Scifi Drone

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Hey everyone. Been working on this on and off over the past week. Drone inspired and based on concept from Vadim Sverdlov

Progress so far. Comments/crits welcome

Latest Update:

Thanks for looking.

AirmanEpic · Nov 2014

Very well modeled and rendered, but I'm not feeling the weird cylinder- things on the bottom. they look very out of place and blocky. Might want to look into messing with those. The repeating geo between them looks very cool, though.

As for your materials, I can't tell if its your lighting or your materials, but the grayish material has too diffuse a specular reflection. If it were me I'd sharpen that up a little.

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Hey dude, thanks. If your speaking of the two large underside/rear area cylinders in the last image, those are just sizing blockouts for engines that I'm working on.

Sorry I forgot to mention that

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Had a few spare hours today so I got done some of the underside arm.

Brian "Panda" Choi · Nov 2014

The overall design of the spaceship is just TIGHT!

Really liking it.

Sage · Nov 2014

Looks great. Hope you finish.

DottyPixel · Nov 2014

Loving this little beauty, what sort of workflow are you using? There are a lot of compound curves and I was wondering if you where using Max/zBrush/Modo Mesh Fusion.

Joost · Nov 2014

It looks more scientific and less menacing than the concept, but I think it's awesome.

Keep it up! :thumbup:

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Thanks guys.

@DottyPixel - I'm just using 3dsmax. For a lot of the complex shapes I fuse primitives with boolean intersection/boolean cut, and then just pull verts around and the usual

Other then that I use plane modeling (like the fin/wing thing).

PhoenixWolf · Nov 2014

but how do you avoid waviness and warping in your model if you're doing plane modeling? I tend to have issues with that and odd pinches

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

@ PheonixWolf - Hey man!

So it really varies for me, for some shapes and objects its easier and faster for me to plane model, and then for others I use other methods such as mentioned above.

Really its just keeping a constant flow to the topology, it doesn't need to be quads, it just needs to work. It just varies per object.

For example this shape, I just started with flat planes and then shift+drag it out and etc. etc.

DottyPixel · Nov 2014

Thanks for posting up your WIP's. Much appreciated. Ah the old Boolean method. I should use that more...

Can't wait to see where this goes.

CougarJo · Nov 2014

Beautiful modeling

Tasty shapes!

Travis C · Nov 2014

can we haz moar wires?

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Hey guys. I got some work done on the underside arm. Need to make a bunch of tweaks here and there but yea.

Thanks!

LRoy · Nov 2014

hnnnng. dat modeling.

Thaiauxn · Nov 2014

Ah damn, you got all them curves, tho! What did you use to produce such elegant shapes?

CSOConnor · Nov 2014

So tight, I'm loving it so far! I feel like you could benefit from a few more fins extruding from the back, it looks like it ends abruptly atm. Nice work

PhoenixWolf · Nov 2014

how you do dem renders mang?!

max?

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

@CSOConnor - Thanks man. The back is not done, I'm working on the engines now, and those have fins and such coming off them, so it'll look right once those are done.

@PhoenixWolf- Hey man. I'm using Keyshot for rendering

ScottHoneycutt · Nov 2014

*watching*. Good work so far.

Deathstick · Nov 2014

hard-edges and curvy curves of curvy curve land....................................

meowza!

Travis C · Nov 2014

i like your curves. will there be a low poly version?

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

Thanks guys. I will put up some wires showing some of the shapes later.

@Travis C - yep. its going into UE4

@Thaiauxn - Thanks - I mentioned how I go about some of the shapes earlier in the thread.

I'm just using 3dsmax. For a lot of the complex shapes I fuse primitives with boolean intersection/boolean cut, and then just pull verts around and the usual

jeroenbackx · Nov 2014

Oh my, tight design and superclean look. Very impressive. I'd love to see it with some vibrant colors on there.

Sir Apple · Nov 2014

I'm finishing up the hires this weekend. All thats left to do is the engines and a little bit of clean up here and there. :thumbup:

On a side note, are these render sizes that I've been using (1920x1200) awkwardly large for anyone? I have big screens at home so I sometimes forget that image sizes don't always translate well to forums.

Thanks!

Sir Apple · Dec 2014

Finished up the Hires.

Thanks for looking

noscope · Dec 2014

This is so sweet. Dem shapes.... it makes me happy.

The upper arm part i feel has too many useless shapes in it though. Everything else seems to use panels that make sense if you know what I mean. This part just seems a lil out of place.

LaurentiuN · Dec 2014

you have skills !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great job on the HP, waiting LP and textures.

One thing..., is this meant to overlap ? check screen

Sir Apple · Dec 2014

@noscope - Thanks man. I hear you in regards to the upper arm. I purposely gave it some awkward contrast whilst maintaining somewhat fluid shapes to break the sleek smooth look that the rest of the model has for the most part.

@s1dk - Oops. No, not really. I should probably fix that :thumbup:

Sir Apple · Dec 2014

Some wire closeups for those interested. Sorry the res isn't the greatest (mesh density is causing blacked out areas). I'll post better ones when possible :thumbup:

jacob07777 · Dec 2014

That's some really solid modeling dude! I tend to agree with @komaokc o that it looks a lot less menacing than the concept. It seems a lot of your shapes are more round and playful, but nonetheless the edgeflow and geo looks great

CougarJo · Dec 2014

Thanks for wireframes

Beautiful shapes everywhere!

LaurentiuN · Dec 2014

very nice and clean topo man, i would appreciate if you could show us how do you approche some of the parts, check screen...the cuts on round surfaces without pinch...maybe breakdown a piece please ?

DottyPixel · Dec 2014

Looking good Sir Apple and loving the curves on this guy, have you named him yet?

My only criticism would be that the ware and tear looks a bit procedural compared to the concept at the moment and doesn't really tell a story about the object.

Sir Apple · Dec 2014

@DottyPixel - Yeah, its not textured yet. I don't have any real fancy shaders or materials for my hires renders (yet). :thumbup:

@S1dk

So, typically I only do this with more complex shapes. And since this Drone has of a lot of those, I used it quite a bit!

I like to start pretty low with my Geo. Obviously how I approach each shape and what method I use varies depending on how the lowpoly end product model needs to look. Things like 'what details will be baked vs. what will be physically 3D' factor into what workflow I use.

I also don't really care how perfect my hipoly geo is, as long as it works and looks good.

JamesMeader · Dec 2014

Awesome stuff Sir Apple, thanks for the tutorial sheet too!

LaurentiuN · Dec 2014

yup thanks, go now and make this badass:>

Sir Apple · Dec 2014

Moved onto the LP, but first, more keyshot sillyness :P

Crazy_pixel · Dec 2014

Your Drone becomes better and better

Can't wait to see your final version

Scifi Drone

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