[Finished] Scifi Military Radio

Vertrucio

COMPLETED MODEL

Appending the finished model to the first post. Follow up at the end of the thread.

ORIGINAL POST BELOW

In the process of learning blender and creating a environment art/props portfolio. Here's the blockout of the scifi military radio, Kepler Industries brand.

I'm following Simon Fuchs' military radio tutorial, but trying deliberately to change up the design to make it my own.

The Deadline I've set for it to be done and in-engine is Oct. 31, 2019. I hope to be done much sooner so I can respond to crits, but I'll be learning substance designer/painter, along with my day job.

Brain_Slave

That tutorial is one of my favourites, I had such a good time working with it.

Your model silhouette and proportions are really nice. I'm looking forward to see more of your progress, good luck!

Vertrucio

A little progress. Added more blocked in sections for the back/battery and sides, and increased the depth of the front panel elements. Aside from a few front panel plugs and greebles, the block in is done, now on to hipoly.

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Just a little more progress, but a lot more learned about blender.

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Now in the process of finishing and getting some parts into the zbrush. Although, I'm wondering how much to use bevels in blender first.

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More finalizing. This is as close to final setup that I can get since I'm out of time. Just need to finish the code cards in the bottom right, the plugs, and start making the dents and scrapes in zbrush.

sacboi

No crits too add for modelling, pretty much solid so far however since this is a science fiction approach in terms of design interpretation to Simon Fuchs excellent tute, I'm just wondering whether some elements could've been further aligned albeit futuristic art brief, applicable.

Vertrucio

Thanks! I'm running out of time to add additional scifi elements, but some of the panels will be scifi looking touch screen UI.

Vertrucio

Finally some more progress. I missed my deadline, but I learned a lot despite holidays and day job drama.
The modeling is done, high and low poly are done. I've even got the UVs decent enough to do some test bakes in Marmoset. At this point I'm trying to get the UVs in a state where I can get detail where it's needed, such as on the knurling on the handles.

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Finally got some good bakes, proper texturing has started.

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Slowly getting there.

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Took some feedback and went to a more standard green while I learn to make the materials realistic. Right now they're blown out from the color switch.

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Screens not final, just testing the aesthetic. But besides creating some UI, decals, and fixing texture artifacts, it's almost done.

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It's finally finished!



Far past my original deadline, and I made a lot of mistakes, but I'm still happy with this. I learned a lot, and by the end I decided that to really fix these mistakes means I need to keep upping my skills while tackling other projects. First up next is to do a few smaller, faster props with a similar style to reinforce what I've learned and test whether I can produce these at production speeds, focusing on making them game ready.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lVmDk5