Forest Meador, BRAND NEW MEMBER'

meador_forest

Hi. My name is Forest Meador, and I am a senior at the Art Institute of Dallas. I have just under a year left in school, and would like to get some feedback on the models that I am currently working on for some of my classes.
This quarter I was taking an advanced modeling class that focused more on the completion of prop models. For each assignment we were to submit ten reference images of props we would like to model. Once a reference was selected, we had less than two weeks to complete the high poly model, low poly model, unwrap, texture, and Marmoset render.
Here is the high poly model sheet for the first prop.

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This is the low poly sheet for the first prop.

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Here is the low poly textured sheet for the first prop.

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And the Marmoset sheet for the first prop model.

**This was the first time using Marmoset. The renders are a little dinky, but I'm getting better at it now.

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This is the high poly model sheet for the second prop model.

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Here is the low poly sheet for the second prop.

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This is the low poly textured sheet for the second prop model.

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And the Marmoset sheet for the second prop.

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This is the high poly sheet for the third prop model.

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Here is the low poly sheet for third prop.

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Here is the low poly textured sheet for the third prop.

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This is the Marmoset sheet for third prop.

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Here is the high poly sheet for the fourth, and final model this quarter.

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This is the low poly sheet for the fourth prop.

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Here is the textured sheet for the fourth prop.

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And the Marmoset sheet for the final prop this quarter.

**I have been modeling for just over 9 months now, and I love it! I can't wait to get some feedback from the Polycount community. I feel like all the critiques I can get here can help to make me a much stronger modeler before I enter the industry. ^_^

moose

attachments are cool and all, but i'd suggest using an external site to host your images (www.dropbox.com, your own website, etc). That way, you can link to them and have them show up in your thread, and not have 100 different posts with attachments

that said, cool couch

glynnsmith

Yerz! Awesome work, but dude! It's bad form to merely double post. Not sure what the word is for making 16 consequetive posts :P

Love the pistol.

meador_forest

Thanks for the suggestions guys. ^_^ The forum that I am used to posting on at school looks almost exactly like this one. Once you place your comment, you go to "manage attachments", and load your image. Once you hit "submit reply", the image appears in the post (like everyone elses on here). I will find a site to host my images (like you suggested), and repost these models at that time. Thanks again.

Also, I am in a class that teaches me how to build my own website (per the schools requirements) next quarter. So, I am sure that will help when it comes to better exposure/image hosting too. Until then, i will try to get some help with using something like dropbox.com.

RexM

Very nice, you are able to capture the form of the references very well.

My only crit would be to make better use of the UV space allocated to you.

meador_forest

Thanks RexM. Low poly, UV packing, and specular maps are the three areas that I am really trying to focus on (probably my weakest suit). I will continue to get better with these now that my modeling skills are getting better/faster. Again, I really appreciate the critique.