Grenades [Hi-poly Cinematics Prop]

lordsme

Hello polycounters,

here's my latest personal project, a high-res prop for game cinematics.
Modeling in Maya, texturing using Quixel dDo and MARI, shading & rendering in 3dsMax and Vray.
Full res (4K) image, breakdown and more info on my website:
http://www.davidedigiannantonio.com/sci-fi-grenade.html

Comments and critiques are very welcome!

lordsme

Shameless bump

Snefer

Nice texturing and rendering! : )

lordsme

Hey Tor,
thanks for the feedback!
I started hard surface modeling & texturing some time ago after I saw some of your works!

wester

Nicely done!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Looks solid. No feedback from me besides that perhaps that's TOO much wear and tear for such a small object.

fab-camp

I think panda is kinda right,
looks a bit like you dropped those grenades somewhere in pompeei

lordsme

Hehe, yes I thik you're right, I overdid a bit (first time I used the new dDo, so I unleashed it a little bit too much),
But the idea was indeed of an abandoned crate where you find something strange...
sci-fi grenades from Pompei?

Havoc89

That looks awesome! Great work, very inspiring.

lordsme

Thanks Havoc! I got a lot of inspiration from Kevin Margo's Construct short movie characters, even if in the end I did something quite different

Xaragoth

I think this is what people call 'gun porn'

Love the texture work, but I think the wear & tear is a bit much for a 'throw and duck' kinda weaponry. I doubt it'd see that much scratching before it gets used

Gazu

Looks awesome.
Remembers me a bit on the Film Elysium, dont know why, maybe because of the Dust and Dirt! ^^

Shrike

presentation, rendering modeling texturing all super nice, well done man

but the most important of all is reason. Form follows function, and the grenades definitely seem to not do that. It looks like some random sci-fi-y forms. The same for the wear, it would not occur on many of the places where its apparent, and obviously not at that strenght. Reaching excellence is making it plausible in your case id say : P

Edit: it looks like you had that idea with the multigrenade aswell, guess its pretty Zeitgeist right now, the new CoD also features something like that, but having all in one seems pretty reasonable. atleast in a fictional scenario without production
constraints

maze

I think the bump looks a bit strong on the closeup shot for the pale metal part. Iwould ve try some subtle gloss variations on the metal reflections as well, now they look a bit flat, also some soft environment contribution on reflections. Try to define your materials, adding overall dirt / grunge sure its cool, but I think it will look better if you work a bit more on the shaders, is the dark grey part matte metal or plastic?
Overall good work and nice presentation!

cheers


-Manu

lordsme

Thanks for the constructive critiques! I appreciate it.

Shrike, I developed in 3D the concept from atomhawk:
http://atomhawk.deviantart.com/art/Grenade-Sketches-380815098
Anyway I understand the point

Maze: yes I agree, materials (metals) were more realistic without texturing, but with all the dirt and rust it got quite time consuming to tweak them in Vray... I will try VrayRT 3 and see if it can help.

I'll do better in the next project! Thank you again