Thumbs Up or Down?

only the fire moth can decide...

decided to work a little backwards here, i have finished the rig hopefully I'm going to stick to it and not re design it in 3 days time next step the dreaded unwrapping :) enjoy.

update

just a quick one though, it now has hand :O or rather i borrowed them off of one of my other mechs and scaled them down to fit, they need a little work regardless but they look pretty good :)

added an extra light to the scene to help the mech pop off the background, earlier images had areas where the mesh was blending into the background.

Poseable? :O

worked on the fire moth a fair bit the last couple of nights and its now pose-able its still not 100% complete still need to model knee caps and hands and improve on the missile launchers. but here's an image to see it in a dashing pose enjoy :P

Fire Moth Update

Fire Moth update :D been working on the legs for 2 days the lower leg is still being worked on but otherwise there virtually complete.

shiny Isorla for Clan Ghost Bear

I'm still working on the Warhawk behind the scenes will post some images of the progress later, in the mean time decided to take a brake from the texture today and start a new model. enjoy

more pod ideas

just having a mess around with the missile pods for the warhawk. :P

Warhawk update

small update on the Warhawk, been refining the high poly mesh to bake normals much better which turns out i had a small problem with the UV's. so i had to go back and flip the legs in the UV space, since there mirrored the UV where also mirrored which put the normals facing the wrong way in the UV space. since i had to go back i thought I would refined the missile rack also after my friend told me it look ridiculously tall. its now a lot more compact no but still needs a little work. enjoy :P

House Hold Clutter

so while I'm working on the Warhawk, I decided to show off something different form the usual mechs and what not, I'm planning on making several house hold items that can be used to populate a level here's the first item, a small radiator.

I decided to make this to the Unreal 4 scale  this is the high poly mesh which will be used to bake a normal map onto the low poly mesh.

last post tonight

so I gotten some low res normals out of the mode and they look decent enough, I just need to tidy up the projection cage and chamfer a few edges and then I can bake off  a higher res normal map :)

Image 01

Image 02

Cage Example

The image above is just an example of a messy cage modifier, I'm looking to get the whole thingy clean up for the end of the week, if not the end of the weekend.

getting ready to bake

had to separate the mesh so that i can get decent normals from the high poly, took forever to separate this mesh out and now my arms are killing :D

Firemoth?

so I have been testing some normal bakes with the Warhawk all night, but now I decided to give it a rest and move onto blocking out the Firemoth. first image enjoy :)

Greebles?

so i ended up doing paneling, but i broken it up by adding some extras enjoy :)

yet another update.

so i reckon i have a good balance with the paneling on this mech, hopefully it wont look ridiculous or over the top when I'm done with it :)

Quick update

I'm starting to struggle a bit with detailing the torso. I'm trying to find something different then inserts and extrudes, I'm trying to limit the amount of paneling because i feel it just looks lazy and it's too easy to accomplish. so I'm going to be taking a while to work out some detail for the torso maybe work in the mechs equipment into the mesh visually and have a heat sink exhaust port on its rear left side.

little more work

just throwing up a small update

some high poly work

started to hammer out some detail on the warhawk so i can bake some nice normal maps and ambient maps, so far its looking good I'm just trying to figure out which lower legs i prefer to use for the final bake.

back at it

so I'm picking up where I left off with the Warhawk, I got the mesh unwrapped and ready to paint on it, which I have already started a base texture for the bulk of the base is done, just needs a little cleaning to hide some bald patches that I have missed when I was painting it.

Game engines

Recently i have been looking into some game engines, to have a play around with. one of them was "Source 2" a vast improvement over the older source engine tools, i managed to get a new mesh with textures into the editor fairly easy.

Execution in Dota 2 model viewer.

In Game

something a little different

decided to make some village assets, so far i have a super basic home hopefully i can get some idea and flesh out more with some shiny details. mech was added for scale purposes.

unwrapping the Warhawk.

Test coming later.

Rigged and posed

Dire Wolf and Warhawk Prime "moving in" took me a day to trig these two, and add some minor details to the torsos and arms.

Warhawk C Wip

Warhawk C wip with bonus flame thrower detail shots :D

 

Making the Flamer housing quite simple :) LARGE IMAGE

UPDATE:- Added Warhawk B. almost forgot about this one

Warhawk

just some quick WIPs

Warhawk Base

Warhawk Prime decided to go with the "classic" shoulder mounted rack over the latest re-design.

Warhawk A

 

Warhawk B is on its way, have to e think some weapon placements :)

Dire Wolf Prime Wip #3

Quick update, decided to remodel the missile rack. its a lot cleaner then the previous model and can be modified to add more tubes also re-arranged the tube layout.

Wire Shots

bonus Dire Wolf A Wip #2

re-arranged the lasers on the right arm added the new missile rack and made some covers for the gaping holes in the side torsos.

EVEN MORE DIRE WOLF!!!!

Base Chassis

just added some minor detail to the Alt B config.

small update

A small update today, i have been playing around with reflections and added some small details the the Prime Dire Wolf. will do the same for the other 2 variants this weekend.

Dire Wolves...

got round to modeling some omni pods for the dire wolf started with Prime A and B.

Prime. nice weapons array.

Alt con A nice long rang set up.

 

Alt Con B  AKA destroyer of game balance...

 

just a couple of WIP

not updated for a bit, thought id sling these 2 images up that I'm working on. I'm putting the crab on hold for a while i work out some designs for the arms.

these where both modeled years ago using Lightwave 3D i have decided to bring them back, give them a clean up and adding some better detail, as well as unwrapping and texturing the two.

Dire Wolf

 

 Right now the Dire Wolf's lower arms head and lower side torsos have been re modeled, the new mesh is a lot cleaner then the original which helping with the cockpit detail. the lower arms have been cleaned up and getting ready for some minor details as well as the weapon points.

 

 Warhawk

the warhawk has seen much more extensive re-modeling and cleaning, the torso lower arms legs and feet are completely new mesh. since both mechs share the same leg design these changes where added to the dire wolf.