KY-210B Camera

CybranM

Recent image:

It's now finished and published on Artstation 


Original post:
I've started modelling the JVC KY-210B camera, my aim is to make it game ready and showcase it in marmoset.



Gifs of the blockout:

I had some trouble with how thick the camera body was but I think I'm pretty close at the moment.





Its rendered with modos rounded edge shader.
The dark green areas are just placeholder for where text and logos will go.

Any suggestions or feedback is welcome

CybranM

I havent been able to spend as much time on this as I'd like but heres a small update on the HP:



A small annoyance I found is that the handle is slightly offset to one side on the camera, one side sticks out quite a bit further than the other.

CybranM

The body of the camera is now done, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Lots of subD and fusion meshes
Only thing thats left now is the handle on the lens (dark grey)


Heres a closeup of the lens, I have different lenses on the reference images and I decided to take the best parts of both.

Zi0

Its coming along nicely

CybranM

The last highpoly piece is now done and I'll move on to creating the lowpoly


It was a bit challenging to make the front part of the lens handle as I coulnt find any image that showed that area in detail but I think I got it pretty close.

Even though it looks a bit odd to have two holes on the bottom of the lens so close to each other thats what the reference shows

The strap is a tiling texture and the leather cushion is baked to a lowpoly mesh to make them easier to work with.

Feedback is always welcome

CybranM

Just a quick update, the lowpoly is entirely done and I'm starting to bake the different pieces. Here's the lens assembly in marmoset:

jaker3278

Looking very nice, some good detail work. Are you going to texture it like your reference? 

CybranM

@jaker3278 Thanks
Yeah, the plan is to texture it according to the reference image.

CybranM

Finished all the baking, I ran into some trouble with the FWVN and Modos face weighting to I had to do the bakes in Marmoset Toolbag instead of substance designer. The Marmoset baker is really nice, wish I'd known that earlier

I'll have to figure out how to do the lens glass properly, I hope its not too difficult



Now its just the Substance Painter work thats left

wannabe

That looks ace! Can't wait to see it textured

CybranM

@wannabe
Thanks!

CybranM

WIP textures, I'm working with Painter but the stickers and text are done in photoshop. Text is really annoying to work with in Painter, its one of its weakest areas I feel.

CybranM

I'm nearing the completion of the textures, I still feel like the unpainted metal needs some work and I might add more grunge to the whole model, I want it to feel used but not too dirty.



I'll have to work on the presentation as well, if you have an idea for what I could do to improve it I'd love to hear it

andrew_liddle

Looks great! just needs a subtle roughness map on the plastics and maybe a bit of dust. 

Avenger84

nice work, love the details you have put into this, I agree with Andrew subtle roughness variation here would really help

CybranM

@andrew_liddle Thanks! I'll post again once I've had time to tweak the plastic roughness
@Avenger84 Thanks!

I'll iterate some more and try to fix the plastic as mentioned and the clean-ish metal which I find hard to make look right

CybranM

I tweaked the roughness and tried to make it look natural, the reference images were very uniform so I didnt want to overdo it.

I've tried to light the mesh to highlight the different areas, I watched Simon Fuchs excellent "Handgun Tutorial" and tried to replicate parts of what he did.

Any feedback on the model or lighting would be very appreciated, I've been looking at for so long that its hard to get a balanced perspective. Does the lighting look overdone? Should the background be darker/lighter?

kohg

i think you need more contrast in the lighting, right now the materials seem kinda flat. Don't feel like its doing your great highpoly and bake justice.

CybranM

@kohg you think this looks better?

kohg

It does, maybe have the rim light have a different color, more blueish/cold.

CybranM

@kohg do you mean the light coming from the bottom right?

Eric Chadwick

https://www.manfrottoschoolofxcellence.com/2014/09/rim-light-tutorial/

CybranM

@Eric Chadwick I understand what he meant by rim light but since its already blueish I though he might have meant the lower right light. That might be a rim light too I suppose

CybranM

Turns out my understanding of rimlights was a bit wrong haha
Heres a version with all blue rim lights, which looks better, thanks for the feedback and helpful link kohg and Eric

Now I just need to fix the lighting for a few more renders and then this project will finally be complete 

truemkar

Wow, looks very polished! Nice.

CybranM

I've now finished all the renders and I've published it on Artstation. Heres some of the images, there a few more on Artstation.


Any feedback on the final lighting or anything else for that matter is very welcome!

Shrike

looks nice, the plastics and rubbers do look like nobody ever touched them tho, too clean imo

CybranM

@Shrike Thanks for the feedback. Good point about the plastics. Do you think adding fingerprints and discolouration would improve it or how would you go about making it look more used?
On my reference the plastics are scuffed but still pretty clean looking, it couldve been cleaned of course.

Shrike

id add some very soft cloud-noise-like roughness and some glossier soft places where fingers touch / worn down the surface
Cleaning can't restore the surface layers being worn but Im no expert in the physics behind
I think you can get a lot of visual quality with a bit of push there

CybranM

@Shrike Ah ok, I see what you mean. I'll add some to the model and see if I can improve it

CybranM

@Shrike Do you think this looks better?
I might've overdone it a bit with the wear on the handle but it looked a bit weird to me if it was only on the edge. I tried to wear away the coating or what you'd call it where the palm and fingers would touch the handle.