Nice shipping container Racer, your hard-surface work is fantastic. I'm working on a character for the Hunter Challenge, almost finished: and her crossbow:
yea, some of those containers can be long as hell. Drug suppliers use to use the really long ones to make weed in. They'd bury them underground to hide them and have like an underground weed production factory in those huge containers. They would bury them out in the middle of nowhere or like a forest where there was tons…
Racer445: quite cool even if it's just a container ;) beartraps: nice one! :) okaaayy.. model and textures are finished.. now I'm setting up the poses, material and lights
It's all about localizing textural details and avoiding visual noise. If you look closely at reference photos of something like a container in used but not rusted/damaged condition you will see that there isn't a ton of surface variation across the entire object but you will things like dirt, grime and drips tightly…
That's not a good sign, you shouldn't need a sheet to explain the function of something as simple as a mailbox. Also IMHO amount of detail depicts scale to a certain extent. I would've never guessed it was a mailbox cause it looked like a huge container or even a building of some sort. Stuff the size of a mailbox don't…