Saidin: This is an interesting question. I always plan to split things up beforehand a little and as I work it becomes clear, that each design is composed of 2 or 3 base elements, so to understand how the object works I finish out those elements more fully than the concept, ie. I build stuff that cant be seen when the…
BigNose: Well that piece was one of my earlier works where I wasn't so aware of instancing so those plates were all just handmodelled. ChasmBridge: This was a later piece, the bits you pointed to I modelled once by detaching a duplicate of the area of the curved surface underneath and shaping the way I wanted by edge…