[WIP] "Might" Boomer Class ICBM submarine

KyleJensen

New project! I'm working from a concept by Keith Thompson to create a cinematic game prop.

So far I have a very basic blockout. I'm still working out all the joints and proportions.

Concept:



Here's my blockout so far:



I will be working on a high poly of this and it will be baked down and textured. I'll post updates as I make progress.

Crits and comments are greatly appreciated.

Jessica Dinh

Freaking sweet concept! I'm really excited to see all the cut lines and nitty gritty joint detail x] Block-out looks good, only I think its 'forehead' should be more of an angle and less of a curve, but that's rather minor :]

Darkleopard

Thats a pretty cool concept. The blockout reminds me of zoids, so i love it

stxtch

The shader work on that metal hull and the scale contrast between shapes will be key. It's definitely a sick concept - looking forward to seeing more!

Donavonyoung

Can't wait to see where this one goes

KyleJensen

Been a while since I last updated. I've been working on the head, front arms, and legs.









More updates to come. Crits and comments are appreciated.

_DeadPixel_

Cool, proportions seem correct so far, looking forward to where this goes.

KyleJensen

Thanks for the feedback, everyone.

I've made some greeble parts for the joints and other areas of the model:



Testing it on one of the legs:



More updates to come. Crits and comments are welcome.

Jessica Dinh

Damn, that looks nice x] Keep it upp

SouthpawSid

pretty nice edge work on those greebles.
I feel like where the little legs connect they are too small or skinny compared to the concept. I love the whole organic "blobby" feel I get from the concept, that I am kind of lacking from your model. Nice work, looking forward to more.

KyleJensen

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It's been a while since I've last updated, but I'm going to call this high poly done. I need to move onto low poly so I can start baking and texturing.



Crits and comments are welcome.

KyleJensen

I've crunched out a low poly. My budget is 35k and this low poly is sitting in around 32k tris.







Time to unwrap, pack, and bake! Crits/comments are appreciated.

Xoliul

That really doesn't look like 32k.... Where did you spend all that budget ?

KyleJensen

The legs. There's 14 of them and they all have those little toe parts. There's a lot of duping going on too. Do you think I should optimize it more or redistribute some of the geo?

KyleJensen

All right, so I ended up getting rid of 10k tris and baked this down. I'm still working on the textures, but here is what I've got at the moment.

UDK:







Maps shown are 2048 scaled down to 1024:













I'll post updates as I go. Crits and comments are welcome.

Rhoutermans

I like the bakes, very clean, but I think a lot of technical stuff is lost in the end.

The 'claw thingies' are more popping in the concept, like more yellow. And maybe a bit larger. The greeble parts are a bit lost / too dark , it could just be ur light setup.
The chambers where the rocketlauncher come out of can be a bit more technical looking too.

*edit* The tail part has some small panel lines as well I believe
Other than that I really like this piece!

c0ldhands

More detail should have been added to the plating for the feeling of scale to make sense to this gianormous behemoth. Also, kinda remids me of the Reapers in ME3 :P