The random model thread!

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green metal

I am taking a digital foundry class at school, where we make digital sculptures in 3dsmax and have a CNC milling machine carve them out of wax, then we will cast them in bronze.

Here are two sculptures I have been working on:

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We also have a rapid prototype machine and here are some experiments perhaps for that:

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JonM those pieces are cool enough and i like abstract art like that. But when speaking of 3d apps and modelling aint that kind of random? It looks like they just tok a object and put some random modifiers on it like spacewarp and twist and such. I could be wrong though but thats what it looks like.

Looks cool, but a little too random for my taste.

I don't know ... those images look fake to me.

You can see the aliasing in the background-image of the lower-left picture with the 'golden' piece. It also looks rather out of balance - I would it expect it to overturn immediately.

Are those supposed to be photos of real objects, or just photorealistic renderings of how those things might look in real life?

Well I did use those tools, but I used them as tools to create what I wanted, not just randomly...

For instance the last one is cloth I draped over two human figures I posed in a sexual position, but to make the forms more interesting I began distorting it with modifiers until I had a sculpture I was happy with.

For the bronzes I drew those forms out on paper almost exactly as they appear in those images, I used modifiers to help achieve what I had in my drawings

and yes they are fake, I did not print them out yet, They are rendered with vray

On the last 2 I think it's just the base it's on that gives it away, otherwise it looks pretty authentic.

WIP LAV-25 (horrible render, I know):

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hey thats that one thing thats similar to the stryker I made... lets see how you texture it

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Well I did use those tools, but I used them as tools to create what I wanted, not just randomly...For instance the last one is cloth I draped over two human figures I posed in a sexual position, but to make the forms more interesting I began distorting it with modifiers until I had a sculpture I was happy with.

For the bronzes I drew those forms out on paper almost exactly as they appear in those images, I used modifiers to help achieve what I had in my drawings

and yes they are fake, I did not print them out yet, They are rendered with vray

Thats a whole other story. If you allready had set in your mind/paper or whatever and accomplished that in the end then its good job on you

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WIP LAV-25

how many polies?

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how many polies?

6417 ?

6,599 now. Missed a few bits for smoothing (cylinder thing at the back and the mirrors) - but that's the model finished. I'm UV mapping it now.

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how many polies?

6417 ?

I'm blind... Now I see info on image doh...

Still heavy WIP...not quite sure about the whole battletorn thing myself but I think I can make it work.

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Edit: Ignore the faint black lines on some edges.

yeah the war torn approach you took doesnt look that good more less looks like filter sponge even tho its not >:

way too noisy and busy. Remove the major scratches. Make a more monotone approach. An ambient occlusion baked into the diffuse could look nice. Logos ect for some diffuse interest. Small scratches where they'd make sense. Mud on the bottom.

nice job on the model and skin

Ferret - there already is one

Update:

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Snipa, I still think the metal doesn't looks like a metal, focus on something less cloudy and more solid, and put scratches of lines and dents..

Here are more sculptures:

[Blocked Image: http://jonmonaghan.com/sculptures/bronze06.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://jonmonaghan.com/sculptures/bronze04.jpg]

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