Hard Surface Modelling Blog

Dart07

http://teamjunkfish.com/2015/03/art-blog-25-hard-surface-modelling-techniques-part-1/

Hey guys.

I am starting to write up a short series of tutorials on my blog about modelling techniques I have learnt over the course of the 2 years that I have been making games in the hopes of helping other artists.

I hope in time that the quality of them will get better, but currently I'm just looking to get some feedback.

(Am I missing anything or explaining anything wrong? Is it structured okay? Was it useful? How can I improve it? etc)

My first post is about hard-surface modelling in Maya, and explains basic Sub-D modelling and I plan to write up another part going through the low poly, and baking stage.

DireWolf

Your example radio is lovely

SuperFranky

Nice work. Will look forward for more

Dart07

Thanks guys. Will hopefully get Part 2 done in the next couple of months.

Eric Chadwick

Hey Adam, that's great.

I think it would help to show higher-resolution shots for your wires. Especially shot 21, where it's tough to make out the individual wires and flow. 1080p would probably be fine.

Dart07

Thanks.

Yeah, I do agree that the images could be higher resolution, but that is the largest size the site lets me display. I guess I can zoom further in on the images so it is easier to see. I'll keep it in mind whilst doing part 2.

peanut™

Well done mate, liked and bookmarked for later.

AdvisableRobin

This is really awesome. I am a sucker for hard surface anything.

Eric Chadwick

More subd porn here
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Subdivision_Surface_Modeling

Dart07

Cheers. Any ideas for further tutorials that could be useful? I was maybe thinking of doing one with Marvelous Designer next as the organic cloth stuff compliments the hard surface quite well and there aren't that many Marvelous Designer tutorials for game characters out there.

DireWolf

That would be great if you can cover the steps from bringing character into MD, makes MD know the character's limbs and etc. I tried learning MD but can never get it to work with my own custom characters!

Dart07

Hmm. I've only really brought static characters into MD so far, though learning how to make limbs work could be real useful too, but I have to know how to do that first haha.
I would probably go over how to import a character & Hard surface accessories, clothe it, and then bring it into Mudbox for detailing.