Battle Rod Vehicle for school

NickWilliams

Howdy guys and gals!
Long time lurker first time poster.
Here is my progress of a vehicle i'm working on for a 3D class i'm taking at Laguna College of Art and Design. Let me know what you think.

Here's where I'm at for my high poly. My class will be building the low and unwrapping in this next week.

DWalker

You've really gone overboard on the bolts on the tire. I'd remove all of them except for 4-6 on the actual hub cap; there shouldn't be any on the tire itself.

NickWilliams

Thanks for your input, DWalker.
Yeah, here's the reference I used. Even still, I think I can definitely lose more bolts along the inner rings as the number of bolts in my model clearly don't match the reference. Also, i should probably describe where the tire meets the rims better in my model. Thank you!

NickWilliams

**UPDATE**

Ok, so I have since built out my "low" (we were allowed up to 200,000 tris for a cinematic prop. I'm sitting just above 100,000. I'll get an exact count if anyone is interested) I've UV'd, Baked, and threw it into dDO for my base materials and textures. Of course, I'd like to go back and fix a few things here and there, but I have about a week to finish this for class so I need to press on with textures.

THAT BLUE ANTENNA WILL BE FIXED FIRST, I PROMISE.

This is only my first pass at textures as everything here is pretty standard dDO spit (I do love that spit though). I've got plenty of editing and refining ahead of me. Things are likely to change around quite a bit too.

Anyways critiques are always welcome guys and gals.
Please, keep em constructive.

pongstah

looks cool

KustomZero

nice i like the design and the idea but would suggest that you decrease the size of the front tires. usually hot rods have much smaller front wheels than the rear ones.

NickWilliams

Good point, KustomZero. Will do.

NickWilliams

Ok, so now its all muddy! I used Substance painter to lay in my mud across several uv sets, then refined them in PS. It looked nice when it was clean, but this wasn't meant to be pretty.

Oh yeah, and i shrank the front wheels a tad.
Might need to go a bit further. it was reading from the side but not so much from 3/4.

mjeruzal

IMHO mud looks too flat on that one. You should have something like this:

Also look how the splash are shaping. Consider that without front fender the mud will reach higher:

Now it looks more like some kind of dirt/dust

NickWilliams

I totally agree. I have another week (for class at least) to finalize this so I'll definitely go back and get some more Normal detail in there.

NickWilliams

Ok, so here's where I'm ending this for now.
Still open to your critiques though.
Would also be interested in marmoset rendering critiques/suggestions.

CougarJo

Maybe it's still wip, but just in case : the interior si way to clean compared to the exterior of the car! If there is mud and dirt everywhere on the car ,we can assume there must be some on the floor inside!

NickWilliams

*facepalm* wow, how did i miss this? haha good point. i'll fix this for sure. thanks!