Firewalker Tank

KSMO

My latest assignment is to create a Cinematic Vehicle.

The budget is 35,000 tris and up to four 2048 maps.

I have chosen the MBT "Firewalker" concept from http://karanak.livejournal.com

Darkleopard

Nice start! I love karanak's concepts. Watching

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quick progress shot of the highpoly

wolver

modeled the fire walker myself recently, hope you mean 4x 2048 one for leg one for body etc. i nearly went crazy trying to uv it all onto a single 2048.. it has alot of floating geo that unexpectedly kicks texel space arse .

its looking solid so far, i think the dual barrels could do with being chunked up a little as well as the hoop at the top of the leg

BarnabyJones

I love the detail in the legs they are so well designed they look like they could actually move. The shader in your process shot is making it hard to make out your high poly. can't wait to see where this goes.

KSMO

just a couple of renders of my progress with the high poly. You will probably notice there are not bolts or small detail cuts in the mesh. They will be there in the final normal map (i will model them over the uvs and create a normal map overlay.

_DeadPixel_

Very nice man, reminds me of the Ghost in the Shell tanks. Looking forward to seeing this guy finished, make it happen!

Stinger88

Karanak is a beast. Love his work. Models looking great. Will be watching this one.

KSMO

high poly progress. the low poly is also built. textures coming next week.

KSMO

UDK renders

First Pass: Textures, Materials

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JohnnyCrespo

Looking pretty sick man! What else do you plan to do with it?

KSMO

Well, Im going to completely revamp the texture maps. I literally turned this in today for one of my final projects for my senior year. I want this to be a flagship Model for my portfolio. Im going to rework textures and I really want to look into rendering with Xoliul shader (which i know nothing about).

Since this is a cinematic piece, there are four 2048 maps. so i really want the detail to come out in my renders, just don't know if Unreal is going to do it justice.

Also there are many more normal maps i would like would like to overlay onto the body of the tank as well as the gun.

so more detail and better textures to come!