Science Lab Assets

Firecracker197

Hey there, I haven't pimped any of my stuff in awhile since I have been working like mad just to get it done in time for graduation, but now I think I need you guys! Hopefully I can start to be more active on here again now once school is done but if you can please give me some critique on my final project!

This is the concept by Adam Brockbank


Here are the highpoly models:




Some wires (i'll get better shots once I get on my main computer)

this is before I mirrored pieces to share UVS

Here are the bakes with normals:


And here is where I need some help, the concept doesn't give me much to go by as far as color design, its mono-toned and I'm not sure I should go for that same design in my pieces. If anyone has any ideas of what direction I should go in that would really help.
Here is what I have going so far, its just base colors and simple spec.

Cojax

This might shape up to be a good modeling piece. I wouldn't worry about color and lighting at this stage, and focus on the modeling right now. You need to make those pipes and wires a lot thicker and more pronounced. Work on getting a wider array of bevels in your models, some of these bevels are way to sharp and sadly will not show up as well as say a nice double bevel. Heavy or big pieces of steel / metal require bold corners or 'bevels' to sell there massive weight and size. Try not to just intersect large pieces into one anther, but rather figure out how large machines like this are built, look at tons of reference, don't relay souly on the concept. The concept is there to give you direction and should not be 100% copied. Use your artist judgment. To be honest I think the concepts point of view is boring and if I were you I would come up with a better camera angle that showcases your center model a little more. Forgive me if some of this makes no sense it was quick and dirty heh.

Dippndots

this is looking good, try white, blue, purple and some yellow for a color pallet if your going for the whole clean room look

Shiraz

You should use hard surface modeling for your high poly normals instead of polygon modeling. Unless im mistaking otherwise it looks very blocky.

Firecracker197

Thanks for the modeling tips guys, unfortunately since I only have a week left to finish it I don't know how much they will take into effect on this model, but I will definitely keep those things in mind in the future. I will keep working on the textures and post up some progress later.

Firecracker197

Here's what its looking like as of right now:

imb3nt

Cool idea. Those guys are doin some SCIENCE.

Rhinokey

Shiraz wrote: »

You should use hard surface modeling for your high poly normals instead of polygon modeling. Unless im mistaking otherwise it looks very blocky.

hard surface modeling over polygon modeling? what exactly do you mean? (its late an i'm really sleepy so sorry if i misread something here.

Shiraz

Bah my bad probably a bad way of saying that, what i meant was Sub D modeling over standard polygon modeling.

Firecracker197

Except I did use sub-d modeling, like I do with all my models. I don't know what about this made you think I didn't maybe I should work on that.

Rhinokey

well a lot of your shapes are very primitive looking, cylinders boxes which kinda gives it that low poly look. its not really your fault, the concept is mostly basic shapes also.

i'm not saying its the case here but i've seen this happen when a concept artist who is not well versed in using 3d aps trys to go the route of blocking out a scene in 3d and then paint over it. it tends to look a bit basic. (not that this is a bad method far from it when done awesomly)

but again adam may have been wanting a kinda primitive form style with that concept.