Iria - main car
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Roughing in the details. No clear picture of what's under the umbrella structure. Just a vague hint of something angular. So just blocked in for now.
The white wrap around bumper is various sizes in the drawing so I made it what I wanted.
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Roughing in the cockpit. Simple blocks for the seat for now. The pilot cowling I made years ago with Curviloft. Just resized.
I had to explode all the hull components to Push/Pull the cockpit drop. Found internal geometry problems. That should not have been there. My fault from the first resizing. Fixed.
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Yeah, the geometry wasn't fixed. Had to redo the entire top hull. Thank god I saved more than one version file.
Sigh. I really wish SU would not infer point nodes in open space based on some point node from another section on the other side the model leaving me with 16th inch gaps and offsets that I cannot see.
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Got it fixed. Not much to see. I had to roll back to before I made the cockpit. But the geometry is much cleaner now. Cleaned up a bunch of other discrepancies as well such as color and extra lines and component alignments.
Thank god is was easy enough to re-align the tail and top hull.
At least the cockpit should be easier to make this time. The floor was running into the geometry plane problem and clued me into the problem. Should just be a straight Push/Pull this time.
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Alright. Got the cockpit rough-in rebuilt. Much easier this time, Even had time to add more substance to the instrument console.
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It's getting there.
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Alright! It's just detailing from here on. All the main object masses are in place, including underneath.
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Under detailing.
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@Bryan-K I think you are up against it. I see your first modelling had "joins" as shown in the image I have attached, and then abandoned them as I think the majority of images did not have those details . Just my opinion is I think the model would look better with those details, for what it is worth.
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Thanks L i am. Those are in fact, landing pads and will be included as part of the detailing.
LOL, as with all the anime ships I've worked on, continuity of the designs by the animators was not good. But I can't really blame them. Low budgets and crazy deadlines will do that.
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It looks muddy marvelous mate, agree re the continuity issue.
Looking at all kinds of Sci-Fi vehicles, they have crazy levels of surface detail and frankly it is hard to set a level, you can go on a fractal tangent and fry every synapse going if you are not careful.
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Adding and refining. Still a ways to go. But the exterior is almost finished.
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@Mike-Amos said in Iria - main car:
It looks muddy marvelous mate, agree re the continuity issue.
Looking at all kinds of Sci-Fi vehicles, they have crazy levels of surface detail and frankly it is hard to set a level, you can go on a fractal tangent and fry every synapse going if you are not careful.
Thanks!
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More cockpit detail. There are almost no references pictures below torso level.
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Almost finished.
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A litle more detail for the pilot seat and controls.
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Some vague rear detailing. Absolutely no pictures of this area behind the main body. Also added slight curve to tail boom base.
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Well, unless I can think of something else, it's finished. I'm not going into any more detail on the cockpit because references do no exist.
I'm really obsessed with the pilot's chair. It turned out way better than I expected. And all from just pushing around triangles. I need to remember that.
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Glamour shots coming.
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Yep, it's done.
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