freelancah 16 Report post Posted October 1, 2011 Hello Kinda forgot to post it here but here it is.. I modelled the geometry in 3D max and textured the thing in 3D coat. Normal maps, colors, specular etc. Unfortunately the cockpit was left out due lack of time. Polygon count somewhere around 40k when meshsmoothed. Mostly made using reference images and some random inaccurate blueprints.. Couple of individual frames as attachments. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AbnRanger 1,479 Report post Posted October 1, 2011 Nice Job. I like it. Would look even better if you could just throw up a quick Hanger (no frills) and give the ground plane a concrete texture, I think. Use the Mental Ray physical sky, with the hanger door open. And place a Sky portal at the door to direct more of the light into the hanger. With iRay being a physically correct renderer, that should be an easy light set up and still look pretty sweet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
L'Ancien Regime 604 Report post Posted October 1, 2011 wow that's a nice texture job. Very very detailed and tightly controlled to maintain the subtle touch. For now Mari has taken the crown for high res texturing but I'm convinced that 3d Coat could catch up and surpass it particularly as 3d Coat has a much more ergonomic fluid artistic feel to it. It's an artist's tool... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LJB 105 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 Oh Nice work dude, I love this old bird! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freelancah 16 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 Thank you all! I might consider the hangar sometime in the future. I'm currently building a scene in terragen2 to animate this thing over the alps.. But dunno how far I will get since time is not something I have too much :P BeatKitano Slipsius, Huh? I dont know what you mean by that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Javis 520 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 Very good work! It looks fantastic. Where did you pull the blueprints from for it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
L'Ancien Regime 604 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 Thank you all! I might consider the hangar sometime in the future. I'm currently building a scene in terragen2 to animate this thing over the alps.. But dunno how far I will get since time is not something I have too much :P BeatKitano Slipsius, Huh? I dont know what you mean by that Terragen 2 is awesome but there's no tutorials to speak of beyond the one or two basic ones. What have you used for learning material with Terragen 2? If you've got anything please share the info. I'd love to get into it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freelancah 16 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 geothefaust: There are tons of em if you just google, the highres ones @ blueprints.com cost money, i think. I mostly used a tons of photo references in addition. L'Ancien Regime: I understand how you feel about the tutorials. There has been demand and some plans to do more of them but I dont know the details. The forums of planetside.co.uk are full of clipfiles, scenes and other information. Pretty much everything you can think of can be found there. That's the place I gained my information.. BeatKitano: That logo is actually from the default brush set that comes with 3D coat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
T.H. ROCK 13 Report post Posted October 3, 2011 Looks really good! Seen a few in my lifetime by chance and luck. Used to joke about it's eight state turning radius because it flew so fast and high. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
L'Ancien Regime 604 Report post Posted October 8, 2011 geothefaust: There are tons of em if you just google, the highres ones @ blueprints.com cost money, i think. I mostly used a tons of photo references in addition. L'Ancien Regime: I understand how you feel about the tutorials. There has been demand and some plans to do more of them but I dont know the details. The forums of planetside.co.uk are full of clipfiles, scenes and other information. Pretty much everything you can think of can be found there. That's the place I gained my information.. BeatKitano: That logo is actually from the default brush set that comes with 3D coat thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freelancah 16 Report post Posted October 11, 2011 Here's the thing comped to the terragen scene. Unfortunately it would appear I lack the processing power to render an animation within a reasonable amount of time so I shall leave this thing as a still for now, or consider matte animation later.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tony Nemo 393 Report post Posted October 12, 2011 Too bad, you could have used the Beetles "Blackbird" song as accompaniment. Nice still. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
