Student Project - Firewalker Mech

nevermind · Mar 2014

Hey guys. You may have seen a bunch of these lately, but I just wanted to post mine up. We had 2 weeks to work out this project with the following restrictions:

Hi poly: 3 day deadline
Lo poly with UVs: 5 day deadline
Bakes/ Textures cleanup: 6 days
30k tri max
2k diff / spec / norm / gloss
UDK package with cube map and all textures in shader

Here's my steps up to my final "calling it good enough" model.

Concept

HiPoly

LoPoly with wires:

Lo with maps in UDK:

Maps:

Suba · Mar 2014

Damn dude that's nice.

I just feel there is not enough dirt and scratches on it. It's weird that you have those big black impact all over the texture but the texture in itself is pretty clean.

Joost · Mar 2014

It looks cool but I agree, the texture could use some work.

Also think about presentation. That checkered plane isn't the prettiest background

Boozebeard · Mar 2014

Really good for how tight the time frame was.

nevermind · Mar 2014

Thanks guys. I'll revisit this and add some more grime.. and try my luck with marmoset later. I had a ton of fun with this piece even though the deadlines were pretty scrict and stressful.

harricool · Mar 2014

overall model is great..But textures could be better. Spec map could use more love. Currently the mech has a hard plastic feel. Few surface details on normal would bump ur model better. Keep it up

jaker3278 · Mar 2014

the middle of the impact craters are still the same colour as the rest of the undamaged model. Maybe this is how your armour reacts to such a level of damage, or maybe it could have tarnished the armour colour as well. Up to you really. The feet of the model are very sharp and triangular,this could cause a lot of problems when going through soft terrain and they could wear out. Can the turret rotate a full 360 degrees without hitting the legs, looks close? I would probably add another hydraulic ram between the main body and the legs because it looks like the leg wouldnt be able to move inwards ( its hard to explain i would have to do a sketch over) Also Lasers and red optics look great, but thats just me. I like it all in all a lot. Would love to man one of these things with the rest of your squad.

jaker3278 · Mar 2014

P.s how did you produce such a nice stylised image in the first image you put up? looks great for a manual or brochure to go along with your walker.

billymcguffin · Mar 2014

@jaker: The concept is from KaranaK on deviant art: http://karanak.deviantart.com/art/MBT-Firewalker-187160519

Theres a link to an article about his process there.

jaker3278 · Mar 2014

@billymcguffin: that is a sick link thank you.

jaker3278 · Mar 2014

Well you could do your own concept next time. A day or two on a concept would be priceless.

Heather_Bea · Mar 2014

@Jaker- This is a student project, meaning that a student is assigned a project and expected to do what they are told.

nevermind · Mar 2014

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm definitely going to revisit the textures to push this thing further. For now, this is what I was able to churn up in the 2 week deadline. I'm pretty happy with it considering, but it definitely needs more love in some places.

And yeh, Jaker, I didn't really have any say on the design. Some functionality may not make sense, but I'm just going to chalk that up to the fiction of science fiction.=)

jaker3278 · Mar 2014

If its a university course then your required to think around the brief more. Sticking to the brief word for word is not the aim of the game. To explore your own way of doing things and constructing your own disciplines. The aim of this is to create what you want in the way you want to thats what it boils down to. You will enjoy it so much more. Be stubborn and deny you tutors the right to push you around. I think "nevermind" would of enjoyed and benefited in the long run from creating his own concept.

oobersli · Mar 2014

I'm the instructor. So what I say is the aim of the game.

Student Project - Firewalker Mech

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