Realistic Drill Press

lukepham101

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Hey guys,

I recently finished touching up a model that I wanted to use as a test run for Marmoset Toolbag 2. I haven't done any real hard-surface modelling for almost a year so I wanted to brush up my skills. So far I'm pretty impressed with Marmoset Toolbag 2, it definitely helps define hard surface materials REALLY well. Tools used were 3ds Max, Photoshop & ndo2. Let me know what you guys think, crits and comments are always welcome!

Cheers!

Joltya

Looks sick! The only thing that bugs me is the aliasing on it.

martinszeme

Looks great! The only thing I'd say it looks too monochromatic except those stickers. So I'd combine this: https://www.machinemart.co.uk/images/library/product/huge/06/060710005.jpg with this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815OPxAcGEL._SL1500_.jpg
So you have more colour variation as well as material variation. So the small adjustable base has brushed, bare metal on top of it, cover on top is reddish/orange etc.
These are just nitpicks, it looks great!

C86G

How do you adjust the tablet height? Shouldn´t there be a rail or something?

HitmonInfinity

C86G, That clamp can be loosened, adjusted, and then tightened again.

Nice job, lukepham101. There's something very satisfying about machined metal props in 3D.

Javibcln

Really nice one! We had one of these back at the technology class. Keep it up!!

lukepham101

Thanks everyone for the feedback! I made some updates to the model in regards to some of the crits here.



@ JoltZero Thanks man for pointing out the aliasing, it was bugging me too! I tried putting anti-aliasing in Marmoset Toolbag 2 with 4x temporal and it still gives me those jagged lines so maybe I was doing something wrong. I just used to Photoshop trickery to make the lines go away, not the most elegant solution but I couldn't find any more anti-aliasing options in Marmoset at least.

@ martinszeme Thanks Martin! Those are some great suggestions, I did what you suggested and put some coloured different elements of the model to make it less monochromatic.

@ HitmonInfinity Haha, if my work can satisfy at least one person then that makes me happy

Cheers to everyone again, feel free to give critiques and comments, they're always appreciated!

Flat Face

The metal around the base looks very UDK, it just doesn't stand out as "real" to me. Being the braindead child I am though I'm not quite eloquent enough to be able to explain why..

It looks like cake? It's extremely glossy? I don't know. Fantastic over all though

Thrivius

It screams stylized to me personally

MattyWS

Thrivius wrote: »

It screams stylized to me personally

I'm not sure how, it looks accurate in colour and silhouette.Maybe the lighting and presentation is throwing you off?


Not the same model but it's similar

Sebeuroc

MattyWS wrote: »

Thrivius wrote: »

It screams stylized to me personally

I'm not sure how, it looks accurate in colour and silhouette.Maybe the lighting and presentation is throwing you off?

The red paint might be a little over saturated? Regardless, I think the model is looking pretty sharp. Nice work!

lukepham101

@Flat Face - Thanks man! I guess the title is a bit of a misnomer, I just thought that having the title be "Drill Press" wouldn't be as good so I put realistic into the title thread.

@Thrivius - Hopefully stylized isn't a bad thing! I never really thought about whether my hard surface modelling was stylized, I just try my best to imitate real world shapes.

@Sebeuroc - Thanks! Hopefully my work has improved over the years so I hope it can impress some people at least.