Starfish Mech/ ROV sub
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I was looking at some motorbikes last week and admiring the way the hard mechanics are complemented by the smooth glossy paintwork on the fiberglass body, certain areas are cut away to allow some engine parts to show, it left me with a feeling that I wanted to create something that had this seductive material combination, glossy plastic and hard machined metal... I started noodling ideas in my sketchbook and still had this tri-head mech design idea from before that I wanted to develop further so began to push this shape around, creating flowing panel lines to break up the fiberglass shells, and designing mechanical parts that would be repeated around a center - but what does the mech do....? This is probably the first time that I didn't have an idea but wanted to created interesting shapes to allow materials to be assigned and just look dam good when photographed! I created some sort of turbine elements and exhaust vents, so visually it implies some sort of flight/hovering function - a lab drone.....? Could be, I like that and it's very fitting in white, but I know I wanted to try some other colours, red is sexy, more of a nod to the Ducati bikes I was looking at, tried a yellow version and it reminded me of an ROV sub unit, so that was the theme of the environment paint up, couldn't resist putting a shark in there (Jaws still burnt into my brain from a childhood viewing...!)
Hope you enjoy it!
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Amazing visuals!
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This is awesome work Chris...
allanx
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Fantastic work, sir.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate the kind words
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That's incredible. The realism with the materials (I mean modeling proportion, shape, and how they work together), alone, is beautiful work. Then the photo work is totally real!
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Really stunning piece of work, more realism than I have seen for a long time.
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Wow!
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Great model and render. Love the detailing on the model and renders.
Greetz Twan
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Yeah excellent job the colour renders especially the water image are great. Well done.
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This really look dam good when photographed! Thanks for telling the story. You have the feeling. Should be an architect, or designer, if already not. What is the render software. My guess is Octan...
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Thanks everyone!
SRX - thanks, glad you enjoyed them, I started the model thinking about something that was just going to look great when photographed, play up the materials and interesting techy shapes.... I'm a concept artist in the film industry and couldn't show allot of my recent work so had to find some "me time" to get some cool stuff online to share. It's all rendered in Keyshot, a real time renderer that does wonders with nice SU models!
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Amazing!
Like this also!
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Awesome models and renders, Chirs!
It's great to see another fellow concept artist in this forum.
Your design reminds me of some sci-fi conceptual models I did for a MMO called Defiance (there is also a tv series on SyFy channel).
Cheers!
_KN
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@ken28875 said:
Awesome models and renders, Chirs!
It's great to see another fellow concept artist in this forum.
Your design reminds me of some sci-fi conceptual models I did for a MMO called Defiance (there is also a tv series on SyFy channel).
Cheers!
_KN
Hi Ken, cool designs! I like your tech, nice to see them here
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