Vehicle Demo

Ofrst

Hello

This video represents some models that i made,
and should be part of my new web page.
Before i posted Weapon Reel and some of the
advices and critiques were very helpful to me,
so i tried to add some of these in my new presentation.

http://vimeo.com/30145438

Tell me what you think about it?

regards

IchII3D

Interesting work, your wire frames are clean even if slightly wasteful. The texturing and technical side of things seems ok, I would be interested to see how well optimised your unwrap was, may I ask what texture resolution you used in the video?

In terms of the design, not really my thing. Almost reminds me of those little units from red alert, having over scaled parts and forms.

Generally, not bad. Although hard to tell from the video. As a portfolio collection I would have probably made one vehicle at a much higher quality. But will have to wait until you get some pictures and texture sheets up to make a proper judgement.

konstruct

the sound fx is killing me! why the "wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa wa" throughout the whole thing.

Id try and dig up something a little less abrasive.

Ofrst

Does it mean that video is not suitable for presentation of 3d models?
Here are some pictures of model, and some texture maps.

size is 4096x4096

Texture is on two maps, one for the main model, and one for some additional objects, and
I know that other map is not good, because it is not fully used up.
It's not really optimized as it should be.

http://imageshack.us/f/847/jmtfull.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/828/jmtsheet.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/850/jetractor01nrm.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/38/jetractor01tex.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/836/jetractormetal.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/14/jetractormetaltex.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/7/jetractormetalnrm.jpg/

Ofrst

Maybe some church bells in background, just joking, It's hard to find something better and free, anyway I'll try to make something less annoying, thanks.

Jet_Pilot

Your lighting is hiding all your texture work, I can barley see anything.

Get some three point lighting in there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_lighting

If you like that strong top lighting look then go with something like this
http://www.ilyanedyal.com/vehicles01.html

but you still need a front facing light to illuminate the sides of your model.

Ofrst

You mean on that picture of Jet Locomotive? I like Ilya's style, it is very sharp-looking. Thanks for the examples, I'll try to do something with lighting.

jordan.kocon

Personally I had a very time resting my eye when watching this. It is a very unique, and valiant attempt at a unique presentation, but personally I feel its too distracting with all the moving icons and such.

Ofrst

thanks Jordan, think that I'll combine some pictures and video on my web page, but it is good to do a little experiments with reels, maybe I'll make that other things more subtile and put more accent on models.

Here is more pictures.

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5312/jmt01.jpg

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/1777/jmt03.jpg

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/6826/jmt04.jpg

AlecMoody

Ofrst wrote: »

Does it mean that video is not suitable for presentation of 3d models?

To some degree that is your call, but I spend a lot of time looking at portfolios and I find videos to be too heavy/take up too much time to consume. You have to expect that potential employers are also sifting through large numbers of portfolios and anything that slows them down isn't helpful.

If you have something really large like finished environments then videos can provide a sense of the space that images can't and have advantages.

jeremiah_bigley

video is kinda a cool concept, though with all that is going on it is just distracting from the quality of your work. Should get some really nice well lit sheets of your models and I think it would look great.

I think AlecMoody is right about the videos. It is weird how, for modelers, they seem to be out of style... and that is partly due to the rate at which we can consume information on the internet nowadays. People wan't to be in and out.