Sketchbook: ModelAnon

ModelAnon

Hi all;

Been modelling on my own time for about 5 years now (with large gaps in between), but only really started seriously getting into it about a year ago. Going to be posting all sorts of things, one model per post.

A lot of this is going to be requests from other people. I do that so I get slowly pulled out of my comfort zone instead of just modelling what I want to.

I'd really appreciate the most brutal critique you can give; I find that's the best way to do it, no sugarcoating.

Wireframes available on request if they're not posted.

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Older stuff will be up first, so it can be seen how (little) I've improved over time. I have no specific dates for a lot of this and it will likely be out of order.

This first one is something I modeled based off a reference image I've lost; The legs and hydraulics are parented so I'm sort of able to manipulate them by rotating the "meat" of the leg, and all the other bits will move along with it.

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Some bits I modeled when I was first getting started with game design and had a severe lack of understanding with how large my scope was; project has long since been abandoned, but models remain somewhere. The what was supposed to be a smithy is made up of several different parts so I could modularly assemble buildings.




Texture for this firepit was just slapped on; no real consideration was made for geometry, since I was planning to map it later but never did.

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A bit of sculpting so I could bake a normal map, and the result. In the second picture, each "brick" is an inset quad (10 tris) since just putting it on a plane looked very flat. All models in the second image were made by me.

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Some more wall modelling, this time a beveled ceiling piece. Second mesh is not cleaned up yet, but shows the simplification I made to reduce polycount. Should probably have not intersected all the bricks with each other had I wanted to minimize it. Third is slightly cleaner.

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A small placeholder crossbow. Couldn't find any decent reference pictures so just sort of winged it here.

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Placeholder player model.

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First "speedmodel" I did; took around an hour with references.

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Some axe(?) a friend drew up and requested a model of.

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Some more amateur game design. I'm pretty happy with how the desk turned out, considering what it is.

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After that, and some in-between progress, I started taking simple requests for speedmodels since I realized I was taking too long on what should have been simple models; I tried to make most of these in no more than an hour, 1.5 at most.

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Some wonky retro-futuristic television set, I think.

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Old three-button mouse.

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Couple of gemstones.

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Sabre.

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Simply awful rotary wall phone; not happy with this at all.

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Rossi Circuit Judge lacking front and rear sights (ran out of time). The receiver turned out particularly bad since this was my first time modelling "holes" in meshes; I also didn't have a very good idea of the shape of it.

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Salt and pepper shakers/grinders.

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Gridded walkway. Could have saved a lot of tris by making the grid a 2D mesh, but I wanted it to have some substance.

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Headphones based of of V-Moda's brand (so they're supposed to have a rounded hexagonal shape).

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Trumpet.

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Soviet desk clock.

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Soda can. Forgot to inset the bottom to prevent the jagged triangles forming after subdivision.

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GameBoy Advance. I like how this one turned out.

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Fender Stratocaster Hardtail. First wireframe image is with subdivision applied, second is just raw wires.

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Cast-iron bench with much too much geometry.

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Zamboni. Slacked a bit on the undercarriage and driver area, though.

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Transparent sci-fi monitors.

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Subdivided chess queen.

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Quite the disappointment with this model; Request was some sort of spaceship with "Orion Project" as the engines. Took way too much time on the body for what it is.

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Banker's lamp.

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Almost all the speedmodels compiled into one scene. I'm not good at rendering, and it's one of the areas I'd like to improve in.

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6-rotor drone concept design.

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4-poster bed. Could have used normal maps for the panels, but as far as I know there's no way to apply them without rendering in Blender.

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And that concludes my dump, for now. The speedmodels were made in the last 2 months; I have tried to make at least 1 model a day and see how I improve. So far, I think I have gotten at least marginally better.

(Brutal) critique appreciated.