Wicked detail. Nice

 sweet modeling.  Well nothing cool here, but I'm starting to have fun in blender for a change.  

Nice figures DivineRain. Wish I could get blender to work like that.

 oh I didn't get blender to work like that... I think this time around I found a little more patience to do things in a way that works for blender.  Started with a cube with some edgeloops, then ripped apart the mesh n extruded edges n merged vertices to get the topology flow I wanted.  Now if I can figure out the shading stuff.

Started on a new project with one of my mates to build a Judge Dredd MKII Lawgiver prop.
Based on inspiration from a Jason Brashill (I think) panel in one of the JD/Batman crossovers and some Zikeo input.
Here is the base mesh that I have unwraped in Pepakura to make a card version for my mate to use as a patterns for sculpting.

Great  looking gun

Essentially it involves an engine change-out with a much more common and contemporary design. The hard part will be re-doing UVs to accommodate the changed pieces (and hopefully w/o breaking the already existing mapped sections.) Should go fast though, the modeling changes are pretty much done already.

This is my current project and the first serious attempt at using subsurf.  Modeled and rendered in Blender.

First a top view . . .

Nice aircraft Touchwood. Any chance of seeing some wires?

Smooth and precise shapes Touchwood, good modeling. If I had to nitpick I'd say the mesh seems a unnecessary dense, polycount-wise, but in the end the (nice) result is all that matters.

Quote - If I had to nitpick I'd say the mesh seems a unnecessary dense, polycount-wise, > Quote - I agree with you and I'm sure that this is due to my inexperience when it comes to modeling with sub-surf as my usual method is to box model.

I still haven't learned how to control the mesh or extrude shapes very well as yet but decided on giving it a go because I couldn't get the 'chin' to look right and because I'll never learn if I don't go out of my comfort zone.

I am sure that the lessons learned on this model will stand me in good stead  on future projects.

 

I've started a new model loosely based on the Meadows Frisky

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/Transport/Cars/Frisky.htm

But as a 1950s SciFi Hover Car.

Z

New update.

Z

Delightful little vehicle. I love retro-futuristic models.

Last update for today.

I've forgotten some items that I will probably model tomorrow.

Had some trouble sleeping last night. So finished off the Hover Car and started a new model.

The hover car now has a touch screen CRT display.

I guess it's not finished afterall.

The model I started and near completed last night is a 1950s style RayGun Water Pistol.

Hi guys.

It's me! (who?)

Anyway, check this out. It's Wrapit, a rapid retopolgy tool. Its a miracle in any production pipeline! And it has a quad generator that never fails to impress(keeps your UVs too) and its a million times better than Zbrush's Decimation Master(ugh...)

I've used it to bring a 7million poly mesh under 5K without any noticeable degradation in quality. Nice! AND I can work in N-GONS(scream now) and tris without caring, cuz near the end I can just turn the whole mesh into quads in WrapIt! Love this thing.

DO NOT PIRATE THIS PLUGIN! These guys worked too hard on this thing and deserve every penny.

WrapIt

An egg and muffins toaster, modelled in Wings3D, fast render done via Keyshot.

Just starting here, fuselage, canopy, silhouette of the engine bloc ; still a lot to do.

One of my favorite ships.  Looking good.

oh I like that hover car!  Amazing stuff guys.  A little more work was done to my Willow character.

too bad the hair wasn't rigged n modeled better, but in the end I deleted the hair n the clothes. 

(her poor elbows lol)  started the new hair n clothes

still needs work.. things are going thru each other, the coat is too tight and lacks the details I want to add to it.

and lucy.. another character I recently made in blender from a cube.  Her clothes were made from a duplicate of her mesh.  Eyelashes n brows were made from duplicated edges from her mesh, then extruded.  Also the hair, except for the ponytails.

Both laptops stolen just before xmas so doing things from memory (mine that is!)

Working my way through body parts

jeeze.. what's with ppl.  Sorry about your laptops, that's messed up.  Nice work on the foot so far, watch the little toe tho, it's skinny n tiny compared to the other toes.  Pinky toes are small, but usually not that small.

latest render of lucy

and started another character

DivineRain : Nicely done. I'm usually not really fond of this cartoonish style, but these are definitely cute.

airflamesred : ouch... at least you're back on steady feet (ahem, sorry)... convincingly I'd say. (btw, I can't recognize the program you're working on?)

Otherwise, here's a small update, as the holidays are finally over I can manage some modeling time again...

@ divine rain - nice character work indeed and you were right about the little toe

@ blackharmo - I always liked the proportions of that ship; nice work. FYI  I use metasequoia for modeling, UVs and texturing

 I've allways liked this year of the Impala and modeled one about 4yrs ago but my skills at modeling wasn't near as honed in as now so I thought I'd give it another shot and am pleased with the effort.

 Schurby

Some Awesome stuff appearing already this year.

I myself have started on a new figure, I've chopped up my old Mea figure and re-meshed her into Julia.

This time I'm going to make a better effort to model more clothes for her.

Z

She looks great, ZIKEO.

A little update to todays progress. Some Clothing.

Z

Forgot to mention that the skin textures are Procedural Fractal shaders at the moment.

The skirt was looking a bit boring, So I've sorted another procedural that I think looks a bit more interesting?

I've also started on DM style footwear for her. Maybe another update tomorrow. If I can stay away from GT5 that is.

Z

Great boots

great job on your character so far.  

hey Odf, whatcha been up to?

a horse of course

a render of the head

I've had a request to see the Mea wires.

These are the basically the same wires as I have used for Julia.

fantastic character and mesh Zikeo!

Nice, clean mesh, ZIKEO!

I would probably put another edge loop or two around the lips to make morphing the mouth easier.

Some fantastic modeling examples in this thread! Great character work by both DivineRain and Zikeo. You guys are inspiring me to try doing some organic and character modeling.