M4A3E8 Fury Tank

theonewhoknocks

Started on this earlier in the year, but haven't had too much time to work on it. This is the turret for the M4A3E8 Fury tank from the movie Fury. There was different variations of the tank so a couple of things might be different. I didn't add the .50 Caliber Browning in the rear, just the M1919 in the front. I also didn't expose all the periscopes.

I pretty much already finished the high poly for the entire tank, but now I am finding it easier to just separate it into 3 main components (Turret, Body and Tracks) and concentrate on one at a time when it comes to the low poly and texturing. (Should have done that when I started the base and high poly) 

So I went back and started focusing fully on the turret and I'm getting to a point where I feel like I'm ready to move on to the body and tracks, then finally put it all together. Anyways, let me know what you guys think, I'm getting more and more comfortable with Substance Painter, but I've learned a lot overall from doing this. I'll be updating this post with my progress on the rest of the tank.

theonewhoknocks

image sizes fixed!  O.o

theonewhoknocks

More screenshots of the turret and a wireframe

gametime

good start. I think you should add a detail texture to make the close-ups more interesting, though I don't think that's possible in TB2...

theonewhoknocks

Thanks gametime, do you mean adding a bit more noise to the normal or height?

Mathis

Looking good, though I think you are missing some details, especially welding lines (mainly on top of the tank where the hatch etc. is meeting the turret).
Also are these objects on the left side of the turret supposed to be helmets? If so, they look way to cubic and not round enough.

gametime

I would try something less invasive. Experiment with scratches in the gloss channel. 
I also agree with Mathis. The helmets look odd & not like U.S. helmets. 

theonewhoknocks

Thanks for the advice Mathis. Yeah, it was definitely bugging me not seeing it welded too. I'm trying to see if I can do it Substance Painter with the welding brush, though when I resize the brush, it doesn't keep the pattern and just paints a straight height map. Might need to do it in ZBrush then rebake. I'll fix those helmets too.

Macebo

Very good job. I liked the avarices on the metal. Only one thing bugged me out, popping to my eyes immediatly. Some of the details seems lacking a normal map to make it consistent with the rest of the tank



The edges here are very sharp; added to this, the bottom of these parts are not welded, which make it look like they are hovering at the top. 

Aside this issue, i believe you got a solid piece, i like it a lot!

theonewhoknocks

Updates: Did a welding pass, rounded off the helmets a bit more. I think I'm ready to move on to the next parts of this. Thanks for the critiques!

kymo_thys

Good job on the welds, it makes it more believable. The helmets need a rework though, they are looking like squares and dont look like an us ww2 helmet.
Here is some ref on a us army helmet, just google us army ww2 helmet and there is like a million pictures like this one to use as reference