Thunder Drone: Riot/Zombie Babysitter

OtrickP

Hey guys!

The Thunder Drone: Riot control and anti zombie-apocalypse machine. Capable of producing anywhere from 2 - 2000 decibles of sound, in a focused beam or area wave. No living or nonliving's organs have a chance.
The only question you have to ask yourself when your about to Riot or raise the undead is - Do I want cottage cheese for brains?

The Thunder Drone is un-manned/womanned, controlled from a remote location.

1K maps, 27k Polys at High LOD, working on lower versions and texturing.It was rendered With Max2012 Nitrous viewport. Finals will be in Marmoset.All Crits welcome!



Available for work. Freelance, Fulltime.
3d.patrickplanche@gmail.com

BARDLER

Your treads/tracks or whatever you call them look weird. It looks like the thing is balancing on just one wheel, and your machine is going faceplant at any second. Give them a more defined shape and make sure the treads are actually touching the ground.

Also related to the treads, the thing looks top heavy. It seems like you have a lot of weight on top and the base is to small to support it. If you makes the treads/tracks a little wider and longer it will fix both the issues I have with the model.

I am no modeling/texturing expert so I wont comment on those, but I think the proportions are the main thing you need to work on.

kid908

Do a 180 with the thread shape. pointed triangle at the top.

Razgriz

I think your high poly modeling is great, but the detail is so busy as it is, that the texturing just makes the whole asset unreadable. That yellow and green camo looks like a mess, I think you would be better served with something a bit more monochromatic. The metal texturing is also a little bland, and too uniform, I don't see any scratches or rust at all, even on places like the treads where there would be a lot of wear and tear.

OtrickP

BARDLER: Thanks, i agree the bottom looks unbalanced. I like the top's weight however.
kid908: Come again?
Razgriz: Thanks! The high poly was fun. This was the first over with the textures, I agree the camo is messy. I haven't started the detailing yet, this is by no means finished. just roughing out what the main pattern/materials are.

Thanks for your crits guys. It helps as i need all the suggestions I can get, this is for my portfolio so keep it coming.

Joshflighter

Referring to kids comment:

OtrickP

Ahh. Good idea kid.
I beefed it up a little too ..Texturing...

SouthpawSid

Much nicer with the tracks.
I was going to comment on the texture as well but you beat me to what I was going to say. It needed more contrast/separation between your light and dark metals. The overall darkness was making it way hard to read. This may just be me, but I would ditch the concrete platform, as it's noisy, and brings the overall piece down a bit IMO.

Maybe showcase it JUST as the tank, or throw it into a full mini environment that's gotten just as much love as the tank? I dig the fun proportions of this thing too.

OtrickP

Calmin down those texties

n88tr

looks a lot better but a bit noisy still
and the pedestal is a bit blurry, cheapens the presentation imo

snake85027

what texture size are you using

OtrickP

1024

OtrickP

chrisradsby

Nice going, now I'd try to add some kind of contrast in the model. Some spots where you can show some variety in the textures. And make sure that the ground it stands on isn't blurry. The texel-density should be the same, it looks a bit weird otherwise.

OtrickP

Thanks Chrisradsby, I'v been adding some difference to the textures and ill post an update soon, once those are at a nice place ill get going on the ground stand. Keep posted

OtrickP

Lots more to do! I want to be happy with the textures before i start building mats in UDK.