Exo-skeleton Drill

Sickleblade

This is for my modeling class. At the moment I'm just blocking it out, but I'm definitely open to any critique, or pointers or whatever.

Reference:


Current Progress:

Bonkahe

Mmmmmmmmmm.....



In all seriousness looking fantastic, can't wait for the lowpoly.

Sickleblade

Thanks! It's coming. Gotta finish blocking it out, ad then making it fully high poly. But that's all happening before two weeks from now.

Sickleblade

Did a little bit of work on the blockout. Found the spring tool worked infinitely better than the helix for the drill ridges. I also upped the iterations for rounding out the biggest shapes.

Sickleblade

Been working on making this high poly. Just finished the big grindy drill bit things.



These were from just before I did those:

Sickleblade

Updated with some detailing. Think I'm about done with the high poly.

Sickleblade

Alright. Had to focus on other classes and projects for a while, but I've got updates on the drill. I shortened the back end of the drill slightly (the spiral blade thins are now 4 turns instead of 5 to closer follow the reference. I also added some damage to the main drill bit blades, and also did some detailing on the main casing.





I've also made my low.

Sickleblade

Low poly assembled, in marmoset with normals and AO applied. Maps to follow







Normals:
http://i.imgur.com/0LXl1AR.jpg

AO:
http://i.imgur.com/aPxpZG9.jpg

UVW:
http://i.imgur.com/88miHig.jpg