Flea mech

confracto

So I recently made a model of a Crab battlemech, referencing the concept art from Mechwarrior online (you can see it here). I really enjoyed doing it, and thought doing another would be as fun. I also didn't do much to document the process apart from a few wip shots I saved along the way and figured I should post along the way, and maybe get some feedback.

edit to add final image to first post:


concept art can be found here.
here's my progress so far, which is still being blocked out, and I'm still not content with the proportions, especially the legs and upper torso.

Cglewis

good start man, and very cool concept!
I feel that overall your shapes are too big, especially on the top

confracto

Thanks for the input. I'll look at at that in particular. I find that I start a bit larger because you lose some of the profile when chamfering edges, which will happen a lot with this, so I tend to add a bit more in a few places.

confracto

Update for today.

confracto

Another daily update

Cyph3r

Looking good, are you going to bake any normals + texture this?

confracto

Cyph3r wrote: »

Looking good, are you going to bake any normals + texture this?

I'm not sure yet. at least, it's not part of my immediate plan, which is just to make the high poly. It's likely the people responsible for the game may never make this mech, so there's some interest from the community for a model of it, but mostly for 3d printing. I've considered doing it, and would like to, but I think it's going to end up a lower priority than other projects.

confracto

update for today.
didn't have as much time on it today, and spent so much of it on fiddly little bits it somehow looks like I didn't do much.
there's no info on what the back looks like, so I get to make it up. I'm wondering if it should protrude backwards more though.

confracto

more progress on small details

confracto

Almost done.
I've still got to round out some corners and add smoothing where needed, and render it properly, but all the parts are now there.

confracto

Finished it.
added some colour too, to match the concept art.
I also recorded a time lapse of it all and will be posting that tomorrow.

Harlyk

Your mech is looking really good, can you tell me the polycount of it ?

confracto

final polycount is under 54k

confracto

here's the time lapse I recorded of this
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Swaggletooth

This looks awesome! Mech models are some of the hardest things you can model (especially when your references are at funny angles), so I have a lot of respect for anyone who finishes a job. I can't wait to see how it turns out when its textured!

Christian Nordgren

everyone loves a 3d mech! your looks awesome

ae.

Hey man really like the progress on the mech! biggest thing that stands out to me is the imo this looks more like a blockout of the main shapes/details than a finished high-poly.

I would take take what you have and take it to the next level as it stands now if you were to bake this model down some of that detail would be lost.

confracto

Thanks for the comments everyone.

yes, AE., this would bake really really poorly, but that was never my intention.
nor was texturing, swaggletooth, sorry.
I did it with the goal of allowing MWO fans to be able to 3d print it, and used feedback from people interested in my earlier crab model to influence how I built it.
And while I expect that most people will be printing this in the 1" range, I put in a lot more detail than that both for the exercise of matching the concept, and for people who might use it for other fan pojects or prints at larger scales.
you can find my thread on their forums about that here.
I'm sorry I didn't make this more clear in my first post.