Alien Structure

svcoyle

Decided i would stop lurking on these forums and start participating. This is my current WIP of an techy-alien type building. The orginal concept sketch was done by a friend of mine. I'm thinking I'm going to go for a lost alien civilization scene with overgrowth, moss etc hanging off from the building in a swampy, murky eco environment.

SHEPEIRO

solid start i would say i preffer the shape of the concept, ie less vertical walls

Mark Dygert

cool stuff!

svcoyle

Started doing more detail work to the high poly model of the front door and light fixtures

Lee3dee

nice detail! where about are u in NC? I used to be in Raleigh, home of the delicious goodberry's

svcoyle

Im in Cary, also a home to goodberry's lol

X-Convict

Hi poly pieces are looking cool so far man

Nysuatro

Nice looking details. Looking forward for more
Now the areas where you dont have much detail stand out. I don't know if it is that what you want ...

svcoyle

The main part of the doorframe is still low poly and will get attention

ElysiumGX

Nice work, Steve. Glad to see you participating. This new stuff your doing looks great. Also, good luck to you and your team.

svcoyle

Thanks!

-Steve

svcoyle

I think I got the High Poly model where I want it. Critique welcome!

svcoyle

Textured Low Poly model final:



Final Textures

svcoyle

Got some quickly painted textures on the building. Nothing has normal maps except the door at this stage. Im just trying to flesh out what I want the scene to look like quickly and then i will get into the fine detail later.

I'm still not happy with the arm things connected to the dome. I will add some more "functionality to them" with ways that they connect to the dome and etc that makes sense.

Jeremy Lindstrom

I still really don't get a sense of scale for this piece it's looking awesome but it looks like it's supposed to be about or 9 feet tall but I know your going for hundreds of feet tall. maybe the road will add to it, but it might be the hydraulics and the wires throwing off the scale for me. Looking good, it's a shame you put all that work into the doors and it's sooo small

Ozymandias

Definitely looking great. I agree with Dekard that there isn't a real sense of scale yet. One other critique from me, is that the support arms don't really look like they are physically capable of supporting the dome. Other than that its looking great, keep up the good work.

sampson

good job keep the highpoly details coming

EvilPixills

Pretty impressive modeling you have done so far. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to more :thumbup:

svcoyle

Yeah I definatley plan to add a lot to the scene for scale. Some characters and vehicles, trees etc.

I also am going to change the massive wires at the top. They are WAAY to big.

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

StrangeFate

The hipoly seems to have a lot of micro detail that makes the shapes rather confusing to read after it's skinned. Most of the detail is either lost under a few pixels or doesn't stand out.

Less, bigger and better thought out details will in the end give you more. Quality over quantity always.

svcoyle

StrangeFate wrote: »

Most of the detail is either lost under a few pixels or doesn't stand out.

The texture flats are not actual size, they have been reduced for the forum. The full size textures are 2K