Syringe Kit

Maxilator

Hi guys, I started working on this syringe kit since I wanted a small challenge to try my hand at hard surface modeling (Without zbrush). So obviously this is quite a novice project as the shapes are pretty basic but I thought I might as well start small to learn the basics before trying my hand at more complex stuff.
All I have done so far is the syringe itself but I plan on making the entire box. Let me know what you think, cheers!

My progress:

Wires:






References:

Maxilator

Some updates:

Maxilator

Updates! I threw the high poly into marmoset for the heck of it, here is the result, I don't really know if there is anything I should add before making the low poly but if something seems to be missing let me know. One thing I am currently struggling with is how I should make the low poly, yesterday I were searching for some tutorial on how to make a low res of a hard surface model but couldn't find anything that answered my questions. I am quite familiar with retopologizing in topogun but it seems like a strange way to do it in this case, so if anyone has some guidance I would appreciate it!

hmm_rock

Nice renders! If you plan to make the textures grungier when you get to the LP stuff, but some dents/nicks in the metal could be nice (dents coming from the outside for example). If you want a little visual interest maybe include a small piece of paper/note or a old fashion picture to give it some ownership and character. As for making the lowpolys it might be worth it to just decimate these to a workable number, import the hp into Max and make the LPs based off the primative shapes.

Maxilator

Thanks for the reply, I managed to figure out the low poly, so I am just going to UV and start texturing. What I did pretty much for the low poly was to just delete needless edgeloops and the result was pretty good. The thing with the paper sounds like a cool idea and I'll see if I can work it in, Ill post once I have some updates!

Maxilator

Hi, did some updates, were away a while but managed to get back to this today, here is where I'm at. I'm struggling a bit with making the metal parts look attached to the main case, suggestions are welcome!











Assembled:

battleyak

This looks really cool but the rust is just throwing me off o.O It seems to have a bit of shine/gloss to it and the normals look really intense. Make sure the rust is completely matte and tone down the normals. Also I think rust would erode away metal not add to it, at least that's what I've noticed looking at photos of rusted metal.

Also are you going to make the syringes look used? Your ref has water spots and stained glass on the tubes and stuff, I think that would look really neat!

Add3r

I think the fastest and easiest way to make the metal feel cohesive with the glass portions of the syringe is adding slight wear and grunge build up where the metal and glass meet on both surfaces. This will blend the two material separations some more, and help sell material break up IMO. I would also suggest matching the grunge of the case to the syringes, as the clean syringes/vials look out of place now with the dirty case.

Maxilator

Thanks for the feedback, I tried to make some adjust it a bit based on what you said, do you think this if better?