40K Dreadnought

oukruk

Hey people... i dont normally come here but i know a few people who do... i just wanted to show off the model i had been working on for a little while.. so here it is:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~chrisconte/













http://members.iinet.net.au/~chrisconte/

adam

Nice!!! Can we see the highpoly work? I like that you've rendered it to look like a piece from the tabletop game.

Gallows

Seriously, you nailed the rendering and texturing on this one. Some of them look like they're just pictures of the table top models. Excellent work. Ultramarines are always a good idea.

cadyw

delicious, I love how it looks like a badass toy (was that the point...?)

MartinH

great work, you bring pride to the chapter!

Vonklaus

Very nice job! The rendering is beautiful!

conte

good job, Chris Conte! at first glance i thought it was a toy!
hey man, your second name is damn great, i like it.

Wells

well fuck me. i thought it was a mini until i saw the texture sheet.

good job!

praxedes

that is the best re-creation of a mini I've seen- even after seeing the texture and looking at the curves, part of me STILL thinks it's a photo of a model! excellent work!

~P~

doeseph

I thought what you were showing in those screen shots was the miniature you were going to model, using them only as reference. Imagine my surprise when I saw the texture sheets for this miniature look-a-like.

Great work, but was the miniature paint effect intentional? It looks like it.

JohnnySix

I was thinking, where's the model?! Though these were some ref-pics of something you were going to make.

Jesus - nice work! Model, texture and rendering had me fooled!


Nice first post too, welcome to Polycount, way to make an entrance lol!

Taylor Hood

Looks like the Warp and the forces of chaos will have to step it up after this display of awesomness. The God Emporer will be most pleased.

EbolaV

oah man thats top work. It really looks like from the tabletop... crazy.

Electro

Awesome work conte! Looks just like a real miniture

see... all the uv'ing and baking fun was totally worth it :P

bbob

You had me fooled there for a minute, fantastic rendering!

rooster

ditto all those comments, I thought this was a paint job you were showing off on an actual miniature

skylebones

Yeah, I for sure thought it was a mini. I scrolled down looking for the 3d part. And it's all 3d. Man, great work!

BradMyers82

I agree with the others. Really damn near impossible to tell if its an actual photo or not. My question is, why did you want it to look so much like a mini? No question it takes a ton of skill to do this, but I would think you would want it to look more like a real life type dreadnought. Say if one truly existed.
I'm not sure if it would even take any more skill than what you have displayed here, I'm just curious is all.

Will Faucher

I think the depth of field was very well used to give the effect that the dreadnought itself is small. Well done on that! If it weren't for the DoF, I'm pretty sure it would look far larger.

oukruk

wow... wasnt expecting so many replies overnight... thanks
...yeh... the dof really makes it look smaller...i was rendering it without it at first and it does look bigger, heavier and more realistic but i turned it on and kinda got carried away with extreme dof and wide angle lenses :P ...i think the really clear lighting also makes it look smaller... but it took more than 10 seconds to render and i get impatient when it comes to rendering time ...one day i may relight it and do some more renders but for now im going to start something else

PredatorGSR

My train of thought:

1. Hmm, textures look a little blurry.
2. Oh wait, never mind, he's painting a miniature.
3. Wait, wtf?

Mind Blown.

chronic

WOW, great job, I'm a huge 40K fan - you really nailed the 'painted mini' look.

oukruk

ok... i know i said i wasnt going to re render the model but it was driving me nuts sooo...

crazyfingers

Haha, I'm sure you're glad you did, that's frickin' 5000x better dude. Kudo's, Looks ace.

Danglebob

high five dude. thats pretty sweet. makes me want to break out the real things and paint them

Emperors Teeth

LMAO!!!! I opened it expecting some crummy model, and thought... "Wait... does he know this isn't coolminiornot.com?".

Then my mind exploded.

Malus

Great stuff Conte. The final renders turned out really cool mate.

carlo_c

Nice job on the latest renders, much prefer the lighting there

jacob07777

This is some sweeet! work dude! Seriously thought it was a miniature when I first opened the thread and the new renders are even cool. Good stuff man

My only critique would be, if you're going to put a background image in there like that, I definitely like how it's blurred out, but you can just see how pixelated it is. If you're going for that realism it takes away from it a little, that's just me nitpicking. The model is awesome though seriously