooring ropes; at the moment there's nothing to hold it down when it lands.

Most of the dirigibles with hanging cabins such as yours had a fairly substantial pipe running from the gondola into the balloon; this was an air discharge pipe. Something similar to a drier exhaust hose might work well with this design.

Stormfreek

I think the number of ropes you have now is awesome, keeps it nice and simplistic! Really awesome job with the high poly dude, looks really clean! Can't wait to see the vehicle in cryengine as well!

Mathew O

I really like what you're doing with this, I can't wait to see the Bakes. If you nail those down you're onto a winner

Subbed

Ehsan Gamer

Big Like

Dolmen

Really great job so far, but like DWalker, I would add some net like fishing net, to keep the simplistic style but add some more credibility to the balloon.
More like this.

LuCh!

awesome idea, looking really good so keep it up!

CordellC

This oozes with mood already. Seems straight out of a Miyazaki film.

Cannot wait for textures!

Bigglesworth

DWalker, good point. About mooring ropes. I was planning to do them… But with any additional ropes my blimp looks more complicated and less… elegant:) Same situation with rope branches and pipe – yes, it will be more realistic. I tried a lot of different variants of balloon. In very first variant balloon was much bigger, it has a lot of ropes. And I didn’t like those proportions. I want to focus attention on the car. Balloon has only one purpose – to answer how does this thing fly. In this project realism is not my goal. May be I’ll try to add mooring ropes later. It isn’t problem, I don’t have to change UV layout to play with ropes.



I thought about variant without any balloon at all. Like taxi from “Beyond Good and Evil”. It flies and nobody cares about how does it do that.

Bigglesworth

Update

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OctoKube

Very nice attention to detail! Nice work!

PogoP

This is awesome, nice work!

MrNinjutsu

Lovely stuff. It'd be great if you could add some discoloration/variation to the ropes diffuse here and there to break up the uniformity.

Bigglesworth

OctoKube, PogoP, Thanks!
MrNinjutsu, You're right. I'll try to fix it.

Texelion

Nice, I like the colors.

Quickel

This is fantastic. I like the uniqueness of it and the execution is well done.

leleuxart

Looks great! The overall quality of everything is really strong. My only crit right now is the dark shadows in the balloon where the rope is pulling on it. Is it pre-baked or are your normals just that strong? Are you using a detail normal on the balloon itself too? The texture reads really well all around.

Gheromo

This is amazing! Love it!

KennyTies

Wow this is so cool. Keep up the awesome work!

Bigglesworth

Thanks everyone!

leleuxart, It's pre-baked AO & normals. I'll try to decrease AO brightness. I'm not sure. It looks fine for me already. And yes, balloon has detail normal map. There are few good detail bump maps in forest scene. I took one of them.

The most frequently asked question was a question about pipe from gondola to balloon. After bunch of variants I finally made pretty good hosepipe design.

Bigglesworth

Little update.
Pipes and updated textures.
Next step is to add luggage in that cage.

Bigglesworth

Textures




Mesh

Joost

That looks amazing! I want your creativity. Good job!

JamesTKirk

Excellent style!

TAN

Hell yeah man One of the best renders I have ever seen in the CryEngine. And you made a perfect model to fly over an ocean

Keep doing what you are doing. We like it

The_Distiller

Nice designs and great rendering, awesome!

Pedro Amorim

Very cool!

sltrOlsson

Love it!

Bigglesworth

Hello again! Thanks everyone for your extra positive feedback. After 3 month I finally finished this project. I spend 2-3 days to make two suitcases and 2-3 evenings to remake textures.
Here is final (I hope so) shot.

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Old and new textures:

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And suitcases

Micaki

suitcases looks awesome. it would be nice if you could say something about texturing process for them

Bigglesworth

Hey Micaki. I made 10-minutes video for you. In this video I made part of leather texture. Nothing difficult. I blend two textures: Leather and Scratches. Same blending for metal parts: clean metal texture & scratches texture.
VIDEO

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And here are textures I used

martinszeme

Looks great! Awesome work overall and on detailed pieces like those suitcaises. I could recognize those two textures from a mile away .
Great that you share your workflow with the community. More WIPs should do it!

Micaki

Yay, thank you very much ;_;