Scifi Drone

Sir Apple

Hey everyone. Been working on this on and off over the past week. Drone inspired and based on concept from Vadim Sverdlov

Progress so far. Comments/crits welcome

Latest Update:

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Thanks for looking.

AirmanEpic

Very well modeled and rendered, but I'm not feeling the weird cylinder- things on the bottom. they look very out of place and blocky. Might want to look into messing with those. The repeating geo between them looks very cool, though.

As for your materials, I can't tell if its your lighting or your materials, but the grayish material has too diffuse a specular reflection. If it were me I'd sharpen that up a little.

Sir Apple

Hey dude, thanks. If your speaking of the two large underside/rear area cylinders in the last image, those are just sizing blockouts for engines that I'm working on.

Sorry I forgot to mention that

Sir Apple

Had a few spare hours today so I got done some of the underside arm.

Brian "Panda" Choi

The overall design of the spaceship is just TIGHT!

Really liking it.

Sage

Looks great. Hope you finish.

DottyPixel

Loving this little beauty, what sort of workflow are you using? There are a lot of compound curves and I was wondering if you where using Max/zBrush/Modo Mesh Fusion.

Joost

It looks more scientific and less menacing than the concept, but I think it's awesome.

Keep it up! :thumbup:

Sir Apple

Thanks guys.

@DottyPixel - I'm just using 3dsmax. For a lot of the complex shapes I fuse primitives with boolean intersection/boolean cut, and then just pull verts around and the usual

Other then that I use plane modeling (like the fin/wing thing).

PhoenixWolf

but how do you avoid waviness and warping in your model if you're doing plane modeling? I tend to have issues with that and odd pinches

Sir Apple

@ PheonixWolf - Hey man!

So it really varies for me, for some shapes and objects its easier and faster for me to plane model, and then for others I use other methods such as mentioned above.

Really its just keeping a constant flow to the topology, it doesn't need to be quads, it just needs to work. It just varies per object.

For example this shape, I just started with flat planes and then shift+drag it out and etc. etc.

DottyPixel

Thanks for posting up your WIP's. Much appreciated. Ah the old Boolean method. I should use that more...

Can't wait to see where this goes.

CougarJo

Beautiful modeling Tasty shapes!

Travis C

can we haz moar wires?

Sir Apple

Hey guys. I got some work done on the underside arm. Need to make a bunch of tweaks here and there but yea.






Thanks!

LRoy

hnnnng. dat modeling.

Thaiauxn

Ah damn, you got all them curves, tho! What did you use to produce such elegant shapes?

CSOConnor

So tight, I'm loving it so far! I feel like you could benefit from a few more fins extruding from the back, it looks like it ends abruptly atm. Nice work

PhoenixWolf

how you do dem renders mang?!

max?

Sir Apple

@CSOConnor - Thanks man. The back is not done, I'm working on the engines now, and those have fins and such coming off them, so it'll look right once those are done.

@PhoenixWolf- Hey man. I'm using Keyshot for rendering

ScottHoneycutt

*watching*. Good work so far.

Deathstick

hard-edges and curvy curves of curvy curve land....................................

meowza!

Travis C

i like your curves. will there be a low poly version?

Sir Apple

Thanks guys. I will put up some wires showing some of the shapes later.

@Travis C - yep. its going into UE4

@Thaiauxn - Thanks - I mentioned how I go about some of the shapes earlier in the thread.

I'm just using 3dsmax. For a lot of the complex shapes I fuse primitives with boolean intersection/boolean cut, and then just pull verts around and the usual

jeroenbackx

Oh my, tight design and superclean look. Very impressive. I'd love to see it with some vibrant colors on there.

Sir Apple

I'm finishing up the hires this weekend. All thats left to do is the engines and a little bit of clean up here and there. :thumbup:










On a side note, are these render sizes that I've been using (1920x1200) awkwardly large for anyone? I have big screens at home so I sometimes forget that image sizes don't always translate well to forums.

Thanks!

Sir Apple

Finished up the Hires.









Thanks for looking

noscope

This is so sweet. Dem shapes.... it makes me happy.

The upper arm part i feel has too many useless shapes in it though. Everything else seems to use panels that make sense if you know what I mean. This part just seems a lil out of place.

LaurentiuN

you have skills !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great job on the HP, waiting LP and textures.

One thing..., is this meant to overlap ? check screen

Sir Apple

@noscope - Thanks man. I hear you in regards to the upper arm. I purposely gave it some awkward contrast whilst maintaining somewhat fluid shapes to break the sleek smooth look that the rest of the model has for the most part.

@s1dk - Oops. No, not really. I should probably fix that :thumbup:

Sir Apple

Some wire closeups for those interested. Sorry the res isn't the greatest (mesh density is causing blacked out areas). I'll post better ones when possible :thumbup:

jacob07777

That's some really solid modeling dude! I tend to agree with @komaokc o that it looks a lot less menacing than the concept. It seems a lot of your shapes are more round and playful, but nonetheless the edgeflow and geo looks great

CougarJo

Thanks for wireframes Beautiful shapes everywhere!

LaurentiuN

very nice and clean topo man, i would appreciate if you could show us how do you approche some of the parts, check screen...the cuts on round surfaces without pinch...maybe breakdown a piece please ?

DottyPixel

Looking good Sir Apple and loving the curves on this guy, have you named him yet? My only criticism would be that the ware and tear looks a bit procedural compared to the concept at the moment and doesn't really tell a story about the object.

Sir Apple

@DottyPixel - Yeah, its not textured yet. I don't have any real fancy shaders or materials for my hires renders (yet). :thumbup:

@S1dk

So, typically I only do this with more complex shapes. And since this Drone has of a lot of those, I used it quite a bit!

I like to start pretty low with my Geo. Obviously how I approach each shape and what method I use varies depending on how the lowpoly end product model needs to look. Things like 'what details will be baked vs. what will be physically 3D' factor into what workflow I use.

I also don't really care how perfect my hipoly geo is, as long as it works and looks good.

JamesMeader

Awesome stuff Sir Apple, thanks for the tutorial sheet too!

LaurentiuN

yup thanks, go now and make this badass:>

Sir Apple

Moved onto the LP, but first, more keyshot sillyness :P

Crazy_pixel

Your Drone becomes better and better
Can't wait to see your final version