Going with the existing IP can get you into legal issues. You can be inspired by Dredd but don't put anything on a weapon that is directly copied from Dredd. Don't get discourage, you can still make a great desing with your own original idea.
@ExcessiveZero , good point. I thought it was worth posting because a lot of posts on here seem to be of the opposite problem of "how do I stay motivated?" or how others would find inspiration in the ether. These books aren't a substitute for application, but they are good reminders about mindset.
@melli06 Glad you like it ^^ Here's my newly remade left robotic arm. The underlayer is mostly inspired by... not a direct copy from the concept art. I took some liberty with it. Gonna clean up, and detail some more. Then retop/hardsurface the outer layer.
@josh_lynch has inspired me to try to finish a Substance Designer tutorial, so I am taking my District 9 Arc Gun, recreating its materials in Designer, and will then go back and make a tutorial of the process. Here are the early stages of working on some of the materials.
Thank you ! MOI (Moment Of Inspiration) is a CAD modeling application, with advanced boolean functions, very very user friendly, with a top polygon export function (n-gons, tris, quads/tris, amount of polys).MOI's father is also RHINO's one. MOI: http://moi3d.com
I pulled my inspiration from the original which was hodge podge of pixels in a side scrolling beat em up with not much info, leaving lots to interpretation. Everything that came after that, while interesting, wasn't what I desired out of this. The target was realistic and tough.
I have to admit, it's quite inspiring to hear you're from Wee Norn Iron too, and working in games. Something like that is my dream Job (even though it's extremely stressful). I think I know a few online courses that will help me out.
Thanks! I'll render the progress and see what that looks like, I didn't think of that. That's a great concept, I hadn't seen that before. If I have time I might try to use that as inspiration with the head and body shape. If not, I will do in the future! Thanks for the response :)
UPDATE Just made a ton of changes to the textures on this. I had a ton of fun revisiting a franchise that many of us hold as an inspiration. Here is a link to the file. Here is a link to my art station as well. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/m314-motion-tracker-alien-scanner
Only have some basic concepts on paper and they dont rly look similar. Its mostly inspired by Abaddons Lore and the war against the Nerubians. The blade is Nyx's claw, the piece above it is from Nyx's helmet. The stuff at the back is Nyx's Jaws and a foot, mby :D