Snefer's random Sci-fi props

Snefer

I was a bit bored of texturing, so here's a sci-fi prop I did in the last three evenings when taking breaks from texturing. Don't ask me exactly what it's function is. I'm sure its some kind of... lamp/computer/pillar/backscratcher etc. Probably good for something on a starship ^^ The lowpoly will be hell, but that was kind of the idea...





cheers!

Jeremy Lindstrom

the vacuum of the future!

Snefer

haha, maybe But it would suck, since its attatched to a wall (pun intended :P)

arrangemonk

looks like a chest of a huge mechwarrior to me, cool

alexk

I know what this is...
This is an espresso machine.
No, no wait. It's a snow cone maker.
Is it a water heater?

pliang

"Not if you mount it..."

Hard to tell what it is...but the details are well laid out.

whats_true

I see the calf and foot of a Mech. Pretty cool whatever it is.

Snefer

hehe, if I was Star Trek nerd, I'd probably call it the... omega-bipolar oxygen-hydrogenator, or something... ^^

Snefer

So, lowpoly more or less done! Here it is baked, polycount still too high from the baking, its 4000 tris, I think I'm gonna drag it down to around 3000. Better to start high ^^ And a comparison render I threw together for fun. Gonna do some painting in the AO map, some errors that are easiest solved with painting. Also had alot of problems with normal errors etc when rendering this :-/

Jaco

Looks good!
Some wires would get you more crits.

whats_true

Nice bake. Can hardly tell the difference.

Snefer

THank you Here are some wires.

GOBEE

To me, it looks like a robotic armless dog squatting to sniff a wall. Maybe a wall sniffer? That could be a profession of the future maybe.. no? Ok maybe not. But I can dream can't I?

Looks interesting. Do you mind briefly explaining how you did this? You bring this into ZBrush? if so, what tools did you use?

EarthQuake

Looks good man but i cant help but feel like modeling in all those small details directly into the highres is really slowying you down(and creating some wonky geometry in places) it would be a lot better to float those sort of details on top imo.

Snefer

EarthQuake wrote: »

Looks good man but i cant help but feel like modeling in all those small details directly into the highres is really slowying you down(and creating some wonky geometry in places) it would be a lot better to float those sort of details on top imo.

Hmm, maybe. I don't feel like there were many places to do that, because of the curving geometry all over. Have you got any examples of places where floating geometry would have been better? It would be appreciated :] Also the highpoly didn't take very long to do either, so I dont know how much time I would have saved.

Gobee, I made everything in Sub-d in Modo, no Zbrush whatsoever.

Snefer

and here is some texturework... :]

imb3nt

Thats really awesome. Good work all around!

Cody

Sweet Geebus. It could be a futuristic segway...

Snefer

segway? Hmm Anyway, here's the start of the wall-section behind/around the prop.

Snefer

Here's an update of the wall, and now you can see where the prop will sit

MoP

Cool stuff!

cholden

hah, wacky, I like it. Btw, congrats on posting an image bigger than my monitor resolution.

Target_Renegade

Thats some nice work, I'm interested to see the progress.

Cody

Charging station for segway. There is even a guy to ride it now! Haha. Anyway..really good work. Can't wait to see the wall textured as well as the segway.

Rick Stirling

Jinkies, that's really nice!

konstruct

BEOOOTIFUL- saved to inspiration folder fo-sho.

some baking errors, but honestly and this might sound lazy, but who cares. I know I dont :P

Snefer

Thanks alot for the comments I'm thinking about the lowpoly cersion, right now its all very mirrored, I'm not sure if I should mirror it all, or break it up with some assymetry and only mirror the lower and upper part, etc... I think some breaking up of the symmetry is needed. What do you think?

Kawe

is it possible to modify the actual subject a little? I mean.. a futuristic Segway doesn't sound dumb but it could use a little modification to fit the theme. imo it'd be worth it since it'd have a real function, heh. looks very good though.

Snefer

hehe, actually, its just a static prop-thingy. Probably a.. gravity generator...or sumthing I go the star trek-route on this one and just mumble something complicated when people ask what its for ^^

Davidskiwan

Looks awesome though, can definitely imagine it in a scene, glowing and emitting a quiet hum.

I think it looks great symmetrical, the way it fits into the wall and the wall designed around it makes it look like that's how it should be designed. Imo anyway :P

Snefer

Aaaand here they are together, lowpoly and all. I got inverted UVs on the inside of the wall when I mirrored it though.. dont know why I got it there and not the rest... hm. Anyone know how to solve that?

Kevin Albers

I love the overall vibe and design, of the Thing and also the wall.
I can't wait till I upgrade my Roomba to one of these!

Cheapjuevos

Badass!!! I love the overall look/design of this piece. Very awesome man.

Crit: I think the bottom-most part looks too 'flat'. Its like you had alot of information and mapped it to a flat plane. Still looks good but you can get a little more out of it if you added some indents and maybe considered making the round piece in poly's.

BTW, where the hell is Malmo?


-cheapjuevos

Snefer

Thanks

Yeah, the bottom part is a bit flat, problem is everything is so flat in the profile, and even that round thing doesn't have alot of depth to it really... so I don't know, I tried making it with depth, but it just felt kinda silly... I might parallaxmap it, while I'm still at it ^^

haha, Malmö is in Sweden ^^

Wiktor

Snefer wrote: »

haha, Malmö is in Sweden ^^

Hey cool! Another 3d artist from my hometown!

Joao Sapiro

fuck yeah !

Snefer

Here's a render of the floor I made to accompany the prop and the wall ^^

carlo_c

That floor looks great, lots of nice details such as the cabling and the lights under the grates. The wall look really good too, just the bottom round part looking flat as already mentioned.

Is there any chance of seeing wires for the low-poly on the wall?

Mangled Poly

I am loving this thread so far... stellar work!

IronHawk

nice floor!

X-Convict

Looking good dude, nice floor texture.

I agree in that bottom area on the wall is looking a bit flat, I would consider adding polies and bringing that indented peice in, and the circular peice inside of it out with polys. The angle those details are at is going to make that area look flat. I would also consider bringing out additional areas with only a few extra edges to help sell the details some more, like some of those panels.

Keep it up dude

Proxzee

This is awesome! I don't like the little thin wires on the front though, they look too messy for something that on the whole is very organized. From the current composition everything is pointing towards them too, so they become the center of interest. I would suggest making a bolder, clearer statement with that area.

I dont think you need those little extra wires on the side pipes either.

Great floor! What kind of maps are on that?

Snefer

Thanks for the feedback :-) Yeah, the wall came out kinda flat, I'm gonna give it another pass and see if I can fix that Problem is that that area actually is kinda flat in the highpoly, might need to bump it up in the highpoly aswell. Also I'm very pissed at myself because of the poor design of the wall, it was kind of rushed, so I didn't bother fixing some glaring issues, it kinda works in a scene, but not on its own.

The floor have diffuse, specular, normal, a tiny glowmap and a 1-bit alphamap.

Snefer

Here's the final render of the wall prop, not really satisfied with it, didn't end up as I wanted it, but it was good practise I also fixed the wall, gonna post it too after I have finished off the textures on that one

cheers! / Tor

Snefer

And here's the wall I fixed the issue with the flatness with a few extra polygons and some tweaking in the highpoly.

Cheapjuevos

Let me be the first to say BAD... FREAKING... ASS! Love the look-n-feel of this piece man. And I really like how you handled the bottom flatness. Inspiration folder getting some love this morning.

Keep it coming man.

-cheapjuevos

X-Convict

Looking good dude, bottom area feels MUCH better!

carlo_c

You nailed the bottom part, looks great compared to before!

Cody

Sexy

Reverenddevil

Nice work man.. Lets see some texture flats and more wires from the models... Good shit man...

EvilPixills

That is beautiful stuff bro. Great job.