Artillery Cannon Model from photo reference

MrD4rth

Hi there,
I have been revisiting modeling again trying to improve my workflow for the texture process. I am currently working on an artillery cannon model that I had come across in a park in the greater Pittsburgh area a few years back. I had said I was going to model this years ago now and are finally getting around to it.

here are some of the original images I had taken that day in South Park area.

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and here are some of the in-progress snips I have taken as I have been working.

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making my way along. 

sacboi

Good start and those are certainly nice looking pics you'd snapped as refs.

Also out of curiosity if I may ask, just interested in your envisioned workflow for this model?

MrD4rth

MrD4rth

Workflows going to be model, unwrap and bake from 3ds max. then I want to get it into substance painter and work with that program for texturing. I'm out of practice for sure and I'm hoping that's still a viable workflow. Once I get the maps from substance I'll try and get some cool renders out of UE4.

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MrD4rth

I've been working on this since my last post here, I have been focused on the tail end that supports the cannon now. Here is a quick daylight render with Arnold out of 3DS Max (ignore the stock concrete texture for now, I'll work on fixing those things later)

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more progress renders are available on my website www.brandonaustin3d.com

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MrD4rth

i have to work on rendering from Arnold. I am new to Max 2022 and I am not having much success with rendering on my own. 

any tutorial recommendations?