[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hello, 
This is my entry for the contest. All is done in 3D Coat, only the post-effects are added with Krita and Blender for simulate the smoke.
This contest was great for my because I've learned a lot about the use of 3D Coat and its workflow. Thanks to Pilgway for that.

 

 

You can see my vehicle in Sketchfab : https://skfb.ly/QtSP

 

 

 

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Before changing the angle of the camera, this is my last image with a more realistic smoke made in Blender then added with Krita.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Thanks Daniel,  

I will try to improve all this things.

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Yes dimitribastos, I made a few changes. An other angle for the Mech and changes in the composition with a bit of depth of field, gold rays as Tony said. I played a little with colors and luminosity. The smoke was painted in Krita but I think that I can improve it. I will try to make more realistic smoke with Blender. 

Thank you all for your help.

 

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Yes fog would be nice but I don't think that the render room in 3Dcoat can make it. 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi Daniel and thank you for your comment.  I agree with you, the vehicle is not enough visible. Here is the last image I thought to present for my final entry but I will try to improve it for a better visibility. It isn't easy because the scene is huge and my ram memory is full. The final entry resolution will be 3840 x 2036.

I made a SketchFab presentation with very low resolution textures because the file must be less than 50 Mo but I have not publish it yet.

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi to all,

Here is a first test for the final image. It miss the pilot near of his steam machine yet but I think that I will have enough time to sculpt it before the deadline. Everything was done in 3D Coat and rendered in the render room.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Thanks a lot Tony ! I did not know how to fix this non-uniform notice. Since I have started this contest I have learned a lot about 3D coat but I still have much to learn.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi,

I have finished to paint my vehicle, perhaps some modifications later but now I start to sculpt the environment. It will be a mechanical workshop.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

The textures are almost complete.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Yes, I will add an environment and if I have enough time there will be a pilot too. So I will not do the retopo for them. I will mix the vehicle and the voxel environment in the render room. 
I hope I can send the vehicle on SketchFab if the size of the textures is not too big.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi to all,

The retopology is finally finished. The sculpture is 51 millions of voxels and the "low-poly" model is now 100 000 polygons. It was a long process because I have chosen to do retopo and set the UV manually, but I can now paint all parts with my smarts materials.

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

The following of the retopo...

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

An update of the retopo stage and some tests with textures rendered in 3D coat.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Beginning of the retopo...

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi,

An update with all the parts.

 

[Seven wheels for speed]

Great work ! I like the concept.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

To rise into the air, this is the system that I've in mind. The turbine is operated with steam. There will be one on each side.

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi Kargall,

First, I start a new project and I choose Tiled Box 3x3 in Surface mode. I delete all the instances and keep only the center one for sculpting the brush. Don't move the box it must keep his position to the center of the world. You can switch to voxel mode if you want and for an good alpha it will be important to not sculpt the edge of the box.

Here are the settings:

Texture Size : 2048x2048  -  Path Size : 100.00000  

I select only Normalyze Depth and I export in TGA format. I reverse the map colors with a 2D soft then the map is ready to the import in 3D coat.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Thanks, Yes you're right, the levers must be adjusted. They were verticals to sculpt easily.
For the ornaments, I drew the curves on Inkscape and import them in the sketch tool (voxel mode). I need just to adjust the size of the thickness on one of the axes. 

I've made the indents with an alpha brush and the Extrude tool.
I've sculpted the indents like this :

Then I've exported the map by File/Export/Export Depth Along Y 
Like this you can sculpt all the brushes you need in 3D. 3D coat is great ! 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

The seat will be fixed on the top of the tank. The colors are not final.

 

[Steampunk - Scorpicus Motorbike]

Nice ! For the pose tool, when you select with lasso stroke,rectangle or other, make sure that "Ignore Back Faces" is off.

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Thank you for your comments ! 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Hi to all,

New update with the legs. I begin to sculpt the cockpit now.

 

[Steampunk flying vehicle]

Finally I will make all the vehicle in 3d coat. After viewing the Youtube channel I've learnt how use all the tools in the retopo room and it's more easy than I though for   the retopology work and assemble each parts.